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iPads on board SpaceX Dragon space craft.

Lone Deranger

Lone Deranger

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Made me smile to see this.
Doesn't that whole space craft interior look incredibly futuristic? Like something Hollywood dreamt up. The iPad really looks like it belongs there.
 
Makes sense. They're already popular with airlines for pilots. It does look futuristic inside. Musk obviously wanted some style. Probably to help fuel public enthusiasm. Also so much NASA stuff still looks like it came straight out of the 60's or 70's.
 
velocityg4 said:
Makes sense. They're already popular with airlines for pilots. It does look futuristic inside. Musk obviously wanted some style. Probably to help fuel public enthusiasm. Also so much NASA stuff still looks like it came straight out of the 60's or 70's.
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And then there is the Russian hardware, that looks like a Steam-punk spin-off. :)
 
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Lone Deranger said:
Link.

Made me smile to see this.
Doesn't that whole space craft interior look incredibly futuristic? Like something Hollywood dreamt up. The iPad really looks like it belongs there.
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The total dragon system design scheme is Apple goes to space.
 
I was amazed to see how minimalist the launchpad (LC-39A) looked compared to the Shuttle days. Everything looks so different compared to the elder days. Not just the booster and the crew capsule, but also the new suits and the use of Teslas to take the astronauts to the launchpad (instead of the Astro-van).
 

They've used iPads on the ISS for a long time - when you consider that a single iPad can hold millions of pages of documentation that can be changed and uploaded on the ground, combined with the sheer expense of sending anything up into orbit, then those devices have probably saved them hundreds of thousands of dollars just by replacing reams of paper they had to use in the past.
 
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