BeechTalk - BT

Username Protected · **Posted:** 02 Aug 2020, 14:34

They’re about to enter loss of signal. Splash down 2:41 ish EDT

https://youtu.be/tSJIQftoxeU

Username Protected · **Posted:** 02 Aug 2020, 15:43

I’m still watching, waiting for crew egress. I watched the undocking and then the EDL today. Very cool stuff. It’s good to be back in the domestic launch business.

Way to go SpaceX.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 02 Aug 2020, 16:18

Username Protected wrote:

I’m still watching, waiting for crew egress. I watched the undocking and then the EDL today. Very cool stuff. It’s good to be back in the domestic launch business.

Way to go SpaceX.

Did you notice about a 5 minute delay in the video? I wonder what that was about.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 02 Aug 2020, 20:47

Lot of chatter about the totally non-secure bobbling astronauts and their MMH/NTO flasks. Boaters were able to get far too close.
By the grace of God no bad guys had thought to be there to ruin America’s day again.

Also this:
https://youtu.be/PHTQPorinZs

Username Protected · **Posted:** 02 Aug 2020, 22:05

I didn’t notice a delay (seemed pretty close to on time when they announced times of various events), but I was surprised that the video feed was such low resolution.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 02 Aug 2020, 23:43

Username Protected wrote:

I didn’t notice a delay (seemed pretty close to on time when they announced times of various events), but I was surprised that the video feed was such low resolution.

Where I noticed it was when they announced the time. My clocks (which are pretty accurate) were always about 5 minutes ahead.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 03 Aug 2020, 16:54

Username Protected wrote:

Boaters were able to get far too close.

^^^ This.

I wasn't really paying attention until Tom Gresham mentioned his brother was heading out to watch the splashdown.

Maybe 100+ nm offshore is a good idea.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 03 Aug 2020, 17:21

I missed the civilian boaters on the stream, and just heard the commenter say something like "maybe we shouldn't announce our location next time."

I was surprised that the whole recovery team was a pair of fast boats and custom built tug. I guess that's all it takes, these days, but I'd feel a lot better about it if there were a carrier task for out there recovering the capsule.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 03 Aug 2020, 17:45

Username Protected wrote:

...but I'd feel a lot better about it if there were a carrier task for out there recovering the capsule.

that's the sort of thinking that keeps us from being able afford to go to space. Got to get past this mindset of 1960's NASA. That's a recipe for accomplishing nothing but more than powerpoints of grandiose ideas.

While we are at it, let's kill this overbloated Artemis program and instead take a portion of those funds and make it a prize for the 1st private sector operator to land people on the moon. It'll get done in half the time and 1/10 of the cost.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 03 Aug 2020, 17:56

Hell no! I want space travel to have the pomp and circumstance that it deserves. A NASCAR team sends more hardware to the track than SpaceX did to recover the capsule.

(tongue firmly planted in cheek)

SpaceX Crew Dragon Splashdown today.