SpaceX F9 - Comm Crew DM-2 - LC-39A

[ItsNotAboutTheMoney]

Phew.
Hope the rest goes right.
Now back to Starship.

 

[SMAlset]

Media event with Bob and Doug to start now. Boosts all done and nominal. And they will talk about the toy dinosaur (sorry, not a dragon!).

 

[808?]

Capsule Endeavour!

 

[Grendal]

Well that was awesome. I'm at work and had the launch on pause. I went back to live at exactly T-0 and was able to watch the whole launch sequence. A close call for missing out... Go Bob and Doug!

 

[ecarfan]

So Doug really missed out on making a Borg joke when he said that SpaceX employees call the capsule “Dragon 2 of 6”.

And now Bob is saying the “stowaway” is an Apatosaurus. So my guess upthread was correct!

 

[MTL_HABS1909]

No. He had a lot of exposure last Wednesday and I think he has said everything he wants to say. I’m sure he is there and looking forward to the launch more than anyone.

Are you still sticking with this? It’s the biggest day in SpaceX history and he’s not even at the post launch press conference?!?!?

 

[SMAlset]

As Dad’s I hope they took two of the dinosaurs with them. If the kid’s toy comes back to Earth, I’m sure there will be a tug-o-war over who gets to have it at their house lol.

 

[HVM]

So what causes the corkscrew effect? I assume Falcon wasn't rotating and I know we've seen similar patterns in the sky in other launches. That was a great photo, too bad there were so many clouds overhead.

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• Different wind speed make's smoke trail wiggly.
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[SMAlset]

The press conference is going on on NASA’s site. Elon is there along with Jim.

https://www.nasa.gov/content/live-l...-2-mission-to-the-international-space-station

 

[ggies07]

Ok ok ok, so I know what I want to be for Halloween.....a SpaceX spaceman. Someone needs to jump on this opportunity for the little ones.

 

[SMAlset]

Elon asked about the weight of the responsibility of bringing the dads home. Very pensive. Said coming back home is actually a bit more dangerous but yeah a heavy thing. Jim commented afterwards that Elon and all SpaceX team have the dads on their minds every minute.

 

[e-FTW]

That was fast: new Demo-2 t-shirt and the jacket Jessie was wearing on the stream.
Official SpaceX Store

 

[e-FTW]

Sunday schedule, all times EST. Not sure how long before docking they get to the keep out sphere though.

May 31, Sunday
10:27 a.m. - Docking of the SpaceX/DM-2 Crew Dragon and NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken to the International Space Station - Hawthorne, California/Johnson Space Center (All Channels)
12:45 p.m. - SpaceX/Crew Dragon hatch opening to the International Space Station - Hawthorne, California/Johnson Space Center (All Channels)
1:15 p.m. - SpaceX/Crew Dragon and International Space Station crew welcoming event aboard the International Space Station (All Channels)
3:15 p.m. - SpaceX/Dragon DM-2 post-docking briefing (All Channels)
4:30 p.m. - Video file feed of SpaceX/DM-2 rendezvous, docking, hatch opening and welcoming ceremony (Media Channel)

Source: NASA Television Upcoming Events

 

[Electroman]

I saw the NASA feed when Trump and Pence were all praise for SpaceX, but the camera never panned to the crowd and showed Elon Musk.

 

[mongo]

Edit: just realized that an orbital phase maneuver is not enough; it only changes phase within a given plane, but here we would need to change the plane altogether, which is even more expensive. The explanation above more describes why they can only launch on certain days, even though the launch site passes through the orbital plane every day.

Right, either they would launch with the same inclination (preprogrammed), then need two burns (or a lot of delta altitude based precession (which also impacts catching up to ISS on some level) ) to align, or off inclination to intercept and one burn.

As it is, they had a Out of Plane adjustment burn just now:
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OoP, there it is.

 

[ecarfan]

Approach Initiation burn just completed, nominal.

 

[Nikxice]

Currently some great over exposed shots that show the cold gas thrusters firing while Doug flys manually.

Wrapping up manual flying, Doug says, "a little sloppy in the Y axis, just like the sim". The other axis's normal and he then thanked all the folks in Hawthorne for a great job.

 

[doug]

Go for Docking. These images are amazing.

 

[Nikxice]

Endeavour Capture with the ISS!

 

[ecarfan]

We lucked out seeing good images of the soft capture just before Dragon crossed the terminator and it got dark.