PokerPacker Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 Am I the only one who's reaction was "wake me up when they start going into orbit"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CousinsCowgirl84 Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 39 minutes ago, PokerPacker said: Am I the only one who's reaction was "wake me up when they start going into orbit"? See SpaceX Also, last page is pure gold 👍 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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d0ublestr0ker0ll Posted August 26, 2021 Share Posted August 26, 2021 T-Minus 66 days until liftoff. 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 Russian cosmonauts find new cracks in ISS module Russian cosmonauts have discovered new cracks in a segment of the International Space Station that could widen, a senior space official said on Monday, the latest in a series of setbacks. "Superficial fissures have been found in some places on the Zarya module," Vladimir Solovyov, chief engineer of rocket and space corporation Energia, told RIA news agency. "This is bad and suggests that the fissures will begin to spread over time." He did not say if the cracks had caused any air to leak. The space official has said previously that much of the International Space Station's equipment is starting to age and has warned there could be an "avalanche" of broken equipment after 2025. The space station has suffered several recent incidents. Russian officials last month said a software glitch, and a possible lapse in human attention, were to blame for throwing the ISS out of control. Jet thrusters on the Russian research module Nauka inadvertently reignited a few hours after it had docked, causing the entire orbital outpost to pitch out of its normal flight position with seven crew members aboard. Click on the link for the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 This is the glass dome on SpaceX’s new Crew Dragon capsule SpaceX has shown off a key feature of a modified Crew Dragon spacecraft that will soon launch its first all-civilian crew to orbit. The new design includes a glass dome that will offer the four-person crew panoramic views of Earth and beyond. The first pictures (below) of the cupola appeared in a tweet on Wednesday, September 1. The photos show each of the crewmembers peering out from the dome ahead of its preflight integration with the spacecraft. On other Dragon capsules, a docking mechanism is required at the top so they can link up with the International Space Station. But as the Inspiration4 mission is an orbit-only adventure, SpaceX engineers saw an opportunity to include the cupola. Click on the link for the full article 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted September 20, 2021 Share Posted September 20, 2021 SpaceX's private Inspiration4 astronauts had some toilet trouble in space After spending nearly three days in space, SpaceX's Inspiration4 crew may have more appreciation for the facilities here on Earth — namely, the toilets. The historic all-civilian SpaceX mission, which launched Sept. 15 and successfully splashed down on Saturday (Sept. 18), went off without a hitch, except for a minor issue with the Dragon's onboard toilet. "It was very clean mission from start to finish," SpaceX's Benji Reed, who leads human spaceflight programs, said during a post-flight news conference Saturday night. "We had a couple of issues that we worked, we did work something on the Waste Management System, but that was worked [out] fine and, you know, the crew was happy and healthy." Details are still scarce as to what happened with the space toilet, but the anomaly involved its suction fan, according to Reed. The suction fan is responsible for removing waste products. Click on the link for the full article Were they using the Wolowitz Zero-Gravity Waste Disposal System? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted September 21, 2021 Share Posted September 21, 2021 On 12/15/2020 at 9:27 PM, China said: @Jumbo Not likely: What happens to the Space Force after the Trump administration? “The last thing you want ... after all of this reorganization and creating a new military service is to continue to have the fragmentation of our space programs and space organizations across the military,” said Todd Harrison, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank. “The whole point of this was to consolidate.” Compared with the budgets and personnel of the other branches of the U.S. military, the Space Force is lean. And technically it’s part of the Air Force, just as the Marine Corps is part of the Navy. Click on the link for the full article Space Force Uniform Prototype Has Diagonal Buttons, PT Uniforms Are Black and Gray The Space Force’s very first member unveiled the service’s first prototype service dress uniform Sept. 21. Its dark blue coat—almost black—with upturned collar, closes with a diagonal row of six buttons. Click on the link for the full article Apparently whoever designed this uniform watched a lot of Battlestar Galactica: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CousinsCowgirl84 Posted September 22, 2021 Share Posted September 22, 2021 On 9/20/2021 at 6:58 PM, China said: SpaceX's private Inspiration4 astronauts had some toilet trouble in space After spending nearly three days in space, SpaceX's Inspiration4 crew may have more appreciation for the facilities here on Earth — namely, the toilets. The historic all-civilian SpaceX mission, which launched Sept. 15 and successfully splashed down on Saturday (Sept. 18), went off without a hitch, except for a minor issue with the Dragon's onboard toilet. "It was very clean mission from start to finish," SpaceX's Benji Reed, who leads human spaceflight programs, said during a post-flight news conference Saturday night. "We had a couple of issues that we worked, we did work something on the Waste Management System, but that was worked [out] fine and, you know, the crew was happy and healthy." Details are still scarce as to what happened with the space toilet, but the anomaly involved its suction fan, according to Reed. The suction fan is responsible for removing waste products. Click on the link for the full article Were they using the Wolowitz Zero-Gravity Waste Disposal System? Did they find out they had a loss of suction before or after the go…. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PokerPacker Posted September 22, 2021 Share Posted September 22, 2021 3 hours ago, China said: Space Force Uniform Prototype Has Diagonal Buttons, PT Uniforms Are Black and Gray The Space Force’s very first member unveiled the service’s first prototype service dress uniform Sept. 21. Its dark blue coat—almost black—with upturned collar, closes with a diagonal row of six buttons. Click on the link for the full article Apparently whoever designed this uniform watched a lot of Battlestar Galactica: Did you see their comm rank badges? Looks like Commander Data is an E4. