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Discovery running some cool SpaceX programming up to the splashdown. Found this feed if you're interested.

Fortunately they are landing off Pensacola. Hurricane Isaias won't be a factor.

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20 minutes until reentry begins.

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The Crew Dragon spacecraft will enter Earth's atmosphere traveling at a speed of about 17,000 mph (27,000 km/h). The friction of particles in the atmosphere will create a drag force, slowing it down drastically while heating the outside of the capsule to temperatures nearly as hot as the sun. 

A heat shield protects the astronauts from these extreme temperatures, but the spacecraft likely won't look as pristine after its return as it will before the launch. When SpaceX's Demo-1 Crew Dragon spacecraft returned from its uncrewed test flight in March 2019, it looked like a toasted marshmallow. 

 

https://www.space.com/spacex-crew-dragon-demo-2-step-by-step.html

 

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1 minute ago, Captainant said:

Really cool that they have infrared cameras to track the capsules descent, this is really fucking awesome to see so much info being made available

The camera work has been finominole. They had telescopic shots of it in orbit before re-entry.

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I recall after the 2nd sub-orbital flight of the Mercury capsule in 1961, Gus Grissom prematurely blew the hatch off while floating in the Atlantic. He barely got out in time before it sank.

The old capsule was found and retrieved a few Years ago.

 

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