The shifting pieces are damned annoying, too clever by half.
Otherwise, I don’t have a context to understand what I’m seeing. What part of the capsule is this? And unless I’m missing the point entirely, where do people sit? Off camera? SRO?
This is a cargo dragon.
No seats in a Cargo ship, just places to stow cargo…
Seats and “Control panel etc…” need to be developed/added.
No wonder the Nian ate whole villages, that thing is cavernous. Who knew Dragons were so big inside!?
@Paul Breed: Thank you!
Gotta wonder when this is gunna fly… it’s worrying.. the conflicts on the range, conflicts at the ISS and availability of the astronauts that have been trained to do the berthing operation, can all add significant delays if these slips hit up against these constraints.
I’m under the impression that all future astronauts going to ISS will be trained in Dragon operations, so that shouldn’t be a future problem.
Range delays may be the achilles heel for frequent launch operations. Vandenberg’s range was kluged together over decades and required months of ramp up for a specific flight. I believe that more frequent operations will drive economy, but there wasn’t any sign of that in the late 90s.
The shifting pieces are damned annoying, too clever by half.
Otherwise, I don’t have a context to understand what I’m seeing. What part of the capsule is this? And unless I’m missing the point entirely, where do people sit? Off camera? SRO?
This is a cargo dragon.
No seats in a Cargo ship, just places to stow cargo…
Seats and “Control panel etc…” need to be developed/added.
No wonder the Nian ate whole villages, that thing is cavernous. Who knew Dragons were so big inside!?
@Paul Breed: Thank you!
Gotta wonder when this is gunna fly… it’s worrying.. the conflicts on the range, conflicts at the ISS and availability of the astronauts that have been trained to do the berthing operation, can all add significant delays if these slips hit up against these constraints.
I’m under the impression that all future astronauts going to ISS will be trained in Dragon operations, so that shouldn’t be a future problem.
Range delays may be the achilles heel for frequent launch operations. Vandenberg’s range was kluged together over decades and required months of ramp up for a specific flight. I believe that more frequent operations will drive economy, but there wasn’t any sign of that in the late 90s.