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Did they actually leave the capsule or did they just stick their upper torso out? If it was just their upper torso. I don't think that is a space walk. A space walk is going outside the capsule. This is almost like the first man in space. To be the first man in space you had to go up in a capsule and return to the ground in a capsule. Gagarin parachuted out of the space capsule before it het the ground. They changed the rules to accommodate the Russians.
The suits do have thermal management in the form of reflective and insulating material, as well as passive cooling from the airflow, but they lack active cooling and aren't as robust as the NASA design, which are rated for up to eight hours in EVA. For both of the SpaceX EVAs today, the suit temps were hovering around 95F/35C after a few mins. I suspect a few mins would be fine but not extended exposure.
That being said, these are Gen1 EVA suits, and knowing SpaceX I suspect they will improve rapidly over time.
They are blasted with 1361 watts/m2 by the Sun, increasing the surface temperature from -150°C to 120°C. Without a powerful thermal control system, that can easily destroy the human-shaped spacecraft.
Even for inside-the-spacecraft use, and also riding to the launch pad in a car, these suits need strong air conditioning. So the cars provide a hookup similar to the one inside the capsule.
This is so cool, I just can't help to think how we just wasted time for 50 years instead of continue to focus on this. Imagine where the humanity would be if the US and even the Soviet programs would have continued.
But is good to see that now, little by little, private initiative is taking the main stage.
The concept of a private space industry was always hard to imagine. There’s such a high barrier to entry (figuratively and literally) that you need support from government agencies, ambition, and most of all, money to burn.
The US did an amazing job supporting all of these companies. SpaceX just happens to be pushing the bounds of science fiction and has been thinking 20 steps ahead.
"The US did an amazing job supporting all of these companies."
Perhaps too amazing, as in they allowed the main actors to become complacent, and keep charging high prices through "cost plus" contracts, without taking any risk in R&D.
SpaceX is the wake-up call the industry needed, as they are now demonstrating they can do everything the competition can for a fraction of the price, while also developing additional capabilities, or re-developing ones that had been lost.
Another way of saying the same thing is that incentives are important and the government has done a lot of harm to legacy space companies by creating bad incentives.
I sometimes compare it with the age of exploration. Initial voyages from the Iberian kingdoms were funded by the crowns, but eventually countries such as the Netherlands figured out that they could fund a voyage among multiple private individuals and that proved to be way more efficient and ended up displacing the crown/state funded ones from some places, such as the Indian ocean.
I think the spirit is the same now, little by little private enterprise pushes through.
Honestly, competitive space travel just wasn’t realistic yet. We have had massive technology increases since then. Demand for access to space has increased. SpaceX is emerging because the market and technology is finally ready.
Let's be very clear, we didn't "waste time" for the last 50 years. The total cost of running the Shuttle program and building/operating the ISS is about $500 billion (adjusted for inflation). And since 2010 we've spent over $40 billion developing the SLS and Orion.
We've spent billions and billions and billions on human spaceflight since Apollo. The problem has been what we're spending money on. Too much of the spending has been on big, inefficient, bloated projects that have been darlings of Congress, too little has been pragmatic and cost effective. And for all the folks hungering for a new "Space Race", massively bloated and inefficient projects are what to expect in that case, there might be more dollars but that doesn't mean things would be better.
Let's also remember that despite all of the problems there has been a lot of advancements and improvements over the years. There has been a ton learned from the ISS project, for example, and they've racked up an impressive amount of operational experience in running long duration crewed spacecraft, orbital assembly, EVA operations, and so on. Perhaps more importantly, let's remember that NASA and the ISS are why the Falcon 9 was funded, why and how the Dragon v1 and v2 were built, and how SpaceX was able to not go out of business early on.
Yes, there have been many problems over the years, but NASA has funded the development of 3 different crew capsules, 3 different cargo resupply vehicles, several different launch vehicles (including Falcon 9) and 2 different crewed lunar landers. Those efforts have already, as we see in this very thread, significantly moved the needle in terms of the relationship with human spaceflight, and as more of those efforts bear fruit we're going to see that change even more. SpaceX and others are doing tremendous work on their own, but let's not remove the role that NASA is playing here either, they've put billions into helping to get us here and they're putting billions more into helping us get to the next milestone.
