Contact confirmed!Welcome CRS-21 to the ISS
Time-lapse of Dragon on approach – two Dragons now docked to the @space_station
Quote from: Jorge on 12/07/2020 05:06 pmQuote from: LouScheffer on 12/07/2020 04:57 pmQuote from: FutureSpaceTourist on 12/07/2020 04:41 pmAbout to break post-Shuttle ISS mass recordWho keeps mass records in pounds? This is an embarrassment to all engineers and scientists.NASA PAO does, to communicate with the US general public, which uses pounds.One of NASA's jobs, in my opinion, should be to help educate the interested, not to talk only to most parochial among them. How hard would it be to say ISS set a new mass record of 452,154 kg (996,828 lbs)?
Quote from: LouScheffer on 12/07/2020 04:57 pmQuote from: FutureSpaceTourist on 12/07/2020 04:41 pmAbout to break post-Shuttle ISS mass recordWho keeps mass records in pounds? This is an embarrassment to all engineers and scientists.NASA PAO does, to communicate with the US general public, which uses pounds.
Quote from: FutureSpaceTourist on 12/07/2020 04:41 pmAbout to break post-Shuttle ISS mass recordWho keeps mass records in pounds? This is an embarrassment to all engineers and scientists.
About to break post-Shuttle ISS mass record
Pounds are used by engineers all across the United States.Educating them in units they understand is better than educating them in units they don't understand. Kilograms are practically unknown in the US for the general populace. You may not like that, but that's how things are. My engineering schooling in the US also used a mix of metric and imperial units. (Homework problems for example would generally alternate every-other problem switching between imperial and metric units and you were expected to get the answer using the imperial units rather than converting to metric and then converting back.) Using imperial units does not make you less intelligent nor does it say anything about someone's intelligence.
NASA Johnson FollowThe upgraded SpaceX Cargo Dragon vehicle approaches the International Space Stationiss064e010904 (Dec. 7, 2020) --- The upgraded SpaceX Cargo Dragon vehicle approaches the International Space Station as both vehicles were orbiting above the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Mexico. Near the top right of the photograph is a portion of the SpaceX Crew Dragon vehicle docked to the forward port of the Harmony module. The Cargo Dragon would dock about an hour later to Harmony's space-facing port marking the first time two Dragon spaceships would be docked to the station at the same time.
OCISLY droneship is about 2 - 4 hours away from arriving at Port Canaveral.
It’s chilly this morning on the Space Coast of Florida, a crispy 43°F Falcon 9 B1058.4 can be seen just edging over the horizon as it and OCISLY continue their voyage back to Port Canaveral.@SpaceX #falcon9 #OCISLY
There is still heat distortion, but it's closer. #SpaceXFleet #SpaceX
OCISLY and B1058.4 are in the jetty. #SpaceXFleet #SpaceX
Falcon 9 B1058.4 Port Canaveral arrival.SpaceX returning another booster for reuse, while testing Starship at Boca Chica - the latter will mark the evolution to returning the entire vehicle (both the Super Heavy and Starship = Full Reusability).youtube.com/watch?v=D8bZkT…
#SpaceX's OCISLY & B1058.4 return to Port Canaveral this cold FL morning. Fresh off the #CRS21 mission of delivering supplies & experiments to the ISS using the new Cargo Dragon2. This is the 1st time with 2 Dragon spacecrafts are at the ISS together. #NASA #Science #spacexfleet
