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>To be fair, there were people in NASA's crafts. The Dragon capsule is designed to hold people, so SpaceX wouldn't need a bigger ship or crane to haul them in.
by PerryCox 14y ago
>To be fair, there were people in NASA's crafts.
The Dragon capsule is designed to hold people, so SpaceX wouldn't need a bigger ship or crane to haul them in.
- jonknee 14y agoDesigned to hold and have real life people inside are two very different things. NASA didn't want to have a successful mission and then lose their hero astronauts because they couldn't find them at sea in time. Also remember that NASA was doing this in the age before GPS...
- cdash 14y agoThe crew capsule will probably never land in the ocean as they plan to land on a pad with thrusters.
- crusso 14y agoI was all, like, "Really?" Google went all, like, "Really..." http://www.spacex.com/press.php?page=20120530 http://www.spacex.com/press.php?page=20120530 > In the future, Dragon will use SuperDraco thrusters to land on a landing pad on ground. This then led to looking up SuperDraco, which is on this Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draco_(rocket_engine_family) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draco_(rocket_engine_family) And then we all know how wikipedia is. I'll be following links for the rest of the afternoon and probably shake myself out of it when I realize that I've been looking at Wikpedia articles for Marvel superheroes for 20 minutes. [edit ooh, this is worth seeing too] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUUnYgo1-lI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUUnYgo1-lI
- rory096 14y agoMusk said during the press conference today that they're targeting thruster landings (in any atmosphere!) within 3 years, or more like 4-5 if they encounter difficulties.