Watch SpaceX Deliver Four Astronauts to the International Space Station (space.com) 41
For SpaceX's 11th crewed mission — its eighth flight for NASA — "A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft carrying four astronauts will arrive at the International Space Station early Sunday," reports Space.com, "and you can watch it all live online in a free livestream."
The Crew Dragon capsule Endurance is scheduled to reach the International Space Station at 8:39 a.m. EDT (1239 GMT), where it will dock itself to a space-facing port on the outpost's U.S.-built Harmony module.
The docking will mark the end of a nearly 30-hour journey for the capsule's four-person crew, which launched in the wee hours of Saturday from NASA's Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida... "SpaceX, thanks for the ride, it was awesome," Crew-7 commander Jasmin Moghbeli of NASA said after the crew reached orbit. "Go Crew-7, awesome ride." SpaceX's Crew-7 mission for NASA is ferrying Moghbeli to the ISS with a truly international crew: pilot Andreas Mogensen of the European Space Agency; and mission specialists Konstantin Borisov of Russia's Roscosmos agency and Satoshi Furukawa of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. The quartet is the first all-international crew, with members from four different agencies and countries, to fly on the same Dragon capsule...
The Crew-7 astronauts are beginning a six-month expedition to the space station and will relieve the four astronauts of NASA's Crew-6 mission, who are due to return shortly after Moghbeli and her crew arrive.
SpaceX has created a "follow Dragon" web page with graphics tracking the capsule's progress to the Space Station...
The docking will mark the end of a nearly 30-hour journey for the capsule's four-person crew, which launched in the wee hours of Saturday from NASA's Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida... "SpaceX, thanks for the ride, it was awesome," Crew-7 commander Jasmin Moghbeli of NASA said after the crew reached orbit. "Go Crew-7, awesome ride." SpaceX's Crew-7 mission for NASA is ferrying Moghbeli to the ISS with a truly international crew: pilot Andreas Mogensen of the European Space Agency; and mission specialists Konstantin Borisov of Russia's Roscosmos agency and Satoshi Furukawa of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. The quartet is the first all-international crew, with members from four different agencies and countries, to fly on the same Dragon capsule...
The Crew-7 astronauts are beginning a six-month expedition to the space station and will relieve the four astronauts of NASA's Crew-6 mission, who are due to return shortly after Moghbeli and her crew arrive.
SpaceX has created a "follow Dragon" web page with graphics tracking the capsule's progress to the Space Station...
Re: DefundMusk (Score:4, Informative)
I don't really see a problem with Musk replacing NASA as our space taxi. Why would you want to wait more, pay more, and use single use rockets when Musk already developed and is now operating the technology successfully?
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Because Musk is a loony who rules with an arbitrary and fickle fist?
Re: DefundMusk (Score:4, Insightful)
There is one thing that's good about capitalism. If Musk fucks around too much, he knows he will find out that someone else can do it too. He has to accommodate the needs of his customers, or someone else will show up to do it, in order to pick up the money he's leaving on the table.
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Re: DefundMusk (Score:1)
Are you talking about the same Musk who uses regulatory credits to generate the "revenue" that Tesla would be deeply in the red without?
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Are you talking about the same Musk who uses regulatory credits to generate the "revenue" that Tesla would be deeply in the red without?
The same credits that everyone that sells EVs uses? If Elon wasn't doing the bulk of it, someone else would be, so that only proves the point.
I didn't say capitalism was great, did I?
Re: DefundMusk (Score:2)
How many chimps has he vivisected?
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>Because Musk is a loony who rules with an arbitrary and fickle fist?
He's been pretty successful though, hasn't he? Perhaps we need more loony leaders.
Re: DefundMusk (Score:2)
If I have no money, can I still vote? But do I need lots of money before I can influence anything Musk does? Are we learning about the difference between democratic government and market tyrants?
Re: DefundMusk (Score:1)
Why did Musk uphold my twitter suspension? Why should I care about Musk when he cares fuck all about me?
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Because Musk is a loony who rules with an arbitrary and fickle fist?
So you would prefer a dottering old fool that licks ice cream
Oh god no! Not licking ice cream! I mean, I know Joe's done some seriously creepy shit, but licking ice cream? How have we not already booted him from office? HOW WILL WE SURVIVE THIS TRAVESTY!?
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The USA outsources troop transport to airlines, but they have lots of airlines to choose from, none of them are egomaniacal crazies, and they also operate their own Air Force troop transports.
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Just imagine.. (Score:2)
Just imagine if Musk had as much input and issued his commands on SpaceX as he does Twitter.
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Maybe he does.
Re: Just imagine.. (Score:3)
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Would be rather strange if he didn't. The only difference seems that he had to purge a lot of vegan cyclists doing harm to the company before getting to improving it. You have to remove the parasites draining the body dry before you can strengthen said body after all.
Re: Just imagine.. (Score:2)
So, will X die of colon cancer?
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Possibly, but least it won't die of complications of orchiectomy much earlier.
Maybe now NBC will stop pushing the fake newsâ (Score:1, Flamebait)
That his rockets donâ(TM)t work, and he isnâ(TM)t launching any. I donâ(TM)t get why they push lies that are so easy to disprove.
Re:Maybe now NBC will stop pushing the fake news&# (Score:4, Insightful)
I remember when the first starship exploded and people were questioning the continued existence of SpaceX. "How can they recover from this failure!" they cried. Even as the NASA and SpaceX engineers were celebrating in the control room over their successful test.
Success for that mission was literally defined as "makes it off the launch pad before exploding."
Not building a deflector system of some sort and depending upon the bare concrete was a mistake, but it was an informed decision. Their simulations said that the concrete would withstand one launch, and it'd delay things if they waited to install it(they had at least some of the pieces already). If the rocket had blown up on the launch pad(a real risk), it'd probably have destroyed the extra expense of the deflector along with everything else.
With the last test, we see that they've incorporated all sorts of changes from lessons learned on the first one. Fixed the launch pad, changed the separation system(radically, so I won't say "fixed" yet), the engines are a work in progress, and they presumably fixed the computer stuff to be a bit more robust as well.
Re:Maybe now NBC will stop pushing the fake news&a (Score:3)
Beyond the "we live to sell you narratives as entertainment" news media industry, reality of rocket science is that you have to blow up a lot of rockets to figure out what doesn't work before you get to what does work.
Because we don't yet know enough about the subject to have the reliability. And we live in a world where most things are of high reliability because the period of blowing up ICEs, fuel depos, grain silos and so on are largely behind us. We understand how those things work. Shit like Beirut's e
Re:Maybe now NBC will stop pushing the fake news&# (Score:2)
Another crude mission (Score:1)
That Musk, he is so crude, he puts me and all Democrats in a bad mood. He always should be booed, at him it's not rude. A dude who should be pooed, and most definitely sued, not wooed.
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I would rather see (Score:1)
SpaceX deliver Elon Musk into space, with no space suit.
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Upset that Elon can deliver to the Space Station at half-price? Angry that NASA's "rocket" has never flown and likely never will? Puzzled over how many Teslas are on the road? Now, what precisely have YOU done except criticize the successes of others?
Re: I would rather see (Score:2)
If you all had listened to me would we have had AI 20 years ago?
Can';t wait... (Score:1)
30hr flight = space toilet testing (Score:2)
Let's have it... I want detailed data and video. Nothing like having your bowels forcefully evacuated by a suction device, in a room with your friends.