Posted on 11/15/2020 2:06:41 PM PST by NautiNurse
NASA's SpaceX astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker, and Soichi Noguchi arrived at KSC historic launchpad 39-A, and boarded the launch vehicle.
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 mission will be the first crew rotational flight of a U.S. commercial spacecraft with astronauts to the International Space Station.
The launch may be viewed via link above, or streaming via SpaceX Launches, and via Roku NASA channel.
Yup! Worked space shuttle for 36 years. Last 24 of it at KSC. Nine years, later I still miss it.
One of SpaceX's rocket scientists, commentators, and really cute nerdy girl Jessica Anderson.
CNN fear-mongers the SUCCESSFUL launch...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7gOdS43ezI
and gets drowned with critical comments!
Dang! We didn’t have future rocket scientists like that when I was in college...
CNN is a waste of precious time. Life is too short.
Oh, I know. But seeing them get slammed by pages and pages of critical comments - on You Tube - is kinda fun. ;-)
I watched a shuttle launch from the roof of a USAF building right on A1A from Patrick AFB. That was awesome, lit up the whole sky.
My wife and daughter were parked on the causeway over night and saw the morning blast off for the moon in ‘69.
We got back to Indy in time to see “One small step...”
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/moonwalk-launch-party-31100115/
I know that was an amazing sight! A memory to last a lifetime.
That it was. I forgot to write night shuttle launch.
The building I was on top of was the view they showed Major Nelson going to work in I Dream of Jeannie.
Unfortunately, that shuttle is the one that disintegrated on re-entry.
Very cool!
So smart, so young.
Where do these young geniuses get their education?
Thank You for Your work on the. Shuttle Program all those years. Did anyone catch the discussion about locating the leak in the Station a while back ?
After visually searching for it several times one of the U.S. Astronauts suggested the release of Tea from a Tea bag. It worked like a MagnaFlux does looking for cracks in an Engine Block or Cylinder Head. The "magnet" was the flow of air going towards the leak location. The Tea leaves floated in the zero G and went to the leak. So the Tea leaves acted as the metal powder for a MagnaFlux. Pretty Damned good idea !!!
I never did hear what They used to fix the hole, was it J-B Weld by chance ?
Testimony:
JB Weld is a fantastic product and would certainly solve the problem.
Yeppers, and Made in Sulfur Springs, Texas. I have fixed MANY things with it over the past.
watched the docking last night
LOL! Could have been. Heard about the leak but not the follow up, but still a good idea. Maybe any visible vapor could have been used. Like using dye to find a water leak.
Me too. I’m really glad SpaceX is showing NASA how it should be done. Lower costs, reusing as much as possible, etc.
The Dragon Capsule is impressive, reusable, room for 4 and gear, Touchscreen, new Space Suits, the Crew accessible Cargo space, very reliable Automatic Procedures.
A far cry from cramped Mercury, Gemini and Apollo Capsules.
“A far cry from cramped Mercury, Gemini and Apollo”
It’s amazing how far we have advanced in a half a century plus.
One of the things i think is missing (intentionally?) is government school is a appreciation of where we came from and how we got here..Anything from frontier pioneering days to horseless carriages ..to radio ..and why we choose to go to war....
EVERYONE lived offgrid...without indoor plumbing...there was no or few TVs..let alone PCs..
Some choose to still live the simple life...but it’s a personal CHOICE.
The left would force EVERYONE (exempting themselves of course) to go back to those days...?
But i digress.
In summation: Children, and to many adults, need to learn to appreciate what it took to get to this point.
yup, it was boring... just like it should be
full automation is a beautiful thing
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