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NASA Dragon on Dragon ready for launch to the International Space Station

Have the Astronauts been through Reducation yet? If not, they better get on Reduser. '-)
 
Remember the first Hasselblad images from the moon? Wally Schirra, one of the Mercury astronauts, bought a 500C in a camera shop in Houston, TX. NASA stripped off the leather and glue, removed the lubricants, not knowing how they would react in the spacecraft environment. Those images were, and are iconic. Can't wait to see what earth looks like to a Dragon. A weightless Dragon!
How far things have come. Here's a link to Hasselblad in space: http://www.hasselbladusa.com/about-hasselblad/hasselblad-in-space/space-cameras.aspx
 
Chad Lancaster said:
very cool, surprised they didn't go for the mini mags for the storage/weight since getting things into space is so expensive per pound. Does the footage become public domain?
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Was thinking the same, I thought those guys traveled light, 5 mags and not the 512Gb ones, why?
 
Björn Benckert said:
Was thinking the same, I thought those guys traveled light, 5 mags and not the 512Gb ones, why?
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My guess is that this has been in tests for longer than the 512 existed, hence only approved for what was tested. Everything going up there gets heavy bombardment radiation testing.
 
Saw it all play out firsthand. It's more than awesome...it's surreal. :) Thanks for having me on the ride guys.

And many congratulations to the entire RDC team. Onward, and certainly upward.
 
Wonder if anyone tested one of those famous "space lenses" on the Dragon.
 
good question about the public domain, at some point the footage should be available to the public - whatever they're shooting with it. Hopefully someone on board will use it for something more profound than filming another astronaut brushing their teeth - they seem to capture mostly daily life footage, at least that the public sees. Very cool stuff!
 
What would be really cool is if they also edited their footage in space. I heard that 6K R3Ds don't require GPU or RRx in space due to lack of gravity.
 
Actually NASA uses all Nikon DSLRs.
Alex Kiritz said:
I'm going to guess they will be using some of the Canons they already have there.

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