Splashdown of NASA's SpaceX Demonstration Mission-2

[c172]

Just occured today off of the NW FL Gulf Coast somewhere. Looks like the astronauts are OK, but the landing was normal, if hard. also, toxic fumes delayed deboarding. 


https://www.nasa.gov/content/live-splash...ion-2-crew



https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/n...index.html


Splashdown of NASA's SpaceX Demonstration Mission-2

[GenesisNemesis]

I like the stuff SpaceX is doing but Elon Musk is still a piece of shit.

[Minimalist]

Weren't they supposed to land on a barge or something?

[c172]

I hadn't heard about that, but they do try to retrieve first stages that way.

[Dancefortwo]

I think it's funny that they've returned to the 1960's and do a lame splashdown in the ocean in a little dinky metal capsule.  I'm no scientists but can't they find a better way?

[brewerb]

I like the stuff SpaceX is doing but Elon Musk is still a piece of shit.

Aren't most industrial pioneers?

[Fireball]

Boosters set back down on a launch pad or the sea going platform. I don't think that the US will ever land astronauts on dry land unless it's a winged craft. We've never landed a capsule on dry land, as it's a far harsher set-down and could damage the capsule and/or its occupants. The final descent speed was 16 MPH (kPH?) which I wouldn't consider all that hard. The Russians landed returnees on Terra Firma more for security reasons. That, and the possession of a land mass that spans 14 time zones.

I watched it. That was cool!

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Weren't they supposed to land on a barge or something?

That's the rockets. The crew capsules have a softer landing in the water.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I think it's funny that they've returned to the 1960's and do a lame splashdown in the ocean in a little dinky metal capsule.  I'm no scientists but can't they find a better way?

Russians land on land. Russia loses astronauts that way.

[GenesisNemesis]

I like the stuff SpaceX is doing but Elon Musk is still a piece of shit.

Aren't most industrial pioneers?

Doesn't excuse his pandemic denial. Or him falsely accusing someone who criticized him of being a pedo.

[Minimalist]

I think it's funny that they've returned to the 1960's and do a lame splashdown in the ocean in a little dinky metal capsule.  I'm no scientists but can't they find a better way?

Russians land on land. Russia loses astronauts that way.

They have spares.

They feel the same way about their submariners.

[SYZ]

I like the stuff SpaceX is doing but Elon Musk is still a piece of shit.

Agreed.   Musk recently claimed that coronavirus panic is dumb and spread false claims that children are
"essentially immune" to the virus.  He's also made his stance on public restrictions obvious—blasting the
lock-downs as being a "cruel mockery of basic human values" and tweeting the imperative, "FREE AMERICA
NOW."  Musk also praised Texas for reopening businesses in April, referring to the quarantine as "de facto
house arrest", and recommended reopening "with care and appropriate protection".     Additionally, the 40
ventilator devices—known as bi-level machines—that he donated to the NYC Health + Hospitals in Queens
are normally used to treat sleep apnoea, but can actually spread coronavirus.



A closer look at the photo of his donation, however, reveals a device that is not the kind
of ventilator hospitals are struggling to find.  These devices are ResMed's non-invasive,
five-year-old S9 bi-level models.    Thanks for nothing Musk.   

[Cavebear]

I think it's funny that they've returned to the 1960's and do a lame splashdown in the ocean in a little dinky metal capsule.  I'm no scientists but can't they find a better way?

Did you think they were going to just sort of "float" down? No offense. From what I've read, all astronauts think that water landings are softer than harder surfaces. Just saying that "wham" is better than "WHAM"!

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Depends on the gravity where you land, of course.

[Cavebear]

Depends on the gravity where you land, of course.

Of course. By which, I ask if you had some other place to land where you could survive afterwards?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Depends on the gravity where you land, of course.

Of course.  By which, I ask if you had some other place to land where you could survive afterwards?

Not a single astronaut has died while trying to land on Mars.

[Cavebear]

Depends on the gravity where you land, of course.

