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hi it's me tim dodd the everyday astronaut
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we're at a really
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exciting time where the number
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of crude vehicles
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going to the international space station
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will go from just one to three
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the soyuz is eight year
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monopoly for getting humans up
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to the international space station
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is finally coming to an end
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so today we're gonna take a deep dive on the two
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new spaceships that are going to be responsible
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for taking humans to
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and from
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the international space station from the United States
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so we're gonna compare the bowing starling
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riding an atlas 5 rocket
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to spacex's crew dragon on their falcon 9 rocket
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and to see how
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far we've progressed in the world of human spaceflight
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we're also gonna compare all these
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systems alongside
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russia's soyuz capsule in the United States as retired
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space shuttle
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in a side by side comparison
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we'll take a look at the designs
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the rockets they ride the dimensions
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the cost the safety consideration
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and any other unique feature that each vehicle offers
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considering I've been up
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close and personal with spacex's crew
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dragon capsule
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and boeing starling
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I think I've got some pretty good insight on these
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vehicles let's get started
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the international space station is
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still one of the greatest feats of human engineering
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I mean after all
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it's a football field sized floating laboratory
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traveling 10 times faster than a bullet
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circling the earth
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every 90 minutes is taken
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33 launches to put all of its pieces into orbit
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and has been home to over 230 people
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from almost 20 countries
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the iss typically has six astronauts on board
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crew are sent up in groups of three
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and usually reside of the station for six months
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there is typically
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a three month overlap for existing crew
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and newly arriving crew
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but since the space shuttle program ended in 2011
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there's only been a single ride to the iss
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that's russia's soyuz vehicle
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but we're coming up on a really
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exciting time
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as the United States prepares to send us astronauts
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to the international space station from us soil on two
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brand new spaceships
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and what I think is most exciting is
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nasa has hired private companies to do the development
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and the operations in a new
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program called the commercial crew program
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the two companies that won the contracts are
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space and boeing
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I'm not really going to get into how
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the commercial crew program got started or
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has progressed in today's video
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I mostly want to talk about the hardware
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starting off with bowing and their starling
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boeing started
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designing the star liner
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originally known as the cst 100
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in 2010 after winning a contract from
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nasa for the cc dev program
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the starling is a traditional
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truncated cone capsule design
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much like previous spacecraft from the United States
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it can carry up to seven astronauts at a time
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although nasa won't use more than four seats at a time
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the starling will be the first
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orbital capsule to land on solid ground
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in the United States
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now this is similar to how this soyuz capsule lands and
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also how blue origin
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suborbital new shepherd capsule lands
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there are five
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landing sites proposed in the western United States
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but the two prime sites will be the us's army
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white sands missile range in new Mexico
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and the army's doggy proving grounds in Utah
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starer will land using parachutes and a set of
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large airbags
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a pair of drug shoots are deployed at about
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9km and altitude
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followed by a trio of main shoots at 3.6 kilometers
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and at 1.5 kilometers an altitude
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the heat shield is ditch
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and the six airbags are inflated
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in nominal cases
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the airbags will soften the landing
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while landing on land
