I feel like this has flown under the radar. This should have been something that had a decent press build up and excitement, but unfortunately the toxic poltiical climate in the US has totally overshaddowed it.
It would be cool to see what the cockpit is like and what’s involved in their daily tasks, compared to the Apollo missions. Can it all be automated?
Spaceflight Now has a 24/7 stream running with excellent coverage that help explain the tasks that the crew and ground control are performing, as well as showing recaps.
https://www.youtube.com/live/M8m9YdxgJ5g
NASA did switch to a view with some of the external cameras and sometimes some cockpit views. Their launch stream was pretty terrible. I had some family and friends (not space nerds) watching and asking a lot of questions because they were kind of interested but not getting much from the stream.
As far as “can it be automated”, Boeing Starliner and a bunch of crashed lunar landers over the last few years are examples of where human improvisation beats flight software. This mission is also testing life support systems. It’s pretty hard to make a good human simulator to test those.
I feel like this has flown under the radar. This should have been something that had a decent press build up and excitement, but unfortunately the toxic poltiical climate in the US has totally overshaddowed it.
It would be cool to see what the cockpit is like and what’s involved in their daily tasks, compared to the Apollo missions. Can it all be automated?
Spaceflight Now has a 24/7 stream running with excellent coverage that help explain the tasks that the crew and ground control are performing, as well as showing recaps. https://www.youtube.com/live/M8m9YdxgJ5g
NASA did switch to a view with some of the external cameras and sometimes some cockpit views. Their launch stream was pretty terrible. I had some family and friends (not space nerds) watching and asking a lot of questions because they were kind of interested but not getting much from the stream.
As far as “can it be automated”, Boeing Starliner and a bunch of crashed lunar landers over the last few years are examples of where human improvisation beats flight software. This mission is also testing life support systems. It’s pretty hard to make a good human simulator to test those.