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In response to "Why the instantaneous window explanation video from NASA. -- (link)" by TWuG

They can launch a different times, but the travel time to ISS gets very long

and screws up the sleep cycles of both the Dragon crew and the ISS crew. Some trajectories can take 30 hours.

So this balances both fuel and crew comfort.


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