The U.S. government focused on other areas outside of space once they “won” the space race with Russia. All the technological innovation that happened since the space race will make it much less riskier to explore space now. We live in exciting times!
So how much tool manipulation did he try while in zero pressure. Inside or outside was not as important as knowing how difficult it will be to actually do work in the suit.
Yep the idea is to get real world data on suit performance in zero g. This is the first real world test, you start extremely safe and small before you start introducing things like tools to the mix - last thing you need is to figure out finger mobility needs more work when you lose a screwdriver which goes out and hits something important.
Honestly it didn't look very mobile, surprisingly. Definitely less than the actual NASA EMU. They were running the suit at higher pressure and I'm sure they can go down a bit. But today it surprisingly looked more like Alexei Leonov in 65, than anything else.
it's a gen 1 proof of concept, it's not meant to be EMU-like yet. It has articulating shoulder, wrist, and some elbow as well as knee. No hip articulation yet. For what it is, the mobility is actually quite impressive given the size of the suit and the fact that it can be worn on launch as well. They purposely moved one joint at a time and went really slow for testing, it looks a lot more stiff than it actually is.
These are extremely limited in articulation, even in the arms compared to an EMU. These are mainly suits designed for space tourism at the moment and enough articulation just to get in and out of the craft.
That is not even remotely correct. They were doing one joint at a time in a very limited fashion for testing. These things have far greater mobility than you think. Either way it's gen 1, the whole point of this mission was to test it and improve it. edit for those arguing below: yes it's less mobile than a fully fledged EMU, obviously. No one said it's an EMU replacement yet, it's not meant to be at this time being a gen 1 proof of concept
Just looking at the way the wrist's look totally unflexable & forced to bend down.. the hands seemed barely able to articulate.. I don't see how they would be able to even hold a tool let alone operate it.. i would suspect that even inside the capsule/crew module doing more than tapping/swiping screens or even just squeezing something would be almost impossible..
As far as temp/oxygen/other gases control it seems these are only able to work if "tethered/directly connected via tubing" to the capsules life support systems thus unable to actually work independently of the capsule & even then they seem to be pushing the maximum capacity when not inside a pressurized capsule/space module..
All in all they aren't very impressive & without MASSIVE modifications & adding several abilities these suits are NOT going to survive more than the most basic aspects of piloting a capsule let alone operating tools or repairing life support systems or other critical components of the ship.. not even going to entertain building a habitat on Mars in 1 of those unsuitable space suits
They are above the Starlink constellation, which is largely meant to facilitate communication with objects below it on Earth. Tho they will be testing space-to-space laser communication with Starlink toward the end of the flight.
They have already tested Starlink. They contacted their families through Starlink while at apogee. Sarah read a book she wrote to children in St. Jude's hospital.
So my bad assumption was that Starlink satellites had already been designed to account for future space endeavors. Oh well... they'll cycle out the entire current flotilla eventually.
Long term they will be, and it's my understand that part of the purpose of this flight is to test that ability, but until they do so it's not something they'll rely on.
The Starlink architecture is meant to expand beyond LEO and facilitate similar communication around Mars, and other locations, so it's something that it will have to be capable of eventually.
Well, on the flipside, perhaps by the time they buckle down and insinuate a space laser into the design, they can take advantage of something similar to NASA's tech. I mean, obviously if it's already a laser, then the tech may already be similar or essentially the same thing. If I hear figures on bandwidth and reach, I'll know. It stands to reason that SpaceX would be on top of this. NASA, I wouldn't trust to remember to put their own laser tech on the upcoming vehicle they're sending to Titan.
They are using Starlink, they just can't use it during the EVA because the Starlink laser is in the trunk which they need to point towards the sun, not earth, during the EVA.
Well that brings me to the other thing I noticed. That apart from the EVA, we really haven't gotten a whole lot of video from the mission. Granted, my exasperation here was based on my ill-founded assumption that they'd have Starlink doing the heavy lifting the whole time. It makes sense to me now. I guess I'll have to wait until they're on the ground.
