[ExI] Congrats to SpaceX!

[Darin Sunley]

I seem to recall reading that SpaceX has no intention of requalifying used
Crew Dragon capsules for additional manned flights - it's just too
expensive and time-consuming - substantially cheaper just to build another
one. Though apparently they are looking at using filght-used Crew Dragons
as unmanned cargo capsules.

They're going to reuse this one for the unmanned in-flight abort test
coming up, but that'll be it for this particular capsule - it'll never fly
people.

On Sat, Mar 9, 2019 at 11:47 AM Dan TheBookMan <danust2012 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mar 9, 2019, at 10:30 AM, Brent Allsop <brent.allsop at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Did anyone notice the messed up looking state of the capsule, after they
> pulled it out of the water?
> > Maybe it just looks bad, but it sure doesn't look like it could ever
> take people back into space?
>
> I noticed it, but I presume when they say they’ll be testing a refurbished
> one next time that they expect to do some work on it. After all, unlike the
> first stage boosters, the capsule does experience significant re-entry burn.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dan
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