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there's a good Scott Manley breakdown of the asplosion

Notable notes from the video:

  • the rocket didn't decelerate on one engine, it maintained a pretty constant 15mph on the single-engine descent before landing
  • the landing legs failed to fully deploy, the above vid has a nice clip where you can clearly see three of the legs just dangling, not having locked in place
  • the ship visibly bounced on landing, which is what probably damaged the pressure tanks leading to the RUSH
  • the RUSH (rapid unplanned second hop) appears to be mainly from the extremely pressurized tanks losing integrity and venting all at once. The fireball was just a side-effect

Overall, still an incredibly successful mission to demonstrate every stage of the flight profile, including recovering from translating too far due to the 3 engine ignition to start the swing maneuver before landing

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9 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Are they having problems closing the hatch.

Yep. FOD discovered on the hatch seal, so they are going to reopen it, check the hatch lining and then close it back out.

Have 12 minutes to get it done.

One or two astronauts asleep.

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12 minutes ago, Captainant said:

We just recently sent an astronaut up via a roscosmos launch, and there's actually an active Cosmonaut on Crew 5. If anything, the space partnership has strengthened, which is strange.

The Russians announced that they were withdrawing from the ISS.  But I have no idea what the timetable for that is.

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