Posted on 08/05/2020 8:04:08 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The capsule vibrated, jolted, and roared while the surrounding air heated up and scorched the outside of the vehicle...
“I did record some audio of it, but it doesn’t sound like a machine. It sounds like an animal coming through the atmosphere with all the puffs that are happening from the thrusters and the atmospheric noise,”
The capsule undocked from the space station on Saturday evening and slowly distanced itself from the ISS, before taking a harrowing dive through the planet’s atmosphere and then splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday afternoon.
Behnken noted that their trip was relatively smooth between undocking and the start of the dive, since he and Hurley were still in space, orbiting Earth. But the process of getting out of orbit became a vigorous one. Just an hour before landing, the Crew Dragon ejected its attached trunk — a large cylindrical piece of hardware that provided support during the mission. The capsule then fired its onboard thrusters, taking the vehicle out of orbit and setting it on course for Earth. Soon after, the Crew Dragon heated up immensely as it careened through the planet’s upper atmosphere, experiencing temperatures of up to 3,500 degrees Fahrenheit. Eventually, it deployed a series of parachutes to slow the capsule down so that it could touch down gently in the water off of Pensacola.
“All the separation events — from the trunk separation through the parachute firings — were very much like getting hit in the back of a chair with a baseball bat, you know, just a crack,” he said. “And then you get some sort of a motion associated with that usually, pretty light for the trunk separation. But with the parachutes, it was a pretty significant jolt.”
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Sounds like a wild ride.
If there are any astronauts still alive from the Apollo era I’d be very interested in a conversation between Bob and Doug and those Apollo Mission astronauts specifically about the reentry sounds and sensations. The internal capsule vibrations and sounds during reentry then and now.
Yeah... A DRAGON!!!
Sounds like a subtle hit piece. No matter how good your ship, re-entering the earth’s atmosphere is a violent event.
CC
From your keyboard to an amusement park engineer’s imagination...
Yeah... A DRAGON!!!
Sounds like a bunch of drama queens. I don’t recall that much puffery over all the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo and Soyuz capsule re-entries and splashdowns. The physics have not changed. Just a hunch, but I’d say the author wasn’t alive during those programs.
Charlie Duke is available. James Lovell is available...and others....Buzz Aldrin, et al.
Isn’t that typical of all the re-entries?
“Sounds like a subtle hit piece.”
Yep. Aren’t they all like this?
Sounds great! :^)
Both astronauts had two shuttle missions. No rides on Soyuz.
This is more of a Space-X press release, I’d say.
astronauts still alive from the Apollo era
Buzz Aldrin comes to mind
Of those who walked on the Moon, four remain. Of those who went without landing, seven. Jim Lovell’s alive, and he went twice without getting to set foot on the surface.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Apollo_astronauts
Disgusting!
It is at my house.
We shouldn’t forget the Skylab and Apollo-Soyuz crews. Except for the Soyuz crew, they all came down in Apollo capsules. Frankly, the current crews that descend in Soyuz capsules shouldn’t be discounted: they go through re-entry and ‘chute deployment, too. They exchange sluicing into the ocean waves for a retrorocket-assisted landing on the ground.
Nope what was said at yesterday’s crew press conference. I am sure thay will have more details in the debriefs
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