SpaceX Dragon C2+ Press Kit

[Comga]

(snip)  the public doesn't (and shouldn't) give a rats betooty about metrics...

This from someone who quotes atmospheric pressure in inches of linear column of a toxic liquid metal... 

Is this really for Joe Public or Jack RocketFan, who might be more likely to be comfortable with the International System, someone who might use HeavensAbove to predict a pass of Dragon and the ISS, and be told their altitude in kilometers. 

With the revolution in Libya, we may be down to Myanmar as the only other country still using Imperial units.

It is a good question, if OT, but I wonder what SpaceX uses on the floor in Hawthorne, metric or Imperial.  Anyone know?

[ugordan]

My recollection is that it was 7 seconds for Falcon 1 Flights 4 and 5.  Is that correct?

No, it was never that long. 5 seconds was the updated timing for M1c thrust tailoff and so far F9 has been following that as well.

[manboy]

(snip)  the public doesn't (and shouldn't) give a rats betooty about metrics...

It is a good question, if OT, but I wonder what SpaceX uses on the floor in Hawthorne, metric or Imperial.  Anyone know?

Judging from their DragonLab PDF, I'm guessing imperial.

[Jorge]

(snip)  the public doesn't (and shouldn't) give a rats betooty about metrics...

This from someone who quotes atmospheric pressure in inches of linear column of a toxic liquid metal... 

Is this really for Joe Public or Jack RocketFan, who might be more likely to be comfortable with the International System, someone who might use HeavensAbove to predict a pass of Dragon and the ISS, and be told their altitude in kilometers. 

It is for Jim Journalist, who has a degree in liberal arts and is writing an article for Joe Public, neither of whom know metric units other than 2-liter bottles of pop. Jack Rocketfan doesn't enter into it.

That's why it's called a "press kit" and not a "fan boi kit", natch.

[mduncan36]

Anyone reading this press kit should be assumed smart enough to be able to handle metric.

I was once a photographer for a newspaper. You never spent much time with journalists, did you?

That's why it's called a "press kit" and not a "fan boi kit", natch.

I could not have said it better. Any of us is likely smart enough to understand the "press kit" but it's unlikely the public or most media would ever grasp, nor do they care to understand, anything more than that. 

[angleofattack]

I like the 45th Space Wing fact sheet at the end of the press kit - the fleet includes "Atlas VI".  Maybe that is the metric version of the Atlas V.

[JBF]

Heh I want a fan boi kit!   

[Avron]

Heh I want a fan boi kit!   

see L2..

[Comga]

It is for Jim Journalist, who has a degree in liberal arts and is writing an article for Joe Public, neither of whom know metric units other than 2-liter bottles of pop. Jack Rocketfan doesn't enter into it.

That's why it's called a "press kit" and not a "fan boi kit", natch.

Point taken and well said.
I guess I am spoiled.  We had a science writer at our local, small city, paper who was really bright, understood quite a bit, and wrote about it quite well.

[oiorionsbelt]

(snip)  the public doesn't (and shouldn't) give a rats betooty about metrics...

This from someone who quotes atmospheric pressure in inches of linear column of a toxic liquid metal... 

Is this really for Joe Public or Jack RocketFan, who might be more likely to be comfortable with the International System, someone who might use HeavensAbove to predict a pass of Dragon and the ISS, and be told their altitude in kilometers. 

It is for Jim Journalist, who has a degree in liberal arts and is writing an article for Joe Public, neither of whom know metric units other than 2-liter bottles of pop. Jack Rocketfan doesn't enter into it.

That's why it's called a "press kit" and not a "fan boi kit", natch.

Thanks for the new slang
And I have L2 but want more 

[corrodedNut]

On page 9-Mission Timeline, at - 0:01:00 it says: "Niagara Water". Is that slang for water deluge? Or something else, like a brand name, etc.?

[Kabloona]

Speaking of press, here's something from the NY Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/15/science/space/contracts-help-private-sector-edge-deeper-into-space.html?_r=1&hp

It's broader than just SpaceX coverage, but the story's lede is this weekend's launch.

[jabe]

spacex.com has link to presskit now
jb