Starliner successfully docks with ISS
Screen capture just after soft docking.
Boeing and NASA today successfully docked an unmanned Starliner capsule to ISS for the first time, completing the up-from-Earth portion of this demo mission to prove out this Boeing spacecraft as a future ferry to bring astronauts to and from the station.
The screen capture to the right, taken from the live feed, shows Starliner just after a successful soft capture docking. This was shortly followed by a hard dock.
They will open the hatch tomorrow after checking out the capsule’s linkage with ISS.
The docking itself was delayed by about 78 minutes, partly to time the docking during a period of good orbital communications and partly because of an issue with NASA’s own docking ring on the station that required engineers to reset it.
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Screen capture just after soft docking.
Boeing and NASA today successfully docked an unmanned Starliner capsule to ISS for the first time, completing the up-from-Earth portion of this demo mission to prove out this Boeing spacecraft as a future ferry to bring astronauts to and from the station.
The screen capture to the right, taken from the live feed, shows Starliner just after a successful soft capture docking. This was shortly followed by a hard dock.
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The support of my readers through the years has given me the freedom and ability to analyze objectively the ongoing renaissance in space, as well as the cultural changes -- for good or ill -- that are happening across America. Four years ago, just before the 2020 election I wrote that Joe Biden's mental health was suspect. Only in this year has the propaganda mainstream media decided to recognize that basic fact.
Fourteen years ago I wrote that SLS and Orion were a bad ideas, a waste of money, would be years behind schedule, and better replaced by commercial private enterprise. Even today NASA and Congress refuse to recognize this reality.
In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
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The elimination of contingency purchases of Soyuz seats for American astronauts.
Starve the beast.
Rogozin is sad.
In the Anglo-Dutch Wars in the 1600’s, Admiral de Ruyter ordered a broom be lashed to the masthead of his flagship when he entered port to show he had swept the seas clean of the English
American submariners revived the custom in WW2, when coming in after a successful patrol. https://imgur.com/aXOgIT3
Maybe we should start displaying them after each successful launch and make sure Rogozin gets a copy of the video
Better late than never I suppose.
Col.
That was in response to a whip lashed to a periscope was it not?
What was that old tale about a member of Congress being fooled by a sailor who spun a yarn about a deck-pecker bird when the divots in the teak were from spent shells falling sharp end down onto the deck?
I realize that the booster was destroyed – such a waste(!) – but will the SRBs be refurbished & reflown?
mivenho: No. The Atlas-5 is completely expendable. The only solid rocket boosters that were ever reused, at great cost and with no gain in efficiency, were the shuttle’s.
mivenho-
You might enjoy this—
“From launch to landing, a space shuttle’s solid rocket booster journey is captured, with sound mixed and enhanced by Skywalker Sound.”
“Riding the Booster: Up & Down in 400 Seconds”
NASA (2012)
https://youtu.be/527fb3-UZGo
8:31
Looking at the last photo on Spaceflight Now of the Starliner docked to the station and noticed that orange edge on the service module. Anyone else notice this? Is the sun reflecting off of it through the window?