Author Topic: Dragons for everyone! It's another SpaceX Party Thread (CRS-1) (Read 139010 times)

Lars_J · « **Reply #280 on:** 10/10/2012 09:00 pm »

Love it!

apace · « **Reply #281 on:** 10/10/2012 09:06 pm »

Hehe, and this from a SpaceX Propulsion Test Engineer ;-)

joek · « **Reply #282 on:** 10/10/2012 09:07 pm »

Well done! That's a keeper.

Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night, nor lost engine stays these Dragons from the swift completion of their appointed rounds...

Rocket Science · « **Reply #283 on:** 10/10/2012 09:35 pm »

Looking forward to that first manned dragon flight...

http://www.sklomotion.com/cartoons.html

rickl · « **Reply #284 on:** 10/10/2012 11:46 pm »

Quote from: Robotbeat on 10/10/2012 08:59 pm

From Twitter

https://mobile.twitter.com/mattsachtler/status/256129887407058944

I love it!

Antares · « **Reply #285 on:** 10/11/2012 03:23 am »

Bah-rilliant. Cheers to Sachtler. That's going on my cube wall.

Retired Downrange · « **Reply #286 on:** 10/11/2012 01:21 pm »

Maybe it's time someone explained to Jim that it was
SpaceX who moved his cheese:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Moved_My_Cheese%3F

(Not only moved it, but launched it into friggin orbit!)

Jim · « **Reply #287 on:** 10/11/2012 01:41 pm »

Quote from: Retired Downrange on 10/11/2012 01:21 pm

Maybe it's time someone explained to Jim that it was
SpaceX who moved his cheese:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Moved_My_Cheese%3F

(Not only moved it, but launched it into friggin orbit!)

That was on their own mission and not a NASA mission.

Retired Downrange · « **Reply #288 on:** 10/11/2012 01:42 pm »

Read the book Jim.

Joffan · « **Reply #289 on:** 10/12/2012 07:54 pm »

Congratulations to Dragon and ISS crew on a record time from attach to hatch-crack (unless of course anyone knows different!) And it could have been way faster if the Common Berthing Mechanism didn't have to be dismantled piece by piece.

Is there any truth to the rumour* that Suni is sleeping in the Dragon?

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* the rumour I just started, that is

Robotbeat · « **Reply #290 on:** 10/12/2012 08:45 pm »

Quote from: Joffan on 10/12/2012 07:54 pm

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Is there any truth to the rumour* that Suni is sleeping in the Dragon?

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* the rumour I just started, that is

LOL!

wolfpack · « **Reply #291 on:** 10/15/2012 12:08 am »

Well done, SpaceX! Very impressed with the engine out capability. Also very concerned that it happened, please be very open with the failure analysis.

Press on!

spectre9 · « **Reply #292 on:** 10/15/2012 12:19 am »

I'd sleep in it if it was quiet but I doubt that given where it's berthed.

Oh for the days of STS-134 where people actually were sleeping in every corner.

Joffan · « **Reply #293 on:** 10/15/2012 01:00 am »

Actually I should have made Yuri Malenchenko the subject of that rumour, after what Gennady Padalka said about the quality of the accommodation in the Russian segment :-) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49217472/ns/technology_and_science-space/#.UHtfwGfNnu6

beancounter · « **Reply #294 on:** 10/15/2012 01:33 am »

Quote from: wolfpack on 10/15/2012 12:08 am

Well done, SpaceX! Very impressed with the engine out capability. Also very concerned that it happened, please be very open with the failure analysis.

Press on!

Why? SpaceX is private and not answerable to shareholders or the public. If they're open about this it will be only because they see fit to do so, not for any other reason. Currently NASA, SpaceX and their future customers are the only parties who have a claim on the investigation results and any changes to mitigate the failure. Even future customers is questionable. They may simply be told that the appropriate actions to correct the causitive issue have been taken.

wolfpack · « **Reply #295 on:** 10/15/2012 01:56 am »

Quote from: beancounter on 10/15/2012 01:33 am

Why? SpaceX is private and not answerable to shareholders or the public. If they're open about this it will be only because they see fit to do so, not for any other reason. Currently NASA, SpaceX and their future customers are the only parties who have a claim on the investigation results and any changes to mitigate the failure. Even future customers is questionable. They may simply be told that the appropriate actions to correct the causitive issue have been taken.

Why not? They are head and shoulders above the competition. There is nothing to be lost in honesty.

Jim · « **Reply #296 on:** 10/15/2012 02:14 am »

Quote from: wolfpack on 10/15/2012 01:56 am

Why not? They are head and shoulders above the competition.

unsubstantiated

Joffan · « **Reply #297 on:** 10/15/2012 02:26 am »

Quote from: Jim on 10/15/2012 02:14 am

Quote from: wolfpack on 10/15/2012 01:56 am

Why not? They are head and shoulders above the competition.

unsubstantiated

substantiation not required during parties.

Woohoo!

wolfpack · « **Reply #298 on:** 10/15/2012 02:35 am »

Quote from: Jim on 10/15/2012 02:14 am

Quote from: wolfpack on 10/15/2012 01:56 am

Why not? They are head and shoulders above the competition.

unsubstantiated

2 flights to ISS constitute substance in my opinion.

What is your definition?

Jim · « **Reply #299 on:** 10/15/2012 01:08 pm »

Quote from: wolfpack on 10/15/2012 02:35 am

Quote from: Jim on 10/15/2012 02:14 am
Quote from: wolfpack on 10/15/2012 01:56 am

Why not? They are head and shoulders above the competition.

unsubstantiated

2 flights to ISS constitute substance in my opinion.

What is your definition?

2 flights is not substance