Cool #Dragon,beautiful #moon, and, yes, our precious #Earth. What else do you need?#ドラゴン宇宙船、輝く #月、そしてかけがえの無い我々の#地球
The view out of the window onboard Dragon Resilience.Just released in NASA's eol.jsc.nasa.gov photo library.Vehicles in view are Cygnus NG-14, Soyuz MS-17, and the arrays from Progress MS-15.
#FullMoon is approahing to #crewdragon #resilience 宇宙での #お月見 はドラゴンとともに
Night falls on blue Dragon. Good night, moon!
Wow! Just captured my most detailed International Space Station lunar transit photo to date. Crew Dragon Resilience is barely distinguishable at the top-center of the station.Taken with a Orion 10” Dobsonian telescope + 2x Barlow lens on a Nikon D500 in Lakeland, Florida.
On Nov. 15, @AstroVicGlover launched to the @Space_Station on the first @NASA-certified commercial human spacecraft system in history.Today, he's going live at 12:30pm ET to discuss his experience & answer questions live with students across the nation: youtu.be/h4Pkjqs5hOE
SpaceX President @Gwynne_Shotwell today spoke to Crew-1 astronauts Mike Hopkins and Shannon Walker, who are onboard the space station, and asked them a few of the "hundreds of questions" submitted by company employees:NASA TV: youtu.be/21X5lGlDOfg
Walker: "The first thing to know about spacesuits is they're really made for to fit you when you're sitting down, so when you're standing up they not quite tall enough ... one thing that I have found about the SpaceX spacesuit is to me the helmet feels very, very heavy."
Shotwell: What's it like to ride on Falcon 9?@Astro_illini: "You talk about sitting on a dragon, on top of the beast, and you definitely knew you were going somewhere ... it's talking to you the whole time.”Walker: It’s a “completely different experience” vs. Russia’s Soyuz
On long duration mission needs:Hopkins: Day-to-day things, like hygiene.Walker: On the ISS "we don't do laundry – we wear our clothes and after a certain amount of time we throw them away."Shotwell: “That’s super helpful actually, as we’re working on Starship.”
Shotwell: What advice do you have for women in STEM?Walker: "All too often I encounter people that say to me that they would really like to be an astronaut, and then I ask: 'Well have you ever applied?' The answer is almost inevitably no, they haven't. You've got to go get it."
At the end of the broadcast, Hopkins thanks SpaceX "for letting me sleep in Dragon.""In case anybody is curious as well, Resilience snores and talks in her sleep a little bit and I'm getting used to all of those things. But it is nice to have a room with a view."
NASA tells me the agency is looking at “potentially extending the Crew-1 time on” ISS in order to ensure continued US presence. Dates still in flux, but If Crew-2 were to launch in April and Crew-1 to come home in May that would not leave much room in the schedule. 1/
If there’s a launch delay that could make things real tight. As a result: “NASA is investigating several activities that would provide us with more margin for the handover,” NASA says, including extending Crew-1, which would be a real test for Crew Dragon. 2/
The @SpaceX #CrewDragon spacecraft, with its two lit crew windows, is pictured docked to the Harmony module's international docking adapter.
Watch live as astronauts Victor Glover and Michael Hopkins of NASA venture outside the International Space Station on Jan. 27. The spacewalk will begin at about 7 a.m. EST and last for approximately six and a half hours. The astronauts will focus on completing cable and antenna rigging for the “Bartolomeo” science payloads platform outside the station's ESA (European Space Agency) Columbus module. They'll also configure a Ka-band terminal that will enable an independent, high-bandwidth communication link to European ground stations. Hopkins will be extravehicular crew member 1 (EV 1), wearing a spacesuit with red stripes, and Glover will be extravehicular crew member 2 (EV 2), wearing a spacesuit with no stripes. This will be the third spacewalk in Hopkins’ career, and the first for Glover.
Not every day you get to see your spaceship and crew quarters from the outside. Looking good Resilience!