They've posted over a dozen videos related to this mission. SpaceX only makes limited use of YouTube and essentially posts everything on X or on their website (which is why you can see 8 different watermarks on top of one another on OP's video).
They did use starlink on this flight, they read a book to a children's hospital via Starlink.
Although they didn't connect via the standard way everyone else connects (via the phased array radio link) since they are way off boresight. They connected via the laser backhaul that other starlink satellites connect to one-another.
Therefore this was more of a test of Starlink communications via space to space laser links.
Maybe I just missed it in the original plan, but were only two of them ever supposed to spacewalk? Seems like such a tease to send four up and only two get to do it. Imagine sitting there so close to being able to go outside and getting denied.
Yes it was always planned for only two people to do a space walk.
As I understand it, Jared Isaacman is paying for the whole trip, so every one of them are grateful to be there. I’m sure there is some disappointment, but it’s probably very manageable.
I just watched this. Don't normally comment but that shot from the guys helmet was absolutely wild, I felt like I was looking at some kind of vr demo with a space theme
Out of curiosity; What is the Standard Operating Proceedure in place for when one of these commercial flights has a major accident. For instance, stranded in space. Will it be like a person hiking on a mountain, where suddenly their "personal adventure" becomes a taxpayer funded rescue effort. I'd have to assume there is already a lot of international coordination that happens with any space launch, right?
Don't get me wrong, I live in Hawaii, we constantly have tourists getting themselves in trouble and being bailed out by search and rescue. Some people want to start charging when this happens, personally I'm against that, because there are fears people will wait on calling for help and make the situation worse. Additionally there is the empathy factor that "you help when you can" (less popular is the opinion of "you save all the dumbasses, so you're skilled enough to rescue the important people").
Even beyond the cost for the rescue itself, would be the amount of damage that could be inflicted on existing...lanes of space travel (not sure about the correct term here, but I started with "space space"), or equipment deorbiting into someplace, or something, or someone important.
The SOP is likely that everyone dies. In terms of orbital debris, it might be bad given the height of the orbit, but it only happens if something goes wrong. The Chinese government deliberately fill orbit with debris on every launch of one of their second stages because they are incompetent and don't care.
As of right now. Nothing. There is no SOP for solving a stranded in space problem. If Dragon was stuck in a 190 km x 700 km orbit there's nothing anyone could do to rescue them from another craft. There are no other crafts capable of doing so. It would be up to SpaceX to figure out how to get the craft down if at all possible. They may be able to get NASA to help come up with ideas I guess. Don't know if there's a framework for how to go about doing that. But NASA has a lot of insight into how Dragon works to begin with.
Seems like the only real solution right now is just preventing it from ever happening. Maybe one day there will be enough of a space economy to have rescue missions like that, but stranded in orbit in their craft would still be a very rare scenario. Versus something like what has happened on the ISS where they have to wait for a new craft to arrive.
Incredible milestone! Commercial space walks are now a reality—what a time to be alive. Pushing the boundaries of exploration, and who knows, maybe one day "space tourism" will actually mean more than just orbiting Earth. Exciting to see how far we've come in just a few decades!
Impressive milestone, but it's telling that private companies are now leading the charge in space exploration while governments seem to lag behind. This shift shows how inefficient public institutions have become in pioneering real progress.
I bet a lot of sick fk liberals were secretly hoping something awful would happen with this mission. Purely out of hatred for Elon Musk. I'm glad to see them back & safe. Well done SpaceX
Ever notice that everything related to space travel either looks like A.I. or Green Screen. Nothing NASA, Musk, or anyone else posts appears simply real. Just once show it in regular video feed. Dare them to.
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ReplyDeleteStop this 🦬💩
ReplyDeleteWait, is the EARTH round? Huh...Looks like the Scooby Doo crew finally solved the mystery.
ReplyDeleteAre disks "ROUND"?
Deleteso where are all the other continents on side B?
DeleteCAREFUL Mashable people might think you are disingenuous with your hatred for ELON!
