Netflix announces Space X documentary on civilian mission into orbit
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#2Writing it as Space X instead of SpaceX caused my mind to question the spelling…
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#3"The privately chartered flight will be commanded, funded and led by 38-year-old billionaire Jared Isaacman, and aim to support St Jude Children's Research Hospital."
Um. Wow. Lots odd there. How can a charted flight be "commanded"? Are they renting the spacecraft or chartering a flight? How does this support the hospital? Is this a stunt to gather donations? I applaud billionaires who do cool stuff. I say have fun. But I don't feel any urge to send money. Now if he did something dangerous and/or humiliating in the style of Comic Relief, then I'd think about donating. How much of my [brother's] netflix subscription is paying for this flight?
Richard Branson driving a Ferrari while asking for money? No. Richard Branson ice bucket challenge ever hour until the hospital gets a new MRI machine? Sign me up.
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#4I have a bet with a friend that James Cameron will be one of the first private citizens to go to the moon, and that he will bring an IMAX camera to fund the trip.
Re: Netflix announces Space X documentary on civilian mission into orbit
#5"The privately chartered flight will be commanded, funded and led by 38-year-old billionaire Jared Isaacman, and aim to support St Jude Children's Research Hospital." Um. Wow. Lots odd there. How can a charted flight be "commanded"? Are they renting the spacecraft or chartering a flight? How does this support the hospital? Is this a stunt to gather donations? I applaud billionaires who do cool stuff. I say have fun.…
From what I remember a donation to the hospital made you enter the pool from which a winner for a seat on the flight was drawn. The planned spaceflight is called "Inspiration 4" and has a Wikipedia entry already: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspiration4
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#6The recent interview of Elon by Tim Dodd is probably more informative and interesting this this could ever be.
Re: Netflix announces Space X documentary on civilian mission into orbit
#7"The privately chartered flight will be commanded, funded and led by 38-year-old billionaire Jared Isaacman, and aim to support St Jude Children's Research Hospital." Um. Wow. Lots odd there. How can a charted flight be "commanded"? Are they renting the spacecraft or chartering a flight? How does this support the hospital? Is this a stunt to gather donations? I applaud billionaires who do cool stuff. I say have fun.…
> But I don't feel any urge to send money.
Billionaires publicly raising money via donations is just.. weird. They should just raise money among themselves during their eyes wide shut parties.
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#8"The privately chartered flight will be commanded, funded and led by 38-year-old billionaire Jared Isaacman, and aim to support St Jude Children's Research Hospital." Um. Wow. Lots odd there. How can a charted flight be "commanded"? Are they renting the spacecraft or chartering a flight? How does this support the hospital? Is this a stunt to gather donations? I applaud billionaires who do cool stuff. I say have fun.…
How can a charted flight be "commanded"?
I looked into this previously, so Jared Isaacman not only is a billionaire from a payments gateway startup he founded, he also is the biggest private owner of military jets and owns a company that actually trains pilots for the USAF, USNavy and foreign airforces. He is a very accomplished pilot from what I gather. (He's 38 btw, so kudos to him)
So, while the Dragon capsule is autonomous there is some 'commanding' that is needed to be able to fly the thing, especially if some of the autonomous features fail - he has been having astronaut training for that and such is 'commanding' the vessel.
How does this support the hospital?
He sold one of the tickets for a lot of money, I think it was to the guy who is listed as an Air Force vet but is actually a data scientist I believe.
Look, he has to donate and generate a large chunk of cash to charity - it's fair optics, esp given the backlash Jeff Bezos had for not using his wealth philanthropically. Here the peanut gallery, we can't have it both ways either we pop at billionaires using their private wealth to go into space or we celebrate the ones who do something for a good cause..?
Re: Netflix announces Space X documentary on civilian mission into orbit
#9"The privately chartered flight will be commanded, funded and led by 38-year-old billionaire Jared Isaacman, and aim to support St Jude Children's Research Hospital." Um. Wow. Lots odd there. How can a charted flight be "commanded"? Are they renting the spacecraft or chartering a flight? How does this support the hospital? Is this a stunt to gather donations? I applaud billionaires who do cool stuff. I say have fun.…
From what I remember a donation to the hospital made you enter the pool from which a winner for a seat on the flight was drawn. The planned spaceflight is called "Inspiration 4" and has a Wikipedia entry already: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspiration4
Ah, that flight. It is a purchased flight. My understanding is that while they can throw the word "commander" and "pilot" around, that this will be a purely automated/ground-controlled exercise.
Re: Netflix announces Space X documentary on civilian mission into orbit
#10"The privately chartered flight will be commanded, funded and led by 38-year-old billionaire Jared Isaacman, and aim to support St Jude Children's Research Hospital." Um. Wow. Lots odd there. How can a charted flight be "commanded"? Are they renting the spacecraft or chartering a flight? How does this support the hospital? Is this a stunt to gather donations? I applaud billionaires who do cool stuff. I say have fun.…
There are at least a few manual decisions that could need to be made on the dragon, in addition to the buttons here:
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=46136.msg1...
Of the four people on the craft, one of them has to have control if the "deorbit now" button is pressed - that would be the commander.
(I suspect there will also be at least some other commands they can do, like changing the orientation of the spacecraft.)