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Title: New NASA footage of CEV
Post by: Chris Bergin on 08/20/2006 04:40 am: http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/content/?cid=4715

Below are some screenshots from the video (the element this part of the video presented) from the recent All Hands Constellation conference, which was internal (but we got a link via a source and recorded it, he he :) )

(L2 members: This footage starts from 1hr 14mins 50 seconds on the 135mb video available to download there).

Selected screenshots entered into this thread to go alongside the article. Sorry about the quality being a bit crappy. Had to covert the video into a different format and then slap it through Windows Movie Maker, ugg ;)
Title: RE: New NASA footage of CEV
Post by: Chris Bergin on 08/20/2006 04:40 am
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Post by: Chris Bergin on 08/20/2006 04:42 am
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Post by: Chris Bergin on 08/20/2006 04:43 am
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Post by: Chris Bergin on 08/20/2006 04:44 am
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Post by: Chris Bergin on 08/20/2006 04:46 am
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Post by: Chris Bergin on 08/20/2006 04:47 am
Title: Re: New NASA footage of CEV
Post by: astrobrian on 08/20/2006 01:39 pm: I finally got around to watching the all hands video, I see what you meant as far as the "Q&A" portion being rather odd. Gotta love them dragon flys though :)
Title: Re: New NASA footage of CEV
Post by: hyper_snyper on 08/20/2006 01:58 pm: Yet another great article. Any more like this and I'll be forced to get L2.

One question: How close is the cockpit fidelity in that mockup to the one that's going to fly?
Title: Re: New NASA footage of CEV
Post by: Chris Bergin on 08/20/2006 03:42 pm: Quote
astrobrian - 20/8/2006 2:26 PM

I finally got around to watching the all hands video, I see what you meant as far as the "Q&A" portion being rather odd. Gotta love them dragon flys though :)

I should explain that. Skip's part of the conference was the most fun, but it was meant to be part of a two hour conference. They finished about 30 mins too early as they went to a Q and A stage, which was surreal.

They went to a videocam of each NASA center, and no one had any questions. They went back to the conference center - and no one had any questions. They went to the panel - to see if they had any questions for themselves! And all they could come back with was "It's a bit cold in here"....and they ended it there. A bit surreal.
Title: Re: New NASA footage of CEV
Post by: Mark Max Q on 08/20/2006 07:33 pm: Watched the video. Felt like I was there, which is cool. Also nice to see the NASA managers have a sense of humor. Any more articles to come out of the video, as they did a lot on the other stuff too. The test vehicle construction and rollout video was very cool.
Title: Re: New NASA footage of CEV
Post by: gladiator1332 on 08/20/2006 07:58 pm: It is nice to see that even though the CLV is hitting a few snags, NASA is using "the show must go on" attitude.
Title: RE: New NASA footage of CEV
Post by: Martin FL on 08/20/2006 09:07 pm: Love the "No high heels in the CEV" and the cannon fun they are having.
Title: Re: New NASA footage of CEV
Post by: Chris Bergin on 08/21/2006 12:01 am: Quote
Mark Max Q - 20/8/2006 8:20 PM

Watched the video. Felt like I was there, which is cool. Also nice to see the NASA managers have a sense of humor. Any more articles to come out of the video, as they did a lot on the other stuff too. The test vehicle construction and rollout video was very cool.

Yeah, but with the CLV in flux we'll hold back on that part.
Title: Re: New NASA footage of CEV
Post by: astrobrian on 08/21/2006 12:10 am: It almost looks like with the CEV having come this far already, but the CLV in limbo, that it is going to be a case of all dressed up and no way to get to the party. Hopefully that stuff will shake itself out pretty quick though
Title: Re: New NASA footage of CEV
Post by: Launch Fan on 08/21/2006 03:11 pm: Sorry, got stuck in the CEV section topics on this and misses this thread with the screenshots. Very nice work getting hold of this.
Title: Re: New NASA footage of CEV
Post by: gladiator1332 on 08/21/2006 04:15 pm: So which will come first, the CEV announcement or the CLV changes?
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Post by: Norm Hartnett on 08/21/2006 05:53 pm: Does anyone besides me find it weird that NASA is building simulators and test articles of a vehicle that is under competitive bid?
Title: Re: New NASA footage of CEV
Post by: Jim on 08/21/2006 05:58 pm: Quote
Norm Hartnett - 21/8/2006 1:40 PM

Does anyone besides me find it weird that NASA is building simulators and test articles of a vehicle that is under competitive bid?

They are only mockups and not the final configurations. They were possibly used in the proposal evaluations. The same thing was done for Mercury, Gemini and Apollo. The shuttle mockups in the same building were not built by Rockwell.
Title: Re: New NASA footage of CEV
Post by: Mark Nguyen on 08/24/2006 05:27 pm: I'm very curious as to what the interior of the CEV will look like and how it'll contain up to 4-6 people. Is there a cutaway available online of any proposed designs?

Mark
Title: Re: New NASA footage of CEV
Post by: Chris Bergin on 08/24/2006 05:34 pm: Quote
Mark Nguyen - 24/8/2006 6:14 PM

I'm very curious as to what the interior of the CEV will look like and how it'll contain up to 4-6 people. Is there a cutaway available online of any proposed designs?

Mark

Welcome to the site Mark.

These might help:
Title: Re: New NASA footage of CEV
Post by: punkboi on 08/24/2006 06:03 pm: Wow... Must be fun being the one sitting on that upper-most seat
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Post by: PlanetStorm on 08/24/2006 06:23 pm: I'm sure I read somewhere that everyone is supposed to be on the same level now
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Post by: David BAE on 08/24/2006 06:31 pm: Quote
PlanetStorm - 24/8/2006 1:10 PM

I'm sure I read somewhere that everyone is supposed to be on the same level now

Four man to the moon is. Six man to the ISS is two levels, from what I've read and seen.
Title: Re: New NASA footage of CEV
Post by: Jim on 08/24/2006 06:33 pm: Can't fit 6 then. Pilot and copilot are fwd to place them close to the windows with the control panels in all versions, 2-6 people. It would be too much to reconfiguring of the flight control stations to move back and forth
Title: Re: New NASA footage of CEV
Post by: Justin Space on 08/24/2006 09:12 pm: And they decide who gets the contract on Aug 31, as the article predicted.
Title: Re: New NASA footage of CEV
Post by: rhwinger on 08/25/2006 08:07 pm: Is the bulging (un symetrical?) heat shield some kind of image transfer artifact, or is it really more bulbus on one side?
Title: Re: New NASA footage of CEV
Post by: yinzer on 08/25/2006 08:15 pm: The asymmetrical heat shield increases L/D during re-entry. The ESAS report considered it but dropped it due to technical risk. I'm not sure if it made it back in at any point, or if it's still being considered.