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SpX Dragon to fly
1. the first flight of Falcon 9, carrying a Dragon spacecraft, is now on the board at the Cape for Nov. 29th at 11:00 AM.
Just last week a few congressmen, one the wife of a NASA astronaut, doubted that commercial space was 'real'
and would ever fly. So much for that.....
2. SpaceX just posted a new update showing many pics of the Dragon capsule guts, the DragonEye lidar/thermal
imaging/docking system recently installed on the ISS and a few other bits. Very interesting.
Examples
The Dragon qualification unit being outfitted with test Draco thruster housings. Depending on mission
requirements, Dragon will carry as many as eighteen Draco thrusters per capsule.
Dragon's systems bays open with the bottom of the pressure hull and radial bulkheads showing
More testing
Just last week a few congressmen, one the wife of a NASA astronaut, doubted that commercial space was 'real'
and would ever fly. So much for that.....
2. SpaceX just posted a new update showing many pics of the Dragon capsule guts, the DragonEye lidar/thermal
imaging/docking system recently installed on the ISS and a few other bits. Very interesting.
Examples
The Dragon qualification unit being outfitted with test Draco thruster housings. Depending on mission
requirements, Dragon will carry as many as eighteen Draco thrusters per capsule.
Dragon's systems bays open with the bottom of the pressure hull and radial bulkheads showing
More testing