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Space X Crew 9 coming home - live streaming......

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by Bazza, Mar 18, 2025 at 5:25 PM.

  1. G8tas

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    Maybe because when Biden was in office there weren't any crashes of a commercial airline? Diamond Joe gave us friendly skies
     
  2. duggers_dad

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    Arguably, a whopping total of one crash MIGHT be attributable to the FAA.
     
  3. G8tas

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    Ideally 0 crashes is better than 1
     
  4. duggers_dad

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    Yes ?
     
  5. demosthenes

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    https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/s/Zm5LUNrwEh

    The lying shitbag again trying to claim it was political that NASA didn’t want to pay SpaceX $60M+ to bring them home early

    Here’s a great summary of why Elon is even lying about the ability of SpaceX to bring them home early:


    Right, he said a few months. But we know pretty much exactly the status of every Dragon capsule, as well as NASA's crew schedules, and can parse out the reality.​

    There's 4 active Crew Dragon capsules: Endeavor, Resilience, Endurance, and Freedom. NASA decided, in August, that Starliner would not return with crew. Let's see what each capsule was up to:​

    Endeavor was at the ISS until October, and the fastest a Dragon capsule has ever been turned around from launch until landing is about 6 months, so it couldn't be that one.​

    Resilience was flying Polaris Dawn in September, and (as far as we know) the earliest it could have launched again would basically be now, but it's docking port isn't attached and it's being used for Fram 2 (also no docking port), so couldn't be that one​

    Endurance is being used for Crew 10 (docked currently), so using that for an August "rescue" would have out a time crunch on turnaround for Crew 10​

    And Freedom launched Crew 9 in September, the capsule that did bring them home.​

    There is a 5th Dragon, C213, that is still under construction, that was supposed to be used for Crew 10 but they swapped to Endurance because it wasn't ready, as mentioned here​

    So the only workable scenario here is with Freedom and Endurance. Freedom and Endurance would have to launch back-to-back missions, one stays for the crew rotation and the other turns around immediately and has to break the record for Dragon refurbishment for Crew 10. That's assuming Endurance was 100% ready to go exactly in August (which it probably wasn't, otherwise the Crew 10 launch wouldn't have been delayed an entire month just by swapping to Endurance...), which once again would have required another record Dragon turnaround from it's landing last March. So if he's being 100% truthful, Musk's plan would involve turning around a Dragon capsule faster than it's ever been done before, twice in a row, plus NASA paying for an extra flight.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/s/CNccbey7LH
     
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  6. G8trGr8t

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    way too many facts for MAGA...they just want reason for outrage, factual or not
     
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    A more accurate name for the body of water in which the capsule splashed down. On a more serious note after Trump leaves office the name will revert back to the Gulf of Mexico the generally accepted name of that body of water for roughly 400 years.

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