The 12 capture hooks (tips) are the pairs of half-round objects, nested inside the slots and just a half inch above the flat circular ring, and that are just on the outside of the red-colored twin striped rings.
Posted on 03/15/2025 6:55:02 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
After being postponed, NASA's SpaceX crew10 had a successful launch Friday night.
Needham native Sunita Williams and fellow astronaut Butch Wilmore have spent nine months in space after originally being scheduled for an eight-day mission.
People in Needham are crossing their fingers that everything runs smoothly. Williams and fellow astronaut Butch Wilmore spent nine months in space after launching for what was scheduled as an eight-day mission.
Friday night's mission was a go as four astronauts onboard a SpaceX rocket that blasted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center. They're expected to arrive at the International Space Station sometime Saturday. There will be a change of hands so Williams and Wilmore can finally hitch a ride home.
The pair has been at the ISS since June after riding up in the Boeing Starliner during a test flight. But a problem with the spacecraft forced them to remain there.
Four astronauts will make the trip back home. The two others have been at the ISS for about six months.
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The 12 capture hooks (tips) are the pairs of half-round objects, nested inside the slots and just a half inch above the flat circular ring, and that are just on the outside of the red-colored twin striped rings.
I saw it at the theater when it came out.
Oh yes. The claws. That brings back memories.
Capture Ring mechanisms
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Not very long. 24-48 hours. They have some briefings between the crews arriving and departing.
Some ceremonial traditions and customs are to be observed among the crew members.
Great movie - especially the "helicopter vs. crop-duster" finale.
You know why the space hardware looked so realistic in Capricorn 1? Because it was made with the complete cooperation of NASA! That's a priceless real lunar lander prototype in the "fake Mars EVA" scene!
This, after NASA reviewed the script that portrays it as as murderous organization. Unbelievable.
Hatch is opened.
🤣❤️
Praying for a safe return for all parties.
Dang fine eating.
Nilgai run around South TX. No tag.i use a bow.
The rubber company in So Cal that my buddy works for makes hatch / door seals for Space X. I would imagine it could well be seals that work in conjunction with the capture hook mechanism. Space X recently paid them a hefty sum to expedite three more sets. That’s not much volume so it tells me the seals must be for their manned or possibly cargo flights to ISS. which don’t happen that often compared to their payload launches (satellites)
Leftist protestors on the ISS are blocking the air lock and attacking the crew, except they are the crew;D
Let’s have Biden be sent into space for an undetermined time. If there’s not room inside ISS, he can ride outside.
“..I honestly would lose my mind if I was stuck in space like that....”
Yep. You, me and probably a whole host of others would be the same.
Perhaps that’s what King pedPIG, the 1st was hoping for: insane astronauts...
Using them as political pawns like he did was just pure, typiecal, vindictive Biden.... The miserable, vile basstid has been that way his whole life.
Dang. Missed the hatch opening. Fell asleep at keyboard. Have backwards QWERTY imprint on forehead.
At least you've got WIFI!
THIS one is!!!
Too late...
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