Cargo Loading Completed EDIT: Not Going To Space Today.

"user314" (user314)
05/27/2020 at 15:37 • Filed to: Spacelopnik, Spacex

I fully expect there to be SpaceX Ninjas at Halloween this year.

Weather didn’t cooperate, so they’ve scrubbed. 1st b ackup window is on Saturday. At least they got a good dress rehearsal out of this.

DISCUSSION (19)

For Sweden > user314
05/27/2020 at 15:42

Launch Control, the junk is in the trunk. I repeat, the junk is in the trunk.

MonkeePuzzle > For Sweden
05/27/2020 at 15:45

control confirms time for twerking. engage twerk.

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > For Sweden
05/27/2020 at 15:46

I think it’s technically a frunk

Thomas Donohue > user314
05/27/2020 at 15:50

I always thought you had to have 20/20 to be an astronaut (or at least correctable via surgery). Is this guy just the first TeslaTourist?

Kinja'd!!!

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Distant visual acuity: 20/100 or better uncorrected, correctable to 20/20 each eye.

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Distance visual acuity: 20/200 or better uncorrected, correctable to 20/20, each eye.

ttyymmnn > user314
05/27/2020 at 15:54

Let’s hope the weather cooperates.

user314 > Thomas Donohue
05/27/2020 at 15:56

Nope, corrected is okay, and considering the possible complications of surgery and the unknowns of contact lenses in space, glasses are preferred,

user314 > ttyymmnn
05/27/2020 at 15:58

We’ll know a bit better if they Are Going To Space Today if/when fueling starts, but they can abort for weather up until t-5 minutes IIRC .

UserNotFound > Thomas Donohue
05/27/2020 at 16:02

“Correctable” means glasses , contact lenses, and all-laser LASIK.

WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI > user314
05/27/2020 at 16:17

Launch abort has started : (

Stupid weather.

user314 > WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI
05/27/2020 at 16:20

Eh, IIRC NASA managed 3-4 scrubs for every launch, so this isn’t unexpected. There’s always Saturday...

facw > Thomas Donohue
05/27/2020 at 16:20

He’s the commander, not the pilot anyway.

WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI > user314
05/27/2020 at 16:32

True, but I wanted to see the space thing go vroom.

Thomas Donohue > UserNotFound
05/27/2020 at 16:38

Yup....I was reading the preview from Australian website. They require surgical correction.

Just like pilots, having 20/20 vision is a prerequisite to being an astronaut . But if you do wear glasses , all hope is not lost. If you have up to 20/100 uncorrected eyesight and it can be surgically corrected to 20/20 vision, you’re good to go

https://www.sbs.com.au/topics/science/space/article/2016/07/15/7-requirements-be-astronaut

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > user314
05/27/2020 at 16:38

Yup...Saturday is the target now...shame, as I was looking forward to it, but safety is most important!

user314 > WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI
05/27/2020 at 16:44

47 hour wait, mas o menos . This just means the SpaceX Ninjas get another chance to shine.

Thomas Donohue > user314
05/27/2020 at 16:44

Looks like contacts are OK as long as you have been wearing them for at least six months. They tested them in the 80s and 90s.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3866574/

Zero-gravity research actually resulted in better contacts for earth:

http://blog.paragonvision.com/blog/space-age-lenses-how-nasa-helped-us-develop-paragon-crt

user314 > Thomas Donohue
05/27/2020 at 17:11

OK; there was some discussion of that elsewhere .

Thomas Donohue > user314
05/27/2020 at 17:31

Odd comment on that thread ....doesn’t seem to be any rules, plenty of them wear disposable lenses over the last 20 years.

Anyway, l et’s hope they get off the ground Saturday.

zipfuel > Thomas Donohue
05/27/2020 at 18:25

Maybe that’s for enrollment, it’d be a big waste to ground veteran astronauts with millions of dollars in training just cos their eyesight changed due to aging. I also suspect the focus has shifted to critical scientific skills over brass balls and cat like test pilot reflexes since the days of Apollo.