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Did you guys see the cargo video that went around? It was our MVP this week, the guy who loaded up one of the boxes and took it to the station.

TL;DRThe cargo video was an accidental demonstration of interior physics and EVA work, with cargo handling, magnetic plates, and later docking still being developed, with no promises on timing.

Kirk TomeTechnical Designer

That's another big transition that we're making, all the interior physics, so being able to EVA out of ships and in, and then what happens to gravity. That particular demonstration was kind of by accident, but the result is eventually what we want to achieve. And then we're also working on cargo, how that's going to work. And the Constellation has at least a visual example of some of the ways we're going to treat being able to place cargo. I'm sure if you've seen the cargo bay on the Constellation, it has the very particular brownish texture; those are the magnetic plates. So that's how we're going to be securing cargo in any type of zero-G environment. So playing with that will be something that we'll continue to work on, and then make it an interesting experience as far as being able to load and unload cargo, what you do with the cargo, what you can store in the cargo, how that experience is in zero-G, how the experience is from ship to ship in space. And hopefully someday we'll actually get into docking, and perhaps how that interplays with cargo, or just smaller items in general, and especially personnel. That's coming down the pike.

Reverse the Verse›December 4th, 2015·
Published on this date.4 Dec 2015