Author Topic: The CRS-2/SpX-2 "Junk in the Trunk" Party Thread (Read 159474 times)

Lar · « **Reply #420 on:** 03/03/2013 01:56 pm »

Quote from: Jim on 03/03/2013 10:59 am

no, my bad. I was thinking of the launch and not onorbit.

Everyone mark your calendar, Jim is almost NEVER wrong about ANYTHING (factual)[1]

We are lucky to have him at NSF, he keeps the fannish types honest and (slightly more) grounded.

1 - His opinions... well, we all have opinions

Lar · « **Reply #421 on:** 03/03/2013 02:05 pm »

OK this is just WRONG

(note the title and logo, and then note what is displayed)

rickl · « **Reply #422 on:** 03/03/2013 02:07 pm »

Lar, I just noticed the caption under your avatar. I remember playing hooky from school to watch Gemini launches. My mom would write a note saying I was sick, and some of my teachers understood. They were probably happy that I took an interest in watching history in the making.

I remember seeing the GT-6 engine shutdown live. That was a whole lot more worrisome than the COTS-2 launch abort.

We only had a black & white TV at the time, though.

Galactic Penguin SST · « **Reply #423 on:** 03/03/2013 02:10 pm »

Quote from: rickl on 03/03/2013 02:07 pm

Lar, I just noticed the caption under your avatar. I remember playing hooky from school to watch Gemini launches. My mom would write a note saying I was sick, and some of my teachers understood. They were probably happy that I took an interest in watching history in the making.

I remember seeing the GT-6 engine shutdown live. That was a whole lot more worrisome than the COTS-2 launch abort.

Speaking of Gemini - what do you guys feel when hearing about the Gemini 8 crazy RCS at that time (I assume with radio news)?

Lar · « **Reply #424 on:** 03/03/2013 02:23 pm »

Quote from: rickl on 03/03/2013 02:07 pm

Lar, I just noticed the caption under your avatar. I remember playing hooky from school to watch Gemini launches. My mom would write a note saying I was sick, and some of my teachers understood. They were probably happy that I took an interest in watching history in the making.

I remember seeing the GT-6 engine shutdown live. That was a whole lot more worrisome than the COTS-2 launch abort.

I was 7 at the end of the Gemini program so my memory is very hazy. I was told i watched, though, I was a space nut even then.

I have much clearer memories of Apollo, including multiple launches and moonwalks and splashdowns.

rickl · « **Reply #425 on:** 03/03/2013 02:32 pm »

Quote from: Galactic Penguin SST on 03/03/2013 02:10 pm

Speaking of Gemini - what do you guys feel when hearing about the Gemini 8 crazy RCS at that time (I assume with radio news)?

The emergency didn't occur on live TV. I remember my parents waking me up late at night to watch the splashdown, but there was no live TV of that either, since it was unplanned and happened away from the prime recovery area. All there was were TV talking heads talking about it.

mgreb · « **Reply #426 on:** 03/03/2013 03:01 pm »

I loved the simulations that all three of the channels had then, I would flip the tuner (No Remote!) around to find the one I liked the most. I remember most the rendezvous demonstration using model trains.

rickl · « **Reply #427 on:** 03/03/2013 03:03 pm »

Quote from: Lar on 03/03/2013 02:23 pm

I was 7 at the end of the Gemini program so my memory is very hazy. I was told i watched, though, I was a space nut even then.

I have much clearer memories of Apollo, including multiple launches and moonwalks and splashdowns.

I must be a year or two older than you. I remember Gemini pretty clearly, but I don't really have any memories of Mercury. I was 3 at the time of Alan Shepard's MR-3 flight, and my dad said I was sitting in his lap watching it.

As for John Glenn's MA-6 flight, I had just turned 4 and wasn't yet in kindergarten. The only memories I have of that day were that my dad was at work and my mom had a dentist appointment. But I must have watched the whole thing on TV, yet I don't remember it at all. Strange.

Thunderbird5 · « **Reply #428 on:** 03/03/2013 05:13 pm »

Oh no! Rumours that SpaceX technicians may have forgotten to wire-up the door bell during close out. Apparently this was a single string system.