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and in awful nominal cases
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like an abort or an emergency reentry
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the airbags offer buoyancy and balance for water
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landings touching down on land
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will allow the starling or an easy path
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refurbishment and reusability
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boeing is hoping to be able to turn one around
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in just six months
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and reuse them up to 10 times
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that's definitely a good thing
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since the crew will land on solid ground
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recovery of crew is quite different than a splashdown
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on the edge of the landing zone
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there'll be a mobile data tracking vehicle or mdt
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as well as a mobile landing control center or mlc
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and a host of other recovery vehicles waiting to pounds
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once touchdown is confirmed
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a small
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army of vehicles will race their way across the desert
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now I picture this pretty much being like a real life
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mad max scenario
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so boeing please send us videos of this
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upon arrival a crew will check
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and stabilize the hydrogen fuels
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and then ground the vehicle for static electricity
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after that an hvac truck will roll up
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and start to cool the spacecraft
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including the crew and the fuels
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next up a mobile landing
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platform will pull up with
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stairs and begin to evacuate the crew
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boeing has to pull crew out within 1h and
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cargo out within two
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the person who actually extracts the crew
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is a member of boeing's fire and rescue team
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which I think is pretty cool
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the crew is taken out
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and then sent over to a truck for medical
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checkups and then
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whisked away on a nasa helicopter
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the capsule itself will be loaded up with a small
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crane truck and taken back to begin refurbishment
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the cockpit of starling takes a
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fairly conservative and familiar approach
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although it's a lot
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less clutter than the space shuttle's cockpit
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it still features familiar and traditional controls
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buttons and non touchscreens
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the starling will dock to the iss and not birth
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docking is where the vehicle
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actually does all the final maneuvering
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until it connects itself up with the docking port
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dragon 1 and sign cargo vehicles
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both currently birth to the station
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meaning they park
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and then are grappled to the station
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via the Canada arm
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or Canada arm
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astronauts get in and out of the side
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hatch one on earth
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but when doctor they'll crawl through the top part
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that connects to the international space station
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via the international docking adapter on the iss
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initially getting
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into and out of the starling is
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admittedly a bit cumbersome
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astronauts need to shimmy
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into their seats lying on their backs
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the spacecraft is two main sections
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the crew module and the service module
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the crew module is
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well exactly what you'd think
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it's where the crew goes
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it's also the part that survives re entry
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the service module houses propellant tanks
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for orbital maneuvering
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the orbital maneuvering thrusters
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the launch of board motors
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which are on the bottom and a pusher configuration
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solar panels on the bottom and radiators on the sides
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as well as a host of other things
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the abort motors are for
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rs 88 bantams modified to run on hyperbolic fuels
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to function as a launch abort motor
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the first uncured test flight oft1
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will fly with the qualification test motors
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but they'll be inactive
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since there will be no crew on board
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in the event of an issue with the booster
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or a rapid unscheduled disassembly
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these of board motors would be used up
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until a few minutes into flight
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after which time the vehicle would just use
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the maneuvering thrusters
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the starling offers a full envelope abort window
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meaning the astronauts can abort at any time
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and remain safe
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boeing design the
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starer to be able to ride on a variety of rockets
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including the atlas 5
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the delta 4 and the falcon 9
