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Yes! Goosebumps.. But, I must unfortunately confess.. seeing all that unbranded space on the Dragon had me cynically thinking, how much could they sell that ad space for?
You know... Someday someone will put a Pan-Am logo there...
I've been waiting for this for a long time. I spent the past two summers working on the Dragon docking as an intern.
Are you a programmer? Is the docing full automatic? Until know the only automatic thing was the ATV right?
Question: if Dragon is about 200m lower than ISS, and they are moving at the same velocity at one instant, wouldn't that put them in different orbits? Assuming ISS's orbit was perfectly circular, then Dragon would be moving too slow for its lower orbit, and would sink down, to its perihelion when on the opposite side of the earth, and so on, oscillating up and down, in an elliptical orbit with respect to ISS. The onl…
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You know... Someday someone will put a Pan-Am logo there...
How hard would it be to procure the rights?
- SpaceX would have to want to sell the ad space.
- If NASA is paying for the mission, they may want to have a word (most likely "no").
- The owners of the Pan-Am brand would probably appreciate the gift, but I'd like to make sure they won't get mad before any such stunt.
- The Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick estates would also have something to say, after all, this is more or less a reference to 2001.
I've been waiting for this for a long time. I spent the past two summers working on the Dragon docking as an intern.
Tell us more! Blog link about it?
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You know... Someday someone will put a Pan-Am logo there...
How hard would it be to procure the rights?
Note that the capsule has a camera inside of it (there are pictures from it on SpaceX's site) so when the hatch opens you can see pictures directly from a video camera that isn't under NASA's control.
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?
Watching the Dragon approach from the point of view of the ISS is incredibly exciting in itself, but almost unbelievable when you think about the speeds they are flying at relative to the ground!
What's unbelievable about this? If I approach you on the ground we are both moving fast relative to center of the Earth. Or imagine us onboard the airplane.
There was a moment when the Dragon had a speed of 0 in that frame of reference, what's unbelievable is the complexity of catching up to the ISS!