re: NASA SpaceX Launch Saturday 3:22 EDT

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huehue

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Thanks for noticing, I'm proud of that one.

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They cut the feed and then the rocket was there on the ship. They couldn’t have a camera out there to show it landing?

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it’s engine interference. Not much they can do especially on that offshore landing pad. At least it worked and we saw the rocket on the platform

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Is it just me or is mission control not as cool with the IKEA tables vs the theater seating?

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The tiered layout of the old school launch control and mission control rooms was, in part, because of the massive cabling and air conditioning requirements of the equipment of the time. Each mission controller had multiple networking connections to back rooms where scores of launch engineers worked to support each flight controller. In addition, the equipment used when those control and launch rooms were built had massive heat loads and required a huge amount of air conditioning. All the controllers had to be able to see the big screens on the walls, so overhead space had to remain clear. The tiered layout allowed for chases under the floor to run the heavy cabling and air conditioning ductwork required to each controller's cabinet. You were kind of stuck with the room layout dictated by the requirements of the equipment available when it was built.

SpaceX mission control uses modern equipment, so the massive infrastructure mission control rooms used to need is gone. They literally just need a folding table, a keyboard, their control panel, and a couple of monitors for each controller. The room just has standard air conditioning. Typical networking cable is all they need to connect it to their mainframes and they can run everything through a typical office cable protector on the floor. You can see the cable protector in the lower left corner of the picture below.

All of this allows SpaceX to reconfigure the room and customize it for every single launch. Their ability to tailor a mission to their clients' demands goes all the way to reconfiguring launch and mission control as the customer wants it.

Its a barge

Great speech by Trump about the space launch. Oh wait he's going on and on about riots.

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Just think, without Trump making this a priority, it's still years off. We've thanked everyone else, but like to ignore that until Trump was elected, this was a very low priority for NASA to put together

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Without Trump there is a manned rocket sent into space next year, and then by 2025 we have a manned crew on astroids.

With Trump we are a year ahead with manned missions and are heading towards the moon instead of towards asteroids.

Two different approaches, but as a general rule, very intelligent people and not politicians are putting this stuff together. Both paths get us to where we need to go.

NASA has actually had more people quit under Trump than did under Obama from what I understand as well: but once again that's not anything political either, we just have more 3rd party programs now as NASA finds its place in the world, and those 3rd parties are poaching the best from NASA. (My brother was one of these)

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Spacex received 2.6 billion funding for this in 2012 to launch in 2017.

Boeing received 4.2 billion and still isn't even close to launching.

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Boeing has gotten complacent... Companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin are the future, Boeing will be sitting in a corner sucking its thumb in the next few years

ETA: SpaceX has also been receiving payments for successful trips to the ISS - Boeing would have gotten the same, but they aren't even incentives enough to do THAT

Bob and Doug are about to disembark the crew Dragon onto the ISS.