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they wound up selecting united launch alliances
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atlas 5 for now
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and eventually ula's
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upcoming vulcan rocket will likely fly starling
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the exact atlas 5 they selected isn't n22
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now here's a quick reminder of those numbers
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the first part of the name represents the fairing star
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the options being four meters five meters or n for none
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the middle number
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is the amount of strap on rocket boosters and can
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range from 0 to 5
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of arl 10 engines on the centaur upper stage
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the centaur can have one or two rl10s
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so putting this all together
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the atlas 5
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that will launch the starling will have no fairing
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since it has a starling
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on top it'll have two
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and dual arl 10 engines on the upper stage
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hence the n22
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when the starling launches it'll be the first time
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rl 10 centaur upper stage on the atlas 5
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the dual engine centaur has been flying since 1962
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and gluon the atlas 3 is recently as 2005
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so it's definitely not anything new
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so why are boeing and ula using a dual engine centaur
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when the starling is relatively light
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the rl 10 engine is crazy efficient
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but one thing it's not
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is powerful
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in order to allow for enough time for a standard
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single engine to
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push the upper stage
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and its payload into orbital velocities
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without re entering the atmosphere
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the first stage of the atlas 5
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usually lost itself into an extra high altitude
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allowing for more time
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for the upper stage to do its secularization burn
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this works great for standard payloads
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but in the case of an abort
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trajectory is actually way too steep
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generating crazy high
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unsurvivable g forces when it hits the atmosphere
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so in order to maintain a nice
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safe shallow profile
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for the fragile and precious humans on board
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the upper stage needed more pomp
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and the solution to that was the dual engine centaur
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if you need
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more info on this unique engineering solution
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scott manly has an awesome video on it
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boeing and ula will
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also be running a secondary flight computer
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that'll be running in
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parallel to the primary flight computer on the
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centaur upper stage
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it'll catch any errors in the flight plan
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faster than a human reaction time
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shutting down the engines and triggering an abort
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another design
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consideration is
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due to the blunt nose of the star liner
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lattice structures around the outside
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designed to be as stable as possible for the entry
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which means having a short and stout design
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the lattice structure helps to fuse the airflow
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over the vehicle
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helping to make sure there are
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no shockwaves or inadvertent pressure areas
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over the lower portion of the vehicle on a scent
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especially since the rocket actually tapers down
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to the skinny centaur upper stage
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they also added an aerodynamic skirt
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to ensure smooth airflow
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despite the apollo spacecraft being a similar shape
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the saturn v at road on top of kind of wedding
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caked out tapering wider and wider
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and therefore didn't have those design considerations
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starer astronauts will take off from
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ula's launchpad sllc 41
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at cape canaveral air force station in Florida
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the pad has already
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been fitted with the crew access arm
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in preparations for the first
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crew launches
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this will be the first time
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humans have launched from this particular launch pad
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which is awesome and
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also the first time
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humans have launched from
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cape canaveral air force station
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since apollo 7 in 1968
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we'll get into the dimensions the designs
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prices and more
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when we do a side
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by side comparison of all the vehicles
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now on to the other new spaceship
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spacex's crew dragon or dragon 2 dragon
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2 is the follow up to spacex's
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very
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successful dragon capsule that has flown cargo to
