SpaceX first human spaceflight

[Retinal_FAILURE]

They are coming out of the capsule.

Positivity, prayers and hope prevail.

 

[KingVamp]

Well, this trip is over..., but look forward to another one in September.

The first of its operational missions, designated Crew-1, is currently set to take place sometime in late September, and will carry three NASA astronauts and one JAXA astronaut to the station for a regular tour as crew members of the orbital science platform.

Link

 

[KingVamp]

Speeches about the event.

 

[notimp]

We need to talk about shot design..

And yes the "if you fund us next year" part of the speech was actually interesting.

(Nasa will be a repeat customer for low earth orbit missions, and frequency of missions should increase next year.)

 

[KingVamp]

Doug Hurley talks about the trip.

 

[KingVamp]

Unfortunately, Crew-1 has been delay until at least Oct. 23. Link

 

[RandomUser]

Oh, and btw:

edit: Good news, connector will be on a wireless pod, stuck behind the ear of some advertising model..
h**ps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-vbh3t7WVI Quote: "They will be controlled through an iPhone app."
I see the hard problems have been solved already...

Ironically cochlear implanted person can already experience somewhat similar to this via their updated iPhones, not sure about Android based phones, but I think even on updated Android devices is possible. So it isn't really new. Minus the directly to your brain part.

 

[KingVamp]

Short version.
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I know that this isn't what the thread is for, but since we are talking about it.

Spoiler: Long version.

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[KingVamp]

This guy, Tom Cruise, is literally going to space just for a movie. Link

 

[KingVamp]

Looks like the next flight is November 14. Link

 

[KingVamp]

Sorry, I completely forgot, but here are some videos.

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[notimp]

No one cares.

So the reason we are into commercial space travel currently is - so Tom Cruise can do it for a movie?

Thats top productivity you get out of it? Where are the secondary inventions that found entire industries, that drop out as a result of those Moonshot programs?

No one cares about the motivational mumbo jumbo. Especially if it is second rate. And all done before - at least once.

Whatever efforts are made in engineering, Kudos to those, but to what end? Could we see something other than Tom Cruise doing it 'for a movie', or astronauts, doing a barrel roll for the twitch chat - please?

Asking for a friend. (That can only look at parabula calculations for that long...)

edit: What is that flight called? Crew-Dragon Resilience?
Whats the message to the world here? Keep on truckin' in teams?


edit2: Breaking News! This just in. We've got bags that hold our shirts and pants. I repeat, we've got bag technology to hold our shirts and pants. Bags are all over the place. Its like - cAAArazyy!

edit3: PS: Not directed at you. Please keep doing those postings if they fill you with joy or motivation. This is just me, saying that on my end they register as very bad PR efforts to draw in future scientists into going into those venues.

Why commercialising even the moonshot project itself was a good idea, someone has to tell me, because now those video snippets feel like third class infomercials, with their own youtube shoutcasters (the 'not quite journalists' at base station).