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Re:Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles by pugworthy on Monday June 17, 2019 @05:01PM (#20207352)
To quote the page linked earlier...

> Crew Dragon will be a fully autonomous spacecraft that can also be monitored & controlled by on board astronauts and SpaceX mission control in Hawthorne, CA.

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Re:Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles by yholio on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @03:52AM (#20210538)
I would be very surprised if Dragon did not include the 21st century equivalent of the Apollo 8-ball, manual translation controller and stick.

NASA is a very conservative organization and if there is a lesson to be learned from past near disasters, is how limited is the foresight of mission planners and how infinitely adaptable are the human astronauts.

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Re:Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles by rbanffy on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @06:47AM (#20222213)
It has a stick and a couple buttons for most of the functionality that can be useful to the pilots in case the craft misbehaves. It seems to have rotary input so it can manage rotation and translation.

A lot of the controls in an Apollo were to be used in normal manual operations that are automated (or have no counterpart) in Dragons.

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