04-21-2019, 11:03 PM
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Contest, Sport, it's all good......
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: West of Minneapolis, MN
Posts: 760
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Originally Posted by Bob Austin
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In using info from my post on TRF in the SpaceX Falcon-9 Historic Landing thread:
https://www.rocketryforum.com/threa...12#post-1879013
….you could have also included the link to the thread on NASA SpaceFlight Forum that was posts above it:
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/i...p?topic=48003.0
And yes, it was destroyed. A crew would have been killed instantly. About the best that SpaceX can hope for is that this was a screw-up in test procedures, or otherwise unique to this test.
Second best something related to the fact that this was the DM-1 Dragon-2 (which launched during NARCON and docked with ISS, and landed safely in the Pacific 6 weeks ago), where possibly saltwater caused some unanticipated issue or even some kind of internal re-entry heating damage that went unnoticed somehow (I would expect they’d have stripped the outer panels off to inspect it though). NASA won’t ever re-use a Dragon-2 for a crew, but SpaceX is planning to re-use them for ISS resupply.
If it’s a Quality Control problem, bad. An inherent design problem, could be devastating (the COPV tanks are at well over 1000 PSI). Would go from a delay of months, to potentially a delay of years to come up with a new hardware approach that NASA would sign off on to allow crews onboard. |