Date: 26/05/2020 00:18:07
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 1561754
Subject: SpaceX and NASA are ready to launch astronauts
SpaceX and NASA are ready to launch astronauts. Here’s the 10-year journey it took to get here.
SpaceX’s epic first crewed launch has been a decade in the making for NASA.
On Wednesday (May 27), a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to rise from Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, sending astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley toward the International Space Station (ISS) aboard a Crew Dragon capsule. The mission, called Demo-2, will be the first orbital crewed flight to launch from U.S. soil since NASA’s space shuttle fleet retired in July 2011.
Date: 26/05/2020 07:37:52
From: Peak Warming Man
ID: 1561842
Subject: re: SpaceX and NASA are ready to launch astronauts
Date: 26/05/2020 10:39:52
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1561889
Subject: re: SpaceX and NASA are ready to launch astronauts
Peak Warming Man said:
Ta.
rubs hands
(Warning: devil’s advocate mode)
Robotic spacecraft are better.
Date: 26/05/2020 10:41:09
From: Cymek
ID: 1561892
Subject: re: SpaceX and NASA are ready to launch astronauts
mollwollfumble said:
Peak Warming Man said:
Ta.
rubs hands
(Warning: devil’s advocate mode)
Robotic spacecraft are better.
I wonder if a market exists for private enterprise launching and/or designing of robotic probes
Date: 26/05/2020 14:36:28
From: Peak Warming Man
ID: 1562063
Subject: re: SpaceX and NASA are ready to launch astronauts
“The SpaceX Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station is due to lift off from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida at 6:33am (AEST) on Thursday.”
Need to get up early.
Date: 28/05/2020 06:16:40
From: badchap
ID: 1562908
Subject: re: SpaceX and NASA are ready to launch astronauts
Peak Warming Man said:
“The SpaceX Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station is due to lift off from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida at 6:33am (AEST) on Thursday.”
Need to get up early.
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The weather isn’t looking good. Sounds like they’re not hopef.l
Date: 28/05/2020 06:18:06
From: badchap
ID: 1562909
Subject: re: SpaceX and NASA are ready to launch astronauts
Nope. Not today.
Scrubbed.
Date: 28/05/2020 06:18:06
From: badchap
ID: 1562910
Subject: re: SpaceX and NASA are ready to launch astronauts
Nope. Not today.
Scrubbed.
Date: 28/05/2020 11:26:58
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1562994
Subject: re: SpaceX and NASA are ready to launch astronauts
badchap said:
Nope. Not today.
Scrubbed.
From SpaceX on twitter.
“Standing down from launch today due to unfavorable weather in the flight path. Our next launch opportunity is Saturday, May 30 at 3:22 p.m. EDT, or 19:22 UTC”
Date: 30/05/2020 21:48:31
From: Peak Warming Man
ID: 1564704
Subject: re: SpaceX and NASA are ready to launch astronauts
Take 2 tomorrow morning about 5:30
Conditions might be iffy again.
Date: 31/05/2020 04:30:47
From: Peak Warming Man
ID: 1564865
Subject: re: SpaceX and NASA are ready to launch astronauts
-55 minutes and counting.
-45 for a go or abort because of weather,
rubs hands
Date: 31/05/2020 04:40:11
From: Peak Warming Man
ID: 1564866
Subject: re: SpaceX and NASA are ready to launch astronauts
Peak Warming Man said:
-55 minutes and counting.
-45 for a go or abort because of weather,
rubs hands
https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive
Weather a bit better today but………………
Date: 31/05/2020 04:46:46
From: Peak Warming Man
ID: 1564867
Subject: re: SpaceX and NASA are ready to launch astronauts
Light rain and 10% chance of lightning but they have got a go for launch.
Propellant loading go. Launch arm retracting.
Date: 31/05/2020 04:48:22
From: Peak Warming Man
ID: 1564868
Subject: re: SpaceX and NASA are ready to launch astronauts
Escape rockets being armed, visas closed.
Date: 31/05/2020 05:12:50
From: Peak Warming Man
ID: 1564869
Subject: re: SpaceX and NASA are ready to launch astronauts
All looking good.
They will need the go from 13 launch controllers.
THIRTEEN!!
Date: 31/05/2020 05:20:24
From: badchap
ID: 1564870
Subject: re: SpaceX and NASA are ready to launch astronauts
Date: 31/05/2020 05:21:57
From: Peak Warming Man
ID: 1564871
Subject: re: SpaceX and NASA are ready to launch astronauts
-8 minutes, all good.
This is a fossil fuelled launch.
Date: 31/05/2020 05:24:27
From: badchap
ID: 1564872
Subject: re: SpaceX and NASA are ready to launch astronauts
Date: 31/05/2020 05:29:23
From: Peak Warming Man
ID: 1564873
Subject: re: SpaceX and NASA are ready to launch astronauts
-1 minute, all good.
They are go for launch.
Standby.
Date: 31/05/2020 05:30:20
From: Peak Warming Man
ID: 1564874
Subject: re: SpaceX and NASA are ready to launch astronauts
Date: 31/05/2020 05:35:42
From: Peak Warming Man
ID: 1564875
Subject: re: SpaceX and NASA are ready to launch astronauts
All good Badie.
Excellent.
Date: 31/05/2020 05:50:58
From: badchap
ID: 1564876
Subject: re: SpaceX and NASA are ready to launch astronauts
Yep great stuff. Love all the views too!
Date: 31/05/2020 06:00:23
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1564878
Subject: re: SpaceX and NASA are ready to launch astronauts
Just woke up. I haven’t missed it.
Date: 31/05/2020 06:04:27
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1564879
Subject: re: SpaceX and NASA are ready to launch astronauts
I love the control room layout with full glass wall, bystanders passing, twin screens, social distancing and masks.
Date: 31/05/2020 06:15:05
From: badchap
ID: 1564881
Subject: re: SpaceX and NASA are ready to launch astronauts
mollwollfumble said:
I love the control room layout with full glass wall, bystanders passing, twin screens, social distancing and masks.
I was just noticing that – looks fab
Date: 31/05/2020 06:18:29
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1564882
Subject: re: SpaceX and NASA are ready to launch astronauts
Date: 31/05/2020 18:39:09
From: Divine Angel
ID: 1565150
Subject: re: SpaceX and NASA are ready to launch astronauts
Dunno if you nerds have seen this…
https://iss-sim.spacex.com/
