Boeing: “hold my beer”
> Boeing: “hold my beer”
Source (paywall): https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/09/15/spacex-dragon-musk-nasa-space-station/
From the post:
>The prototype was so rudimentary it looked like it had been built by a hobbyist in a garage with spare parts — because it essentially had been. To assemble what would become one of the most important parts of Elon Musk’s Crew Dragon spacecraft, the docking system that would attach it to the International Space Station, a couple of SpaceX engineers in 2013 purchased mountain bike shocks from an online cycling shop. They bought the rest of the parts from McMaster-Carr, a sort of Home Depot for industrial tools and materials and dubbed their creation the “McDocker."
Source (paywall): https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/09/15/spacex-dragon-musk-nasa-space-station/
From the post:
>>The prototype was so rudimentary it looked like it had been built by a hobbyist in a garage with spare parts — because it essentially had been.
To assemble what would become one of the most important parts of Elon Musk’s Crew Dragon spacecraft, the docking system that would attach it to the International Space Station, a couple of SpaceX engineers in 2013 purchased mountain bike shocks from an online cycling shop. They bought the rest of the parts from McMaster-Carr, a sort of Home Depot for industrial tools and materials and dubbed their creation the “McDocker."
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