Hopefully the Trump campaign is on this. ☺
Posted on 08/02/2020 12:57:12 PM PDT by BereanBrain
Dittos. It was the Trump Navy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21X5lGlDOfg&feature=emb_logo
go to -1:32 towards the end and you can see it
MAGA-KAG!!!
Me and the wife both burst out laughing.
Maybe maybe not... extreme telephoto views can make things look closer together than they really are.
First Press Question at the post-splashdown news conference was about “the boats in the area” and how they would prevent that next time — guess “they” didn’t like the optics of that big TRUMP flag!
(BTW, I doubt the boats were all that close, it was shown on a long-distance camera)
And third question... again about the boats ... sheesh!
Boats were pretty close. In Gulf Shores this week...heard sonic boom but landing was too far east to see parachutes.
One would not want to anywhere near that capsule until it safes and vents all the residual NTO & MMH both are FIERCELY toxic in the ppm range in air. The thrusters would be still off gassing from their firing during entry ops. Even after the support ship picked up the capsule the astronauts were keep sealed inside for over an hour too safe the NTO/MMH system the reading from the live stream with gas detection meters was low ppm for NTO. The deck crews where in full biosuits and SCBA air tanks that stuff is that nasty. NASA has been working on green hypergolic fuels to replace NTO,MMH and hydrogen peroxide which the Russians love to use.
Perfect
I saw that live. So cool. Thanks for posting.
Hopefully the Trump campaign is on this. ☺
SpaceX Dragon development began in 2004. Before Obama.
I tried to catch it at the -1:32 mark towards the end, but didn’t see it.
That timestamp shows the recovery ship going away from the landing area, and the field of view is no longer of the ocean; the capsule has already been loaded onto the ship.
They were pretty close, they had a plane overhead circling and taking video looking down...
I’d say probably 20-25 were circling....probably less than 100 yards from the capsule....the Trump boat came closer than that...
If this happened during the Obama regime, we would be listening in as Astronaut Mohammed Mohammad recited Koran verses.
Here’s an article about it:
And a Reddit discussion:
I don’t know if it was illegal or not, but they weren’t supposed to be there and it wasn’t smart.
I bet that flag is why the media won’t show it again.
Not even close.
Elon Musk will shred Obama over this.
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