SpaceX Dragon Deorbit and Splashdown of Polaris Dawn

Crew Dragon Resilience will splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico with the Polaris Dawn crew composed of Jared Isaacman, Scott Poteet, Sarah Gillis and Anna Menon after a five-day mission on orbit.
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[@joelclifton6312]

I like how the seats in the capsule say "WARNING 1.21 GIGAWATTS" Great Scott!

[@madraslocal8929]

They are brave bro

[@reinerheil8893]

Marty Mcfly and Doc Brown was on Board

[@neltirop4716]

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[@Naerah]

i was wondering if that was a Back the the Future reference!

[@MrMarcin178]

Space x are killing it. Who could believe the amount of progress they have made.

[@MrChongkahtze]

So sad to see FAA doing so much to delay and hold space x down

[@cboy-ou2hr]

@@MrChongkahtze I don’t think it’s the FAA it’s the environmental agency at this point

[@sjTHEfirst]

Congratulations to the crew and SpaceX on a successful and historic mission.

[@rajbow1]

the drone view after the splash down is poetic and surreal! 1:37:32 : that is a sculpture in light - captures the magic of humanity. for the 4 people who has been risking their lives... trusting everything on the crew for all these years... calling "mission complete" - setting in motion the "recovery mission" for the crew and there by the next steps - sighing "ok... now back home into the future..."☕ - this is it. this is the proof that as a team - humans can do a lot for this world because we put the heart into it!

[@peezdoc]

That view at 1:32:20 with the moon and moon reflection on the water!!!! 😍😍

[@phlogistanjones2722]

Thank you for the stream and congrats to SpaceX, Polaris Dawn And the entire NSF team. Peaceful Skies

[@schrodingerscat1863]

So glad it all went smoothly, this mission was really pushing the envelope and SpaceX did a fantastic job.

[@More-Space-In-Ear]

1:42:40 technology has certainly come a long way, night shots are super clear, drone flight & camera excellent view bringing us even closer to operations than ever before.....money well spent SpaceX.

[@fluid1614]

Seeing the actual atmospheric burn is so cool. would love to see it live

[@heatshield]

Pretty amazing, eh? 👊😎

[@luciana1644]

Perfect!!!! Congratulations to SpaceX, Polaris Dawn and all the NSF team!!! It's always amazing and fascinating to watch the whole process! Thank you! 😍🙏

[@michaelsantinon8203]

very proud of my CEO Jared Isaacman

[@kentslocum]

Thanks for putting this on KZbin! 😊 I always get chills (the good kind) watching SpaceX crewed capsule recovery operations, partly because the high-quality coverage helps me appreciate the magnitude of the endeavor, and partly because the every mission brings us closer to setting foot on the Moon and/or Mars. 😊

[@RogerSmith-p3m]

HUGE HUGE HUGE moment for SpaceX!!!! Congrats to ALL at SpaceX!!!! History making for sure. Shame we can do great things in Space but we can't have REAL PEACE here on Earth!!! Thanks as usual to NSF for the coverage and comments!!! Peace be with to you ALL!!!

[@MsPatti1606]

Huge Congrats & respect to Max & "D" on their dedication to getting that coverage for us all at NSF after a 6hr drive AWESOME

[@avonputter3335]

Love the reference to back to the future 1.21 gigawatts in the capsule .

[@Tribeinmotion]

I noticed that as well! I found the “Easter egg” on my Tesla recently. Obviously BTTF fans across companies. 🥰

[@aidanflorida2334]

Well done.. this was awesome to watch from start to finisih, thank you. I also love seeing the 1,21 Gigawatts inside the capsule...

[@daffydaffy7673]

Best video of return of craft I have ever seen..that heat trail was awesome

[@Allan_aka_RocKITEman]

I chose _"sleep"_ this time so I did not watch this live...🤭 Thanks for covering it, NSF...👍 *WELCOME HOME, POLARIS DAWN CREW!*

[@olafbaeyens8955]

With Dragon, the number of astronauts who went up also came down.

[@user-qd6nn6sj5v]

For someone who is old enough at age 68 to remember Mercury Gemini ,Apollo, shuttle,and now falcon/ Starship this makes me really happy

[@shawnt5272]

I love the "WARNING: 1.21 GIGIWATTS" signage, but how did Elon not have a lit up 'flux capacitor' in an empty spot on the control panel?!?!?!?!

[@Connection-Lost]

they gave some out in loot crates at some point so they are insanely obtainable too, and USB powered

[@brindlereo5972]

Did anyone notice the electrical output sign behind the crew. 1.21 gigawatts. Back to the future reference

[@Andrew-13579]

1.21 gigawatts!?? 😲great scott!!

[@robbannstrom]

Nope ... nobody noticed that.

[@MrKellymcilrath]

Thanks for the awesome stream coverage NSF!!!

[@thabloodygee2759]

Watching from Belize 🇧🇿

[@BalayAdvisory]

Thanks!

[@corrinastanley125]

Great stream and awesome footage from Max and Dee , thanks NSF team.

[@anthonylosego]

Drogues chutes are designed to intentionally not catch enough air to land an object gently, but instead catch a tiny amount of air to simply slow a fast moving object. Mostly slow enough to put out parachutes that can slow the object to a gentle landing. If a parachute caught that much air, it would tear itself apart at the high speeds. But being tiny, they can hold up to the high speed. Like a stage 1 and stage 2 rocket but in reverse.

[@adamdaniels4797]

Had I known, I could have told Trevor to come to Munich, there's a Cinema showing all 3 Back to the Future films on 3 weekends in September. Could have seen them on the big screen and visited the Oktoberfest.

[@DaliwolfBacon]

Well done everyone involved in this mission!!! So glad the crew made it home safely...I had no doubts :)

[@clbaker8316]

Love love love the “Back to the Future” reference! ❤

[@seriousmaran9414]

Drogue is just a small parachute that in space capsules are used to slow down to a point the main chutes can be deployed without ripping off. In aircraft they were used to slow the plane down fast during landing. Older fighter jets may still use them. Another successful mission from SpaceX.

[@Andrew-13579]

That night scene off the coast of Florida…reminds me of the movie Cocoon. 😀

[@joelhoffman7173]

The beauty of that landing brought tears to my eyes. What humanity is capable of sometimes is stunning.

[@kymkym6875]

Watching from australia

[@Elda301]

landing in the moonlight

[@PeterTaylor-qb2xc]

And space x keeps sticking it to Boeing Great mission and congrats to the Polaris dawn crew and space x

[@WilboBaggins-dm7ub]

Guys at NSF I watched the splashdown live via both you and SpaceX but after work rewound NSF....you all are so in front of other space media types. I go to sleep-wats tomorrow got-Iwake up- did I miss something-return from work-NSF-SBL...and then there's eating and sleep...and so my world goes around. Excellent I try to be to others xx Wilbo

[@dawn-moon]

This is way better then the new Alien movie :)

[@michalp1]

Congratulations to SpaceX and the Polaris Dawn mission 1 crew! Live long and prosper

[@kymkym6875]

Thanks for this amazing video subscribed today

[@robertbester]

Watching on replay. Missed it live. Sorry for not being a member of your group. Apologies for you all.

[@JayIsaacCram]

Nobody expects you to become a member. Your viewership and engagement are surely both appreciated!!

[@MrAngel2U]

Incredible shot of dragon streaking through the sky!

[@leroyhopkins2229]

Excited tonsee the crew has made it up & back smoothly & safely. Now, we wait to see what is next woth SpaceX! Once again happy to see the crew has made it home safely. I just went to sleep as soon as the crew touched down this morning.

[@leroyhopkins2229]

Wow look at D's Camera work! 😮🤣😂🎉!

[@Antique803]

Elon Musk has saved America’s space program.

[@mikekemble958]

congrats from UK fan

[@jeremychrzan]

Sorry I missed the live stream, but thanks for capturing this return and for all the work you do to provide us these videos and commentary! Cheers!

[@MichaelCarriger]

Incredible photography. I've noticed an upgrade to all your podcasts. Keep up the good work.

[@tnapeepeelu]

I logged onto the stream exactly as reentry started

[@creativebytesvideo]

Just watched this back having missed it live - thanks for the coverage - an amazing mission completed successfully!👍👌🚀

[@TheDesertraptor]

A canberra bomber. Wow. That in itself is impressive

[@spider1204]

Fabulous coverage yet again guys, thank you so much. Geoff watching in Cumbria, England.

[@dannybelew6491]

to boldly go where no man has gone before

[@mattmorse830]

Didn't get to watch live, thank you Dee and Max for going out for the live views

[@jimgraves4197]

Great to see Polaris Dawn come home safely.

[@B0M0A0K]

This mission has been the only light in the dark of the bureaucratic debacle of the next launch of Starship. I was, rightly, more excited for this than for IFT5.

[@DH-sw6vg]

Thanks SpaceX, thanks NSF! Terrific coverage.

[@jenohathazi920]

Thank You very much dear NSF

[@teresamiller5412]

Thanks for your work on this feed, replayed this am!

[@Falcon1268-b7j]

Another amazing flight by Spacex and Polaris Dawn, congrats and best of luck on future flights especially starship flight 5

[@Vexation4632]

A hundred plus years from now this will look to our future selves much like we look now, at a model A ford car. This will become a cute antique. Welcome home brave heroes.

[@robertkunz-g7t]

Growing up in the 60's and watching all the trips to the moon. Being able to watch space x on this trip to the outer space to space walk in no more than what looks like to me motorcycle suit is totally amazing me. Not to mention when the piece that came off was able to come back to the Kennedy center and land, that totally blew my mind

[@MegaMastiffman]

Love that I can see these landing and launch’s a lot of the time from my house. Well done.

[@cyotedude]

Awesome show, guys, I enjoyed watching with you.

[@World-as-i-c-it]

Saw plasma trail from space shuttle over Texas years ago, will never forget it, just beautiful! Good work folks!

