CatastrophicFailure Posted January 13, 2018 Share Posted January 13, 2018 A pox upon your calm logic and reason! I want the thing and I want it now! *garglbarglargl* A little real communication from SpaceX would be welcome at this point, they’ve been awfully mum about the whole thing. Are these delay issues things they were expecting or, like @KSK said, should we all just check back next week? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Baron Posted January 13, 2018 Share Posted January 13, 2018 (edited) I know this is a common place and doesn't really still the impatience we all feel but sometimes almost always it is the best thing to let the people do their work and not report every loose screw or mistyped variable name. I assume they are filing out the procedures to get as exact and as much data as possible from every single step in the chain in order to be able to isolate a possible future error. That takes time, but the longer it takes the higher the probability that they will be able to identify the exact cause of a fireball, should one happen. Pressing on only increases the chances of a happening we do not want to occur, or do we *devilkerbal* ? Just my layperson's opinion, i am not an engineer :-) Edited January 13, 2018 by Green Baron Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KSK Posted January 13, 2018 Share Posted January 13, 2018 2 hours ago, CatastrophicFailure said: A pox upon your calm logic and reason! I want the thing and I want it now! *garglbarglargl* Whaguggle? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PB666 Posted January 13, 2018 Share Posted January 13, 2018 Well, if it must blow, let it get about a km up so we can see a nice KSP style disassembly. None of this hobnobbing about for days over whether it made orbit/alive or not, I wanna see a fancy red Tesla sucking stingray scum at the bottom of the gulfstream. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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_Augustus_ Posted January 13, 2018 Share Posted January 13, 2018 Apparently the crew of DM2 was announced a while back. Eric Boe will be commander, with Sunita Williams, Robert L. Behnken, and Douglas Hurley in the crew as well. Assuming DM1 sticks to its scheduled April launch date I'm going to attempt to convince my family to fly down there for the launch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nightfury Posted January 13, 2018 Share Posted January 13, 2018 sorry for asking, but what were DM2/DM1 again? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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IncongruousGoat Posted January 13, 2018 Share Posted January 13, 2018 27 minutes ago, Nightfury said: sorry for asking, but what were DM2/DM1 again? The first Crew Dragon launches. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nightfury Posted January 13, 2018 Share Posted January 13, 2018 4 minutes ago, IncongruousGoat said: The first Crew Dragon launches. Ah ok, thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sh1pman Posted January 13, 2018 Share Posted January 13, 2018 Would be cool if they had a camera somewhere on Dragon’s hull to livestream the reentry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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CatastrophicFailure Posted January 13, 2018 Share Posted January 13, 2018 42 minutes ago, sh1pman said: Would be cool if they had a camera somewhere on Dragon’s hull to livestream the reentry. Difficult proposition, given that reentry plasma does not play well with radio signals. Don’t think even the shuttle could do that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Augustus_ Posted January 13, 2018 Share Posted January 13, 2018 1 hour ago, Nightfury said: sorry for asking, but what were DM2/DM1 again? DM1 is the unmanned D2 test flight; DM2 is the manned one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted January 13, 2018 Share Posted January 13, 2018 38 minutes ago, _Augustus_ said: DM1 is the unmanned D2 test flight; DM2 is the manned one. Wait, isn’t there a 2-person demo flight in there before the four-person actual crew rotation? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Augustus_ Posted January 13, 2018 Share Posted January 13, 2018 6 minutes ago, CatastrophicFailure said: Wait, isn’t there a 2-person demo flight in there before the four-person actual crew rotation? It appears that they're electing to do something similar to Dragon C2+ where they combined objectives from 2 missions into one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KSK Posted January 14, 2018 Share Posted January 14, 2018 18 hours ago, PB666 said: Well, if it must blow, let it get about a km up so we can see a nice KSP style disassembly. None of this hobnobbing about for days over whether it made orbit/alive or not, I wanna see a fancy red Tesla sucking stingray scum at the bottom of the gulfstream. Oh the launch prep was exacting. Media attention distracting Will it launch - we do not know Let it blow, let it blow, let it blow We'll send it off to Mars Pushing Elon's fancy cars We think "all systems go!" Let it blow, let it blow, let it blow Thank you, thank you! I'll be here all evening - I recommend the salmon and don't forget to tip your server. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NSEP Posted January 14, 2018 Share Posted January 14, 2018 20 hours ago, _Augustus_ said: Apparently the crew of DM2 was announced a while back. Eric Boe will be commander, with Sunita Williams, Robert L. Behnken, and Douglas Hurley in the crew as well. Assuming DM1 sticks to its scheduled April launch date I'm going to attempt to convince my family to fly down there for the launch. Its almost alien seeing the launch crew without a Dimitri, Yuri, Sergei or Vladimir snuck in there . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted January 14, 2018 Share Posted January 14, 2018 Spoiler 26 minutes ago, NSEP said: Dimitri, Yuri, Igor and Grigoriy (Just following 007 canons) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted January 14, 2018 Share Posted January 14, 2018 (edited) Edited January 14, 2018 by tater Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubinator Posted January 14, 2018 Share Posted January 14, 2018 spills cup of LOX in excitement* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KSK Posted January 14, 2018 Share Posted January 14, 2018 1 hour ago, cubinator said: spills cup of LOX in excitement* Ahhh - so that's what all the snap-frozen cool kids are drinking this season. Gotcha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Baron Posted January 14, 2018 Share Posted January 14, 2018 Outch. Deep frozen and vitriolised mouth and throat ... not a nice death. Looking forward to tomorrow, hesitantly admitting marginal fascination ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magnemoe Posted January 14, 2018 Share Posted January 14, 2018 On 13.1.2018 at 6:25 PM, _Augustus_ said: It appears that they're electing to do something similar to Dragon C2+ where they combined objectives from 2 missions into one. Yes dragon 2 can be run unmanned so they can do an cargo mission as part of qualification. Think they plan to continue to primarily use dragon 1 for cargo but flexibility is always nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAL59 Posted January 14, 2018 Share Posted January 14, 2018 Woah! Apparently SpaceX is planning to test the BFR in Texas by next year: https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-mars-rocket-test-texas-late-2018/ He said earlier on Reddit that the test will be using an empty bfr as an ssto! Looks like an ssto race between arca and spacex. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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