Of course.  By which, I ask if you had some other place to land where you could survive afterwards?

Not a single astronaut has died while trying to land on Mars.

Nor landing on the Sun or Jupiter. And Mars landings are very iffy. I wouldn't send a frog on a 50-50 mission. Lets get a lunar base established. THEN go forth...

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I would have happily gone on a 50-50, I frequently had worse odds than that for lesser purpose.

[Cavebear]

I would have happily gone on a 50-50, I frequently had worse odds than that for lesser purpose.

Deciding to go on a 50-50 by your own choice is fine. But someone should ask the frog.

Could you survive even the launch?

[GenesisNemesis]

I like the stuff SpaceX is doing but Elon Musk is still a piece of shit.

Agreed.   Musk recently claimed that coronavirus panic is dumb and spread false claims that children are
"essentially immune" to the virus.  He's also made his stance on public restrictions obvious—blasting the
lock-downs as being a "cruel mockery of basic human values" and tweeting the imperative, "FREE AMERICA
NOW."  Musk also praised Texas for reopening businesses in April, referring to the quarantine as "de facto
house arrest", and recommended reopening "with care and appropriate protection".     Additionally, the 40
ventilator devices—known as bi-level machines—that he donated to the NYC Health + Hospitals in Queens
are normally used to treat sleep apnoea, but can actually spread coronavirus.



A closer look at the photo of his donation, however, reveals a device that is not the kind
of ventilator hospitals are struggling to find.  These devices are ResMed's non-invasive,
five-year-old S9 bi-level models.    Thanks for nothing Musk.   

I actually forgot about the thing with the ventilators, because 2020 has just been so crazy.

[Cavebear]

I like the stuff SpaceX is doing but Elon Musk is still a piece of shit.

Agreed.   Musk recently claimed that coronavirus panic is dumb and spread false claims that children are
"essentially immune" to the virus.  He's also made his stance on public restrictions obvious—blasting the
lock-downs as being a "cruel mockery of basic human values" and tweeting the imperative, "FREE AMERICA
NOW."  Musk also praised Texas for reopening businesses in April, referring to the quarantine as "de facto
house arrest", and recommended reopening "with care and appropriate protection".     Additionally, the 40
ventilator devices—known as bi-level machines—that he donated to the NYC Health + Hospitals in Queens
are normally used to treat sleep apnoea, but can actually spread coronavirus.



A closer look at the photo of his donation, however, reveals a device that is not the kind
of ventilator hospitals are struggling to find.  These devices are ResMed's non-invasive,
five-year-old S9 bi-level models.    Thanks for nothing Musk.   

I actually forgot about the thing with the ventilators, because 2020 has just been so crazy.

Some people can be brilliant in one area of knowledge and complete and utter fools in another. I no more care what Musk says about medicine than I care what some athlete says about politics. If crazy rich people have a cause they want to support, let them ask an expert in the field first. Otherwise, they should shut the fuck up...

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I would have happily gone on a 50-50, I frequently had worse odds than that for lesser purpose.

Deciding to go on a 50-50 by your own choice is fine.  But someone should ask the frog.

Could you survive even the launch?

I'd be praying really hard.

[Cavebear]

I would have happily gone on a 50-50, I frequently had worse odds than that for lesser purpose.

Deciding to go on a 50-50 by your own choice is fine.  But someone should ask the frog.

Could you survive even the launch?

I'd be praying really hard.  

I value your existence. A space launch would probably be fatal.

Humor: Reporter to President Kennedy. "Sir, when will we launch a man to the Moon.

Kennedy: "Wheneveh Senator Goldwater wants to go".

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I see you don't appreciate the chance for epic wheeness.

[Cavebear]

I see you don't appreciate the chance for epic wheeness.

I challenge you to a wheeness challenge of wheeness. The epic version 2.0.12 of course. You will take the North side and I will take the Starboard! Rowers will alternate. Sails will be mesh. Rabbits ARE allowed.