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FWIW there are four windows on Dragon 2. I'm not sure that we'll ever have a crewed spacecraft without windows

Posted by JD (aka Jason Dean) May 27 '20, 11:47

For a technology comparison/contrast, there's no windows on our Trident / Typhoon / Seawolf submarines and there's way more stuff to run into in the oceans than there is in low earth orbit

So they're not completely required but at the same time, I'm relatively sure that there will always be windows

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Gus demanded them, and they have stayed. -- nm - Spawn May 27, 11:53 5
- *laugh* I was going to make reference to that but didn't know if it was just from the movie -- nm - JD May 27, 11:57 3
  - I have been to his museum at least a dozen times (he was from my county). -- nm - Spawn May 27, 11:58
  - Gus was smart. Apollo 13 would have been lost without windows. -- nm - TWuG May 27, 11:58 1
    - Armstrong wouldn't have been able to pilot the Eagle without windows -- nm - JD May 27, 11:59
- *ding* -- nm - mud May 27, 11:55
"Pilots." -- nm - The Right Stuff May 27, 11:53
Plus if you can't see outside WTF is the point? -- nm - spamlet May 27, 11:52
In case they send up dogs, again. You know how dogs love to stick their head out windows. -- nm - VMan May 27, 11:50
They actually do learn to steer by the stars so the windows are absolutely necessary. -- nm - TWuG May 27, 11:49 4
- Exterior cameras could solve that. -- nm - VMan May 27, 11:51 3
  - But cameras could potentially fail. A window is a completely manual, unpowered visual method. - JD May 27, 11:52 2
    - True. Simple solutions are the best solutions. -- nm - VMan May 27, 11:53
    - Yup -- nm - TWuG May 27, 11:52

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FWIW there are four windows on Dragon 2. I'm not sure that we'll ever have a crewed spacecraft without windows

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