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Wonder what would happen if the Dragon damaged the ISS in some way? Would SpaceX get a bill?
That'd make for a h.ll of a Geico commercial, wouldn't it? Kidding aside, I do expect that there's a non-liability clause in the NASA contract somewhere.
Yup, SpaceX is now 3 for 3 on launching the Dragon/Falcon9 stack to orbit - and this one matched orbit and docked with the ISS, not a trivial accomplishment by anyone's standards.
The Dragon and the Falcon have been designed as man-rated vehicles all along - these flights are part of the development and certification process. They have some smart people working out in Hawthorne.
According to the ISS astronauts, the capsule even smelled like a new car...
That was history being made and should be talked about alot more in the Media covering it's sucess since it is the biggest thing since the shuttle flew for America seeing as it was a private American Company and now have some capacity to get supplies and to the ISS and if it continues the next missions without issue then it will be our new ride for astronauts to the ISS and other LEO missions.
What ever happend to Virgin Galactic since they had been running none stop TV ads 2-3 years ago selling tickets for $200,000 a person for a 5 minutes in space and then nothing really has been said about it anymore.
That was history being made and should be talked about alot more in the Media covering it's sucess since it is the biggest thing since the shuttle flew for America seeing as it was a private American Company and now have some capacity to get supplies and to the ISS and if it continues the next missions without issue then it will be our new ride for astronauts to the ISS and other LEO missions.
Agreed. Perhaps we got a bit more coverage here in the local area, but - this is a huge, huge deal.
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What ever happend to Virgin Galactic since they had been running none stop TV ads 2-3 years ago selling tickets for $200,000 a person for a 5 minutes in space and then nothing really has been said about it anymore.
I love Rutan's designs, to the point where I rode to Mojave to see the first attempt at reaching space by SpaceShipOne. Respect, tons of it.
But... They were pushing their luck and the envelope, their making it was marginal. (SS1 lost roll control for several minutes during descent.) Their technology is borderline, and Virgin is selling a cool, streamlined experience, not a ride on a prototype. Rutan seems to have lost interest in the project. I'm getting a vibe that the technology is marginal. And if they lose one of their $200K passengers to a technical issue, that's it.
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Well, took a bit longer than planned...
