SpaceX releases video showing glimpse of manned Dragon interior
The competition heats up: SpaceX today released a short video showing a very limited glimpse at the interior of the manned version of its Dragon capsule.
I’ve embedded the video below the fold, but I will tell you it is quite disappointing. Lots of tight close-ups of seatbelts and seats and instrument panels without really providing a clear picture of the capsule’s interior.
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The competition heats up: SpaceX today released a short video showing a very limited glimpse at the interior of the manned version of its Dragon capsule.
I’ve embedded the video below the fold, but I will tell you it is quite disappointing. Lots of tight close-ups of seatbelts and seats and instrument panels without really providing a clear picture of the capsule’s interior.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
When Musk showed the world the Dragon Version 2, last year, he demonstrated its interior size by climbing in for a minute or so. This should give you a little more perspective:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEQrmDoIRO8#t=750
Robert’s linked video shows that the interior looks different, now. We can compare and contrast the new look with the old look.
The new interior looks a little more like what we saw with Boeing’s CST-100 — er — Starliner mock-up a couple of years ago:
http://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/boeing-today-unveiled-a-full-scale-mock-up-of-the-interior-of-its-cst-100-manned-capsule/
Then again, I expect that there will be a lot of equipment and other hardware packed into each company’s spacecraft, so the interiors at launch may be much more cramped than these mock-ups. The Soyuz, for example, is pretty packed:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/12/soyuz-video-wild-ride-astronauts-russian-space-capsule_n_4256596.html
looks simple and “clean”.
The Apollo and Soyuz capsules look like “rat rods” in comparison.