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The SpaceX Dragon 2 Pad Abort - Might as well Jump - Party Thread
by
Chris Bergin
on 28 Apr, 2015 16:31
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The polling for a Party Thread won....
Joffan with the winning title.
Discussion thread (a big one too):
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=33423.0Update thread will be closer to the test (as there's less of a flow to the event when compared to the F9 launches).
We are looking into a general party thread for "regular" missions.....but so far these party threads have provided a relief valve for the main threads and haven't dominated the sections.
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#1
by
411rocket
on 28 Apr, 2015 18:41
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Looks like in a week, we will be able to see, how well a white dragon can jump.........
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#2
by
Tuts36
on 28 Apr, 2015 18:49
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We are looking into a general party thread for "regular" missions.....but so far these party threads have provided a relief valve for the main threads and haven't dominated the sections.
Party threads are now tradition, no? You can't mess with tradition!
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#3
by
JBF
on 28 Apr, 2015 18:54
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Love the name =)
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#4
by
ElGuapoGuano1
on 28 Apr, 2015 20:30
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Dragon Abort Test Dmitry Rogozin Style
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#5
by
Joffan
on 28 Apr, 2015 23:11
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Ha, great. Boing! Boing! Jump, little Dragon, jump till you fly!
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#6
by
kevin-rf
on 29 Apr, 2015 01:17
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I for one look forward to when Chris breaks out the chainsaws for the Jason Party thread!
Lets just hope the launch doesn't slip to the second Friday in November
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#7
by
411rocket
on 29 Apr, 2015 01:41
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I for one look forward to when Chris breaks out the chainsaws for the Jason Party thread!
Lets just hope the launch doesn't slip to the second Friday in November
I guess hockey masks, will be required as well........
Reminds me, I should sharpen the chain soon, too.
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#8
by
vt_hokie
on 29 Apr, 2015 02:00
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Looking forward to this one! Fingers crossed for great success in 2015 leading to a return to US human spaceflight capability in 2017...
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#9
by
DatUser14
on 29 Apr, 2015 12:03
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I made this video of what the Pad Abort might look like in Kerbal Space Program. I consider it to be accurate from a wide perspective, but am missing details (pod was crewed, not unmanned, SD's burned for longer than 5 seconds, Abort Truss wasn't accurate). Hope you enjoy:
[youtube]umUxsvGETjc[/youtube]
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#10
by
NX-0
on 30 Apr, 2015 19:47
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I made this video of what the Pad Abort might look like in Kerbal Space Program. I consider it to be accurate from a wide perspective, but am missing details (pod was crewed, not unmanned, SD's burned for longer than 5 seconds, Abort Truss wasn't accurate). Hope you enjoy:
[youtube]umUxsvGETjc[/youtube]
I sure hope no Kerbals were injured.
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#11
by
DatUser14
on 30 Apr, 2015 20:43
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I made this video of what the Pad Abort might look like in Kerbal Space Program. I consider it to be accurate from a wide perspective, but am missing details (pod was crewed, not unmanned, SD's burned for longer than 5 seconds, Abort Truss wasn't accurate). Hope you enjoy:
[youtube]umUxsvGETjc[/youtube]
I sure hope no Kerbals were injured.
no kerbals were injured, hopefully D.A.T.A is not injured as well.
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#12
by
MattMason
on 30 Apr, 2015 20:50
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I'm older enough to appreciate a better musical theme from the Pointer Sisters. Especially if I combine it with CRS-6's booster lifting off from the JRtI in reverse.
"Jump" by the Pointer Sisters
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#13
by
AJW
on 01 May, 2015 01:26
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Moved to May 6th. Oh, the humanity!
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#14
by
deruch
on 01 May, 2015 04:45
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Looks like in a week, we will be able to see, how well a white dragon can jump.........
I sure hope they're changing the color scheme for this test because everyone knows....
edit: quoted the wrong comment. oops.
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#15
by
Helodriver
on 01 May, 2015 05:07
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I imagine the Jump will be something like this, maybe even more dramatic
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#16
by
Ben the Space Brit
on 01 May, 2015 10:00
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Hmm launch window starts at 7 AM EDT.
Could only mean SpaceX is going for Network morning shows viewership.
Agreed and the company is showing its media savvy too. A nice, unequivocally-successful test will be a big technology talking point throughout the day's news cycle (barring some major disaster stealing the headlines) and will doubtless provoke political comment.
At the risk of thread derailment, a successful test next Wednesday and the test flight of what I believe is the upper stage of BO's Shepard will have those on the appropriate Congressional committees looking at certain people and asking to remind them why they're being paid.
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#17
by
deruch
on 01 May, 2015 13:44
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Hmm launch window starts at 7 AM EDT.
Could only mean SpaceX is going for Network morning shows viewership.
Agreed and the company is showing its media savvy too. A nice, unequivocally-successful test will be a big technology talking point throughout the day's news cycle (barring some major disaster stealing the headlines) and will doubtless provoke political comment.
At the risk of thread derailment, a successful test next Wednesday and the test flight of what I believe is the upper stage of BO's Shepard will have those on the appropriate Congressional committees looking at certain people and asking to remind them why they're being paid.
Congress never asks that question. They ask why they're paying to buy certain things. But they never ask why
people are getting paid. I think it's that they are worried the taxpayers might get the idea into their head to ask the same question of Congress.
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#18
by
Ben the Space Brit
on 01 May, 2015 15:09
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The references to MythBusters on the update thread make me imagine Elon Musk shouting at someone: "I reject your reality and substitute my own!"
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#19
by
Tuts36
on 01 May, 2015 15:14
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I have a bit of a silly question so I'll ask it here~
Will there be the equivalent of auto crash-test dummies strapped into the capsule's seats for the abort test?
And if not, if SpaceX wanted to make some cash off this mission, they could strap life-sized Kerbals into the seats instead, and Squad could pay them for an awesome advertising opportunity for KSP's "launch"!
