It was actually a bit bizarre. It looked more like a whaler hauling in a catch than spacecraft recovery. I think they need to work on their recovery special effects and art direction. They have the rest of it nailed pretty good. I guess I'm used to a navy helicopter causing lots of spray and then lifting the capsule. On the boats, I think it's hilarious they had rubberneckers. That's the side of space travel becoming more commonplace. The shot of the trumper was probably with a long lens and he wasn't that close. On a more serious note, this was flat seas with no wind. Their limit is 10MPH wind, which sounds like not much, but at that rate seas would be about 6ft (wave height). That would be a bit more sloppy.
Yeah, I'm thinking that's not entirely a good idea if the shit were to hit the fan. There's something to be said about low-tech solutions.
Speaking of low-tech solutions, here's a great article about the space program's pen vs. pencil myth: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-nasa-spen/ Interesting that on one of the Apollo missions, astronauts used a pen to fix a broken switch.
There is, but as the controls get more computerised and advanced you eventually reach a point where anything bad enough to knock out multiple reference devices would probably be a loss of crew and vehicle situation anyway. iPads are very much a standard in the aviation space now. Next time you're on an international flight it's likely that the flight crew are all working off them.
God damn this never gets old successful orbital insertion. Successful first stage landing on the drone in the Atlantic.
Prop-line heater issue was too narrow fault parameters. They sent broader parameters. The temperature control system (TCS) transient during launch was also considered to be due to narrow fault parameters. They're still learning how it flies. No other issues reported/known. Oh, and they docked last night. Now 7 people on the ISS. 2 Russians. 4 Americans, 1 Japanese. Of these 2 of the yanks are women. (wife said they'll probably have to do all the cleaning. other thoughts crossed my mind.)
