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Topic: [Discuss] SpaceX CRS-11 space station mission
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Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 06-03-2017 09:30 PM
   
Please use this topic to discuss SpaceX's eleventh Dragon cargo flight to the International Space Station under NASA's Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contract. CRS-11 is SpaceX's first flight of a reused Dragon spacecraft and is the 100th launch from Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. |
GACspaceguy
Member Posts: 2476
From: Guyton, GA
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 06-03-2017 09:30 PM
I got to see the landing and hear the sonic booms as well. So cool!
I really thought the weather was going to be an issue when I got up this morning but it all blew away. 
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328KF
Member Posts: 1234
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Registered: Apr 2008
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posted 06-03-2017 09:49 PM
Great pics! How cool is it going to be to see two of those come back after a Falcon 9 Heavy launch? |
GACspaceguy
Member Posts: 2476
From: Guyton, GA
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 06-04-2017 06:25 AM
You bet! Two sets of sonic booms will rattle your teeth.  |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 06-04-2017 11:21 AM
From Elon Musk on Twitter: It's starting to feel kinda normal to reuse rockets. Good. That's how it is for cars and airplanes and how it should be for rockets. |
SpaceAngel
Member Posts: 307
From: Maryland
Registered: May 2010
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posted 06-08-2017 08:01 AM
How is it that the Dragon spacecraft could be used again like the space shuttle; it's not like the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo as well as then-USSR's early space capsules... |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 06-08-2017 10:36 AM
SpaceX designed the Dragon from the start to be reusable. It has expendable parts (like the heat shield) and parts that are subject to more damage, and therefore more chance of being replaced between flights (components subjected to ocean water, for example). But the hull (pressure vessel), thrusters and much of the avionics were built to be multi-use. |
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