I see they are using touch screens. What would they do if the screens froze?
I'm curious what the physical buttons on the seat armrests do.
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#212FYI the live stream is playing on YouTube right now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aymrnzianf0
I don't understand. What is the difference between that video and this [0] one? They're both by NASA. Then there's also the one by SpaceX [1] for those interested. I know that SpaceX usually has two webcasts going during launches; one for the public-friendly chatter and another for the go/nogo technical chatter I always look for the SpaceX or NASA official links. Don't search for SpaceX on youtube, you'll drown in un…
I wouldn't be surprised if streaming to two different channels gives them some redundancy...
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#213ISS will be visible from Germany at 22:23 today, coming from north-west moving towards south-east and it will be followed by Crew Dragon and the Falcon 9 upper stage about 20 minutes later. It should pass almost straight over you in the south of Germany.
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#214Here is pretty accurate in terms of spacecraft UI docking simulator: https://iss-sim.spacex.com/ Astronauts will be using similar for manual piloting demo before docking.
I have tried and barely succeeded, I just hope those are not real controls. Those should be either automated or they should consult someone from gaming industry. Sorry to say UX controls are terrible (saying from gaming position).
The docking is automated by default. The manual controls are only to be used in case the automated docking doesn't work.
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#215So cool to hear "Dragon copies" over the radio. For the first time, Dragon can talk back!
Audio of Dragon comms: https://youtu.be/90X5NJleYJQ?t=152
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#216Earlier quoted context omitted.
People are not cheaper in space, by no means. Robotic things can be easily prepared well in advance, on planet Earth, where sitting a bunch of programmers by the computer is much cheaper than training and sending actual bag of mostly water into space. If you are still not convinced, we have sent a robotic missions to almost every larger body in solar system, yet we are excited today we can send two people to LEO. Jus…
Humans can fix a broken spacecraft better than robots. That's one of the main reasons we've sent humans up. https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/servicing/index.ht... Would it be cheaper to build a replacement scope and launch it instead?
We can send half a dozen robotic missions for the price of one carrying people. Just send two spacecraft for redundancy.
As to Hubble, that is pretty bad example. If people were present with Hubble they would be able to do exactly nothing. Everything was prepared on Earth and only then sent to space.
Also, the cost of servicing mission was almost as much as it would cost to make a copy of Hubble. The cost of servicing mission was reported 250M and the cost of sending Hubble was reported 4.7B but from what I remember most of this was R&D, making software, tools, developing plans, etc. A lot of spare parts for Hubble were already available (it is typical to have copy of everything on Earth for debugging and so on).
Robotic missions have the option of being scrapped and sent again which is not really an option for human missions.
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#217ISS will be visible from Germany at 22:23 today, coming from north-west moving towards south-east and it will be followed by Crew Dragon and the Falcon 9 upper stage about 20 minutes later. It should pass almost straight over you in the south of Germany.
Do you know where ISS will be when Crew Dragon actually docks?
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#218Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have tried and barely succeeded, I just hope those are not real controls. Those should be either automated or they should consult someone from gaming industry. Sorry to say UX controls are terrible (saying from gaming position).
The docking is automated by default. The manual controls are only to be used in case the automated docking doesn't work.
UI is even more important when there is an anomaly.
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#219Here is pretty accurate in terms of spacecraft UI docking simulator: https://iss-sim.spacex.com/ Astronauts will be using similar for manual piloting demo before docking.
I have tried and barely succeeded, I just hope those are not real controls. Those should be either automated or they should consult someone from gaming industry. Sorry to say UX controls are terrible (saying from gaming position).
It is automated and they are the real controls that are used in backup.
They are not designed so that your average person can just figure out orbital mechanics on the spot while approaching one of the most expensive objects ever created.
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#220Does anyone else feel super excited? I guess this was the feeling my parents had when they watched men landing on the Moon...
Today is a melancholy feeling. Happy to see SpaceX sending people to space, but sad a decade was lost.
EDIT: I spoke about that we had a regression, I meant that NASA lost a capability and just got it back.