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and from the iss
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since 2012
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the dragon capsule was originally called dragon writer
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when it was initially proposed to nasa for the cc
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dev program
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space was not selected for the first round
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perhaps because the dragon capsule had noses
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all around it
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but spacex was selected during the second
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round of contracts
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the original dragon writer capsule was
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essentially just
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a crew rated version of their dragon capsule
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which at the time was getting ready for its 1st
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test flights to orbit
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and was already on contract to resupply the iss
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which would later do in 2012 in 2014
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space revealed the updated
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version of the dragon capsule
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which would carry astronauts at their headquarters in
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hawthorne the dragon 2 was
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a massive redesign of the original dragon capsule
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including seating for up to seven astronauts
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although again
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nasa won't be using more than four
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at a time for the commercial crew program
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dragon 2 was originally planning to
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also touchdown back on land using the abort motors
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assuming they weren't used for an abort
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to come to a nice soft touchdown anywhere
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however due to a few reasons
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space ditch propulsive landings
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and will do a
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parachute recovery in splashdown in the ocean
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much like the current dragon capsule
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if you need to know more about why
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space canceled impulsively landing their dragon capsule
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I've already got you covered the crew
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dragon's primary landing zone is the Atlantic Ocean
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which is different from the current dragon capsule
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which has been splashing down in the Pacific Ocean
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since its first launch in recovery in 2010
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space also filed to have the gulf of Mexico
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be a contingency landing site too
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which I believe would be at first
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space has a pair of ships named go
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searcher and go navigator
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that'll be in charge of crew recoveries
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ghost searcher features a hoist
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capable of lifting the dragon capsule onto the deck
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and then offloading the crew
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there's communication
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relays
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and a helicopter landing pad to get the crew home
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after splashdown ghost
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searcher has been part of spacex's fleet for a while
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80 in the recovery efforts of falcon
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9 transship landings
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as well as dragon 1 recoveries
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despite the ocean landing
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space
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does have refurbishment and reuse plans for dragon 2
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although not quite like you might be thinking
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refurbished dragon 2's won't carry humans again
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but they'll eventually be used to carry cargo for cars
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2 missions spacex
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already has
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experience refurbishing splashdown dragon capsules
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and has flown five dragon capsules to date
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although according to elon mosque in 2017
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he mentions it's almost as
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expensive to refurbish the splash down dragons
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as it is to build new ones
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but I'm sure
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since then they've implemented streamlined processes
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which have helped made the efforts worthwhile
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the design of the crew
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dragon capsule is extremely minimalistic
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it's easy to see that the design was influenced by elon
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who likes things simple
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the interior looks like the tesla model 3 of
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spaceships compared to
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night riders car kit
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some unique features of the interior are touch screens
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and movable chairs
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when dragon 2 was first revealed
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elon satin a seat and pulled the screen down to him
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that's now reversed
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as the screens are stationary and the seats move up
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to them again
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just like the starling
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the dragon 2 is designed to be fully automated
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autonomous with manual overrides really
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only there as contingencies
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but the dragon 2 does something that the old dragon one
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couldn't do and that's dock
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getting into the dragon capsules done via the side
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hatch once you poke your head in
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it's very spacious and minimalistic
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it's easy to plop into the seat and get comfy
