SpaceX Falcon 9 / Dragon 2 : SpX-DM2 : May 30, 2020 : DISCUSSION

[Rocket Science]

Message from the Shuttle Endeavor...

[Herb Schaltegger]

I didn't realize how much of the radio traffic would involve when to turn on and off the in-cabin cameras. Suppose that's important when you're not able to duck into the PMM to change, or close the door on the restroom.

I feel like someone needs a 'turn of internal cameras' button on their displays.

Ground control of the fixed cameras inside the spacecraft is probably important for contingencies and likely written into NASA detailed design requirements at some level. Advising the crew seems like good practice in general, especially on the very first mission. If this mission concludes successfully, I doubt there will be suitup-to-docking 24 hour livestream coverage of Crew-1 and subsequent missions, so such routine comms like this will go entirely unnoticed and unremarked upon.

[Norm38]

Are they going to flip the seats down?  Looks like that would give them a lot more room when out of the seats.

[JMS]

Link to video of on orbit cabin tour?

[FinalFrontier]

Big congratulations to the SpaceX and NASA teams and to Bob and Doug on making history. This was a ridiculously and painfully long time in coming, and for a very long time many of us also feared this was impossible.
The gap is finally ended. There is still a long ways to go on this mission to achieve mission success but we are off to a great start.
Really looking forward to the rest of this mission.

But for now I can finally say: The gap is CLOSED!!

[PahTo]

C'mon gang--that's Endeavour (at least in the case of OV-105).

btw, per the presser--Mr. Bridenstine mentioning Bolden was spot-on.

[Nomadd]

 It looked like the tracking dish made a pass pretty much overhead and one more to the west. If I'm thinking right, it should pick DM2 up again in 9 hours or so. I didn't get home in time to see if it was tracking the launch.

[MATTBLAK]

Big congratulations to the SpaceX and NASA teams and to Bob and Doug on making history. This was a ridiculously and painfully long time in coming, and for a very long time many of us also feared this was impossible.
The gap is finally ended. There is still a long ways to go on this mission to achieve mission success but we are off to a great start.
Really looking forward to the rest of this mission.

But for now I can finally say: The gap is CLOSED!!

Should NOT have taken 9 years, but nevertheless, it is what it is. Things should start ramping up from this mission onwards.

[MATTBLAK]

Elon Musk about the live view from Dragon: "a friend of mine who is a film maker told me, "you need to put some shake into the footage to make it look realistic""...

Jonathan Nolan?

Ugh... Far too much 'shaky cam' in films. Even in 'First Man' when there were scenes of people talking quietly in rooms: the camera moved about like a drunken sailor. A literally Sickening trend.

[Kabloona]

Some nice acknowledgements all around at the presser. Especially in response to Eric Berger's question to Jim Bridenstine about his tweet 8 months ago challenging SpaceX to deliver. Bridenstine answered at length how Elon and SpaceX had delivered on everything they had promised, in a time frame NASA engineers were saying was impossible. Bridenstine cited the extensive parachute testing, and the design change to eliminate titanium after the Dragon static fire failure, as specific examples of some of the hurdles SpaceX had to overcome, and did.

Bridenstine understandably ignored the part of the question about whether another unnamed commercial crew provider was "delivering."

[Herb Schaltegger]

Great job to SpaceX, NASA and all involved. Looking forward to tomorrow morning!

Doug and Bob's day is just about over - I'll conclude my coverage today.  Won't be here for tomorrow's approach and docking, so I'll be watching from work!

Thanks to you and the rest of the usual NSF staff and "regular updaters" like Steven P. as well. And special thanks to Rdale for "coming out of retirement" so to speak for updates and insight into the volatile Florida weather.

[PahTo]

Allow me to update my previous post about the actual name of the (current) spacecraft.  She is in fact Endeavour per the interview with the crew, and well said.  The history of naming these vessels of exploration is a story unto itself.
Now, on to docking, on-orbit ops and splashdown...

[jpo234]

Are they going to flip the seats down?  Looks like that would give them a lot more room when out of the seats.

Why? They are about to sleep and when they wake up they will be close to the ISS. Not much time to gallivant around the capsule.

[Oersted]

And... we're back to a capsule. Just as great in 2020 as that one was in 1969:

[racevedo88]

Can we update the subject line to show the new name

It can be spacex falcon9/ dragon2 “Endeavour”

[Semmel]

Notice how Musk not once gives into the patriotism? Not once did he say "great day for America" or "american company" "american soil" or stuff like that? Instead, he sais, its a "great day for all humanity" and "this is a great thing for all humans" and "a necessary step in making like multiplanitary". Its ok to be proud of the home country for good things accomplished. But as a non-american, it makes it much more comfortable to relate with SpaceX the way I do. Musks attitude defies the tribalism that is induced by patriotism. Which is a good thing, and I hope will remain that way in the future, especially when they talk about the first human to Mars.


PS: I know Musk was born in South Africa

[Hog]

Notice how Musk not once gives into the patriotism? Not once did he say "great day for America" or "american company" "american soil" or stuff like that? Instead, he sais, its a "great day for all humanity" and "this is a great thing for all humans" and "a necessary step in making like multiplanitary". Its ok to be proud of the home country for good things accomplished. But as a non-american, it makes it much more comfortable to relate with SpaceX the way I do. Musks attitude defies the tribalism that is induced by patriotism. Which is a good thing, and I hope will remain that way in the future, especially when they talk about the first human to Mars.


PS: I know Musk was born in South Africa

And how well would Space X be doing as a South African company?

[jpo234]

Notice how Musk not once gives into the patriotism? Not once did he say "great day for America" or "american company" "american soil" or stuff like that? Instead, he sais, its a "great day for all humanity" and "this is a great thing for all humans" and "a necessary step in making like multiplanitary". Its ok to be proud of the home country for good things accomplished. But as a non-american, it makes it much more comfortable to relate with SpaceX the way I do. Musks attitude defies the tribalism that is induced by patriotism. Which is a good thing, and I hope will remain that way in the future, especially when they talk about the first human to Mars.


PS: I know Musk was born in South Africa

“I’m nauseatingly pro-American. I would have come here from any country. The U.S. is where great things are possible.” - Elon Musk

[lonestriker]

Congrats to SpaceX and NASA!  I was holding my breath for most of the ascent.  Haven't felt this excited/nervous since the FH test flight.  I was too young/naive during the Space Shuttle launches to be nervous; I just thought it an engineering marvel and was super cool as with anything else space related.

I agree with Semmel, Elon's plan is to save humanity, not just the US.  So he's focused on the crewed space flight as a stepping stone for humanity, not just the US.  Of course the US is the land of opportunity still and there is no other place like it on Earth.  And without the US, Elon could not have accomplished all that he's done so far.  But he did have "* Made on Earth by humans *" printed on the circuit boards aboard the FH flight.

[chalz]

Link to video of on orbit cabin tour?

This is the link to the livestream


The tour is about 8 and a quarter hours into the stream and lasts about 7 minutes.
They replay it about an hour later in the livestream.

Or you can give your clicks to VideoFromSpace who have made a video of just the tour: