Cover drops on May 29. Actual flight design hardware of crew Dragon, not a mockup.
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Cover drops on May 29. Actual flight design hardware of crew Dragon, not a mockup.
They should call the crew version "Dragon Trampoline". He did mention it in his first tweet. It made me laugh out loud.
Sim sim sala bim!Yeah, I watched too much Johnny Quest as a kid.
I don't want to jump the gun too much on a future unveiling. We want to work with NASA on that unveiling because I think it would be kind-of a fun thing for the public to see the new version, kind-of up close. It is quite a significant upgrade. There are very powerful thruster pods, side-mounted thruster pods, on the new version of Dragon and quite big windows as well for astronauts to see out. There's legs that pop out the bottom. "It looks like a real alien spaceship", if you will. We started off landing in water because that was kind of the easiest thing to do. We didn't really know what we were doing, honestly, at the beginning. I think we're getting better, but we didn't want to take any unnecessary risks, but now we want to really try to push the envelope and see if we can take the technology to where it hasn't been before.
The real question is will it have a storage console, and enough reachable cup holders?
The real question is will it have a storage console, and enough reachable cup holders?
Wouldn't it be ultimately cool if they dropped the new Dragon and had it do a powered landing right in front of the reporters?
It won't happen, but it would be something that would get headlines and be shown on every news broadcast.
Elon does like to do such things. At the Model S debut, he had someone pop out of the frunk. During the demonstration of the battery pack swap he had a second car "pop" in for a swap.
It all depends on whether Elon is in his showman mode or not.