Space Shuttle instrument panel.
Crew Dragon instrument panel.
Space Shuttle instrument panel.
Crew Dragon instrument panel.
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And I want to go back to a standard shift in my next vehicle for more control. I would feel helpless in that capsule.
The Space X crew is half way though its mission. Soon it will be time to test the Dragon space craft on reentry.
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So this is what busywork to redundancy looks like in the government bureaucratic tech sector.
Reminds me of a joke about digging holes and filling them back up again for government pay. Same money, who cares? Do it again.
Does the equivalent occur in the legal sections of government?
(That round thing in the middle of the Dragon instrument panel looks like a suction cup.)
The top photo resembles military jet $#@!pits from the 1980s. There are advantages to such a setup. Analog gauges still work if the computer crashes.
The spaceX thing doesn't look like a pilots station. But then, it's for a capsule, not an aircraft.
(edit: Fuuny. The software doesn't like the word "C . ockpit.")
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Well, there are several years of technological gap between these two spacecrafts, so no wonder the Space X is sleeker and more modern. Do you remember how big computers were in the past as compared to the sleek tablets we use now? And what about cell phones? They used to look like walkie talkies and be full of buttons and keys... and now we have iPhones that are thin, sleek, and have a screen that controls everything without the need for keys.
Me, I'm just happy that this private/governmental partnership is doing great things. Space X + Nasa, just like Moderna + NIH. That's what we need. We need government to be collaborating with the private sector, not getting in the way.
Last edited by CenterField; 07-05-2020 at 04:36 PM.
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SpaceX capsule and NASA crew make 1st splashdown in 45 years
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Two NASA astronauts returned to Earth on Sunday in a dramatic, retro-style splashdown, their capsule parachuting into the Gulf of Mexico to close out an unprecedented test flight by Elon Musk’s SpaceX company.
It was the first splashdown by U.S. astronauts in 45 years, with the first commercially built and operated spacecraft to carry people to and from orbit. The return clears the way for another SpaceX crew launch as early as next month and possible tourist flights next year.
Test pilots Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken arrived back on Earth in their SpaceX Dragon capsule named Endeavour, less than a day after departing the International Space Station and two months after blasting off from Florida. The capsule parachuted into the calm gulf waters about 40 miles off the coast of Pensacola, hundreds of miles from Tropical Storm Isaias pounding Florida’s Atlantic coast.
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'Like an animal': NASA astronauts describe noisy, jolting descentSpaceX's crewed capsule isn't called Dragon for nothing.
The two NASA astronauts brought back to Earth on Sunday said they felt they were inside the belly of a beast as it careened into the atmosphere at 17,500 mph.
"It came alive," said mission commander Bob Behnkhen at a virtual press conference held Tuesday in Houston, Texas.
The thrusters were firing to keep the capsule, called "Endeavour," pointed precisely at its target site off the coast of Pensacola, for the first water landing by a US spaceship since 1975.
"The atmosphere starts to make noise, you can hear that rumble outside the vehicle and as the vehicle tries to control, you feel a little bit of that shimmy in your body," continued the 50-year-old.
"It doesn't sound like a machine, it sounds like an animal coming through the atmosphere with all that all the puffs that are happening from the thrusters and the atmospheric noise," he added.
Not only was ride down deafening, but each time the vessel carried out descent sequences like jettisoning its "trunk" that contained the power system and firing parachutes, it was also bone-jarring.
"Very much like getting hit in the back of the chair with a baseball bat, you know, just a crack," said Behnken, describing the sensation.
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