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I actually really think this layout makes sense
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like the starling
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the dragon 2 is actually two sections as well
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there's the crew module and the trunk
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the crew module is again the part that holds the humans
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but it also has the super draco abort
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motors integrated onto it
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since this portion of the spacecraft is recovered
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the super draco motors are also recovered
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you just like the starling
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the super draco's run on hyperbolic propellants
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and offer a full
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envelope abort window as well
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the trunk is an unpressurized section of the spacecraft
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just like it is on dragon 1
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this allows for the ability to take up
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larger components that
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wouldn't fit through the docking port
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or
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items that are installed on the outside of the station
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items that are in
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inside the trunk are retrieved via the Canada arm
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2 or another arm named dexter
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the trunk of the dragon
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2 offers a unique layout with stationary solar panels
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covering one side of the vehicle
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and radiators
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on the other side
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the old dragon 1 had extending solar panels
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this makes sense
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because you want the solar panels to be facing the sun
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and you want the radiators away from the sun
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so
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pretty cool design
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the trunk also has some fins to help
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stabilize the vehicle in the event of an abort
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and again I already did a video all about this
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so if you want to learn more
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about the fins on the dragon
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and why they matter during an abort
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check out this video
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the trunk is detached prior to reentry and burns up
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due to a lack of a heat shield
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this allows for disposal of some on
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station items as well
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very fiery garbage service
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the dragon
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2 is designed to exclusively fly in the falcon 9
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although there were
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plans for it to fly in a falcon heavy at one point
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but
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space no longer plans to human certify falcon heavy
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and instead is focusing on starship
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in order for the falcon 9 to be crew rated
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nasa required a
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design freeze of their block 5 variants
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and spacex tends to upgrade their vehicles
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so frequently
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they sometimes introduce unintended consequences
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part of this design freeze
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also required the use of a new composite
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overrated pressure vessel
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or cop
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the co failure was the root cause of the amo
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6 pad anomaly
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and a cop strut was the cause of the crs 7 failure
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space started flying a newly designed cop
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at the end of 2018
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it's kind of unusual that nasa required a design freeze
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I mean
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considering nasa has considered flying humans on the
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2nd launch of sls
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or even more crazy
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there's even been talks of them putting humans on the
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1st flight of sls
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but spacex is known to make changes all the time
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in the constant pursuit of improvement
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so I think a safer
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more conservative approach is a good idea
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when human lives are involved
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the falcon 9's flight profile with the crew
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also had to be altered compared to the cargo versions
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to ensure the safest profile in case of an abort
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due to the shallower flatter profile
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it also means the first age booster
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the falcon 9 will not do a return to launch si landing
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and we'll have to land down range on the drone ship
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the upper stage of the falcon
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9 uses the merlin 1d vac recommendation
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which is extremely powerful
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but not very efficient
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it will have no problem
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maintaining a shallow profile
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crew will climb on top of a block
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5 falcon 9
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poised at launch complex
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39a at kennedy space center in Florida
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now I have to say
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not that it's a contest
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but spacex definitely does have the coolest launch pad
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ever after all
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this is the same launchpad that humans took off from
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to go to the moon
