NASA Astronauts Return Home in SpaceX's Crew Dragon Spacecraft [video]

Re:NASA Astronauts Return Home in SpaceX's Crew Dragon Space... by adamjb on Saturday August 01, 2020 @11:40PM (#24026140)

Including features that are never used is bad design even if they don't compromise every other aspect of the design.

What mainly doomed the shuttle was the DoD requirement that the shuttle be able to pluck a satellite from a polar orbit in one orbit, making it necessary to include the massive wings so that it wouldn't be forced to land in the Pacific as the world rotated underneath it.

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Re:NASA Astronauts Return Home in SpaceX's Crew Dragon Space... by nemo44x on Sunday August 02, 2020 @11:42AM (#24029361)

Perhaps because it existed, it never had to be used. Deterrence is a feature. An ounce of prevention, as they say.

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Re:NASA Astronauts Return Home in SpaceX's Crew Dragon Space... by elil17 on Sunday August 02, 2020 @09:38AM (#24028627)

If they’d used those features it wouldn’t be public knowledge

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Re:NASA Astronauts Return Home in SpaceX's Crew Dragon Space... by patmorgan23 on Sunday August 02, 2020 @10:10AM (#24028807)

Yes it would. There's no such thing as a secret satellite, it's impossible to hide them. General astronomy would notice that their's one less satellite.

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Re:NASA Astronauts Return Home in SpaceX's Crew Dragon Space... by michaelt on Sunday August 02, 2020 @04:34PM (#24031485)

> There's no such thing as a secret satellite

No known secret satellites :)

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Re:NASA Astronauts Return Home in SpaceX's Crew Dragon Space... by Lapsed on Monday August 03, 2020 @01:17AM (#24034432)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misty_(satellite)

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Re:NASA Astronauts Return Home in SpaceX's Crew Dragon Space... by rsynnott on Sunday August 02, 2020 @12:45PM (#24029740)

You absolutely could not conceal a polar shuttle launch. No such thing ever happened.

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