Dragon Launch

[rah]

Well it's nice that the technology has gotten so much better in terms of cameras so the shots look so clean compared to the one we watched as kids

 

[El_Machinae]

I watched all the early crewed space launches. This is the first time I ever heard a female do a countdown. Of course, in the 60's, there were also no female news anchors.

 

[Zelig]

NASA itself isn't your father's space program either. They take diversity very seriously and I was personally astonished at how Bridenstine (the NASA Administrator and a Trump appointee) stood up to Trump's assault on his LGBTQ workforce.

Bridenstine has been surprisingly good in general.

The first thing I noticed was how much the inside of the cockpit resembled a tesla to me.

I'm never going to be onboard with touchscreens for vehicles. It just seems mindbogglingly awful for a spaceship.

Why Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Bridenstine has been surprisingly good in general.

Yeah when he was in Congress he was a typical anti-global warming tea party type but then did multiple 180s on various issues when he got the NASA job. Whatever his true feelings/political leanings are, he's at least smart enough to put them aside to lead the agency that is in many ways the antithesis of the tea party movement. It's still not a good look that he ever espoused those previous political stances but hey, people change and the actions he's taken have been more than enough to win me over. He's also been a leader in a way that NASA hasn't really had for a while. NASA has had competent administrators under previous presidents but Bridenstine really leads if that makes sense.

Why did they cut the part where the first stage land? Did it make it or crashed?

The booster made it, the video feed was temporarily disrupted by the hot plume of rocket exhaust. This happens all the time. Some of the various streams didn't carry the video from the barge after the landing was complete but SpaceX's feed did show it.

 

[Lexicus]

With all that is going on right now, I can't help but have this feeling:

Also the conflicting feeling of "guy I loathe helps do something I think is pretty kewl"

 

[Traitorfish]

Also the conflicting feeling of "guy I loathe helps do something I think is pretty kewl"

Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point