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crew will go up the fixed service structure
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that's a relic from the space shuttle era
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although spacex has done a lot of work to remove
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the rotating service structure
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repaint the tower
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add cladding and attach their mobile access arm
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one thing that spacex will be doing this
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completely new in the world of human spaceflight
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and actually took some convincing to make
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nasa consider a valid option
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is a load and go fueling procedure
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since spacex uses super chilled propellants
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they need to load them up into the vehicle as
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late as possible
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so they don't warm up and boil off
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before the vehicle takes off
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space
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actually continues to fuel the rocket up until just
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3min before liftoff now
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clearly 3min isn't nearly enough time
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to get up the tower
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and strap the crew into the dragon capsule
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and then leave the tower
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so the crew will actually enter before propellant load
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and will remain on board while the vehicles fueled up
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I can clearly understand how this is different
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but I actually feel like it's kind of a safer move
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I mean this means the astronauts and the ground crew
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never
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need to approach a fully loaded vehicle on the pad
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once fuel starts flowing
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the crew is actually in the safest place imaginable
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a tightly sealed
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pressure vessel armed with a powerful abort system
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so despite the process of fueling up being pretty risky
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the crew is in a very safe place
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can you imagine
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this will be the first time in history
556
00:18:03,100 --> 00:18:04,333
a human ear will hear
557
00:18:04,333 --> 00:18:06,933
the sound of cryogenic fuel flowing into the vehicle
558
00:18:07,133 --> 00:18:07,800
look here all
559
00:18:07,800 --> 00:18:09,966
those creeks and strains of the vehicle as it comes to
560
00:18:09,966 --> 00:18:10,333
life
561
00:18:11,266 --> 00:18:12,433
that's gonna be crazy
562
00:18:12,433 --> 00:18:13,200
another fun fact is
563
00:18:13,200 --> 00:18:16,266
the cruel arrived to launch site in tesla model x's
564
00:18:16,866 --> 00:18:20,366
of course man spacex will be putting on a new show
565
00:18:20,533 --> 00:18:21,300
that's for sure
566
00:18:21,366 --> 00:18:24,000
now lastly before we get to the direct comparisons
567
00:18:24,266 --> 00:18:24,833
did you know
568
00:18:24,833 --> 00:18:27,200
both launchpads have an amusement park ride
569
00:18:27,700 --> 00:18:28,866
well not quite
570
00:18:28,866 --> 00:18:31,133
but each pad does have an emergency zip line
571
00:18:31,133 --> 00:18:33,366
capable of evacuating astronauts and ground crew
572
00:18:33,366 --> 00:18:35,933
in a hurry in the unlikely event of say
573
00:18:36,033 --> 00:18:37,333
a leak or a fire
574
00:18:37,333 --> 00:18:39,233
while I'm sure there's limited use cases
575
00:18:39,233 --> 00:18:41,066
when this would even be remotely useful
576
00:18:41,433 --> 00:18:42,933
it does look like it'd be pretty fun
577
00:18:43,533 --> 00:18:46,400
well assuming you're not being chased by a fireball
578
00:18:46,500 --> 00:18:49,100
oh okay wow enough of the rundown
579
00:18:49,100 --> 00:18:51,200
it's time to compare these vehicles side by side
580
00:18:51,400 --> 00:18:52,366
and see how these new
581
00:18:52,366 --> 00:18:55,000
vehicles compared to the soyuz and the space shuttle
582
00:18:59,433 --> 00:19:00,733
so first off
583
00:19:00,733 --> 00:19:03,100
let's just line these vehicles up side by side
584
00:19:03,100 --> 00:19:04,733
and compare their sizes
585
00:19:05,466 --> 00:19:08,133
yeah the space shuttle orbiter clearly
586
00:19:08,133 --> 00:19:10,033
dwarfs these vehicles in size
587
00:19:10,233 --> 00:19:12,600
that thing is huge
588
00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:14,200
and because of its immense size
589
00:19:14,200 --> 00:19:15,533
we're gonna focus in on just
590
00:19:15,533 --> 00:19:17,166
the crew module portion of the shuttle
591
00:19:17,166 --> 00:19:18,866
so we can see these other vehicles
592
00:19:19,033 --> 00:19:20,533
but don't forget about the rest of it
593
00:19:20,666 --> 00:19:22,733
we'll still be talking about the system as a whole
594
00:19:22,866 --> 00:19:24,766
since the aft end is its service module
595
00:19:24,766 --> 00:19:26,400
and the cargo bay is similar in nature
596
00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:27,966
to the trunk of the dragon capsule
597
00:19:28,833 --> 00:19:30,433
way way bigger
598
00:19:30,533 --> 00:19:31,200
but notice how much
599
00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:32,600
bigger the starling and dragon are
600
00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:33,766
compared to the soyuz
601
00:19:33,766 --> 00:19:35,133
so let's run through the dimension
602
00:19:35,133 --> 00:19:36,166
starting with their height
603
00:19:36,466 --> 00:19:38,200
the starling stands 5 meters tall
604
00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:39,766
with a service module attached
605
00:19:39,900 --> 00:19:42,700
the crew dragon is 8.1 meters tall with the trunk
606
00:19:42,700 --> 00:19:45,233
and the soyuz is 7.5 meters tall
607
00:19:45,333 --> 00:19:47,933
with the orbital module and service module attached
608
00:19:48,133 --> 00:19:50,600
the space shuttle will show its length as height
609
00:19:50,600 --> 00:19:52,933
because that's the way it stood when it was on the pad
610
00:19:53,100 --> 00:19:56,566
it stood 37 meters tall from tail to nose
611
00:19:56,666 --> 00:19:57,766
next they're width
612
00:19:57,800 --> 00:20:00,100
the starling is 4.5 meters wide
613
00:20:00,100 --> 00:20:02,366
the dragon capsule 3.7 meters wide
614
00:20:02,600 --> 00:20:05,033
the soyuz 2.2 meters and the space shuttles
615
00:20:05,033 --> 00:20:08,066
crew compartment and payload bay were 4.6 meters wide
616
00:20:08,433 --> 00:20:10,433
will ignore the wings for this comparison
617
00:20:10,433 --> 00:20:11,333
I feel like we're gonna have
618
00:20:11,333 --> 00:20:12,400
a lot of asterisks
619
00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:14,333
when we compare these vehicles to the space shuttle
620
00:20:14,333 --> 00:20:15,033
because that thing
621
00:20:15,200 --> 00:20:17,600
was a completely different beast
622
00:20:17,600 --> 00:20:19,833
next up dry mass starling is 13
623
00:20:19,866 --> 00:20:22,733
tons dragon is 9.5 tons
624
00:20:22,733 --> 00:20:26,433
the soyuz capsule is shockingly light at 7.1 tons
625
00:20:26,633 --> 00:20:27,500
and the space shuttle
626
00:20:27,633 --> 00:20:30,133
yeah you can imagine this is quite a bit heavier at
627
00:20:30,233 --> 00:20:33,033
68.5 tons as mentioned earlier
628
00:20:33,033 --> 00:20:35,666
crew capacity for both starling and dragon as 7
629
00:20:35,800 --> 00:20:37,433
but again massa will only use four
630
00:20:38,033 --> 00:20:40,800
the soyuz capsule can fit three barely
631
00:20:41,066 --> 00:20:42,633
and the shuttle could fit up to eight
632
00:20:42,666 --> 00:20:45,933
although seven was much more common now for volume
