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SpaceX Endeavor capsule might splashdown near Prnsacola
Posted on 8/1/20 at 3:11 pm
Posted on 8/1/20 at 3:11 pm
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PENSACOLA, Fla. (WKRG) — Our area of the Gulf Coast will be forever tied to space exploration, NASA and the Space-X programming as the first astronaut splashdown in decades will take place off the Pensacola coast Sunday.
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Behnken and Hurley are ready to return home in Endeavour for a splashdown off the coast of Florida, closing out a mission designed to test SpaceX’s human spaceflight system, including launch, docking, splashdown, and recovery operations.
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NASA and SpaceX are capable of supporting seven splashdown sites off the coast of Florida for the return of Crew Dragon on its Demo-2 test flight with NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley from the International Space Station as part the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. The seven potential splashdown sites for Crew Dragon are off the coasts of Pensacola, Tampa, Tallahassee, Panama City, Cape Canaveral, Daytona, and Jacksonville.
This post was edited on 8/1/20 at 3:13 pm
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Posted on 8/1/20 at 3:19 pm to fatboydave
Not gonna lie, since I was bored as frick; the launch they did was pretty awesome. Will tune in for the splashdown.
Posted on 8/1/20 at 3:25 pm to fatboydave
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SpaceX Endeavor capsule might splashdown near Prnsacola
This seems like the sort of thing they should have pinned down more finely than "might" less than 24 hours out.
This post was edited on 8/1/20 at 3:26 pm
Posted on 8/1/20 at 3:27 pm to fatboydave
I'm pretty surprised SpaceX would take such a vanilla approach to landing astronauts 
Posted on 8/1/20 at 3:28 pm to TigerstuckinMS
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This seems like the sort of thing they should have pinned down more finely than "might" less than 24 hours out.
Maybe it is a marketing thing to get several places excited about it or how close is the hurricane?
Posted on 8/1/20 at 3:35 pm to gthog61
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Maybe it is a marketing thing to get several places excited about it or how close is the hurricane?
Oh, that's almost certainly the reason they're going to come down that far West instead of just off the East coast of Florida closer to all of SpaceX's infrastructure. They can target a given patch of the ocean pretty accurately; they land rockets on barges like it ain't nothing. The Dragon has a fair bit of cross-range capability on return. It's a lot more advanced than the Apollo days and even then they were able to land within a couple of miles of where they wanted to. It makes the use of the word "might" funny to me. They're not gonna try for Pensacola and end up in Mobile.
"Welp, we're just gonna light up this bottle rocket and find out where they land!" -- Florida Man
This post was edited on 8/1/20 at 3:54 pm
Posted on 8/1/20 at 3:36 pm to TigerstuckinMS
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makes the use of the word "might" funny
Yea it does
Posted on 8/1/20 at 3:40 pm to fatboydave
Very much looking forward to this tomorrow. I feel bad for Bob and Doug returning to Earth though.
Posted on 8/1/20 at 4:11 pm to fatboydave
NASA confirms that the SpaceX Crew Dragon will splashdown near Pensacola: WKRG
This post was edited on 8/1/20 at 4:13 pm
Posted on 8/1/20 at 4:13 pm to fatboydave
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Prnsacola
Pernsacola?
Posted on 8/1/20 at 4:15 pm to fatboydave
quote:Should havr brrn part of thr Statr of Wrst Florida.
Prnsacola
Baton Rougr has morr in common with that city than it dors with Shrrrvport.
Posted on 8/1/20 at 5:08 pm to fatboydave
Might as well just land at the Florabama.
Posted on 8/1/20 at 5:21 pm to OMLandshark
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Very much looking forward to this tomorrow. I feel bad for Bob and Doug returning to Earth though.
they left during the peak of the George Floyd rioting... so they got out at a good time
Posted on 8/1/20 at 6:11 pm to fatboydave
I can't explain it but I've got a bad feeling about this mission's return to Earth.
Posted on 8/1/20 at 6:21 pm to rt3
SpaceX YouTube page - live coverage of Bob & Doug undocking from ISS
Bob & Doug should undock within the next 5-10 minutes
Bob & Doug should undock within the next 5-10 minutes
Posted on 8/1/20 at 6:22 pm to Jim Rockford
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Might as well just land at the Florabama.
Does FloraBama still do the free drinks think if you parachute in? That could make it worth their while.
Posted on 8/1/20 at 6:28 pm to Swamp Angel
1 of the astronauts is looking to play Angry Birds on his computer as they wait for undocking
Posted on 8/1/20 at 6:35 pm to rt3
Dragon has departed the ISS
Posted on 8/1/20 at 6:39 pm to rt3
Bob and Doug didn't secure anything, craps just floating all over the place.
Posted on 8/1/20 at 6:40 pm to rt3
When should they land?
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