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khorum said:
Amazed as I am that they stuck to those ridiculous Daft Punk spacesuits...I'm even more incredulous that they actually built the interior of the Crew Dragon like the fucking Tesla Concept with the floating chairs and massive LED control panels. This is the crew for the first Dragon flight training in an actual Crew Dragon capsule.

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Looking cool helps with publicity. It looks like the future, rather than a retreat of the past.

Those suits look a lot more flexible and are probably less cumbersome than the ones Nasa used back in the day.
 
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it opens from the inside of one knee across the seam past your crotch to the opposite knee then you crawl up into your daft punk spacesuit like a reverse birth.

No, I'm not kidding:

 
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Kiroy said:
oh no the led touch screen died I guess we all die!
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Tons of engineering has actually been done in that particular use case and it's kinda obvious that an oled or some other minimal single-layer display as a solid-state interface would be orders of magnitude more reliable than electro-mechanical switches and controls with their thousands of moving parts.

They even came out ahead in centrifuge tests when users had to interact with them at higher g's. They were also trivial to repair in-mission, the other screens can be redundant backups if one fails and they can bring several replacement screens with minimal storage space.
 
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www.nasa.gov

What Did Hubble See on Your Birthday? - NASA Science

What did Hubble look at on your birthday? Enter the month and date below to find out! Then share the results with your friends on social media using #Hubble. Firefox users: To easily share your birthday image on social media, you might need to turn off content blocking for this site in your...
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Brahma said:
www.nasa.gov

What Did Hubble See on Your Birthday? - NASA Science

What did Hubble look at on your birthday? Enter the month and date below to find out! Then share the results with your friends on social media using #Hubble. Firefox users: To easily share your birthday image on social media, you might need to turn off content blocking for this site in your...
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Thanks for that, sometimes it's the little things.

Part of one of the most amazing regions of our galaxy, never seen this image before. Just makes me wish I was out there for real, to see it all with my own eyes, if my eyes were capable of seeing it all.

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Maybe its by month or astrological sign lol.
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Oh damn, I clicked the "More Info" button on the pic, and at the very bottom of the explanation was this:

The NICMOS mosaic required 144 Hubble orbits to make 2,304 science exposures. It was taken between February 22 and June 5, 2008.
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So probably everyone in that range gets it unless something extra special was looked at in another year.
 
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