Last time I was interested in space was the Mars Lander. Going to ISS is easy afaik but when are we ever going to try landing on the moon again (don't even talk about Mars).
NASA's Artemis project has got you covered on that one:
SpaceX NASA returning human spaceflight to United States today (canceled)
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#122As a Brit, I am jealous that I'll not be able to work with NASA or SpaceX. This is a really exciting time, best of luck to the team.
I’ve been having mild anxiety about this mission ever since it was announced.
Working on manned space flight is not for me. The stakes are just too high.
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#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is the touch screen usable during lift-off / landing? I'm thinking gravity (4+g?) and trepidations is making it hard to touch a specific spot. Or, maybe there isn't much to do manually during this phase, and for the little things there are some classic controls.
It's both. They have a handle below the screen precisely for this reason. [1] You can grab it and press the buttons below/tap the lower part of the screen above with your thumb. This seems much more reasonable and pragmatic than the sci-fi looking mockup they originally presented. [2] Although my understanding is that it's probably not a huge problem, because Soyuz introduced the stick to push the buttons only in its…
Thanks for the informative comment & 2003 story!
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#124The production quality of the SpaceX feed is amazing and emotional. Right now (9:40am or so) the bios on the astronauts are great. They have really invested over their launches in making space inspirational, and this feed is clearly something they spent a ton of time on.
Very emotionally uplifting, I highly recommend watching the feed now if you like space.
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#125I assume the astronauts and everyone involved is tested daily for COVID-19. I am sure that bringing the virus to the IIS would be disastrous. Anyone has any insights on the measures taken to prevent it?
This Verge article[0] appears to describe the preventative steps to be less severe than I'd expect.
[0] https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/25/21264868/spacex-nasa-laun...
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#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
Elon has fascination for sci-fi aesthetics so no matter what, he is going to shoe horn it in. Sci-fi UI/UX was developed in a short time under pressure when movies were being made. The authors did not consider literally anything about the implications such as ergonomics, cost, reliability, discoverability, etc. Literally zero research behind it. It was not an engineering project by any stretch of the meaning. Sci-fi…
The Crew Dragon touchscreen monitors compensate for vibration by oscillating the image, enhancing readability especially during reentry. Analog gauges are unable to do that. To say 'sci-fi aesthetic is the cancer of our society' is empty hyperbole. The sci-fi aesthetic mirrors the age in which we live. Additionally, which sci-fi aesthetic is so ruinous? Is it Star Wars with all it's switch, levers, and knobs? Is it 2…
You don't think that SpaceX's new spacesuit and cockpit design has any sci-fi decorations?
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#127The cold war is back, the fashion is back and out of all the things that are back I am glad that the USA is back in space flights. Wish you the best luck and hope that this will lead to some serious competition. Soyuz is great but we need to do more as species.
Yes, but is manned missions really going to achieve much. I thought there was much differing opinion about the value/lack of value of manned missions among the space community itself.
By the way, NASA style is to avoid using "manned" and use a term like "crewed" or "piloted" instead. The Manned Spaceflight Center is an exception.
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#128I assume the astronauts and everyone involved is tested daily for COVID-19. I am sure that bringing the virus to the IIS would be disastrous. Anyone has any insights on the measures taken to prevent it? This Verge article[0] appears to describe the preventative steps to be less severe than I'd expect. [0] https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/25/21264868/spacex-nasa-laun...
Ever since one of the astronauts got sick on one of the Gemini missions the astronauts have undergone quarantines for a period before going up into space.
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#129How long will the approach to the ISS take? Previous unmanned Dragon missions take ~1 day to approach and dock but I can't imagine they will subject the astronauts to the same.
Similar - about 18-19hrs before docking. You should be able to watch it live tomorrow morning. It's funny that it takes that long, since they could theoretically make it up there in like half an hour or so. Here's a good overview of what's gonna happen today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr_zfpzGxQQ
He said exactly what I was thinking: Initiate ludicrous mode on the way to the launch site.
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#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wonder if the touchscreens are made of diverse hardware types and run by different programs running on different types of CPUs. If it's all common hardware and a common code-base then one in-common hardware or software failure could still take them all down.
I know the space shuttle employed multiple redundant computers of differing hardware as failsafes. I can't imagine SpaceX didn't do the same thing.
The redundant computers were only one part of it. The Space Shuttle software engineering capability was on another level.