ReplyDeleteWell dumbasses and morons the earth is completely spherical and round, hope this is enough for all those who claims this planet is flat to shut their pipes holes off and stop spreading lies denying God Almighty's wonderful work of art same as the entire universe.💪
ReplyDeletethanks for the link
ReplyDeleteSeeing this so soon after Boeing's Spaceliner debacle is another thumb in Boeing's eye.
ReplyDeleteDid they actually leave the capsule or did they just stick their upper torso out? If it was just their upper torso. I don't think that is a space walk. A space walk is going outside the capsule. This is almost like the first man in space. To be the first man in space you had to go up in a capsule and return to the ground in a capsule. Gagarin parachuted out of the space capsule before it het the ground. They changed the rules to accommodate the Russians.
ReplyDeleteWhy don't these billionaires stick their heads out of the spaceship with their helmets off?
ReplyDeleteIt seems like you are entirely consumed with ha te.
DeleteThe moment I saw Dragon separation, even as tired as I was, I was like "That's one for the history books"
ReplyDeleteYea, that was stunning.
DeleteDo we know when they’ll do the space walk?
ReplyDeleteVenting the entire spacecraft with no airlocks using version 1.0 of a new spacesuit seems very risky to me. But it’s their lives and money.
ReplyDeleteThe moment when Earth came into focus from Jared’s cam’s perspective… Wow.
ReplyDeleteOne step closer to my grandchildren becoming janitors on space stations
ReplyDeleteThat's space janitor to you humanoid
DeleteAny idea of how well these suits would hold up if exposed to direct sunlight?
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DeleteThe suits do have thermal management in the form of reflective and insulating material, as well as passive cooling from the airflow, but they lack active cooling and aren't as robust as the NASA design, which are rated for up to eight hours in EVA. For both of the SpaceX EVAs today, the suit temps were hovering around 95F/35C after a few mins. I suspect a few mins would be fine but not extended exposure.
That being said, these are Gen1 EVA suits, and knowing SpaceX I suspect they will improve rapidly over time.
Thanks for the breakdown, seeing the temperature reach 35°C is the reason why I asked in the first place as I thought that must be too high.
DeleteWill spacex make another spacewalk missions? They need that to test new suits right?
DeleteWe don't know. The next Polaris mission might test the spacesuits more, but we don't have any details yet.
DeleteWhat happens to suits in direct sunlight?
DeleteThey are blasted with 1361 watts/m2 by the Sun, increasing the surface temperature from -150°C to 120°C. Without a powerful thermal control system, that can easily destroy the human-shaped spacecraft.
DeleteMakes a lot of sense! I feel so silly for not recognizing that in hindsight hahaha. Thanks for the info.
DeleteEven for inside-the-spacecraft use, and also riding to the launch pad in a car, these suits need strong air conditioning. So the cars provide a hookup similar to the one inside the capsule.
DeleteI’m wondering this as well
DeleteThis is so cool, I just can't help to think how we just wasted time for 50 years instead of continue to focus on this. Imagine where the humanity would be if the US and even the Soviet programs would have continued.
ReplyDeleteBut is good to see that now, little by little, private initiative is taking the main stage.
The concept of a private space industry was always hard to imagine. There’s such a high barrier to entry (figuratively and literally) that you need support from government agencies, ambition, and most of all, money to burn.
DeleteThe US did an amazing job supporting all of these companies. SpaceX just happens to be pushing the bounds of science fiction and has been thinking 20 steps ahead.
"The US did an amazing job supporting all of these companies."
DeletePerhaps too amazing, as in they allowed the main actors to become complacent, and keep charging high prices through "cost plus" contracts, without taking any risk in R&D.
SpaceX is the wake-up call the industry needed, as they are now demonstrating they can do everything the competition can for a fraction of the price, while also developing additional capabilities, or re-developing ones that had been lost.
Yeah.
DeleteAnother way of saying the same thing is that incentives are important and the government has done a lot of harm to legacy space companies by creating bad incentives.
