NASA Space Station On-Orbit Status 7 December 2020 - Six Spacecraft Docked Status Report - Source: SpaceRef
Dec. 7, 2020: International Space Station Configuration. Six spaceships are parked at the space station including the SpaceX Crew Dragon and Cargo Dragon vehicles, Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus-14 resupply ship, all three from the United States, and Russia’s Progress 75 and 76 resupply ships and Soyuz MS-17 crew ship. Credit: NASA.
While the International Space Station was traveling 268 miles over the southern Indian Ocean, a SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft autonomously docked to the space-facing side of the orbiting laboratory s Harmony module for the first time at 1:40 p.m. EST, Monday, Dec. 7.
tsa. once that is done, they will move people into the area. and there s a procedure they have to do that. in addition to that, the area on the outside of the terminal, the tarmac area is going to have to be swept to make sure that there is nothing left out there. not only from the security standpoint, but from the safety standpoint if somebody left a cell phone, if somebody left a small object, that could get sucked into a jet engine which could cause a lot of damage to that. those areas are going to have to be cleared of fod, foreign object debris. aircraft have been diverted. there s been a lot this is going to affect not just ft. lauderdale airport, and other airports in florida, but all across the country. airports are going to be affected. airplanes will have to be repositioned, going to have to be repositioned and brought back into ft. lauderdale. this is like a couple of hours or days to get everything
whether it might have been a weapon or a piece of debris, a fod. something in on an airport. that could be catastrophic. so they ve got to not only make sure that it s sterile from a security perspective, they ve got do make sure it s sterile from a debris and stuff on the runway and ramp perspective before they ever let planes start moving again with passengers on board. not to mention people left things behind, personal items inside the terminal. we have pictures we just got in recently of bags and purses and all kinds of things. and left their things behind. they re going to have to reconcile all those baggage how many people lost a shoe running across, you know, in a panic and through the grass. big clean-up today. tom, you need to go and do more reporting. thank you so much for all that you ve been able to tell us. where are we headed next?
shut down at this point, right? no operations. that s correct. we see people, and i believe are those live pictures we re looking at, guys? those are live pictures. so there are still people out on the tarmac. so for all of those travelers. for all of those worried about someone who might be at ft. lauderdale airport, what do we know? well, i think you re going to see this airport really pretty much in a lock down mode or at least certainly not operational i would guess, well into the evening hours here. you ve got all of that stuff out on the ramp right now. whether it s a luggage cart, whether it is vehicles, fire apparatus, of course, you ve also got all of those people who ran out on to the ramp, came back into the terminal, ran back out again, i mean, you ve got an awful lot of people there who we they, need to make sure are secure and that they didn t leave anything out on the ramp. it doesn t even by the way have to be a security concern that something may have been le