{"id":7228,"date":"2017-08-15T20:37:07","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T03:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2017\/08\/15\/iss-and-spacex-dragon-sighting\/"},"modified":"2017-08-15T21:37:58","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T04:37:58","slug":"iss-and-spacex-dragon-sighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2017\/08\/15\/iss-and-spacex-dragon-sighting\/","title":{"rendered":"ISS and SpaceX Dragon Sighting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dragon.jpg' title='SpaceX Dragon'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dragon.jpg' alt='SpaceX Dragon' width='550' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of our regular activities in retirement in our desert place is to watch for overflights of The International Space Station when they are visible. Tonight&#8217;s flyover was the last in the current series of visible passes in our area and included a special treat of which we were unaware until after the pass.<\/p>\n<p>As the ISS soared across the sky, Damsel noticed a fainter speck of light following in trail of the brighter space station. We both saw it and wondered what it could be. I suggested that it might be a cargo resupply or something of the sort. We continued to watch the pair as they swooped out of sight towards the southern horizon.<\/p>\n<p>I came back in the house and got on the computer to see if I could find out what we were seeing. It turns out that the fainter dot of light was a SpaceX Dragon CRS-12 resupply ship with 6400 pounds of &#8220;stuff&#8221; on board to deliver to the ISS on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>This is from the NASA blog about the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nasa.gov\/spacex\/2017\/08\/14\/liftoff-sets-dragon-on-course-for-wednesday-rendezvous\/\">SpaceX Dragon Launch<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Crew members aboard the International Space Station can expect a special delivery Wednesday morning. A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft loaded with more than 6,400 pounds of supplies, equipment and science materials is heading their way after the successful liftoff of SpaceX CRS-12 at 12:31 p.m. EDT from NASA Kennedy Space Center\u2019s Launch Complex 39A.<\/p>\n<p>The on-time liftoff marked a spectacular conclusion to a countdown that proceeded like clockwork throughout the morning, aided by cooperative weather conditions across the launch site. With a sonic boom sounding across Florida\u2019s Space Coast, the first stage returned to SpaceX\u2019s Landing Zone 1 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station while the rocket\u2019s second stage finished the task of propelling Dragon to orbit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more at the link above the quote. Damsel and I feel very fortunate to have witnessed this extraordinary extra-terrestrial event.<\/p>\n<p>Damsel remarked earlier this evening regarding that she&#8217;s glad to see SpaceX, rather than Russians, supplying the ISS these days. I wholeheartedly agree with that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of our regular activities in retirement in our desert place is to watch for overflights of The International Space Station when they are visible. Tonight&#8217;s&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,28,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aerospace","category-rocket-science","category-something-shiny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}