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Live: SpaceX Dragon docking with ISS

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Re: Live: SpaceX Dragon docking with ISS

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Post by soren_dahl »

surrealize wrote: post #40

The monitor view that they're occasionally showing displays a reticle over Dragon. Or it's supposed to, but the reticle is a bit off (Kuipers spent some time talking to houston about it). 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…

As an aside, I strongly dislike the term UX/User eXperience, it makes no sense to me. I could substitute 'UX' for 'design' above and all would be well in my world.

I might say that the operators of the 3 Mile Island nuclear reactor where having a fine "user experience" because the interface was telling them everything was OK...

Re: Live: SpaceX Dragon docking with ISS

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Post by mih »

j_col wrote: post #2

NASA is broadcasting: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/ustream.html Anyone know what time it's expected to dock at?

What are the tiny objects that seemed to be criss-crossing all over the background of the blinking light (visible clearly in fullscreen) ? Other satellites?

Re: Live: SpaceX Dragon docking with ISS

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Post by agilebyte »

soren_dahl wrote: post #42
surrealize wrote: post #40

The monitor view that they're occasionally showing displays a reticle over Dragon. Or it's supposed to, but the reticle is a bit off (Kuipers spent some time talking to houston about it). 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…

As an aside, I strongly dislike the term UX/User eXperience, it makes no sense to me. I could substitute 'UX' for 'design' above and all would be well in my world. I might say that the operators of the 3 Mile Island nuclear reactor where having a fine "user experience" because the interface was telling them everything was OK...

User experience is the overall feeling you get from a well combined language, graphic design, sound, motion, information design, interface design, interface design, interaction design and programming.

That is the "industry accepted" meaning of the term, http://uxdesign.com/assets/ux-defined/user-experience-design...

Re: Live: SpaceX Dragon docking with ISS

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Post by inovica »

javert wrote: post #48
javert wrote: post #47

Couple of people are discussing right now in #bitcoin on freenode if anyone wants to join :)

In the next 30 minutes, they are planning to go from 150m out to 30m out. Should be dramatic to watch the capsule get closer.

I'm glued to watching this and doing very little work. I was born in 1969 and was fascinated by space as a kid, but then went off and did other things. To see this happening is wonderful but I have done screenshots of a number of places which would make dramatic and beautiful paintings
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