Why wasn't the capsule charred like the Space-X capsules are on re-entry?

Admit it. Bezos did what every guy would like to do from time to time - shoot his significant other into space.

Alfred E. Newnan called,
An all female crew with out a lingerie pillow fight is just Saturday pinochle at Mira's.

Imagine the yakety-yak in the space craft, I'll bet non stop for 11 minutes, taking selfies. At least with a space vehicle, they can't hit the curb and ding up the rims

it never actually left the atmosphere to the point where it had to re-enter at an orbital velocity - no heat, no plasma, no charring to the extent you saw on the shuttle, Apollo or Dragon

All your comments show you are just neanderthals male chauvinist swine.



I love you guys.

0-0

So was Ms. King back in her anchor chair this morning, taking her bows, or did she have to take the day off to recuperate from her trying ordeal?

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Originally posted by TigerDore:
Combined with the criticism that the capsule has no scorch marks, and they wore no helmets or breathing apparatus, but lots of makeup and hairspray, it looks more like the gals had a quick, high altitude amusement park ride.

Well of course not, after all a helmet would mess up their hair! And that would be just so wrong, y'know?

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Originally posted by benny6:
Why wasn't the capsule charred like the Space-X capsules are on re-entry?

I think because apogee was only 65 miles, and to compare, the shuttle went to like 250 miles and was going pretty fast when it hit the atmosphere.

not 100% certain, but I think that's the answer. SOmeone correct me if that's not right.

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Originally posted by AUTiger89:
Admit it. Bezos did what every guy would like to do from time to time - shoot his significant other into space.

To the moon, Alice!!!

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Originally posted by 0-0:
All your comments show you are just neanderthals male chauvinist swine.

Toxic masculinity.

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Originally posted by radioman:

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Originally posted by benny6:
Why wasn't the capsule charred like the Space-X capsules are on re-entry?

I think because apogee was only 65 miles, and to compare, the shuttle went to like 250 miles and was going pretty fast when it hit the atmosphere.

not 100% certain, but I think that's the answer. SOmeone correct me if that's not right.

To get charring, you need friction.

Orbit insertion and de-orbit occur in the 17,000 MPH range.

Going up and back down in a parabolic arc of only 65 miles, does not provide enough velocity to achieve significant aerodynamic heating.

As someone else mentioned, it's an expensive E ticket ride.

Pretty sure hair and makeup took longer than the ride lasted. Yup, I said “RIDE” - evidently Joy(less) is taking quite exception to that.

They accomplished no tasks, experiments, had no control of the craft and between the six of them not a single sandwich was assembled. As such, I don’t see how they can be considered “crew” in any aspect of the word.

If legal requirements, liabilities, or regulations preclude calling them “passengers” then I think the proper term for them under the circumstances in this case is “cargo”


#cargonotcrew

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Originally posted by sigmonkey:
Non-qualified to fly Virgin Galactic...

Ha!!!


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Originally posted by benny6:
Why wasn't the capsule charred like the Space-X capsules are on re-entry?

Apparently, it didn't go that high because Bezos promised the ladies he would only put the head of the rocket in (to space).

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Originally posted by TigerDore:
Combined with the criticism that the capsule has no scorch marks

Capsule does not reenter the atmosphere at a high enough speed to cause scorch marks or require a heat shield. When Dragon rocket reenters the flames from firing the rockets as it enters the atmosphere actually acts like a shield against atmospheric friction.

That thing wins the award for most phallic rocket.

Is this fake? I ask because it looks like something SNL did as a joke.

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Originally posted by sigmonkey:

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Originally posted by radioman:

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Originally posted by benny6:
Why wasn't the capsule charred like the Space-X capsules are on re-entry?

I think because apogee was only 65 miles, and to compare, the shuttle went to like 250 miles and was going pretty fast when it hit the atmosphere.

not 100% certain, but I think that's the answer. SOmeone correct me if that's not right.

To get charring, you need friction.

Orbit insertion and de-orbit occur in the 17,000 MPH range.

Going up and back down in a parabolic arc of only 65 miles, does not provide enough velocity to achieve significant aerodynamic heating.

As someone else mentioned, it's an expensive E ticket ride.

A parabolic flight path will result in "weightlessness" during the descent even if you are not in space. That's how real astronauts train for space walks - inside cargo planes with padded interiors on parabolic flight paths.

So how fast exactly did this thing go at the top of the parabola?

The claim of duplicating Alan Sheppard's first flight as some kind of major accomplishment is a bit silly. It's like duplicating the Wright Brother's first flight in a light aircraft.

But I'm all for private industry reducing the cost of space flight. We are way behind where everyone thought we would be by now when movies like 2001 were made.

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Originally posted by 1s1k:]

Now that Elon can catch the boosters he said it saves them 10 million every time they catch one. That begs the question. Where do these boosters go that don’t get caught. Do they just crash in the ocean somewhere?

Yeah they used to. When they launch from Cape Canaveral, they are shot out east over the Atlantic so the boosters fall into the ocean and not on land. At least that’s what NASA did when I was a kid in Fla.

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A parabolic flight path will result in "weightlessness" during the descent even if you are not in space. That's how real astronauts train for space walks - inside cargo planes with padded interiors on parabolic flight paths.

Indeed. Behold the astronaut musical group, OK Go.