This is the mission thread for DM-1. BFR/Starship conversation doesn't belong here. Propulsive landing discussion doesn't belong here.
Here you go:https://cdn.geekwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/180712-spacex-768x768.jpg
..., but I forgot about this glimpse of Crew Dragon at KSC at the 1:45 mark in this video! I'm guessing that's likely the actual flight trunk mated to the capsule. https://youtube.com/watch?v=aoU5P2SSCho
Quote from: vt_hokie on 11/30/2018 08:49 pm..., but I forgot about this glimpse of Crew Dragon at KSC at the 1:45 mark in this video! I'm guessing that's likely the actual flight trunk mated to the capsule. https://youtube.com/watch?v=aoU5P2SSChoHere are screenshots from 1:45 & 1:46. Anyone here recognize the facility?That video was posted on August 31.
That looks like the vacuum chamber at Plum Brook. Dragon was up here for testing earlier this year.
It is DM-1. DM-2 won't fly until the middle of 2019.
Quote from: ZachS09 on 12/03/2018 07:03 pmIt is DM-1. DM-2 won't fly until the middle of 2019.I agree with your conclusion but not your logic.The Soyuz MS-12 crew will still be on the ISS at NASA's recently posted launch date for DM-2.However, with Bridenstine hinting at unspecified delays, and the term "first launch" instead of a long winded description about "American astronauts launching from American soil on American rockets" and so on it's probably DM-1.
Quote from: kevinof on 11/30/2018 07:03 amCouldn't agree more. It would be the death of the project and I think you're being a little generous to Nasa when you say a decade late. I suspect it would be a lot, lot more.Quote from: woods170 on 11/30/2018 06:51 amQuote from: zodiacchris on 11/30/2018 03:49 amThank God NASA isn‘t involved in Starship, and I bloody well hope it stays that way Elon would be extremely well-advised to keep NASA folks away from any aspect of ITS/BFR/BFS/Starship, at all times.Because if he doesn't it will either launch never at all or at least a decade late. Not to mention that it won't be financially viable due to all the "features" added to satisfy NASA's demands.IMO Crew Dragon is what brings SpaceX on par with NASA and Starship will be the thing where SpaceX leaps beyond NASA.If anyone at SpaceX would be silly enough to keep NASA in the lead, mankind in general, and SpaceX in particular, will never get to Mars. Ever.
Couldn't agree more. It would be the death of the project and I think you're being a little generous to Nasa when you say a decade late. I suspect it would be a lot, lot more.Quote from: woods170 on 11/30/2018 06:51 amQuote from: zodiacchris on 11/30/2018 03:49 amThank God NASA isn‘t involved in Starship, and I bloody well hope it stays that way Elon would be extremely well-advised to keep NASA folks away from any aspect of ITS/BFR/BFS/Starship, at all times.Because if he doesn't it will either launch never at all or at least a decade late. Not to mention that it won't be financially viable due to all the "features" added to satisfy NASA's demands.
Quote from: zodiacchris on 11/30/2018 03:49 amThank God NASA isn‘t involved in Starship, and I bloody well hope it stays that way Elon would be extremely well-advised to keep NASA folks away from any aspect of ITS/BFR/BFS/Starship, at all times.Because if he doesn't it will either launch never at all or at least a decade late. Not to mention that it won't be financially viable due to all the "features" added to satisfy NASA's demands.
Thank God NASA isn‘t involved in Starship, and I bloody well hope it stays that way
Quote from: Comga on 12/03/2018 07:29 pmQuote from: ZachS09 on 12/03/2018 07:03 pmIt is DM-1. DM-2 won't fly until the middle of 2019.I agree with your conclusion but not your logic.The Soyuz MS-12 crew will still be on the ISS at NASA's recently posted launch date for DM-2.However, with Bridenstine hinting at unspecified delays, and the term "first launch" instead of a long winded description about "American astronauts launching from American soil on American rockets" and so on it's probably DM-1.Soyuz MS-12 comes back in October so if there are no issues, they have a good chance of welcoming DM-2 to the station. From June to October that is 4 months of delays... Let's hope we don't get to that point.
Quote from: Alexphysics on 12/03/2018 07:32 pmQuote from: Comga on 12/03/2018 07:29 pmQuote from: ZachS09 on 12/03/2018 07:03 pmIt is DM-1. DM-2 won't fly until the middle of 2019.I agree with your conclusion but not your logic.The Soyuz MS-12 crew will still be on the ISS at NASA's recently posted launch date for DM-2.However, with Bridenstine hinting at unspecified delays, and the term "first launch" instead of a long winded description about "American astronauts launching from American soil on American rockets" and so on it's probably DM-1.Soyuz MS-12 comes back in October so if there are no issues, they have a good chance of welcoming DM-2 to the station. From June to October that is 4 months of delays... Let's hope we don't get to that point.Seems unlikely they were talking about DM-1, since at the same time they were saying CRS-16 and DM-1 could overlap, and CRS-16 can't stay at ISS until Feb 28th. Right?
I noted during the SpaceX webcast one of the SpaceX people said that DM-1 was still set for January. Guess the NASA admin decided it was OK to launch next month after all?
At the NAC HEO meeting, Bill Gerstenmaier says the SpaceX Demo-1 mission is planned “towards the end of January.”
MNASA’s Bill Gerstenmaier says SpaceX’s Demo-1 Crew Dragon mission is planned toward the end of January. Lots of reviews in the next couple of weeks, he tells the NASA Advisory Council’s HEO committee.
