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Cool flightsuits.. 😎

 

EDIT I've already docked the Crew Dragon to the ISS...in Space X's little demo sim online. No problem.😜 If I can do that then fully trained astronauts and mission control will have no difficulty at all! 

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And of course they're driving to the pad in style. 😎

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1 hour ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

Thanks Chris. And just to complete the picture Venus in the last few months achieved -4.4, the full moon is -11 and the sun -26.

Its a logarithmic scale with each magnitude being 2.5 times brighter than a higher one. Mag 6 is the threshold for the naked eye on a perfectly dark night.

Between you and Chris, I have been taught something new today about astronomy. Kudos to both!

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47 minutes ago, HighBypass said:

Cool flightsuits.. 😎

 

EDIT I've already docked the Crew Dragon to the ISS...in Space X's little demo sim online. No problem.😜 If I can do that then fully trained astronauts and mission control will have no difficulty at all! 

The app is still here: https://iss-sim.spacex.com/

Myself I could totally not dock it!. I also wasn't really good at MS Flight Simulator; some 25 or so years ago...  

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19 minutes ago, vc10man said:

Between you and Chris, I have been taught something new today about astronomy. Kudos to both!

Glad it helped Rick. When I lived in Norwich back in the 70s I had a large telescope and the skies were great. Sadly in south Manchester they aren't.  😕


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3 hours ago, HighBypass said:

Well, this is the first live payload is it not, with the inherent risk and trepidation despite being assessed and simulated over ad infinitum..

Not so much negative as realistic with a pinch of pessimism.😎

 

It's the first HUMAN payload yes. But Dragon has flown many times before.

 

I belive this docking will be manual to test the systems. Future flights will dock automatically.

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For those with Android phones (the best phones) ISS Tracker is on the Play Store. Just downloaded a pretty good one.

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1 hour ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

Glad it helped Rick. When I lived in Norwich back in the 70s I had a large telescope and the skies were great. Sadly in south Manchester they aren't.  😕

Likewise, when I was stationed at RAF Marham, in Norfolk, the skies were perfect for star-gazing, like Australis around Margaret River is. Sadly, the light pollution from big conurbations like Manchester, Birmingham, London ruins it for astronomy

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Looks like it is being scrubbed due to weather.

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Not today! Weather. 

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....and the launch has been scrubbed... bad weather..😢 word not allowed good live practice though


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word not allowed, and there was me just setting up my lens. Good thing there was the Daily Telegraph link to follow.

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I've been watching it live on youtube... for the past 4 hours.. 😎


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Author of FLIGHT: A near-future short story (ebook available on amazon)

I made the baby cry - A2A Simulations L-049 Constellation

Sky Simulations MD-11 V2.2 Pilot. The best "lite" MD-11 money can buy (well, it's not freeware!)

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1 minute ago, vc10man said:

word not allowed, and there was me just setting up my lens. Good thing there was the Daily Telegraph link to follow.

Ooops🤣

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1 minute ago, HighBypass said:

I've been watching it live on youtube... for the past 4 hours.. 😎

Takes me back to the 60s watching Apollo missions, in Streatham, London, huddled with friends watching on a b&w set with that BBC chap, James something.

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