Resilience successfully splashes down in Gulf of Mexico
Capitalism in space: SpaceX’s Resilience capsule successfully splashed down tonight in Gulf of Mexico, returning four astronauts from a six month mission on ISS.
The infrared image to the right was taken from an airplane, just after the main parachutes deployed.
They are presently in the process of recovering the capsule and crew, which will take another hour or so. You can watch SpaceX’s live stream here.
Resilience’s next flight will be the first entirely commercial manned orbital flight, presently scheduled for September 15, 2021. Dubbed Inspiration4, it will carry four private passengers for a flight of two to four days. They will not dock with ISS, but instead orbit the Earth freely. SpaceX will also replace the docking port on Resilience with a domed cupola to provide the passengers more room and a great view during their flight.
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.
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Capitalism in space: SpaceX’s Resilience capsule successfully splashed down tonight in Gulf of Mexico, returning four astronauts from a six month mission on ISS.
The infrared image to the right was taken from an airplane, just after the main parachutes deployed.
They are presently in the process of recovering the capsule and crew, which will take another hour or so. You can watch SpaceX’s live stream here.
Resilience’s next flight will be the first entirely commercial manned orbital flight, presently scheduled for September 15, 2021. Dubbed Inspiration4, it will carry four private passengers for a flight of two to four days. They will not dock with ISS, but instead orbit the Earth freely. SpaceX will also replace the docking port on Resilience with a domed cupola to provide the passengers more room and a great view during their flight.
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
The first crewman was rather peppy coming out of Dragon. I was disappointed that coverage of the egress was cut off after that.
I assume it was a concern about privacy, in the event one or more crew became visibly ill, although there were repeated public assurances that everyone felt great.
Astronaut Judith Resnick, though not African-American, sported a large ‘fro hairdo, which became ensnarled in an apparatus on board the shuttle. She told the rest of the crew that if they reported it, she would kill them all! It was never contemporaneously reported.
Judith, by all accounts a wonderful lady, later perished on board the Challenger.
I was impressed with how quickly it all went, it was something like 6 hours from undock to astronauts out of the capsule, MUCH faster than last time.