Crew Dragon Launch Day Timeline: From Suit up to Docking with the ISS

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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr_zfpzGxQQ


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way cool. but man, an 18-hr flight one way?? where's da bathroom??
 

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have my dvr set to watch the launch..will be pretty cool IMO
 

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I can watch these launches just by stepping outside and looking east. As long as it's not a super cloudy day... I can see them very clearly.

I've watched so many rocket/shuttle launches that they don't excite me like they used to. It used to be a must to stop whatever you were doing and go outside to watch them. Since the shuttles stopped along with most other manned launches... it's not must watch to me anymore.

This one will be must watch though. I'll snap a pic with my phone if the vis is good. It is kinda cloudy right now though... hopefully that clears up closer to Tee Minus Zero.
 

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It's about 2 hours from the scheduled launch time... the weather looks pretty shitty right now. Lots of clouds and thunderstorms. Hopefully it clears up.
 

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I love seeing the US launch meaningful missions into space again. And btw those UNIFORMS look great, like something from a scifi show. Amazing how less clunky they are, really clean nice look 'MERICA BITCHES!!!
 

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Did you get any photos?@Selassie I


I was outside ready to snap em... but there was way too much cloud cover between me and the coast yesterday. Big towering storm clouds. I wondered right before the launch if it was going to be scrubbed again.

So I had to go inside and watch it on TV. No pics were possible unfortunately.

I tell you this though... there were so many people that drove out to the coast to get a close look... it was literally the opposite of social distancing. It was unbelievable seeing so many people together along roadways and bridges. I'm talking thousands and thousands. The news said that the traffic coming back inland was so bad that it took people about 5 hours to travel 50 miles or so.
 

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I was outside ready to snap em... but there was way too much cloud cover between me and the coast yesterday. Big towering storm clouds. I wondered right before the launch if it was going to be scrubbed again.

So I had to go inside and watch it on TV. No pics were possible unfortunately.

I tell you this though... there were so many people that drove out to the coast to get a close look... it was literally the opposite of social distancing. It was unbelievable seeing so many people together along roadways and bridges. I'm talking thousands and thousands. The news said that the traffic coming back inland was so bad that it took people about 5 hours to travel 50 miles or so.
Chrissy and I drove to thr coast to watch the very last shuttle launch way back when...traffic was horrendous... ended up watching it from side of highway... stuck in traffic on way home and ended up stopping on a dive bar.. think the name of it was T-Minus...sign said "don't need to be a rocket scientist to drink here", but the bar was filled with NASA people. .good times
 

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I was outside ready to snap em... but there was way too much cloud cover between me and the coast yesterday. Big towering storm clouds. I wondered right before the launch if it was going to be scrubbed again.

So I had to go inside and watch it on TV. No pics were possible unfortunately.

I tell you this though... there were so many people that drove out to the coast to get a close look... it was literally the opposite of social distancing. It was unbelievable seeing so many people together along roadways and bridges. I'm talking thousands and thousands. The news said that the traffic coming back inland was so bad that it took people about 5 hours to travel 50 miles or so.

Man that stinks, but at least you still got to see it on TV.

It’s great to see so much excitement for space travel, even if people did stop socially distancing. I can’t blame them for enjoying the one cool/good thing to happen in this god forsaken year lol props to the astronauts for figuring out how to leave the planet right now ha
 

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I can watch these launches just by stepping outside and looking east. As long as it's not a super cloudy day... I can see them very clearly.

I've watched so many rocket/shuttle launches that they don't excite me like they used to. It used to be a must to stop whatever you were doing and go outside to watch them. Since the shuttles stopped along with most other manned launches... it's not must watch to me anymore.

This one will be must watch though. I'll snap a pic with my phone if the vis is good. It is kinda cloudy right now though... hopefully that clears up closer to Tee Minus Zero.

I was BUMMED!!!

It was just hazy enough with just enough of a marine layer that I couldn't see the launch.

and I still say that watching the booster land on a ship moving in the middle of the ocean... I get goosebumps just thinking about it!

I literally wept when I saw those two rockets land in unison. The hard science needed to make that happen is just....WOW!

I will go to my grave remembering that moment. That was thought to be as sci-fi as flying cars and Psychohistory...
 

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When the earth came into view of the video my wife asked, "Where are the flat earthers now? There's definitely a curve there!"

About 2 minutes later she remained on how the video almost looked like the crewed part of the ship was superimposed over the earth. Then the video cut out for about 10 seconds on the ship where the rockets were returning to and when it came back the rockets had landed, sitting perfectly still no smoke, nothing. I told her that's why there's still flat earthers. And to be clear, I'm not a flat earther. Just pointing out that's how it happens.
 

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I was surprised , during the launch there was like 10 million video streamers

and each one of those probably averaged at least 2 people watching , now I'm sure thats for the entire planet , not just the USA

but it still surprised me that there were still that many people still interested
 

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