"the government has done a lot of harm to legacy space companies"
DeleteThose companies did lobby to get those types of contracts and incentives...
The US government took a while to realize the consequences of those incentives, but they're more the victim than the perpetrator.
Yeah, I didn't mean to imply that it was one sided. NASA and these legacy companies have been harming each other for a long time.
DeleteI sometimes compare it with the age of exploration. Initial voyages from the Iberian kingdoms were funded by the crowns, but eventually countries such as the Netherlands figured out that they could fund a voyage among multiple private individuals and that proved to be way more efficient and ended up displacing the crown/state funded ones from some places, such as the Indian ocean.
DeleteI think the spirit is the same now, little by little private enterprise pushes through.
Honestly, competitive space travel just wasn’t realistic yet. We have had massive technology increases since then. Demand for access to space has increased. SpaceX is emerging because the market and technology is finally ready.
DeleteBoeing is also trying and failing hard.
DeleteIt's not just a case of the tech finally becoming available. There's ton of hard work and sheer will to make this happen.
Virgin Galactic, blue origin and Boeing are all failing while SpaceX thrives, the difference is in leadership.
DeleteYou would like the show For All Mankind
DeleteLet's be very clear, we didn't "waste time" for the last 50 years. The total cost of running the Shuttle program and building/operating the ISS is about $500 billion (adjusted for inflation). And since 2010 we've spent over $40 billion developing the SLS and Orion.
DeleteWe've spent billions and billions and billions on human spaceflight since Apollo. The problem has been what we're spending money on. Too much of the spending has been on big, inefficient, bloated projects that have been darlings of Congress, too little has been pragmatic and cost effective. And for all the folks hungering for a new "Space Race", massively bloated and inefficient projects are what to expect in that case, there might be more dollars but that doesn't mean things would be better.
Let's also remember that despite all of the problems there has been a lot of advancements and improvements over the years. There has been a ton learned from the ISS project, for example, and they've racked up an impressive amount of operational experience in running long duration crewed spacecraft, orbital assembly, EVA operations, and so on. Perhaps more importantly, let's remember that NASA and the ISS are why the Falcon 9 was funded, why and how the Dragon v1 and v2 were built, and how SpaceX was able to not go out of business early on.
Yes, there have been many problems over the years, but NASA has funded the development of 3 different crew capsules, 3 different cargo resupply vehicles, several different launch vehicles (including Falcon 9) and 2 different crewed lunar landers. Those efforts have already, as we see in this very thread, significantly moved the needle in terms of the relationship with human spaceflight, and as more of those efforts bear fruit we're going to see that change even more. SpaceX and others are doing tremendous work on their own, but let's not remove the role that NASA is playing here either, they've put billions into helping to get us here and they're putting billions more into helping us get to the next milestone.
The U.S. government focused on other areas outside of space once they “won” the space race with Russia. All the technological innovation that happened since the space race will make it much less riskier to explore space now. We live in exciting times!
DeleteSo how much tool manipulation did he try while in zero pressure. Inside or outside was not as important as knowing how difficult it will be to actually do work in the suit.
ReplyDeleteI didn't see any tool usage besides the ladder but they did go through an extensive checklist of exercises to test suit mobility.
DeleteYep the idea is to get real world data on suit performance in zero g. This is the first real world test, you start extremely safe and small before you start introducing things like tools to the mix - last thing you need is to figure out finger mobility needs more work when you lose a screwdriver which goes out and hits something important.
DeleteHmmm...prob there are more spacewalks by spacex in the future
DeleteHonestly it didn't look very mobile, surprisingly. Definitely less than the actual NASA EMU. They were running the suit at higher pressure and I'm sure they can go down a bit. But today it surprisingly looked more like Alexei Leonov in 65, than anything else.
DeleteThat was the vibe I got as well. Also had visions of Leonov’s spacewalk. Luckily ingress was far easier post-walk for this one.
Delete"Definitely less than the actual NASA EMU."
Deleteit's a gen 1 proof of concept, it's not meant to be EMU-like yet. It has articulating shoulder, wrist, and some elbow as well as knee. No hip articulation yet. For what it is, the mobility is actually quite impressive given the size of the suit and the fact that it can be worn on launch as well. They purposely moved one joint at a time and went really slow for testing, it looks a lot more stiff than it actually is.
