** The Official Space Flight Thread - The Space Station and Beyond **

[Cosimo]

Expedition 40 (part 2) launches today at 20:57 BST.

 

[Cosimo]

Another step towards the future:

Completion of qualification testing for the SuperDraco thruster. It will provide power for the Dragon’s escape system and enable controlled landings.

 

[Cosimo]

Expedition 40/41 on their way:

 

[Cosimo]

Five hours and forty seven minutes later:

 

[Cosimo]

Home sweet home....

 

[Glaucus]

SpaceX to unveil DragonRider at 3am
http://new.livestream.com/spacex/Dr...000-a3817fd679f25&acc_id=7580107&medium=email

 

[Glaucus]

Not sure I like the look off it, it's not bad, but OMG is it awesome.
Repulsive landing as standard. Parachute as back up. Although rockets have multiple back ups anyway.

 

[Cosimo]

First day and now night:

 

[Cosimo]

Say hello to SpaceX Dragon V2:

 

[Cosimo]

Here is the future:

 

[Combat squirrel]

Dragon V2 is awesome!! Incredible set of abilities, a real leap forward I think for space access.

The only thing I think it needs to do now is prove its worth, prove its reliability, also when is the 1st test flight of it ? and also how many times can it actually be used? As many as it wants as long as hardware is replaced?

 

[quickshot89]

I'm sure thats on kerbal

 

[Cosimo]

 

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[Cosimo]

Meet the Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator test vehicle:

Testing this month.

 

[Cosimo]

Commercial Orbital Transportation Services: SpaceX Dragon and Orbital Sciences Cygnus missions to the station:

 

[Cosimo]

Nice timelapse of TMA-13M last week:

 

[Cosimo]

Progress looking good:

 

[Cosimo]

Great long exposure of TMA-13M heading to the station last week: