Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/05/27/how-to-watch-the-historic-spac.html
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I’ll give SpaceX one thing: the Crew Dragon interior looks slick as all get out.
Whenever I’ve had a chance to peek into U.S. or Russian capsules (granted, always from the 60’s and 70’s) they remind me of engineering grad student projects with lots of obviously hand-done work and the occasional sharp corner. (To be fair, they had a job to do and got the job done.)
Now, 
would I take comfort, personally, from the improved aesthetics? I’ll never get to find out but damn, it sure looks good. 
Looking forward to the launch… 
…wish I was in Florida to watch it in person…
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I’m so excited! Here’s hoping the weather cooperates today!
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Ooo nerd stuff, live.
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I won’t be watching this link however. Here are a few other options:
NASA Live:
Everyday Astronaut Live:
SpaceX Live:
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For those who don’t want to give NatGeo an email address to read about history in the making, here’s a link to the pertinent information…
And as @Thrull1 posted, you can watch the launch live on NASA’s live YouTube feed…
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I thought it was just me. Seemed to start about a week ago
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I’m always amused when I see how harnesses are bundled on space systems. On the one program I worked in the past there was lots of kapton tape, epoxy, and black lacing cord in lieu of other heavier fasteners. I always enjoy when the mars rover gets a peek at itself and you can see kapton wraps everywhere.
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Fly high, Bob and Doug McKenzie! https://youtu.be/V4KTebUT6Mw
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Hey there, eh? Anyone able to get the “NASA Live” commentator on the line and ask him to stop referring to the astronauts as “Bob and Doug”?
snickers every time he does that, eh?
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Those suits look pretty slick too. Proper sci-fi looking tailoring and piping and whatnot.
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Yeah, he said
Not until after they Take Off, hosehead.
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Gee, I had the opposite impression. They look like the result of a direct-to-video sci-fi movie.
The fewer the number of seams, zippers, and umbilical ports, the fewer possible points of failure.
For me, what is “off” is the fact that the flightsuit seems to have a “top” distinct “top” from the “pants.” It’s just hard to see how it can be air-tight and spaceworthy.
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The fewer the number of seams, zippers, and umbilical ports, the fewer possible points of failure.
Mike Collins’ great book Carrying the Fire* pays tribute to the seamstresses who stitched his Gemini and Apollo suits together. They did wonderful work, but our astronauts are probably safer to have less of it.
*if you have even a passing interest in spaceflight and have not yet read this book, you are really missing something.
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I think that’s because they look streamlined instead of having all those visible ports and hoses. I personally always thought the exposed pee-tube attachments on the old NASA pressure suits looked undignified but YMMV.
Undignified would be Elon Musk’s reaction if someone stuck an Apple sticker on his rocket ship.
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BREAKING NEWS: Launch delayed as car-shaped space junk passes overhead.
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Watching the live feed i still can’t shake the feeling it looks like spaceman cosplay or, as someone else said, a low budget science fiction film set. Still exciting though and it’s a leap ahead of what we’re used to seeing inside these capsules with all the knobs and switches and stuff. I suppose i’m also a bit surprised by the reliance on touchscreens which offers that slick sci-fi aesthetic but do they have any redundancy should they fail? Not that the astronauts are doing much since the thing pretty much flies itself.
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Scrubbed for today. On the plus side, if one of the astronauts has an itchy nose they’re be able to scratch it that much sooner.
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