SpaceX Crew Ship Moves to New Station Port
HOUSTON (NASA PR) — Crew Dragon Resilience with NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, and Shannon Walker, along with Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi, have re-docked to the International Space Station, another first for a commercial crew spacecraft.
Crew Dragon autonomously undocked from the forward port of the station’s Harmony module at 6:30 a.m. and relocated to the space-facing port at 7:08 a.m.
This is the start of a process that will enable extraction of new solar arrays from the SpaceX CRS-22 cargo mission’s trunk when it arrives to dock at the Node 2 zenith port following Crew-1 departure.
NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, JAXA astronaut Aki Hoshide, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet are scheduled to launch to the station Thursday, April 22, from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Following a short handover, Crew-1 NASA astronauts Hopkins, Glover and Walker, along with JAXA astronaut Noguchi, plan to return home off the coast of Florida about five days after the Crew-2 arrival to the space station as long as mission priorities and weather cooperate.
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flew this the other day 🙂 on the SpaceX simulator program
And Starliner OFT-2 is delayed again, now late July or early August. If they’re lucky.
No great surprise there. What with all the intervening ISS traffic and ULA’s need to get an SBIRS bird up first, significant delay to OFT-2 was pretty close to inevitable. That would seem to put CFT pretty firmly into 2022 and the first operational Starliner mission no earlier than mid-2022. Kinda looks as though SpaceX will have four operational NASA ISS missions, plus at least two private charters, notched up for Crew D2 by the time Starliner flies with a full crew for the first time.
AIUI, the Space Adventures Crew Dragon flight will try to break Gemini 11’s orbital altitude record.of 1,373 km.
as a Boeing alumni this is very depressing
It is all about going cheap and making a buck. The space age ended before it really started on the day of the Apollo 1 fire. Aerospace concerns realized any human space travel beyond LEO was going to be hard money and they went with the easy money of cold war toys. A good example is the F-104. Nobody really cared about all the pilots who died flying it. But three astronauts burning alive…see how that works?
If you are depressed about the con side of the profit motive then you should be in favor of state sponsored space exploration and not NewSpace.
Watched this in the AM. No better proof a spacecraft is performing well after a long space soak in LEO. Looking forward to an unmanned long term rad soak in cis lunar space one day. That’s the sort of thing NASA should be buying from SpaceX. Conduct an ultra long, ultra instrumented test flight just so they know what they have.
A ton and a half of hypergolics waiting to blow up the ISS.
Every spacecraft that has ever berthed or docked with ISS has carried hypergolics. The Russian Progress vehicles sometimes even transfer their loads of hypergolics to the ISS itself to run the re-boost engines. Why your weird obsession about hypergolics is limited strictly to Dragon 2 is one of the wonders of the age.
Over 3000 pounds of hypergolics wrapped around that small capsule is a fact- and nothing else carries even close to that amount. Throwing the B.S. flag on your trivialization. The “weird obsession” is your endless trolling of all my comments. You go right down the page posting whatever B.S. pops into your head. Truly a disgusting troll.
“Over 3000 pounds of hypergolics wrapped around that small capsule is a fact- and nothing else carries even close to that amount. “
Crew Dragon Hypergolic Load – 3,060 lbs
Progress M1 Hypergolic Load – 4,299 lbs
That’s not close.
Think the Space Shuttle carries more hypergolic propellants up for it’s OMS and RCS systems than any other spacecrafts. Plus the hydrazine for the APUs.
Always the same….it is not a space shuttle. It is a small capsule with an escape system that has blown up in a way that would have killed the crew. Obviously not a great design. And neither was the shuttle.
Except…progress is unmanned and has never blown up. But anything to distract from reality…that is the fanboy way.
Richard Seaton: “A ton and a half of hypergolics waiting to blow up the ISS.”
Also Richard Seaton: “Except…progress is unmanned”
You as well as I know that whether the vehicle is capable of carrying crew has no impact on the explosion threat the hypergolic propellants it carries pose to the ISS.
“and has never blown up. “
Neither has the hypergolic system currently used on Crew Dragon. It was redesigned and the structures that caused the test stand explosion possible are no longer a part of the system.
Not even going to read it.
That’s a good plan. Keeping one’s head in the sand eases cognitive dissonance.
You are a nag and a troll…why should I even look at your garbage?
Diversion to ad-hominem attacks rather than addressing the issue when you are proven wrong has been your M.O. for so long that I would not expect you to change now.
Says the troll king of all ad-hominem….hilarious.
If you keep trying to make it about me, do you think no one will notice that a fully loaded Progress M1 has way more hypergolics docked to the ISS than a Crew Dragon?
“Keeping one’s head in the sand eases cognitive dissonance.”
It is about you.
Keep pretending it is about me… That’s easier than facing the truth about the hypergolics.
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and now for the depressing part of the meeting
Sad to see how far they’ve fallen (and not just wrt space), but Boeing has no one to blame but themselves.
With all these delays, and rumors of other problems cropping up, perhaps the best solution is the one applied to RocketPlane Kistler. Then dial SNC-5000.