633
00:20:45,933 --> 00:20:47,933
both pressurized and unpressurized
634
00:20:47,933 --> 00:20:48,766
starr has
635
00:20:48,766 --> 00:20:51,300
11 cubic meters of pressurized volume and no one
636
00:20:51,300 --> 00:20:52,600
pressurized dragon
637
00:20:52,600 --> 00:20:55,433
2 has 10 cubic meters of pressurized volume and 14
638
00:20:55,500 --> 00:20:57,633
cubic meters of unpressurized volume
639
00:20:57,800 --> 00:20:58,466
soyuz has
640
00:20:58,466 --> 00:21:01,533
8.5 cubic meters of pressurized and no unpreceduri
641
00:21:01,533 --> 00:21:03,533
volume the space shuttle is of course
642
00:21:03,533 --> 00:21:04,300
king here with
643
00:21:04,300 --> 00:21:07,600
74.3 cubic meters from pressurized volume
644
00:21:07,633 --> 00:21:10,466
and 300 cubic meters of unpressurized
645
00:21:10,466 --> 00:21:12,100
volume in other words
646
00:21:12,266 --> 00:21:13,700
you could almost fit all
647
00:21:13,733 --> 00:21:16,700
three spaceships inside the payload bay of the shuttle
648
00:21:16,933 --> 00:21:19,766
so now how long can these vehicles stay in space
649
00:21:20,033 --> 00:21:21,100
the star letter can go
650
00:21:21,166 --> 00:21:24,633
60 hours on its own and 210 days while docked
651
00:21:24,866 --> 00:21:26,933
crew dragon can go one week on its own
652
00:21:26,933 --> 00:21:29,200
and also 210 days when doctor
653
00:21:29,266 --> 00:21:30,233
the soyuz can go
654
00:21:30,233 --> 00:21:33,100
30 days on its own and 180 days when doctor
655
00:21:33,266 --> 00:21:35,266
when the space shuttle couldn't go much beyond 17
656
00:21:35,333 --> 00:21:37,600
days due to being powered by fuel cells
657
00:21:37,766 --> 00:21:39,733
next up how about their abort systems
658
00:21:39,733 --> 00:21:42,366
the starling and crew dragon both have a pusher type
659
00:21:42,366 --> 00:21:43,066
system that's full
660
00:21:43,066 --> 00:21:43,800
envelope
661
00:21:43,933 --> 00:21:46,466
mean they can abort safely at any time during ascent
662
00:21:46,900 --> 00:21:48,766
the soyuz has a polar or a tractor
663
00:21:48,766 --> 00:21:50,066
system with an abort tower
664
00:21:50,066 --> 00:21:50,966
and fairing motors 2
665
00:21:50,966 --> 00:21:53,533
which also offers a full envelope escape
666
00:21:53,666 --> 00:21:54,266
and of course
667
00:21:54,266 --> 00:21:57,433
the space shuttle had no mechanical abort systems
668
00:21:57,466 --> 00:21:59,600
and a quick little note here on a board systems
669
00:21:59,700 --> 00:22:01,600
pushers push up from the bottom
670
00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:03,133
or the middle of the spacecraft
671
00:22:03,366 --> 00:22:05,433
and tractors or polar board systems
672
00:22:05,433 --> 00:22:07,300
pull from the top using a tower
673
00:22:07,300 --> 00:22:08,500
or something like that now
674
00:22:08,500 --> 00:22:09,800
where do all these land
675
00:22:10,100 --> 00:22:13,633
starer shuttle and soyuz all touched down on land
676
00:22:13,766 --> 00:22:16,066
while crew dragons splashes down now
677
00:22:16,066 --> 00:22:19,066
how about reusability slash refurbishment ability
678
00:22:19,100 --> 00:22:21,866
the starling is capable of up to 10 reuses crew
679
00:22:21,866 --> 00:22:23,333
dragon is capable of reuse
680
00:22:23,333 --> 00:22:25,400
but for now only as cargo variant
681
00:22:25,533 --> 00:22:26,933
soyuz is expendable
682
00:22:27,100 --> 00:22:29,333
and the space shuttle was also reusable
683
00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:31,833
so now the launch vehicles that get these to space
684
00:22:32,333 --> 00:22:35,033
starr will ride the atlas 5 n22
685
00:22:35,300 --> 00:22:36,733
crew dragon the falcon 9
686
00:22:36,833 --> 00:22:40,033
soyuz the soyuz fg rocket and soon the soyuz 2
687
00:22:40,500 --> 00:22:42,533
and the shuttle was part of the space transportation
688
00:22:42,600 --> 00:22:44,366
system while we have these rockets pulled up
689
00:22:44,366 --> 00:22:45,200
I think it's important
690
00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:47,366
we take a note on their reliability
691
00:22:47,433 --> 00:22:49,500
we're going to ignore partial failures and only talk
692
00:22:49,500 --> 00:22:50,500
about mission success
693
00:22:50,500 --> 00:22:53,600
in which case the atlas 5 really comes up on top
694
00:22:53,700 --> 00:22:56,766
at 100 success in 79 flights
695
00:22:56,766 --> 00:22:57,800
the falcon 9 is at
696
00:22:57,833 --> 00:23:00,200
69 missions and has had two failures
697
00:23:00,433 --> 00:23:00,866
one of them
698
00:23:00,866 --> 00:23:02,800
actually happening before the launch occurred
699
00:23:02,866 --> 00:23:04,900
giving it a 97 1
700
00:23:05,266 --> 00:23:07,666
success rate the soyuz is complicated
701
00:23:07,666 --> 00:23:09,766
because it's been flying since the 60s
702
00:23:09,900 --> 00:23:10,900
in some form or another
703
00:23:10,900 --> 00:23:16,733
so in total it's 996 out of 1 000 208 for a 96
704
00:23:17,433 --> 00:23:21,000
9 success rate but its newest variant the fg
705
00:23:21,233 --> 00:23:23,500
has only had one failure out of 66
706
00:23:23,500 --> 00:23:25,933
making it 98 5 successful
707
00:23:26,066 --> 00:23:29,200
and the shuttle had two failures out of 135 launches
708
00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:31,666
also making it 98.5 successful
709
00:23:31,666 --> 00:23:33,800
it should also be noted that thanks to the abort
710
00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:34,200
system
711
00:23:34,266 --> 00:23:38,066
the one failure of the soyuz fg led to no loss in life
712
00:23:38,166 --> 00:23:39,200
and another quick note
713
00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:42,000
this time about the use of solid rocket boosters
714
00:23:42,033 --> 00:23:43,000
solid rocket booster
715
00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:45,066
led to the loss of the challenger vehicle
716
00:23:45,166 --> 00:23:47,366
but that's not to say solids on their own
717
00:23:47,366 --> 00:23:49,866
are inherently more dangerous per se
718
00:23:50,300 --> 00:23:50,966
the mixture of
719
00:23:50,966 --> 00:23:52,200
a solid rocket booster
720
00:23:52,200 --> 00:23:54,366
and the lack of a mechanical abort
721
00:23:54,366 --> 00:23:56,266
system is really what was dangerous
722
00:23:56,300 --> 00:23:57,100
we've learned a lot
723
00:23:57,100 --> 00:23:58,633
since the space shuttle and the atlas
724
00:23:58,633 --> 00:24:01,533
5's use of srb is considered very safe
725
00:24:02,033 --> 00:24:04,766
due to the fact that the starling does have an abort
726
00:24:04,766 --> 00:24:06,766
system if there was a failure
727
00:24:06,900 --> 00:24:08,866
the crew would be able to get away from the rocket
728
00:24:08,966 --> 00:24:12,500
so we really shouldn't compare the atlas's use of srs
729
00:24:12,533 --> 00:24:14,600
to the space shuttles use of srs
730
00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:15,366
and now we're do
731
00:24:15,366 --> 00:24:16,700
all four of these launch from
732
00:24:16,766 --> 00:24:18,333
launch sites are slick 41
733
00:24:18,333 --> 00:24:20,566
at cape caravel air force base for starling
734
00:24:20,700 --> 00:24:22,566
right next door is the falcon 9
735
00:24:22,566 --> 00:24:24,800
which will launch from lc 39a
736
00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:25,833
kennedy space center
737
00:24:25,900 --> 00:24:29,600
the soyuz launches from biker lc 1 5
738
00:24:30,300 --> 00:24:33,200
and the shuttle launch from both lc 39a and
739
00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:35,133
lc 39b at ksc
740
00:24:35,166 --> 00:24:37,500
and lastly we're gonna talk about price per seat
741
00:24:37,500 --> 00:24:40,033
and this one has a pretty big aster as well
742
00:24:40,233 --> 00:24:41,366
both starling and crew
743
00:24:41,366 --> 00:24:44,633
dragon have a price tag of 58 million per seat
744
00:24:44,966 --> 00:24:48,333
the soyuz capsule is now up to 82 million per seat
745
00:24:48,466 --> 00:24:49,300
and the shuttle
746
00:24:49,566 --> 00:24:51,233
well this is a hard one
747
00:24:51,233 --> 00:24:53,200
on paper the shuttle would cost around
748
00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:55,133
214 $1000000 per seat
749
00:24:55,133 --> 00:24:57,166
but don't forget the shuttle did a lot
750
00:24:57,166 --> 00:24:58,700
more than just take crew up
751
00:24:58,833 --> 00:25:01,433
it often would carry an additional payload of a dozen
752
00:25:01,433 --> 00:25:02,533
tons or more
753
00:25:03,166 --> 00:25:05,533
so maybe it's fair to take that 214
754
00:25:05,533 --> 00:25:07,466
$1000000 per seat per launch
755
00:25:07,733 --> 00:25:09,866
and then take 80 off
756
00:25:09,966 --> 00:25:12,233
because 80 of the volume of the vehicle
757
00:25:12,266 --> 00:25:14,066
