They have to. Because of the relative orbits, and rotation of earth, if they’re off by even a little, the pod might hit land instead, or be in a completely different location.
This would be very dangerous for the recovery.
It’s impressive, but also very necessary. Exact timing = exact landing location.
Maybe the first movie they saw was Earth Girls Are Easy and they decided that this whole moving pictures thing was not for them, and just went back to books.
China has a station. There are others planned.
It’s likely it will be true, even if it’s not the ISS or a NASA funded station.
That’s what was intended, but it’s hard to argue that it was actually said based on the recorded audio.
It does flip between a visualization and an actual spacecraft feed tho. So if you’re just seeing a CGI capsule, you’ll need to wait a bit for a real feed.
Curious if the visualization is done when the feed gets interrupted, or if it’s just part of the design.
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Don’t get too excited, it’s just a weird photo shoot.
I wonder how many babies will have to suffer through potentially damaging fevers due to this fear being in the minds of pregnant humans.