[@marioluptak8476]

The same here,just over the Vancouver Canada

[@hitchmille]

Great re-entry tracking, best I've ever seen. Btw, you are using the word reef, with respect to parachutes, wrongly. They are reefed for deployment to reduce their working area and thus the shock on them and their lines. They are then unreefed to inflate fully. The camera view of the chutes is not from the nosecone but from the chute bay on Dragon's side, the small one between the windows. Mains deploy from the lower, larger, chute bay.

[@Andrew-13579]

Now I want to see a Copernicus Dawn mission. …orbit over Copernicus Crater on the Moon! They should build a bigger 5m diameter SuperDragon capsule with a service and propulsion “trunk” that would allow at least a 14-day endurance on its own in space. Launch it to the moon using a single Starship-SuperHeavy launch and an expendable 3rd stage. An interim craft, until Starship is man-rated, and a follow-on to CrewDragon.

[@scottleeswood-jones9978]

That was awesome!!! Thanks, NSF!!!

[@gangsterdaddy510]

amazing plasma trail shot D.

[@DrVombatus]

Someone dropped their phone at 38:22 we need to go back up and collect it for them.

[@paulpaulsen7777]

Well, I thought, wow just another piece of space trash, making it more and more difficult for astronauts in the future...

[@futureman1956]

Practice, Practice, Practice makes all the difference

[@ebrock1972]

The chutes come out reefed and then proceeded to open. Reefing is reducing the area. It comes from sailing when you reduce sail area you reef the sails.

[@JerryDyson-y2k]

Great job again SpaceX!

[@flotsamike]

It was interesting to watch the parachutes cool down as the capsule came down to earth.

[@Reptilienfluesterer]

Nice livestream - greetings from Germany

[@minhktu8]

Many nice shots, well done.

[@muleskinnerfilms6719]

Very cool! Welcome home! Great coverage guys!

[@cbspock1701]

Great coverage guys

[@MichalCilekAI]

Woooooow! Fantastic coverage of a GREAT MISSION! Thank you!

[@jeff-TessAD2022]

Thanks NSF. Great job!

[@lajoswinkler]

Great job from the SpaceX and NSF teams. I wonder what was the total accumulated dose of ionizing radiation the crew got during the mission.

[@marx.soguilon]

nice stream and commentary. well done NSF!

[@Allan_aka_RocKITEman]

Referencing what was mentioned at about 2:12:46 in this video... *_"That's heavy, Doc."_* 😊

[@marioluptak8476]

Great coverage guys. Thanks.

[@MarcPorlier]

Ok, those shots with plasma and the moon!!!

[@nirbhay_raghav]

Congratulations all of those involved with the mission, specially the four brave people. Although it was more of a space peek than what is being termed as spacewalk, it was nonetheless a fantastic and spectacular mission. Hope that SpaceX will continue with more Polaris Dawns to come.

[@caseysimon2098]

So happy the polaris dawn is now done successfully! Now we don't have to hear Sawyer say he flown in a plane with sara every stream.😂😂😂

[@bjlbernal]

4th parachute reef delay is mostly a result of lateral air turbulence disrupting the flow entering the canopy and wrapping around the "trailing edge" producing additional pressure to the outside of the canopy.

[@manuelsilva8640]

"Now look at them yo-yos, that's the way you do it You play the 'violin' on the MTV" Congrats for a superb mission.

[@100acrewood77]

Great job to spaceX and thanks to nsf for providing great coverage

[@kahagal8183]

Why this does not make the news ???

[@Mike-tv9rk]

Watched this 3 times. Awesome. But Jack your word to learn for next time is 'Faltering' ! 🙏🖖👍

[@paulpaulsen7777]

Constant Altimeter display would have been nice

[@boomerbits2297]

Apollo. How about Mercury! My father was at the Cape in the 50s working on Atlas Watched a lot of failures before things started working!

[@mussie302]

Fantastic coverage. Amazing.

[@Henrickson5182]

How was it possible to direct the landing in such close proximity to the recovery ship? It is quite amazing and unreal.

[@MrChongkahtze]

Accurate advance mathematics along with computational simulation is amazing.

[@Henrickson5182]

@@MrChongkahtze please explain what 'advanced mathematics' are used. I am genuinely curious.

[@robbannstrom]

@@Henrickson5182 "I am genuinely curious" No, you're not - you're just lazy. If you were genuinely curious, you'd already know the math, or know where to find it online or in text-books.

[@Henrickson5182]

@@robbannstrom Please elaborate on where it can be found?

[@robbannstrom]

@@Henrickson5182 As I said - you're too lazy to do the work yourself. You want somebody to hold your hand all the time ... But, since I'm such a nice guy, here are a couple of clues: bookshop, library, University.

[@Naultarous]

Thank you NSF team. I rather enjoyed that.

[@2FindOut]

So the inside capsule electronics are space proof? That's awesome!!

[@gijoe1of3]

Seriously what dreams are made of!!!!!

[@janopderheijde7910]

hello from holland

[@GinaSheppard-iz5fd]

Thanks my first time seeing this it was Awesome 👍😎👍