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To: Monty22002
The old "splash-down" routine.

Good luck guys!

34 posted on 08/02/2020 10:51:47 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: SamAdams76
Not quite the old way though. The Dragon has Draco Rockets that Elon originally designed for landing on a hard pad on land but NASA liked the soft-ish water landing for safety reasons so SpaceX redesigned them as thrusters allowing it to maneuver in ways the old capsules couldn't, like changing splash down locations at a later time in the process.(The seven potential splashdown sites for Crew Dragon are off the coasts of Pensacola, Tampa, Tallahassee, Panama City, Cape Canaveral, Daytona, and Jacksonville.) I think they can still choose any of those locations after reentering/passing through the atmosphere. With the new computer systems, they can pinpoint their landing/splashdown better too.

Elon wanted the Dragon to basically do this, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbbSCqaeWyA&list=PLBQ5P5txVQr-Q68JtHuTTBWldX2psIqA1&index=6&t=0s (watch the first 15 second video and the following 47 second close up version)

50 posted on 08/02/2020 11:08:05 AM PDT by Pollard (whatever)
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