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FurtiveFreddy

8,577 posts

236 months

Friday 1st March 2019
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Beati Dogu said:
Inside the capsule:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mE_hCTfMdng

Quite snazzy really.


And here's Ripley, all ready to go:

Nice, but no HUD?

MartG

20,622 posts

203 months

Friday 1st March 2019
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FurtiveFreddy said:
Nice, but no HUD?
Display on helmet visor ?

Beati Dogu

8,862 posts

138 months

Friday 1st March 2019
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There is a row of touchscreen monitors above the two central seats. The seats raise up to the monitors once the crew are strapped in.

Here, NASA Astronaut Suni Williams practices on the Crew Dragon mock up:



It's very minimalist. There's very few physical buttons and switches.



And for a video tour:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cqJLUB2e2w

RobDickinson

31,343 posts

253 months

Saturday 2nd March 2019
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Hour to go!

C350

1,791 posts

63 months

Saturday 2nd March 2019
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Toaster

2,938 posts

192 months

Saturday 2nd March 2019
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Beati Dogu said:
The test manikin is called "Ripley". cool

Let's hope there's no Alien aboard too, or it'll make short work of the ISS crew.
More marketing crap “ripley” “Starhip” it’s a wonder they didn’t call the dummy Kirk

MartG

20,622 posts

203 months

Saturday 2nd March 2019
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JonChalk

6,469 posts

109 months

Saturday 2nd March 2019
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Looking good so far!

Waiting to see the main stage landing!

JonChalk

6,469 posts

109 months

Saturday 2nd March 2019
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JonChalk said:
Looking good so far!

Waiting to see the main stage landing!
....and it's down!!! Still upright!

essayer

9,010 posts

193 months

Saturday 2nd March 2019
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Just as amazing every time I watch it

rasto

2,188 posts

236 months

Saturday 2nd March 2019
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This is the first time I've managed to watch it live, never fails to impress smile

C350

1,791 posts

63 months

Saturday 2nd March 2019
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Awesome as always!
Docking is approx 11am tomorrow

Beati Dogu

8,862 posts

138 months

Saturday 2nd March 2019
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Toaster said:
More marketing crap “ripley” “Starhip” it’s a wonder they didn’t call the dummy Kirk
Don’t be such a misery; Its a bit of harmless fun. It’s not a pointless shop dummy either, it’s a crash test dummy loaded with sensors and a microphone to measure sound levels. They used one for the pad abort test 3 years ago and they plan to use Ripley again for the in flight abort test in a few months.

Blue Origin call their test subject Manikin Skywalker.

Eric Mc

121,779 posts

264 months

Saturday 2nd March 2019
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The Russians called their Vostok test dummy "Ivan Ivanovich". Naming dummies is not unusual in the world of engineering test. It adds a bit of lightheartedness to proceedings.

anonymous-user

53 months

Saturday 2nd March 2019
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Yet again, a faultless flight and return.

As said above, it never fails to impress and always makes me quite emotional.

MiniMan64

16,863 posts

189 months

Saturday 2nd March 2019
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Toaster said:
Beati Dogu said:
The test manikin is called "Ripley". cool

Let's hope there's no Alien aboard too, or it'll make short work of the ISS crew.
More marketing crap “ripley” “Starhip” it’s a wonder they didn’t call the dummy Kirk
Well aren’t you a joyful soul....

anonymous-user

53 months

Saturday 2nd March 2019
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MiniMan64 said:
Toaster said:
Beati Dogu said:
The test manikin is called "Ripley". cool

Let's hope there's no Alien aboard too, or it'll make short work of the ISS crew.
More marketing crap “ripley” “Starhip” it’s a wonder they didn’t call the dummy Kirk
Well aren’t you a joyful soul....
Those that can, do; those that can’t, criticise.

JonChalk

6,469 posts

109 months

Saturday 2nd March 2019
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garyhun said:
MiniMan64 said:
Toaster said:
Beati Dogu said:
The test manikin is called "Ripley". cool

Let's hope there's no Alien aboard too, or it'll make short work of the ISS crew.
More marketing crap “ripley” “Starhip” it’s a wonder they didn’t call the dummy Kirk
Well aren’t you a joyful soul....
Those that can, do; those that can’t, criticise.
Don't worry about Toaster - he's all over some of the science threads being a downer on all sorts of threads praising exploration and science discoveries, and the money spent pursuing them.

Eric Mc

121,779 posts

264 months

Saturday 2nd March 2019
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The problem is, whenever Toaster posts on this topic, it generates a whole raft of follow up posts about Toaster. I fell for this too.

His negative attitude is well known and his posts are fairly predictable and monotonous now.

He's best ignored as he drags the discussion way off topic all the time and it is massively annoying.


JonChalk

6,469 posts

109 months

Saturday 2nd March 2019
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Was it just me, or could everybody else only get the official SpaceX YT in a slightly ropey 720 feed.

Would have thought they could afford a higher quality 1080 & 60fps feed?
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