These are extremely limited in articulation, even in the arms compared to an EMU. These are mainly suits designed for space tourism at the moment and enough articulation just to get in and out of the craft.
DeleteThat is not even remotely correct. They were doing one joint at a time in a very limited fashion for testing. These things have far greater mobility than you think. Either way it's gen 1, the whole point of this mission was to test it and improve it. edit for those arguing below: yes it's less mobile than a fully fledged EMU, obviously. No one said it's an EMU replacement yet, it's not meant to be at this time being a gen 1 proof of concept
DeleteYes, his head doesn't look very mobile.
DeleteThey do look a lot easier to move in than the NASA version.
DeleteJust looking at the way the wrist's look totally unflexable & forced to bend down.. the hands seemed barely able to articulate.. I don't see how they would be able to even hold a tool let alone operate it.. i would suspect that even inside the capsule/crew module doing more than tapping/swiping screens or even just squeezing something would be almost impossible..
DeleteAs far as temp/oxygen/other gases control it seems these are only able to work if "tethered/directly connected via tubing" to the capsules life support systems thus unable to actually work independently of the capsule & even then they seem to be pushing the maximum capacity when not inside a pressurized capsule/space module..
All in all they aren't very impressive & without MASSIVE modifications & adding several abilities these suits are NOT going to survive more than the most basic aspects of piloting a capsule let alone operating tools or repairing life support systems or other critical components of the ship.. not even going to entertain building a habitat on Mars in 1 of those unsuitable space suits
Somebody know the details on why Starlink wasn't an option for this flight? I feel like I made a very bad assumption.
ReplyDeleteThey are above the Starlink constellation, which is largely meant to facilitate communication with objects below it on Earth. Tho they will be testing space-to-space laser communication with Starlink toward the end of the flight.
DeleteThey have already tested Starlink. They contacted their families through Starlink while at apogee. Sarah read a book she wrote to children in St. Jude's hospital.
DeleteSo my bad assumption was that Starlink satellites had already been designed to account for future space endeavors. Oh well... they'll cycle out the entire current flotilla eventually.
DeleteLong term they will be, and it's my understand that part of the purpose of this flight is to test that ability, but until they do so it's not something they'll rely on.
DeleteThe Starlink architecture is meant to expand beyond LEO and facilitate similar communication around Mars, and other locations, so it's something that it will have to be capable of eventually.
Well, on the flipside, perhaps by the time they buckle down and insinuate a space laser into the design, they can take advantage of something similar to NASA's tech. I mean, obviously if it's already a laser, then the tech may already be similar or essentially the same thing. If I hear figures on bandwidth and reach, I'll know. It stands to reason that SpaceX would be on top of this. NASA, I wouldn't trust to remember to put their own laser tech on the upcoming vehicle they're sending to Titan.
Delete"Insinuate"?
DeleteAlso, starlink already uses laser interlinks, it's how they provide service over the ocean and in other areas outside range of a ground station
Starlink v1.5 added the laser backhaul links in 2022. They are currently on v2, it has been available for quite some time now.
DeleteThey are using Starlink, they just can't use it during the EVA because the Starlink laser is in the trunk which they need to point towards the sun, not earth, during the EVA.
DeleteWell that brings me to the other thing I noticed. That apart from the EVA, we really haven't gotten a whole lot of video from the mission. Granted, my exasperation here was based on my ill-founded assumption that they'd have Starlink doing the heavy lifting the whole time. It makes sense to me now. I guess I'll have to wait until they're on the ground.
DeleteThey've posted over a dozen videos related to this mission. SpaceX only makes limited use of YouTube and essentially posts everything on X or on their website (which is why you can see 8 different watermarks on top of one another on OP's video).
Deletehttps://x.com/SpaceX/media
Ahh.
DeleteRight. Twitter. Damn, what was I thinking.
They did use starlink on this flight, they read a book to a children's hospital via Starlink.
