Author Topic: SpaceX F9 / Crew Dragon : Crew-7 : KSC LC-39A : 26 August 2023 (07:27 UTC)  (Read 163591 times)

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Cutoff.

T+9 minutes. Upcoming events.

00:12:00 Dragon separates from 2nd stage
00:12:44 Dragon nosecone open sequence begins
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https://twitter.com/spacex/status/1695339286152073324

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Falcon 9’s first stage booster has landed at Landing Zone 1

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T+10 minutes.
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T+11 minutes.
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https://twitter.com/nasaspaceflight/status/1695340138807599249

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B1081 has landed RTLS at LZ-1. Very short entry burn, but made it back!

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T+12 minutes. Expected separation.

"Separation confirmed."
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Nose cone should be opening about now.

"Thanks for the ride. It was awesome!"
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https://twitter.com/spacex/status/1695340489816576253

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Dragon has separated from Falcon 9’s second stage
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Crew view of displays.
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Zero-g indicator is a three toed sloth.

"Slow is smooth and smooth is fast."
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540 second, single exposure of four more humans flying to space. #Crew7

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Nose cone is opening.
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Falcon 9 main engine cutoff, boostback burn, and second stage flight with Dragon and Crew-7 en route toward the International Space Station.

An equatorial mount kept the stars pinpoint sharp during the four-minute exposure.

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Nose cone is open. FOD in first and fourth images.
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'Slow is smooth, smooth is fast..." - @Astro_Jessica 

Introducing 'Sasha the three-toed Sloth', the zero-g indicator, to orbital spaceflight, courtesy family Mogensen.  #crew7 #Huginn @esaspaceflight

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Interview with NASA's ISS Chief Scientist.
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Liftoff of @SpaceX and @NASA #Crew7 from LC-39A enroute to the @Space_Station!

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"Welcome to space Sasha the sloth."
Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design #1:  Engineering is done with numbers.  Analysis without numbers is only an opinion.

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