Quote from: punder on 05/30/2012 09:47 pm NASA, rightly perhaps from their view, wanted nothing to do with space tourists--i.e., ordinary people--and I distinctly remember how the space station crew members warmly hugged all the arriving astronauts, except for Dennis Tito, who got a lukewarm handshake and turned backs.Slightly OT, but is there video of this?
NASA, rightly perhaps from their view, wanted nothing to do with space tourists--i.e., ordinary people--and I distinctly remember how the space station crew members warmly hugged all the arriving astronauts, except for Dennis Tito, who got a lukewarm handshake and turned backs.
This might get me ridiculed as a SpaceX person, but it's a serious question. How would you say what SpaceX has done to date, plus what we know (or have had hinted to us) about their future plans, compares to the 1960s NASA HSF program, including Mercury, Gemini and Apollo?
But when STS-1 launched, it was the beginning of a revolution--a new manned spacecraft after several years of nothing, the first winged orbital spacecraft, the first reusable spacecraft, that was going to fly many times a year, bring costs down and open up space in a big way. Why not be excited by that? But then it didn't happen--there were only a few launches every year
57,000 posts in the SpaceX section - wowzers. I think we need two sections for SpaceX. One for mission specific (update threads, specific mission discussion threads, party threads (one per mission)) and one section for everything else (FH, New Engines, General, etc ). Plus the mission specific would be useful to bump on all the F1 Update threads, because - personally - success (C2+) is a bigger deal when one considers how the F1 fails nearly brought down the whole show.
There were plenty of memorable moments in the early Shuttle flights: satellite releases, untethered spacewalks, satellite retrieval and repair missions.
How could he find his way back to his takeoff point at night? Was he using GPS?
Quote from: sanman on 05/31/2012 08:22 amHow could he find his way back to his takeoff point at night? Was he using GPS?Yes. They all use on screen displays with GPS, autopilot, return to home etc..
Quote from: allfiredup on 05/31/2012 08:29 amQuote from: sanman on 05/31/2012 08:22 amHow could he find his way back to his takeoff point at night? Was he using GPS?Yes. They all use on screen displays with GPS, autopilot, return to home etc..The comments he made on the YouTube video indicate that he was using a flashing beacon for return navigation, without GPS.
i'm humming blue danube right now...
Quote from: floron on 05/31/2012 09:52 ami'm humming blue danube right now...Hehe, that's what I did too!
I wish somebody would say whether the GNC door has closed or not. Someone on the update thread said it should have happened by now, although I can't find a time for it.
