Dragon Hatch Opened to ISS

Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 31 Flight Engineer Don Pettit and Joe Acaba of NASA and European Space Agency Flight Engineer Andre Kuipers opened the hatch to SpaceX's Dragon cargo craft and entered the vehicle May 26, one day after the world's first commercial cargo spacecraft was berthed to the Earth-facing port of the Harmony module. Dragon will remain berthed to Harmony until May 31, enabling the crew to unload supplies for the station's residents before it is re-grappled and released to return to Earth for a parachute-assisted splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of southern California.

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[Randy Bishop]

So this confirms it, we still need to wear socks in space.

[LaCeiba1924]

I would say instead that right now we're behind our time...

[Jacob Wine]

Welcome to youtube

[nothke]

They feel good, look good, and collect sweat =)

[deandre greenidge]

y do u need socks in space

[David Satya]

I didn't give you one.

[TehStrangeTaco]

"The /space/ of [the] new vehicle."

Clever little quip there

[AntiMatter3000]

Why the hell was my comment flagged down?

I never said I preferred a moon mission.

The plans for other agencies to go to the moon is closer than those that plan on doing a Mars mission.

Don't try to draw conclusions about me from one post bro.

[David Satya]

It was not a miracle, because the Americans can actually do that. The price was high enough for the people to consider it as "the most lunatic project ever". However, the gain wasn't just to prove that the USA was superior than the USSR, but it also a mark that the human is capable of getting out his cradle.

[David Satya]

There's no reason for sending people to that gas less floating rock. First, it's too expensive. Though it's cheaper than sending people to Mars, the margin could be considered negligible. Besides, people can send probes or rovers to the moon, and that's what people do right now. The last rover to the moon was Lunokhod 2. That was over 40 years ago, and now space agencies opted to use the orbiter instead.

[David Satya]

Though it's possible to do that. We will still need a habitation area that is isolated from the Martian atmosphere. The air is so thin that a normal plane have to reach mach 1 in order to take off in Mars.

[David Satya]

With the current technology, moon base is out of option. We can send a man out there, but can we make a permanent base that can support life indefinitely?