First flight of NASA astronauts from U.S. soil in nearly nine years
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I've been watching...very cool all around. From having their suit checks in the same room where the last Shuttle crew got ready, to the drive to the pad via Teslas (not the silver van/bus), to the interior (like @George-K said) which is ridiculously streamlined. Mostly because nearly everything is within the touchscreen. The abort handle is below their middle screen, btw.
Oh and the weather latest...the storm risking today's launch is "eroding" which is good news for a launch decision.
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What’s with all the touch screens? The Navy just dumped them in favor of more manual keyboards and controls... Less chance of error and fewer points of failure if I remember correctly...
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@LuFins-Dad said in First flight of NASA astronauts from U.S. soil in nearly nine years:
What’s with all the touch screens? The Navy just dumped them in favor of more manual keyboards and controls... Less chance of error and fewer points of failure if I remember correctly...
They're cool, don'cha know?
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@LuFins-Dad said in First flight of NASA astronauts from U.S. soil in nearly nine years:
What’s with all the touch screens? The Navy just dumped them in favor of more manual keyboards and controls... Less chance of error and fewer points of failure if I remember correctly...
I don't think the astronauts get much chance to make an error. The flight is all programmed before they get in the capsule. I believe that they only get involved if something out of the ordinary happens.
This capsule model has flown to the Station without crew. The crew isn't needed. But if I remember correctly there was a flight a few months ago that was unsuccessful and they said if a person was on-board they could have fixed the problem. It had to do with the timing of the problem, they did not have the communication they needed to fix it from the ground, but a person could have fixed it on-board.
