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Topic: [Discuss] SpaceX CRS-14 space station mission
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Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 04-02-2018 08:20 PM
   
Please use this topic to discuss SpaceX's fourteenth Dragon cargo flight to the International Space Station under NASA's Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contract. |
GACspaceguy
Member Posts: 2476
From: Guyton, GA
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 04-02-2018 08:24 PM
What a great launch. The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex was absolutely packed. Spring break, day after a long weekend, afternoon launch that you can see with general admission and the follow on popularity of SpaceX after the Falcon Heavy launch lead to people taking hours to get to KSC. The lines for entrance at 9AM were to the parking lot, the Saturn V viewing filled up before noon and the parking lot filled up such that they were turning people away. At the LC-39 viewing gantry the launch was spectacular and the sound was chest pounding as we were about 3 miles away. The crowd was extremely light for a sold out area. I later found out that because of the traffic issue a lot of LC-39 ticket holders did not make it. I am assuming they thought with the buses boarding at 2:30PM EDT they did not need to get there early. I can tell you one story I heard from a man who came running up to the person taking the tickets for the LC-39 bus. He said that he and his son left his wife with the car and walked the 7 miles to the KSC entrance. He hoped she made it to the parking lot by the time the saw the launch and came back to pick them up. It was the most crowded I can ever remember seeing at KSC and I have gone many times for launches and events. And me, I was there at 8:30AM EDT a long wait yes but well worth it!  
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MCroft04
Member Posts: 1634
From: Smithfield, Me, USA
Registered: Mar 2005
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posted 04-02-2018 08:33 PM
Awesome knowing that I have a patch on that beast. Thanks for the pictures. Any idea where the patches will reside during their year long stay on the ISS? |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 04-03-2018 03:11 AM
The Space Collective's patches and pins are packed inside Alpha Space Test and Research Alliance's Materials International Space Station Experiments Flight Facility (MISSE-FF), a suitcase size materials-exposure platform, which will mounted on the ExPRESS Logistics Carrier-2 (ELC-2) located on the starboard side (S3) of the truss alongside the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer.Here is a NASA labeled graphic of the station's exterior platforms, including ELC-2.  |
keith.wilson
Member Posts: 87
From: Callander, Stirling, Scotland
Registered: Jun 2002
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posted 04-03-2018 04:38 AM
Am I correct in thinking that it is only the 12 month stay patches and pins that are aboard this flight? I believe the 6 month stay patches and pins will fly on CRS-15.
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Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 04-03-2018 07:04 AM
Yes, though not necessarily SpaceX CRS-15; the update yesterday just says a future resupply mission. |
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