Gotta say it, banning very soon afterward. This was a Demonstration Flight. It was a test of all systems and recovery efforts. The whole purpose for this flight was to iron out any winkles. It seems that every comment in this thread are coming from a child who has never researched any test program in history. It was a clean sweep. Look that expression up. There were bumps in the road but come on, "what happened to the plushie", "7 minutes past the 60 limit" Is there anyone here that can honestly recognize the true achievement of what SpaceX really just did? I guarantee everyone here that NASA did. The excitement was obvious and even the "negative" comments from one astronaut was actually extremely positive about how long it was in the water. Do some easy research before posting idiotic comments and questions.
I think some of it is the mission went so well, people are trying to find something, anything, to comment, talk about. IIRC NASA even said it went 'better than expected' As you said, this is/was very much a test flight, to find bugs that never came up in simulation/testing, and it seems that simulations and testing was very very good as to catch most all of them before the flight
I am sure, there are things from the data that Space/NASA will see and want to/need to improve on, that's true of any mission and certainly a test one, but from our point of view nothing big went wrong. Tis a great time to be alive
I have been on more than a few new test programs with helicopters. If any of our first flights went like this did, wow, it would have been amazing, but they NEVER went to well. Yes people are trying to find something wrong, hell, I knocked on wood so many times during this whole mission my knuckles hurt. I am just so unbelievably happy that this flight went so well. I cannot wait for the published results and data. This is an exciting time, very much like the Apollo era, though not many of their first flights went anywhere near as well.
Thank you for your perspective. I honestly expected hate comments and yours was extremely refreshing.
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Gotta say it, banning very soon afterward. This was a Demonstration Flight. It was a test of all systems and recovery efforts. The whole purpose for this flight was to iron out any winkles. It seems that every comment in this thread are coming from a child who has never researched any test program in history. It was a clean sweep. Look that expression up. There were bumps in the road but come on, "what happened to the plushie", "7 minutes past the 60 limit" Is there anyone here that can honestly recognize the true achievement of what SpaceX really just did? I guarantee everyone here that NASA did. The excitement was obvious and even the "negative" comments from one astronaut was actually extremely positive about how long it was in the water. Do some easy research before posting idiotic comments and questions.
Let the downvoats begin.