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Enter: Super Draco - the thruster for Dragon's launch escape and propulsive landing systems. Test firings of the Super Draco starting "soon" is a big deal since under their NASA CCDev-2 contract they aren't required to do it until May, 2012.
Garret Reisman: SpaceX Project Manager for commercial crew talking at NewSpace 2011 sez -
New cutaway of the crew Dragon-
Garret Reisman: SpaceX Project Manager for commercial crew talking at NewSpace 2011 sez -
- Been with SpaceX for about 5 months.
- Feeling of great responsibility
- The Commercial Crew funding by the House was less than 2% of the NASA budget.
- When first visited SpaceX, was blown away by their capabilties.
- 5 Falcon 9s in constructions, 2 or 3 Dragons
- 1400 employees
- Engineers paradise.
- VPs are experienced technical people.
- First private company to bring <back> something from space
- Focus on launch abort system - just had conceptual design review, and is due to complete its primary design review in September (PDR from elsewhere)
- Will be test firing Super Draco thrusters soon at the Texas test center.
- Feeling of great responsibility
- The Commercial Crew funding by the House was less than 2% of the NASA budget.
- When first visited SpaceX, was blown away by their capabilties.
- 5 Falcon 9s in constructions, 2 or 3 Dragons
- 1400 employees
- Engineers paradise.
- VPs are experienced technical people.
- First private company to bring <back> something from space
- Focus on launch abort system - just had conceptual design review, and is due to complete its primary design review in September (PDR from elsewhere)
- Will be test firing Super Draco thrusters soon at the Texas test center.
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