>https://www.instagram.com/p/B7FULZAhqxn/
Another cryptic tweet by Elon Musk May or may not mean anything. But I'm thinking it relates to the SpaceX capsule abort test at 88 seconds into flight on the 18th of this month.
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I put the art in fart
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1215212801876090880?s=20
Crucial Safety Test of SpaceX's Crew Dragon Capsule Delayed to Jan. 18
By Mike Wall 2 days ago
The one-week delay will allow more time for spacecraft processing, NASA officials said.
SpaceX's Crew Dragon astronaut taxi will have to wait at least another week to show its emergency-escape skills in flight.
Crew Dragon's crucial in-flight abort test, or IFA, which had been targeted for Jan. 11, will now take place no earlier than Jan. 18, NASA officials announced yesterday (Jan. 6).
"The new date allows additional time for spacecraft processing," NASA officials wrote in an update.
During the uncrewed IFA, Crew Dragon will launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Shortly after liftoff, the capsule will separate from the booster and use its SuperDraco escape thrusters to blast itself clear of its rocket ride, demonstrating the ability to keep astronauts safe in the event of a launch emergency.
The IFA is the last big milestone SpaceX needs to achieve before Crew Dragon can fly astronauts, which it will do under a contract with NASA's Commercial Crew Program. If all goes well with the abort test, the California-based company can start prepping in earnest for the Demo-2 mission, which will carry NASA's Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to and from the International Space Station (ISS).
Crew Dragon has already visited the orbiting lab once — last March, on a landmark uncrewed test flight called Demo-1.
Aerospace giant Boeing is also developing a crew capsule, called the CST-100 Starliner, under a NASA Commercial Crew deal of its own.
Starliner flew its version of Demo-1, called the Orbital Flight Test (OFT), last month. Things didn't go according to plan, however; Starliner suffered a problem with its onboard timing system and got stranded in an orbit too low to allow rendezvous and docking with the ISS. The capsule circled Earth by itself for two days, coming down for a successful touchdown on Dec. 22.
NASA has been funding the development of Crew Dragon and Starliner to return an orbital human spaceflight capability to American soil. Since the space shuttle fleet retired in July 2011, NASA astronauts have been dependent on Russian Soyuz spacecraft to get to and from the ISS.
https://www.space.com/spacex-crew-dragon-abort-test-date-jan-18-2020.html
Twitter has ceased sending me new tweet notifications for Trump family and Administration
It's weird because it only seems to do it with my PC if my mobile device is turned off. As soon as I power up my phone the notifications come through on PC. Happened yesterday and today.
I did not ask you to care.
I'm going to experiment a bit. And through tweetdeck in the mix just for good measure to see if I get any different results. It's just that ever since Jack announced he was going to spend most of 2020 out of the country I have been hyper vigilant to any fuckery that might be afoot.
Agree