Comments on: Video: SpaceX Dragon mission highlights

By: HoverDonkey

HoverDonkey — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 01:30:52 +0000

I don’t know about anyone else, but I feel like I’m present at a seminal moment in the history of my species.

A whole industry, based around testing the boundaries of human endeavour, is being spawned right now. The possibilities are endless. The potential is unbounded. Who knows what we will have achieved in the next two or three decades?

Advance is taken for granted, and most of the wonder, for the majority of the population, is gone.

But for those who still stand wide-eyed in the light of human endeavour, there has never been a more exciting time. We view, with finely defined clarity, sunrise on distant worlds. We bring back samples of bodies whose light takes minutes to reach us. We create autonomous craft that navigate atmospheres and gravity wells, equipped with nothing other than millions of years of human learning, distilled into purposeful, specific directions.

We are already in the future.

Who knows what comes next?

By: Calli Arcale

Calli Arcale — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 19:44:46 +0000

I got choked up too, and felt tears well up in my eyes. Even warned, I still got emotional, and for all the same reasons.

By: mike burkhart

mike burkhart — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 19:07:07 +0000

That was grate, I think it about time privet industry get into the space business govermet programs like NASA are good but the privet sector could handle some of the things that NASA is doing and take some of the burden. This would allow NASA to confine itslef to exploratory missions where its done a very good job. Off topic: I just finshied reading the book’ Astronomy of the Acients by MIT press, this book covers: monuments,insterments, and other things used by acient astronomers, it has a chapter on the Sirus mystery, why the star Sirus was drawn red clored in acient times when Sirus is Blue-White also how a tribe in Africa ,The Dogan’ who have no avanced high powered telescopes knew Sirus has a companion that can only bee seen by high powered telescopes, Carl Sagans theroy Jesuit missonarys that visited the Dogon told them about it ,makes sence to me. Maybe the Sirus mystery is a topic for Bad Astronomy 2 Phil.

By: Carl

Carl — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 17:04:48 +0000

SpaceX is one of the only things that make me wish I was an American. What I wouldn’t give to work for them!!

By: Kevin in Victoria

Kevin in Victoria — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 03:48:24 +0000

Totally fake! …Oops, sorry, I thought I was commenting on YouTube for a moment.

By: Torbjörn Larsson, OM

Torbjörn Larsson, OM — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 23:44:48 +0000

The crowd, the music, and of course the achievement.

#4,6:

More specifically, the pilot chute straps as I remember the description.

By: Matt in AZ

Matt in AZ — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 21:31:35 +0000

I believe that diagonal crack is for the parachute straps.

By: Cindy

Cindy — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 21:30:01 +0000

I’m going to bookmark this and show it to my students this fall. Should be a great intro to physics.

By: Guido

Guido — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 20:42:46 +0000

Amazing footage. I’m sure this is a reeeeeally lame question but I just have to ask it since I’m not sure what was that diagonal crack on the return pod.
Cheers man! keep up the good work..

By: Grizzly

Grizzly — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 20:19:03 +0000

Agreed. The parts I got ch0ked up at were the crowd shots. These are people who invested something special to them – their time, talents, heart – in this endeavour. They have every right to be proud and to celebrate. Good show!