DeleteAlthough they didn't connect via the standard way everyone else connects (via the phased array radio link) since they are way off boresight. They connected via the laser backhaul that other starlink satellites connect to one-another.
Therefore this was more of a test of Starlink communications via space to space laser links.
I'd been hoping for live video from the flight but I guess I should have been hunting the static media outlets.
DeleteLook at SpaceX’s X account. They have tons of videos of the mission.
DeleteAlso the Polaris Dawn twitter/x account.
DeleteThey were actually orbiting higher than the Starlink sats which also point downward.
DeleteMaybe I just missed it in the original plan, but were only two of them ever supposed to spacewalk? Seems like such a tease to send four up and only two get to do it. Imagine sitting there so close to being able to go outside and getting denied.
ReplyDeleteYes it was always planned for only two people to do a space walk.
DeleteAs I understand it, Jared Isaacman is paying for the whole trip, so every one of them are grateful to be there. I’m sure there is some disappointment, but it’s probably very manageable.
The original plan was for only one to go outside the capsule. SpaceX already expanded it.
DeleteIt's important to have people stay back in case something goes wrong. This is very much experimental still.
I mean the first Soviet and US spacewalks both had two crew go up, but only one go outside.
DeleteWhen you're doing something for the first time, you want to play it very safe.
I just watched this. Don't normally comment but that shot from the guys helmet was absolutely wild, I felt like I was looking at some kind of vr demo with a space theme
ReplyDeleteOut of curiosity; What is the Standard Operating Proceedure in place for when one of these commercial flights has a major accident. For instance, stranded in space. Will it be like a person hiking on a mountain, where suddenly their "personal adventure" becomes a taxpayer funded rescue effort. I'd have to assume there is already a lot of international coordination that happens with any space launch, right?
ReplyDeleteDon't get me wrong, I live in Hawaii, we constantly have tourists getting themselves in trouble and being bailed out by search and rescue. Some people want to start charging when this happens, personally I'm against that, because there are fears people will wait on calling for help and make the situation worse. Additionally there is the empathy factor that "you help when you can" (less popular is the opinion of "you save all the dumbasses, so you're skilled enough to rescue the important people").
Even beyond the cost for the rescue itself, would be the amount of damage that could be inflicted on existing...lanes of space travel (not sure about the correct term here, but I started with "space space"), or equipment deorbiting into someplace, or something, or someone important.
The SOP is likely that everyone dies. In terms of orbital debris, it might be bad given the height of the orbit, but it only happens if something goes wrong. The Chinese government deliberately fill orbit with debris on every launch of one of their second stages because they are incompetent and don't care.
DeleteAs of right now. Nothing. There is no SOP for solving a stranded in space problem. If Dragon was stuck in a 190 km x 700 km orbit there's nothing anyone could do to rescue them from another craft. There are no other crafts capable of doing so. It would be up to SpaceX to figure out how to get the craft down if at all possible. They may be able to get NASA to help come up with ideas I guess. Don't know if there's a framework for how to go about doing that. But NASA has a lot of insight into how Dragon works to begin with.
DeleteSeems like the only real solution right now is just preventing it from ever happening. Maybe one day there will be enough of a space economy to have rescue missions like that, but stranded in orbit in their craft would still be a very rare scenario. Versus something like what has happened on the ISS where they have to wait for a new craft to arrive.
Seems like he found it very enjoyable https://i.imgur.com/5RFRgck.jpeg
ReplyDeleteWe've been given a beautiful world
ReplyDeleteCongratulations, @SpaceX! 🇺🇸👏🏻
ReplyDeleteI was wondering what was with his arm at first then read it was part of a test they were doing.
ReplyDeleteThis is just damn cool no matter how you slice it
ReplyDeleteGreat achievement 🚀🪐✌️👍 @SpaceX @NASA @elonmusk
ReplyDeleteFAF!
ReplyDeleteSomeone mooning is no space walk
ReplyDeleteGet real please
Humanity is capable of great things.
