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They pipe up occasionally, just not so much idle banter, as they don't want to be talking when someone vital says something, and step all over it.
Like... (and i quote) "That's dragon passing over LA"
NASA is broadcasting: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/ustream.html Anyone know what time it's expected to dock at?
Here is that in your local time: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=4%3A30am+pt+in+local+ti...
It's in 1 hour 48 minutes from the timestamp of this comment
NASA is broadcasting: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/ustream.html Anyone know what time it's expected to dock at?
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Someone here submitted this last night as the low-def nasa-tv link. http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-mobile
This is the only one which gives me actual video (though it's just of a computer screen atm, a deathstar-like graphic) - the others had voices, and no video but a small blinking light and vertical bands near the bottom of the screen). uh oh, now it's also showing a blinking light and bands... EDIT at last, Dragon sliding across the earth, from the ISS. Amazing seeing one spacecraft from another. Later, a thermal imag…
Looking at the screen with the cross-hairs it seems like the bottom right set of figures shows the distance to ISS, which was sitting at around 255m, and should go down to 235m (EDIT: was originally supposed to be 220m) before the crew on ISS tells dragon to head back to the 250m mark. Here's hoping that they keep showing these shots from the ISS monitors throughout - kinda like watching someone coding but on a whole…
Looking at the screen with the cross-hairs it seems like the bottom right set of figures shows the distance to ISS, which was sitting at around 255m, and should go down to 235m (EDIT: was originally supposed to be 220m) before the crew on ISS tells dragon to head back to the 250m mark. Here's hoping that they keep showing these shots from the ISS monitors throughout - kinda like watching someone coding but on a whole…
Does anyone know why this has been changed? I'd hazard a guess at dragon being slightly off the target position (slightly northwest), but haven't heard any commentary about why this may be.
I thought the planning and preparation would have some allowance for slight discrepancies, so are the changes to the planned points (220m to 250m) a part of this procedure, or would these "deltas" be a reactive response to real life?
It reminds me of the adventures that Pettit had with camera calibration yesterday, I wonder if there's a connection?
Anyway, listening to Pettit talk through the camera calibration yesterday made me think that there's a lot of room for improved UX in the software they use.