Space X Rescue mission docks at ISS
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wrote on 17 Mar 2025, 15:29 last edited by
The docking is significant too.
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wrote on 17 Mar 2025, 16:22 last edited by
It's amazing how smooth it all looks. The launch, the landing of the 1st stage booster, the docking... remarkable.
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wrote on 17 Mar 2025, 16:38 last edited by
Like hitting a pea with a bb gun at 300 yards.
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wrote on 17 Mar 2025, 19:23 last edited by
Orbital mechanics is deeply confusing.
By the way, one of the totally not-stranded astronauts claims that they weren't retrieved a while ago is because the Biden administration didn't want SpaceX to get the glory.
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wrote on 17 Mar 2025, 20:19 last edited by
Yeah, I kind of doubt that.
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wrote on 19 Mar 2025, 17:36 last edited by
@Mik said in Space X Rescue mission docks at ISS:
Yeah, I kind of doubt that.
+Musk reiterated it. I presume he has receipts.
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wrote on 19 Mar 2025, 17:47 last edited by
Musk repeating it is not evidence that it’s true. At best it’s neutral.
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wrote on 19 Mar 2025, 18:18 last edited by Jolly
Of course.
The Bidens are not a political bunch at all.
Whatever is best for the country!
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wrote on 19 Mar 2025, 21:07 last edited by
The Biden administration chose SpaceX to rescue them back in August with a planned 2/25 rescue mission. We talked about it here at the time.
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wrote on 19 Mar 2025, 21:07 last edited by
Note the date.
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wrote on 20 Mar 2025, 01:03 last edited by
@jon-nyc interesting. Thanks.
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wrote on 20 Mar 2025, 01:12 last edited by
Musk's claim is that he offered to bring them back earlier, and was refused. This does not refute that claim. The claim may be a lie, or a half-truth, but that does not refute it.
The politics of it are not impossible to believe, that Biden's handlers didn't want to hand him a big PR win during the campaign.
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wrote on 25 Mar 2025, 01:15 last edited by
https://www.wusf.org/2025-03-19/how-astronauts-adjust-when-back-on-earth-after-being-in-space
After Wilmore and Williams' capsule landed, post-mission recovery and medical teams met the astronauts and transported them to NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. While there, they will undergo "a progressive 45-day post-mission recovery program," NASA says. During this time, the crew will have medical and performance testing, participate in studies and follow a "structured reconditioning program."
They'll spend two hours every day with trainers, working on a personalized recovery plan to work back toward the fitness levels they had before they left on their mission, NASA says.
and (from another astronaut
And at one point while still getting adjusted to being back on Earth, he forgot he could no longer float.
"I was like, laying in bed. I had to go to the bathroom and I just started pushing off my back thinking, 'I'm going to float to the bathroom.' And the light was out and I'm pushing up and I roll out of bed," he says.