was dedicated to cargo
758
00:25:14,533 --> 00:25:16,333
but maybe that's not fair either
759
00:25:16,333 --> 00:25:18,966
so let's just say it's somewhere between 43 million
760
00:25:19,166 --> 00:25:20,766
and 214 million
761
00:25:20,933 --> 00:25:21,966
the last thing I want to mention
762
00:25:21,966 --> 00:25:24,366
but only for the starling and crew dragon is their
763
00:25:24,366 --> 00:25:25,733
cost of development
764
00:25:26,100 --> 00:25:28,866
so the starling received 4.8 billion
765
00:25:28,933 --> 00:25:31,800
and spacex receive 3.1 billion in total
766
00:25:31,866 --> 00:25:34,300
but this includes two demo launches and six
767
00:25:34,300 --> 00:25:36,133
operational flights from each company
768
00:25:36,133 --> 00:25:36,300
now
769
00:25:36,300 --> 00:25:38,233
I don't really want to get into a spitting match over
770
00:25:38,233 --> 00:25:40,666
why each company got paid such different amounts
771
00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:43,600
but it likely had to do with each company's proposal
772
00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:45,966
perhaps after spacex flies a few dozen astronauts
773
00:25:45,966 --> 00:25:46,766
they can charge a little
774
00:25:46,766 --> 00:25:48,866
more for increased confidence from nasa
775
00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:50,000
kind of like how they were
776
00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:52,033
able to increase the price of the cargo resupply
777
00:25:52,033 --> 00:25:54,800
missions once they proved to be reliable and
778
00:25:54,933 --> 00:25:55,800
after they gained a better
779
00:25:55,800 --> 00:25:57,900
sense of the cost of running the program
780
00:25:57,933 --> 00:26:00,200
so when it's all said and done here's my opinion
781
00:26:00,333 --> 00:26:00,966
1st off
782
00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:03,966
I couldn't be more excited to see an awesome pair of
783
00:26:03,966 --> 00:26:05,433
exciting new rides to space
784
00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:07,300
it's about time
785
00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:09,800
as solid and reliable as the soyuz has been
786
00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:11,800
it's about time humans have other
787
00:26:11,900 --> 00:26:14,000
newer and more comfortable options
788
00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:15,533
as far as each system goes
789
00:26:15,533 --> 00:26:17,800
I've got my opinions and I'll keep them short
790
00:26:18,033 --> 00:26:20,500
because I already know the comment section will have
791
00:26:20,500 --> 00:26:22,500
plenty of opinions to go around
792
00:26:22,566 --> 00:26:25,233
the starling is an awesome spaceship
793
00:26:25,233 --> 00:26:26,433
it's very well thought out
794
00:26:26,433 --> 00:26:27,166
and you can tell
795
00:26:27,166 --> 00:26:28,433
human safety is very
796
00:26:28,433 --> 00:26:31,366
much on top of mine for both boeing and ula
797
00:26:31,366 --> 00:26:33,166
I'm glad to see they're going to be landing on land
798
00:26:33,166 --> 00:26:33,900
because I think it's cool
799
00:26:33,900 --> 00:26:36,300
and I'm glad to see they can reuse the spacecraft
800
00:26:36,533 --> 00:26:37,500
and I'm also happy
801
00:26:37,500 --> 00:26:39,600
the atlas will finally be carrying humans again
802
00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:40,433
for the first time
803
00:26:40,433 --> 00:26:44,666
since faith 7 launched with mercury atlas in 1963
804
00:26:44,766 --> 00:26:46,533
and as advance as the starling is
805
00:26:47,066 --> 00:26:49,933
I do wish boeing had gone a few steps more progressive
806
00:26:50,100 --> 00:26:51,666
it feels like the spaceship is just a little
807
00:26:51,666 --> 00:26:52,400
conservative
808
00:26:52,566 --> 00:26:54,100
and you can tell they didn't want to take
809
00:26:54,266 --> 00:26:57,000
any design risks or really push any boundaries
810
00:26:57,500 --> 00:26:58,933
unfortunately when I got to sit in it
811
00:26:58,933 --> 00:27:01,566
it just feels a little stale and cold
812
00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:04,266
however aesthetics and ergonomics are a
813
00:27:04,933 --> 00:27:05,366
very very
814
00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:07,433
minor part of the equation when you're putting
815
00:27:07,433 --> 00:27:08,866
humans in space
816
00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:12,366
so now we come to spacex's crew dragon capsule
817
00:27:12,366 --> 00:27:15,200
there's really no arguing that spacex made the better
818
00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:16,633
looking and downright
819
00:27:16,633 --> 00:27:17,966
sexy spaceship
820
00:27:18,300 --> 00:27:20,266
it truly is stunning
821
00:27:20,266 --> 00:27:21,066
and quite frankly
822
00:27:21,066 --> 00:27:23,166
the radical departure from the norm really
823
00:27:23,166 --> 00:27:25,133
seems to have been pulled off brilliantly
824
00:27:25,433 --> 00:27:26,166
just look at how
825
00:27:26,166 --> 00:27:27,466
easy it is to get into this thing
826
00:27:27,466 --> 00:27:28,700
compared to the starling
827
00:27:28,700 --> 00:27:29,766
and I have no doubt the crew
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dragon capsule didn't cut any corners in safety
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considering they had to answer to nasa on
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every single millimeter of the thing
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so when it comes to pure cool factor
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I'm gonna have to give the leg up to spacex
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after hearing from a few people who have
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used the touch screens
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we're talking about hardcore pilots here
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they have voiced missing a more
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traditional control scheme
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saying it does feel a little bit like flying an ipad
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but lastly seeing a falcon 9
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land after delivering crew to the iss will be a nice
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cherry on top
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and although of course
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it won't be landing back at kennedy space center
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I never get tired of seeing this
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so no matter how you cut it you can't go wrong
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nasa hired two
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incredible companies to come up with some truly
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exciting new rides to space
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nasa should be proud of this new program
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it saved them money and now offers a variety of options
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so now they actually have some
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overlap and redundancy in humanity's access to space
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and although this video
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was intended to highlight the commercial crew program
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to be perfectly honest
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I wound up
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really appreciating this space shuttle more
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after diving into this
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that thing was something really special
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I mean yes of course it had its flaws
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and it
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didn't quite live up to the hype of making spaceflight
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cheaper or safer
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but boy oh boy did it have some unmatched capabilities
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so great job nasa boeing and spacex
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I honestly couldn't be more excited for this
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new chapter of spaceflight
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