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Spaceship control panel6/14/2023 ![]() In addition to having touchscreen controls, Crew Dragon is also an autonomous vehicle. "There was a lot of testing and evaluation that went into the ergonomics of the placement of what's on the displays, how those displays are presented to the crew," Knight said. "People wondered, 'How are these going to work? How can you have control of the vehicle with these things? Are they going to be reliable?'" Knight said.īut, despite early hesitation about a touchscreen system, SpaceX worked with the astronauts to create an interface that was both reliable and worked well for the crew, who would be actually using the touchscreen. There were some initial concerns with making Crew Dragon's controls all touchscreen, Norm Knight, deputy director of NASA Johnson Space Center Flight Operations, said during a news media conference Monday (May 25). ![]() "It's a little bit different way of doing it but the design, in general, has worked out very well," he said. While Hurley and Behnken have had to adjust to the new system because of its differences from the manual controls they're used to, Crew Dragon's touchscreens are a solid system. Hurley and Behnken worked with SpaceX to "refine the way that you interface with the touchscreen and the way your touch is actually registered on the display in order to be able to fly it cleanly and not make mistakes touching it," Hurley said. "But we went into it with a very open mind." "As a pilot my whole career having a certain way to control a vehicle, this is certainly different," Hurley said during a news conference held on May 1.
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