Ryan Caton

@dpoddolphinpro · Sep 27, 2024

BREAKING: @SpaceX's Bill Gerstenmaier says that this capability has been flown before, however this is just the first time it is being flown on a @NASA mission. He confirms it allows Dragon to fire the SuperDracos "at the very end" to provide a "tolerable landing" for the crew.

Ryan Caton@dpoddolphinpro· Sep 27, 2024

BREAKING: @NASA's Steve Stich announces New Dragon Contingency: New for Crew-8 and Crew-9, in the event of all 4 parachutes failing to deploy, SpaceX can use the SuperDracos launch abort system to perform a soft-splashdown. @NASASpaceflight

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

Dragon was always designed to land propulsively, but I didn’t want to risk it as the primary method

08:00 AM · September 28, 2024 · 55.1K views

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