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A Few Glimpses of the DM-2 Mission 

On nasa.gov/stem, a link for a new activity was posted. It was an activity for  coding a docking simulation using the Crew Dragon spaceship or the Boeing Starliner. I first played the Rocket Science: Ride to Station game (which is also available on Android and iOS). I then recreated it in either Scratch or Snap, which are two block-based programming languages. I had to make the user choose what type of spacecraft the user wanted to dock (ie. SpaceX Crew Dragon or Boeing Starliner). I had to let the user choose whether they wanted to autonomously dock the spacecraft or manually. I had to inform the user if they had successfully docked or not with a message and a sound. Thus, I created a “game” to do all of this. I tweeted it. And to see if my code was chosen I have to login to the NASA Social Broadcast.

The NASA DM-2 mission from which this event originated is a real-live mission involving a human launch that will give the United States the opportunity to reach the International Space Station from American soil for the first time since the Challenger explosion. It is going to involve a rocket (the SpaceX Falcon 9) which will send astronauts Bob Behnken and Dug Hurley to the International Space Station via the Crew Dragon spacecraft. It will launch on May 27th at 12:15 p.m. EDT (do not know about Indian time). The SpaceX Falcon Rocket is made up of mainly three components, the first stage, second stage, and payload. The payload consists of the Crew Dragon spacecraft, which will carry storage/the astronauts. It is attached on top of the Falcon 9 spacecraft. The first stage, which incorporates 9 Merlin engines will separate from the rest of the spacecraft. The first stage is capable of producing 1.8 million pounds of thrust in space. The second stage of the spacecraft is powered  by a single Merlin vacuum, delivering the payload to the right part of the orbit. The second stage then separates from the payload. The Crew Dragon (which is the payload in this case) will then use its thrusters to dock with the  International Space Station.


Please like my tweet at https://twitter.com/njtspicyp/status/1262781608240832512. I might get featured on NASA’s social broadcast tomorrow!


Link to an animation of the Falcon 9: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZlzYzyREAI&t=13s

More information about the Falcon 9: https://www.spacex.com/falcon9


SpaceX Falcon 9:                                     Crew Dragon:                                       

Falcon 9 - Wikipedia

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