SeaSix splashdown
 

Are you able to see the splashdown from your location?

It was on Discovery Channel.

FOX NEWS too......live landed maybe 5 minits ago.....

No it's too far out. Watching via stream feed

Plus they gave such a HUGE range for the splashdown... I didn't even bother going out in my Pontoon to watch. They said anywhere from 30 miles offshore to 175 miles offshore, last I read. :wow:

I’m watching it on Discovery. :seasix:

Depends on witch way the winds blow....../blew.....:dance:

WTF over?


F'n boat with a Trump flag just passed between the capsule and the recovery boat, which looks like was less than 50 yards from either one!!



:crazy:

The Cap'n of that boat is gonna have some 'splaining to do. From the brig of a USCG vessel.

After they impound the USS Trump.

We saw it too! Crazy! I thought there would be some security near the capsule.

Shows just how vulnerable the entire crew is out there during a splashdown with the "security" in place for today.

I seriously doubt they'll attempt another splashdown without some big-time USN/USCG security boats.


:wow:

Apparently there were a bunch of interloping private vessels out there.

I'd like to know HTF any unauthorized folks knew exactly where to go to meet them out there. I'd suspect that's FOUO* (NASA non-DOD classification level) information.

Somebody/somebodies are gonna lose their clearances. If not their jobs. And their personal freedom.

:thomas:







*Edit: For Official Use Only

Here's a screengrab I made.

The picture was taken from the big recovery vessel. You can see the black (burned from re-entry heat) capsule floating, perhaps 50-100 yards (at MOST) off the bow of the recovery vessel.

Aaaaannnnddd..... along comes the photobombing Trump-flagged vessel passing right between the two.

Although TECHNICALLY... the Trump vessel has the right of way because it's passing on the recovery vessel's starboard bow.


:funnier:





https://www.thevettebarn.com/forums/...pictureid=3004

It looks really close to the capsule!

They heading to Eglin?

PNS NAS I’d guess off the toppa my head

One of the “announcers” said Pensacola.

Glad they made it back safely. :seasix:

Those are patriotic civilian first responders. If the crew had needed to bail immediately for some reason, like a fire in the cabin, it would have been Trump supporters who rescued them, not the Navy. 'Murica, y'all!


Story time: I went to see one of the very last Space Shuttle launches. There's a park near the Space Center that we were visiting that morning. I guess they clear it and close it for security, and a military helo hovered near us telling us to GTFO over the speaker. Kinda freaked us out; the rotor wash was creating a dust cloud and even kicking up a few pebbles. We left the park.

Meanwhile, the Biden rescue team wasn't quite as successful:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EaarXljXQAAkP2v.jpg

A FB friend's son was working on a tournament fishing boat and took a picture of it. All you could see was the parachute.