SpaceX

[Lhalo]

That was pretty damn smooth. Nice to see the booster recovery as well. I wonder if they’ll reuse it or keep it. 

[Tank]

Are they going to the ISS or is this just an orbital mission?

[gotbeer]

11 minutes ago, Tank said:

Are they going to the ISS or is this just an orbital mission?

They are going to flip Bezos off for 3 days from space.  They are actually going to be in a higher orbit than the space station or Hubble.  Something like 500 km.  The announcers were saying the distance between Hawthorne and the Golden Gate Bridge.  To put it in perspective, Bezos went 107ish km.  

It's just an orbital mission with some experiments in space.  

[Tank]

10 minutes ago, gotbeer said:

They are going to flip Bezos off for 3 days from space.  They are actually going to be in a higher orbit than the space station or Hubble.  Something like 500 km.  The announcers were saying the distance between Hawthorne and the Golden Gate Bridge.  To put it in perspective, Bezos went 107ish km.  

It's just an orbital mission with some experiments in space.  

I grew up in Hawthorne.

#hawthorneproud 

[Lhalo]

10 minutes ago, Tank said:

I grew up in Hawthorne.

#hawthorneproud 

Home of The Beach Boys. 

[Tank]

Just now, Lhalo said:

Home of The Beach Boys. 

Marilyn Monroe lived there a bit when she was young, too.

[Lhalo]

Just now, Tank said:

Marilyn Monroe lived there a bit when she was young, too.

Didn’t know that. I remember reading about some murder that happened in Hawthorne back in the 40’s when it was mostly farms. I’ll have to see if I can dig up the article. Very LA noir. 

[Lhalo]

Here it is. I guess it happened in the 50’s. Crazy story. 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Mason

[gotbeer]

Damn, I only can look at my phone.  But I'd be shitting all day.

SpaceX shows off Inspiration4's amazing view of Earth and new dome window

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The cupola allows Inspiration4's crewmembers to get a 360-degree view of their exotic surroundings. It's a safe bet that the spaceflyers will put a lot of nose-smudges on that glass, especially since the cupola apparently sits right above Resilience's toilet.

 

[Slegnaac]

On 9/15/2021 at 9:53 PM, Tank said:

I grew up in Hawthorne.

#hawthorneproud 

Home to The Beach Boys

[Tank]

On 9/15/2021 at 10:04 PM, Lhalo said:

Home of The Beach Boys. 

 

35 minutes ago, Slegnaac said:

Home to The Beach Boys

Worth repeating.

[gotbeer]

 

[gotbeer]

Splashdown.  Suck it Bezos.

[gotbeer]

Here’s when you can watch the next rocket launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base

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The rocket will take off from Vandenberg Space Force Base around 11:11 a.m Monday, though this is subject to change depending on weather conditions.

 

So since it's UAL, chances of launch being delayed or blowing up is pretty high.

[Adam]

Space is gay

[Lou]

2 hours ago, Adam said:

Space is gay

I have no idea what these trips are supposed to accomplish.  We've been to the moon.  It's like starting in L.A. and driving to New Mexico. 

[Blarg]

It's like 1967 all over again. They really haven't accomplished anything all that new other than add one more passenger in a tin can that can't control its descent path at re-entry and has to rely on a water landing. 

Yay? 

[Tank]

for the cynical among us:

https://www.nasa.gov/50th/50th_magazine/benefits.html

"The areas in which NASA-developed technologies benefit society can broadly be defined as: health and medicine, transportation, public safety, consumer goods, environmental and agricultural resources, computer technology and industrial productivity. Since 1976, the annual NASA publication Spinoff has detailed the influence and impact on society of agency activities. More detail on these and other programs, technologies and spinoffs can be accessed through NASA’s Spinoff data base or accessed on NASA’s Web site, www.nasa.gov. Also, since 1990, NASA has recognized its “Government and Commercial Invention of the Year” and, since 1994, the “Software of the Year.” The following examples, shown by the year they were published in Spinoff, are merely indicative of NASA’s positive societal impact over the years."

The article goes on to list several innovative inventions that have resulted from the space program, but it's too long to list here. NASA got a lot of "ooh, so we now have Tang and a pen that can write upside down. What else did you give us?" kind of stuff, but the list is substantially longer than that.

[Adam]

54 minutes ago, Tank said:

for the cynical among us:

https://www.nasa.gov/50th/50th_magazine/benefits.html

"The areas in which NASA-developed technologies benefit society can broadly be defined as: health and medicine, transportation, public safety, consumer goods, environmental and agricultural resources, computer technology and industrial productivity. Since 1976, the annual NASA publication Spinoff has detailed the influence and impact on society of agency activities. More detail on these and other programs, technologies and spinoffs can be accessed through NASA’s Spinoff data base or accessed on NASA’s Web site, www.nasa.gov. Also, since 1990, NASA has recognized its “Government and Commercial Invention of the Year” and, since 1994, the “Software of the Year.” The following examples, shown by the year they were published in Spinoff, are merely indicative of NASA’s positive societal impact over the years."

The article goes on to list several innovative inventions that have resulted from the space program, but it's too long to list here. NASA got a lot of "ooh, so we now have Tang and a pen that can write upside down. What else did you give us?" kind of stuff, but the list is substantially longer than that.

propaganda. I stand by original position

[Lou]

1 hour ago, Tank said:

for the cynical among us:

https://www.nasa.gov/50th/50th_magazine/benefits.html

"The areas in which NASA-developed technologies benefit society can broadly be defined as: health and medicine, transportation, public safety, consumer goods, environmental and agricultural resources, computer technology and industrial productivity. Since 1976, the annual NASA publication Spinoff has detailed the influence and impact on society of agency activities. More detail on these and other programs, technologies and spinoffs can be accessed through NASA’s Spinoff data base or accessed on NASA’s Web site, www.nasa.gov. Also, since 1990, NASA has recognized its “Government and Commercial Invention of the Year” and, since 1994, the “Software of the Year.” The following examples, shown by the year they were published in Spinoff, are merely indicative of NASA’s positive societal impact over the years."

The article goes on to list several innovative inventions that have resulted from the space program, but it's too long to list here. NASA got a lot of "ooh, so we now have Tang and a pen that can write upside down. What else did you give us?" kind of stuff, but the list is substantially longer than that.

1994? That's the year The Chunnel opened. 

[gotbeer]

Difference between Blue Origin manned spaceflight and Space X manned spaceflight.

Bezos and his Blue Origin crewmates trained for 14 hours. These are the requirements they had to meet.

The Inspiration4 astronauts are training hard for their private launch on a SpaceX rocket

 

 

 

[Tank]

7 hours ago, Lou said:

1994? That's the year The Chunnel opened. 

i think Rochelle, Rochelle came out the same year.

 

*from Milan to Minsk

[Tank]

11 hours ago, Adam said:

Space is gay

 

7 hours ago, Adam said:

propaganda. I stand by original position

who hurt you, adam?

[Lou]

1 minute ago, Tank said:

i think Rochelle, Rochelle came out the same year.

 

*from Milan to Minsk

That was quite the erotic journey.

[Tank]

26 minutes ago, Lou said:

That was quite the erotic journey.

the bette middler soundtrack made it even better.

nevermind.