Posted on 04/10/2022 1:06:37 PM PDT by BenLurkin
...the space station teams, including mission controllers at NASA and SpaceX, worked to troubleshoot an issue preventing the crew members on station from receiving views from Dragon’s center line camera of the Harmony’s modules docking port. Mission teams worked to route video using a SpaceX ground station to the crew on the space station allowing Dragon to proceed with docking.
That's the way, uh-huh, uh-huh, I like it.
“Elon Musk is going to dominate the commercial space business.”
Already does.
With 143 payloads last year he is certainly leading, but with such low costs, he will be putting some others out of business over the next few years.
Yup, maybe. There weren’t that many companies in the biz before, which was part of the problem, and part of the reason he’s succeeded in dropping the cost per pound to orbit by more than an order of magnitude.
The other new companies are going to be okay I think, plenty of work to go around. And they’re well aware of how they need to innovate in order to compete.
SpaceX has only been orbiting stuff for, hmm, ten years? Less than ten years? Already a sig fraction of all the orbital payloads ever launched went up aboard a Falcon 9. Profitability will have to develop, but I don’t expect an IPO from SpaceX, ever.
Why Falcon 9 is Better than Even SpaceX Thought
April 8, 2022
NASASpaceflight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iQMTrC-spc
I saw this hilarious black comic talking about a black astronaut on both shuttle disasters.
He said NASA stands for Negroes Ain't Supposed to be Astronauts.
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