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreatBuzz Posted September 22, 2021 Share Posted September 22, 2021 48 minutes ago, PokerPacker said: Did you see their comm rank badges? Looks like Commander Data is an E4. You know that is a photoshop and not the actual badge right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PokerPacker Posted September 22, 2021 Share Posted September 22, 2021 26 minutes ago, TheGreatBuzz said: You know that is a photoshop and not the actual badge right? https://www.militarytrader.com/militaria-collectibles/ussf-rank-insignia https://www.military.com/space-force/enlisted-ranks.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreatBuzz Posted September 22, 2021 Share Posted September 22, 2021 3 minutes ago, PokerPacker said: https://www.militarytrader.com/militaria-collectibles/ussf-rank-insignia https://www.military.com/space-force/enlisted-ranks.html I meant the picture from Star Trek. That is not what the actual chest emblem looked like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PokerPacker Posted September 22, 2021 Share Posted September 22, 2021 Just now, TheGreatBuzz said: I meant the picture from Star Trek. That is not what the actual chest emblem looked like. Look up the episode 'Future imperfect'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreatBuzz Posted September 22, 2021 Share Posted September 22, 2021 3 minutes ago, PokerPacker said: Look up the episode 'Future imperfect'. Well you learn something new every day. I only googled the tv show pics. I stand corrected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted September 24, 2021 Share Posted September 24, 2021 William Shatner Going Into Space with Blue Origin Decades after he last played the role, William Shatner's going to become a real-life Captain Kirk ... because he's going to space ... on Jeff Bezos' rocket ship ... TMZ has learned. Though he won't be boldly going where no man's gone before -- because Bezos and his Blue Origin crew already did it -- sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ ... the 90-year-old actor is slated to be part of the second crew to take the space flight in the New Shepard capsule. That would make him the oldest person ever to be launched into space. Click on the link for the full story Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted September 24, 2021 Share Posted September 24, 2021 (edited) Edited September 24, 2021 by China 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted October 10, 2021 Share Posted October 10, 2021 NASA’s ‘Armageddon’-style asteroid deflection mission takes off in November NASA has a launch date for that most Hollywood of missions, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, which is basically a dry run of the movie “Armageddon.” Unlike the film, this will not involve nukes, oil rigs or Aerosmith, but instead is a practical test of our ability to change the trajectory of an asteroid in a significant and predictable way. The DART mission, managed by the Planetary Defense Coordination Office (!), involves sending a pair of satellites out to a relatively nearby pair of asteroids, known as the Didymos binary. It’s one large-ish asteroid, approximately 780 meters across — that’s Didymos proper — and a 160-meter “moonlet” in its orbit. As the moonlet is more typical of the type likely to threaten Earth — there being more asteroids that are that size and not easily observed — we will be testing the possibility of intercepting one by smashing into it at nearly 15,000 miles per hour. This will change the speed of the moonlet by a mere fraction of a percent, but enough that its orbit period will be affected measurably. Knowing exactly how much will help us plan any future asteroid-deflection missions — not surprisingly, there isn’t a lot of existing science on ramming your spacecraft into space rocks. A companion spacecraft, called the Light Italian CubeSat for Imagine Asteroids, or LICIACube, just had the finishing touches put on it last week and will be launched shortly before the operation and will attempt to fly by at the very moment of impact and capture “the resultant plume of ejecta and possibly the newly-formed impact crater.” A very exciting and interesting mission to be sure, but had to be delayed past its original launch window of this summer, and November 23 marks the first day of the new launch window. DART is scheduled to launch from Vandenberg in Southern California at 10:20 PM on that date, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9. Click on the link for the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted October 11, 2021 Share Posted October 11, 2021 Geomagnetic storm warning as solar flare expected to directly hit Earth today A massive solar flare is due to hit Earth today, authorities are warning - potentially disrupting power grids and bringing the Northern Lights as far south as New York. The flare - officially known as a coronal mass ejection (CME) - was observed on Saturday on the side of the sun directly facing our planet and comes as we enter a period of increased solar activity. An alert was published by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) which warned the geomagnetic storm could cause power grid fluctuations with voltage alarms at higher latitudes, where the Earth is more exposed. Click on the link for the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted October 13, 2021 Share Posted October 13, 2021 So I guess Shatner is officially an astronaut now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TradeTheBeal! Posted October 13, 2021 Share Posted October 13, 2021 Did he bring back some Humpback Whales? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abdcskins Posted October 13, 2021 Share Posted October 13, 2021 Somehow him (Shatner) going to space is like the 3 biggest headlines on CNN this morning. Is it really that important? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
88Comrade2000 Posted October 13, 2021 Share Posted October 13, 2021 30 minutes ago, abdcskins said: Somehow him (Shatner) going to space is like the 3 biggest headlines on CNN this morning. Is it really that important? Slow news day? A 90 year old actor, who played a Starship Captain, actually going into space is pretty cool. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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