Endeavour splashes down successfully
UPDATE: Endeavour has successfully splashed down, and crews are approaching to recover the capsule.
This by the way completes Endeavour’s third manned flight into space.
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The SpaceX capsule Endeavour, carrying Axiom’s first commercial passengers, undocked with ISS last night and is scheduled to splashdown off the coast of Florida shortly.
I have embedded the live stream below, scheduled to begin shortly.
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
UPDATE: Endeavour has successfully splashed down, and crews are approaching to recover the capsule.
This by the way completes Endeavour’s third manned flight into space.
Original post:
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The SpaceX capsule Endeavour, carrying Axiom’s first commercial passengers, undocked with ISS last night and is scheduled to splashdown off the coast of Florida shortly.
I have embedded the live stream below, scheduled to begin shortly.
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
As a point of curiosity I wonder how the Apollo program dealt with this kind of contingency. I’ve never heard the point discussed but they must have considered the issue as those guys had no choice but to land no matter the weather.
Michael – Apollo had recovery fleets scattered across the oceans of the world. Here is the list of US Navy ships arrayed around the worlds the oceans of the world supporting the Apollo 8 mission:
USS Yorktown (Prime Recovery Ship)
Secondary Recovery Ships:
USS Arlington
USS Chipola
USS Chuckawan
USS Cochrane
USS Francis Marion
USS Guadalcanal
USS Nicholas
USS Rankin
USS Rupertus
USS Salinan
USS Sandoval
Bad weather in the Atlantic? Land in another site in the Atlantic. Don’t like that one? Land in one of three landing areas in the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
SpaceX has one recovery ship and a few RHIBS.
I would like to see Space X try a solid ground landing with a cargo capsule. If they can start doing that them they obviously can land people safely.