ReplyDeleteDid they really walk 🚶♀️ 🚶♂️ outside the capsule while tethered or stayed inside 🤔
ReplyDeleteUp there they did realise, universe existed long before allah was born
ReplyDeleteAnything Space Related is just pure Hoax.
ReplyDeleteFAKE
ReplyDeleteI have not seen them space walking yet, just seen some guy standing in the entrance.
ReplyDeleteI believe this has been done before!
ReplyDeleteBut now that it's privatized, it's a big deal? 🤔
https://imgur.com/a/PTm27hk
stop calling it a spacewalk ffs, the put half their body outside and moved their arms, that's not walking in space
ReplyDeleteMusk is doing wonders
ReplyDeleteIncredible milestone! Commercial space walks are now a reality—what a time to be alive. Pushing the boundaries of exploration, and who knows, maybe one day "space tourism" will actually mean more than just orbiting Earth. Exciting to see how far we've come in just a few decades!
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely incredible to see what humans can accomplish
DeleteAbsolutely incredible. I’m proud we are on the side that’s making things happen.
DeleteImpressive milestone, but it's telling that private companies are now leading the charge in space exploration while governments seem to lag behind. This shift shows how inefficient public institutions have become in pioneering real progress.
ReplyDeleteSo cool they got congratulations from the White House for putting America back on the map in the space exploration race!
ReplyDeleteOh wait.
Pretty cool. Nice Spacesuit, too!
ReplyDeleteSpace X team must be pretty chuffed.
What you got NASA!
ReplyDeleteBefore making that Space Walk, would they have put on a Diaper of sorts, because they must have been quire nervous yes?
ReplyDeleteAmazing
ReplyDeleteWow, that’s incredible!
ReplyDeleteSuch a groundbreaking achievement for humanity and a huge leap for commercial space travel.
Can’t wait to see what comes next for space exploration!
Nice one. Kudos to them
ReplyDeleteCool...Musk Rules.
ReplyDeleteElon and his team are doing great.
ReplyDeleteWhy is the guy in the video doing like a robot?
Congratulations for spacewalk
ReplyDeleteReaching the highest altitude reached by humans in 50 years is an exciting achievement! looking forward to more such feats in the future!
ReplyDeleteBiden can't recognize this achievement.
ReplyDeleteThat’s how a genius billionaire acts
ReplyDeleteNot trying to destroy humanity with vaccines and demented climate policies
amazing job SpaceX team
ReplyDeletehttps://imgur.com/a/vKo8Emj
Looks like a robot to me. Look at the overall movement
ReplyDeleteThe hands are a big give away
Elon Musk has the tesla bot...
But why lie?
Oh wow, they're down and fully completed their mission already? That's impressive.
ReplyDelete"Walk".
ReplyDeleteThat altitude of 1400 km is nothing special. Pretty easy to go a lot further. Anyhow great that everything worked fine, Space X is a success.
Absolutely brilliant 🚀🚀🚀
ReplyDeletespacesuits have come a long way , looks like a 70s scifi show
ReplyDeleteOne giant step for a zimmer..........
ReplyDeleteBut @StephenKing would rather they blow up and he celebrate it.
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ReplyDeleteIt didn't happen
ReplyDeleteLooks like stop motion
ReplyDeleteWhy do all these videos look like they’ve been taken by a Nokia 3310
ReplyDeleteElon Musk With the white and black theme, and a helmet.....you know...it would have taken zero effort to make those space suits more storm-troopery
ReplyDeleteThat is a shitty looking space suit. The pressure in the suit has made the limbs immovable.
ReplyDeleteThat does not look like human movement 👎🏻
ReplyDeleteWhat's up with his ass and hunchback?
ReplyDeleteAnd the democrats are going after Musk 🤷♀️ because they cannot control X
ReplyDeleteI bet a lot of sick fk liberals were secretly hoping something awful would happen with this mission. Purely out of hatred for Elon Musk. I'm glad to see them back & safe. Well done SpaceX
ReplyDeleteEver notice that everything related to space travel either looks like A.I. or Green Screen. Nothing NASA, Musk, or anyone else posts appears simply real. Just once show it in regular video feed. Dare them to.
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