VIDEO Space X splash down - livestream

[et2]

Second set of nose cone hooks engaging

 

[et2]

Communication blackout - 6 min ... ahead

 

[Squid]

Come on people, create some fill-in animation for the stuff going on, and fix or replace the end of that second table what are we at the local grange hall pot luck.

 

[et2]

31 min to splashdown

 

[et2]

Come on people, create some fill-in animation for the stuff going on, and fix or replace the end of that second table what are we at the local grange hall pot luck.

yeah ... I was a kid for the first apollo. These people are boring

 

[et2]

Temps to be 3100 degrees

 

[bw]

I am SOOOO tired of "nominal" used to mean "normal". That's not what it means.

 

[agmfan3]

I'm watching.

 

[et2]

Splash down locations determined near a port and medical facilities. 7 were picked

 

[et2]

Recovery ship in place

 

[et2]

Cameras on recovery vessel to see when splashdown

 

[et2]

174 miles above Earth

 

[et2]

26 min to splashdown

 

[blackjeep]

Recovery ship in place

Crew begins to fish while waiting for the space craft...

 

[et2]

International space station 250 from Earth ... Space X half way home.

 

[bw]

Crew begins to fish while waiting for the space craft...

Boredom is good. Excitement is bad.

 

[et2]

350 mph when chutes deploy

 

[et2]

15 mph on splash down

 

[et2]

Feels like fender bender

 

[et2]

When in water comms and AC will work

 

[et2]

Demo tasks to perform after splash down

 

[et2]

Looking good for entry

 

[et2]

Awesome hearing sound in background from space x

 

[et2]

Sounds like water boiling

 

[et2]

Primary mission is monitoring telemetry for astronauts

 

[et2]

Over central Pacific ... 108 miles in atmoshere

 

[et2]

19 mins ... blackout coming ...

 

[et2]

Entry prep complete says space x commander

 

[et2]

Visors down ... part of entry check prep

 

[et2]

Weather looks good ... Ocean is glass. The be removed within 1 hour after splash down

 

[et2]

Dragon at 82 miles alt

 

[et2]

Drago thruster still being used

 

[et2]

Cabin purge ... cool air starting again for re-entry

 

[SmithJ]

I am SOOOO tired of "nominal" used to mean "normal". That's not what it means.

They don’t use it to mean normal. They use it to mean within an acceptable range.

 

[et2]

Blackout in 3 min - for 6 mins. Can’t command vehicle at that time

 

[et2]

2 to comm blackout

 

[et2]

To talk on other side of blackout

 

[et2]

Entry interface starting under 2

 

[et2]

Cabin environmentally cooled and suits

 

[et2]

Comm are out ...