Crew Demo-2 Splashdown (Livestream for early afternoon)

Youtube/SpaceX ^ | 8/2/20 | SpaceX

[Monty22002]

Youtube Livestream.

[Political Junkie Too]

Yes, but it has since been recovered, restored, and is on display at a museum in Kansas.

So, does that still count as "lost?"

-PJ

[Dacula]

I am The Keeper of Useless Knowledge.

BTW- the guy in the cent next to the blonde does not have his face diaper on.

[cll]

That’s the boss, Elon Musk. He’s bullet proof.

[Dacula]

cent = center

[Dacula]

What about the blonde two rows back? She is maskless.

[Dacula]

I am only doing this to drown out the boring diatribe of the announcers.

[mewzilla]

Noticed those. Noticing how empty and uncluttered all the table surfaces look. And I see a gent in a vest. That looks familiar. :-)

[hoagy62]

The ghost of Gene Krantz.

[Dacula]

I see a gent in a vest. That looks familiar. :-)

I wonder if his wife made it for him?

[Pollard]

Not quite the old way though. The Dragon has Draco Rockets that Elon originally designed for landing on a hard pad on land but NASA liked the soft-ish water landing for safety reasons so SpaceX redesigned them as thrusters allowing it to maneuver in ways the old capsules couldn't, like changing splash down locations at a later time in the process.(The seven potential splashdown sites for Crew Dragon are off the coasts of Pensacola, Tampa, Tallahassee, Panama City, Cape Canaveral, Daytona, and Jacksonville.) I think they can still choose any of those locations after reentering/passing through the atmosphere. With the new computer systems, they can pinpoint their landing/splashdown better too.

Elon wanted the Dragon to basically do this, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbbSCqaeWyA&list=PLBQ5P5txVQr-Q68JtHuTTBWldX2psIqA1&index=6&t=0s (watch the first 15 second video and the following 47 second close up version)

[hoagy62]

De-orbit burn complete. They’re coming back down. Prayers up.

[mewzilla]

Nominal burn. Woohoo!

[dontreadthis]

this could be of some use:

[Ciaphas Cain]

Okay, “misplaced” is more apt :-P

[Dacula]

Prayers up!

God Speed and hope that we have a successful splashdown!

[BradyLS]

I remember that splash-down. I was all of eleven years. Everyone made it back safely, but (IIRC) the cabin settled in a “stable 2” position (upside down) and filled with some gas that naseated everyone aboard. Deke Slayton’s first and last spaceflight.

[Dacula]

Wow! that includes all of the initials of family members and wife’s family lineage.

[Ciaphas Cain]

Gene Kranz is still with us at age 89.

Here he is a year ago:

[Pollard]

That’s the boss, Elon Musk. He’s bullet proof.

and based on his tweets, he's a believer in the HCQ protocol.

[hoagy62]

I stand corrected. I know someone in the Apollo program passed last year....thought it was him.