I thought that it might be an idea to cover the miscellaneous launches and/or payloads that either do not occur to often or are generally not covered much. DocM has threads for our usual cast of characters, and this one can be a "cookie jar" for interesting launch occurrences...Cheers. Indian.
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this is the first time that we have performed a landing siting on a crew mission. coming up coming up next will be second engine cutoff or seco. it will coast for a couple minutes until dragon is commanded to separate. stage two is in terminal guidance. we re expecting seco to occur in about 20 seconds. copy shannon. commander peggy whitson continuing to call out the abort motes. seco. all right. on time.
leading that flight team. but as jason was talking about earlier, the landing on land is the big deal. so as we go to that split screen, when it goes back, the left is coming towards earth, the one on the right is going up into space. here it is the landing, it is amazing to he that they can take this rocket and land it so smoothly. look at that. [cheers and applause] that is absolutely phenomenal. [applause] landing confirmed. you can see the first stage has landed back at lz-1. this is the first time that we have performed a land landing on a crew mission. [applause] coming up next will be second engine cutoff all right. so that was, honestly, that looked amazing. it almost didn t even look real. yeah, it was so perfect. and it s astounding to see it, you can hear big claps