Out of those 13 missions, I believe only 1 person has flown twice, and he’s not from NASA. He’s Mr Fedyaev.
This mission is the first where all four crew members are using the new SpaceX suit design. (Some details were given by the SpaceX guy at a NASA Crew 12 press conference earlier this year.) So presumably Fedyaev is the only person to have won both types of suit in space. Perhaps he’s giving SpaceX some comparative feedback.
Official NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 Arrival & Welcome Remarks
This is also the 13th launch of serving NASA astronauts on Dragon. (It’s the 12th operational mission, but there was also Bob & Doug on Demo-2.)
I was especially glad to see the scene at 21:59 and was saying “and that’s just the top 2/5 of the overall rocket”. No matter how often you remind yourself of the size of the thing, it’s never enough!
P.S. I checked, and it’s actually a little over 2/5. More like 42% (my favourite 2-digit number!).
Don’t know if I’m jaded but I’d guess about 5-10% chance of Starliner 2 happening before SpaceX Crew-13.
Relevant Steve Stich comment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I12pFrHAuQI 38:23 - 39:50 (And also 30:46 - 33:25)
You Tube channel subscriber counts:
You might be tempted to see this as representative of the dumbing down of society, but to be fair, many of the former might have just been tempted by some subscriber giveaways. Perhaps space channel subscribers are a bit more committed? E.g. the SN10 live stream has 15M views.
A NASA spokesperson clarified in a statement on Thursday how this change factors into the agency’s ability to fly its astronauts to the space station.
“NASA’s Commercial Crew Program does not specify a specific launch pad for crew rotation missions and maintains a launch capability at Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida,” the spokesperson said. “If needed, SpaceX could still support NASA crewed launch operations from pad 39A in the future.”
Gerstenmaier elaborated on this during the 2026-02-09 Crew-12 Prelaunch News Conference.
20:37 “We’re going to do some maintenance on the crew arm. I think the general plan is we’ll keep the crew arm on the ground after we do those repairs, but we’ll be ready to put the crew arm back up again if we need to go back and launch crew from pad 39A.”
23:40 “In the timeframe it takes us to get Falcon and Dragon ready we can be ready to get the pad operational.”
Perhaps he chose to do that because they realized some people had been assuming SpaceX were removing their redundancy of crew launch pad options? It seems that NSF probably did assume that: TWIS 2026-02-07 (3:33 - 4:17).
Seems that this will be, in a sense, the 1st time a FH centre core has ever been recovered! (Back to dry land in one piece.)
Going by this, the stats for actual FH launches are:
If Musk was as committed to comedy and “fate loves irony” as he says, he should have proceeded with the launch the previous day, instead of postponing it “due to unfavorable recovery weather conditions”, and let nature take its course!
That said, maybe nature will yet find a way to intervene! Best keep an eye on Port Canaveral to see if B1091 does actually make it back to dry land!
also reducing risk as it will be flight proven
I’m slightly surprised they don’t always use Starlink sats as the payload on a booster’s 1st flight, these days.
And I’m slightly more surprised they didn’t do so in this case, as they were trying something new (using a FH centre core in a single-stick config).
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Return to Ellington Field
“Video was recorded on August 9, 2025” (despite saying August 11 in the title)
And yes, it really is the whole of Crew-10. (I’ve got a feeling the Cosmonauts are normally already on their way to Russia by this point. Perhaps this is a new procedure, now that splashdown has moved to the West Coast.)
If you posted something and it seems to be stuck in some sort of purgatory
No. Every post I’ve ever made ‘to Lemmy’ has seemingly been ‘published’(?) quickly, but I couldn’t rule out that this was happening via fast manual approval.
I was mostly just asking out of interest. Perhaps out of a feeling that if there was moderation then I didn’t need to think quite so hard about whether a given post was worthy of submitting.
Personally, I think the examples you provided would be perfectly worthy of their own posts! :)
Thanks, it’s good to get a ‘steer’ on this. But are you including my “F9 barge landing perspective that I don’t remember seeing before” example in that? And if so, is that just because you hadn’t seen it before either?
What if it had been something else, that already was widely known about? Maybe just let people down-vote the post? Or merely not up-vote it? Maybe we should only post if we’d guess a 60% probability that 60% of community members haven’t already seen the post contents?
Love the view of the ISS from Dragon at 1:33:34 (and 1:34:30, 1:35:31, etc.)
U-k_LyA1DQQ @27:54 = Cardman playing with her own deck of cards, man!
206O9S9GLbg @3:38:38 = Zena emerging from the Zena’ith Port.
Another example of something that, to me, doesn’t warrant its own post: Interview with Jim Cantrell
Indeed.
I assumed the comment was satirising one common form of misguided critique of SpaceX’s “hardware-rich” approach to this development programme. But yes, now I’m not so sure.
Until now I’ve been too lazy to look into what rules/guidelines exist for this community. Am I now right in thinking there aren’t any? (If so, I’m not complaining!) Or am I just not finding them (as an inexperienced Lemmy user)?
The thing I was going to look into was any posting guidelines. How significant should something be to warrant its own post? For example, this tweet includes a video with an F9 barge landing perspective that I don’t remember seeing before.
FWIW, my own feeling is that I’d like a quarterly “General Discussion Thread” (as with the equivalent Subreddit), to gather up all the minor stuff.
Are posts automatically ‘published’ or do they go through moderation first? (If this is something I should be able to determine myself, if I knew more about Lemmy, LMK and I’ll go & do some reading!)
P.S. My thanks to you and all the team for all your efforts.
I’m a rocket ship on my way to Mars [in a sense]
I’m burnin’ through the sky, yeah [over Namibia, at about ~3:43:11 for about a minute]
LMK if you find anything interesting! My guess is that if there is any melting & re-solidifying going on, it will be nothing larger than a droplet.
Voice calls are allowed, so maybe it’s time to revive the 56k modem!
But seriously, as a non-expert I genuinely wouldn’t be surprised if you told me the audio stream was the easiest option, if the approved apps are all somewhat tamper-resistant. (Probably a very different process though, converting 20th Century analogue telephone line signals, versus converting just-decompressed digital audio.)