Apologies to anyone who missed it. It made up 15 minutes on the predicted time and docked at 15:15.
Been watching for the last few hours - they are fully docked now, just pressurising the joint/cavity between the hatches just now - hatches will open in about an hour.
Another big moment in history has just been witnessed :-), that's quite a few now that we've seen in our lives.
funtime26 (31-05-2020)
The most impressive part was the first stage returning and landing bum first on a barge in a very choppy sea, that means 85% of the launch vehicle was reusesable and just the fuel was used which will save a lot of costs on future launches.
Its got to be safer landing on solid ground surely, I suppose NASA originally didn't believe it could re-land safely and didn't want to take the risk, the ending of 95% of the rocket being chucked away every time will alter the economics of space flight now, astronaughts still re-enter the atmosphere like a fiery meteorite though and splashdown in the sea, those bits havn't changed.
Last edited by TonyO; 01-06-2020 at 06:54 PM.
The astronaughts were just passengers on the flight up to the SS, they didn't fly the spacecraft it was on automation, it reminds me of the joke when the crossover from chimps to humans on automation when they asked what do I actually have to do as the pilot ? the answer was feed the chimp when he gets hungry.
3tv (01-06-2020)
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