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SpaceX Unveils Crew Dragon Interior
- rbanffy 11y agoReally nice interior. Now they need it padded, the LCDs must be square and the on-board computer must sound like Douglas Rain. Maybe he's still available for the job. And the spacesuits need to be more colorful.
- mrfusion 11y agoI find it hard to get a sense of the size of it? Is it basically like sitting a van, or can you move around and do things? Could you really spend months in this going to Mars? Or even multiple days going to the moon?
- aplummer 11y agoThere would be a life support module behind this though right? They don't sit in the take off / landing part on a trip to the moon.
- JulianMorrison 11y agoDragon isn't going to the moon. It's going to the ISS. For the Moon or Mars, presumably they put a bigger capsule on a Falcon Heavy, or even something larger than that. (Falcon Venti?)
- piquadrat 11y agoFor Mars, they are developing the Mars Colonial Transporter rocket https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Colonial_Transporter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Colonial_Transporter (sometimes also called BFR, or Big F... Rocket)
- JulianMorrison 11y agoI think I speak for everyone when I say "whoah" and also "nice". That thing could toss up serious on-orbit hardware. Parts for a rotating space station. Dyson swarms. Asteroid miners.
- aplummer 11y agoYeah I am saying for short stuff they can just sit in that, any distance of length with have another compartment behind that one for travel.
- agildehaus 11y agoThis video should help you get a better sense of scale: https://youtu.be/-DYQmvfThnA?t=12m46s https://youtu.be/-DYQmvfThnA?t=12m46s
- rbanffy 11y agoMultiple days to the Moon seems doable (it was done in Apollo and that was a smaller craft). For a trip to Mars, the Dragon would probably be used as a shuttle for a larger spacecraft where the astronauts would live for the duration of the trip. AFAIK, the biggest problem with the Dragon flying to the Moon and Mars is that it's not shielded enough to keep a crew safe in trips much beyond LEO.
- ceejayoz 11y ago> Could you really spend months in this going to Mars? Or even multiple days going to the moon? Moon'd be fine - chances are they'd only have 3-4 crew for additional space for supplies/movement, and possibly some sort of additional living space like Apollo had. Mars would probably involve Dragon linking up with a larger ship like an Aldrin cycler. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_cycler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_cycler
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- smackfu 11y agoI guess this is a more real version of what they announced in May 2014: http://www.spacex.com/media-gallery/detail/100831/3261 http://www.spacex.com/media-gallery/detail/100831/3261
- frede 11y agoI wonder if flat buttons are a good idea. On top of a vibrating rocket I'd prefer buttons where I can feel their outline with my finger tips. The labels seem light gray, a less elegant but better visible writing might be better suited here, too.
- coldpie 11y agoI saw those and my blood boiled. I find these stupid fucking non-buttons impossible to use in my living room. I can't imagine how frustrating it would be to have zero tactile feedback on a rocket ship. "Oops, I brushed my finger lightly against the ROCKET SHIP IS ON FIRE button and filled the ship with foam, sorry mission control." Obviously they're smarter than that, but damn do I hate those "buttons".
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- ceejayoz 11y ago> On top of a vibrating rocket I'd prefer buttons where I can feel their outline with my finger tips. Dragon is entirely computer controlled during the times the rocket'd be vibrating. Other than a "oh shit, fire the crew escape rocket" button you're not going to be pressing anything during ascent or landing.
- protomyth 11y agoI'm pretty sure NASA told Neil Armstrong the same thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_8 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_8 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11
- ceejayoz 11y agoComputer control and spacecraft have both come a long way (in both complexity and reliability) since the 1960s. Modern cars and aircraft can't even move without their critical computers functioning these days.
- bsaul 11y agoWonder if they're planning on serving sushis during the trip.
- zamalek 11y agoInteresting how we're potentially moving one step closer to how scifi envisioned as spacecraft interiors. For some unexplainable, and likely incorrect, reason this gives me hope that we are moving toward a space-faring civilization. As for the scale of the compartments, extrapolate from the size of the chairs. It's pretty small.
- cfontes 11y agoI guess something close to James S.A. Corey "Expanse series". Living in asteroids and some moons. (forget the magic worm hole)
- SEJeff 11y agoOr on giant Orbitals like Ian M Banks's Culture civilizations (Musk named the two drone ships after Culture General System Vehicles from the Book "The Player of Games").
- valarauca1 11y agoUniversal Century 0079: The Principality of Zeon has declared its independence from the Earth Federation, and subsequently launched a massive war of independence, a war which has raged in every continent on earth and in nearly every space colony and lunar settlement. But seriously Mobile Suit Gundam was pretty forward thinking on its takes of space colonization. Tons of asteroids brought into orbit of earth. Massive orbitting spinning colonies.
- skrause 11y ago> Interesting how we're potentially moving one step closer to how scifi envisioned as spacecraft interiors. That's most likely because the interior designers were just influenced by the scifi visions.
- LesZedCB 11y agoArt reflects life reflects art.
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- burger_moon 11y agoThose seats don't look too supportive. Are these the seats they're in during take off etc? Check out what seats look like in race cars. They're still carbon fibre and minimal but have better support than those. That edge on the seat and no support for the head/neck or backs of the legs seem like it wouldn't be a very enjoyable experience. I'm sure I'm overlooking some obvious reasons why they were designed this way so I look forward to hearing more about this project.
- sideband 11y agoMaybe if it's just for ground -> ISS -> ground missions they're counting on the structure of a rigid helmet to properly support the head during acceleration. Also notice how the top of the straps, which I'd guess would mark slightly above shoulder level, are well below the top of the seat.
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- lighthawk 11y agoRelated: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10200723 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10200723
- swamp40 11y agoSure hope there's a Confirm popup for that CABIN DEPRESS button.