Engineers now working several contingency options, including knocking on the hatch...

docmordrid · « **Reply #429 on:** 03/03/2013 05:21 pm »

Quote from: rickl on 03/03/2013 03:03 pm

Quote from: Lar on 03/03/2013 02:23 pm
I was 7 at the end of the Gemini program so my memory is very hazy. I was told i watched, though, I was a space nut even then.

I have much clearer memories of Apollo, including multiple launches and moonwalks and splashdowns.

I must be a year or two older than you. I remember Gemini pretty clearly, but I don't really have any memories of Mercury. I was 3 at the time of Alan Shepard's MR-3 flight, and my dad said I was sitting in his lap watching it.

As for John Glenn's MA-6 flight, I had just turned 4 and wasn't yet in kindergarten. The only memories I have of that day were that my dad was at work and my mom had a dentist appointment. But I must have watched the whole thing on TV, yet I don't remember it at all. Strange.

I was 9 when Mercury started in 1959 and remember every exciting minute through all of Apollo. Glued to the box watching Jules Bergman & Walter Cronkite do masterful jobs, I was

tigerade · « **Reply #430 on:** 03/03/2013 07:54 pm »

Hilarious. If you followed the Tesla-NYT boondoggle, you'll get this:

InfraNut2 · « **Reply #431 on:** 03/03/2013 08:01 pm »

Now that the Dragon is up there, these cool guys can join the party!

Jason1701 · « **Reply #432 on:** 03/03/2013 09:22 pm »

With all the fresh fruit delivered by Dragon, it might be good for the crew to review this class:

douglas100 · « **Reply #433 on:** 03/03/2013 10:28 pm »

Quote from: Galactic Penguin SST on 03/03/2013 02:10 pm

Speaking of Gemini - what do you guys feel when hearing about the Gemini 8 crazy RCS at that time (I assume with radio news)?

Didn't hear about it till the next day, and missed the start of the incident. They had either landed, or were just about to. Difficult to remember now, what I felt, after all these years. Surprise and relief, I think.

Interesting thought: the thruster which caused the Gemini 8 problem was on the adapter and couldn't be recovered. But the design of Dragon allows the whole of the propulsion system to be recovered (hopefully) and examined for investigating the anomaly on the current flight.

spectre9 · « **Reply #434 on:** 03/03/2013 10:34 pm »

Sort of caught up on most of the updates now.

I find myself reading more than posting during these times.

Some of the drivel I'm reading in the discussion thread doesn't seem to be required, seems many are posting for the sake of it and that's what this thread should be for.

Minor gripe, as long as everybody's having fun

QuantumG · « **Reply #435 on:** 03/03/2013 10:37 pm »

I don't know what's wrong with having moderators delete posts on the update threads when they are unquestionably not updates.

Just too much work I guess.

spectre9 · « **Reply #436 on:** 03/03/2013 10:45 pm »

I guess by that you mean they're moved en masse in the discussion thread.

Hence the garbage I'm wading through.

For regular posters most of the stuff has been said before 100s of times but for those that are only here for this event they think they're discussing new points/asking new questions.

I find it tedious but I struggle through

QuantumG · « **Reply #437 on:** 03/03/2013 10:48 pm »

Quote from: spectre9 on 03/03/2013 10:45 pm

I guess by that you mean they're moved en masse in the discussion thread.

Not necessarily. I went to the update thread (after a few hours of sleep) to see what I'd missed. Only something like 1 out of 4 posts were updates.. the rest was people having a nice little chat.

tigerade · « **Reply #438 on:** 03/03/2013 10:54 pm »

Quote from: spectre9 on 03/03/2013 10:45 pm

For regular posters most of the stuff has been said before 100s of times but for those that are only here for this event they think they're discussing new points/asking new questions.

Yeah, I make a habit of DAFS (do a *blank*ing search) before posting a question.

It saves other people's time and space, for that matter. Of course, if you have a question that's really new or interesting, definitely go for it, just not in the Live update thread.

InfraNut2 · « **Reply #439 on:** 03/04/2013 07:15 am »

Thats a fun (and pompous) way of putting it:

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@Cmdr_Hadfield :

Tonight's Finale: A Dragon, snared and tamed by Canadarm2. Saint George ringing in a new era in the silence of space. pic.twitter.com/CBf96KJ4D2