Awesome night sky viewing!

[Napoleon]

YAY! Glad to see that.

I have never seen a movie that, at least as I could tell, was promoted heavier in what I would think of as unconventional places, like NPR's Science Friday and places like that. NY Times ran a story a few weeks ago about how they had a quiet campaign of promoting it in the faith community, primarily African-American churches.

[SteveH]

New Spacesuit Unveiled for Starliner Astronauts (https://www.nasa.gov/feature/new-spacesuit-unveiled-for-starliner-astronauts)

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/full_width/public/thumbnails/image/tigergrass-graphic.jpg?itok=D9gukuKs

[dando]

GOES-16...yowza. :eek:

https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/content/goes-16-image-gallery

[SteveH]

Technical troubles likely to delay commercial crew flights until 2019 (https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/01/sources-neither-boeing-nor-spacex-likely-ready-to-fly-crews-until-2019/)


This week Boeing made a public splash by debuting a new blue spacesuit for astronauts to wear aboard its Starliner spacecraft. What the company did not dwell on as it rolled out “Boeing Blue,” however, was when the lighter, more modern-looking flight suits might be put into action with crewed flights into orbit.

That is because much work remains to integrate all of Starliner’s various systems, including qualifying them for flight, ensuring their compatibility, and writing and testing software that will make for smooth flying. And Boeing is not alone; its “commercial crew” competitor SpaceX also faces similar technical hurdles with the Dragon V2 spacecraft and the Falcon 9 rocket that will launch it into space.

[SteveH]

That time a monkey flew to the edge of space and then smashed into a destroyer (https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/02/that-time-a-monkey-flew-to-the-edge-of-space-and-then-smashed-into-a-destroyer/)


So when NASA's young engineers at Langley Research Center in Virginia began testing their new Mercury capsule in flight, they wanted to see whether the accelerations experienced during the abort of a Mercury flight shortly after launch were survivable. Enter Sam, an eight-pound rhesus monkey.

cute story

[nrc]

That time a monkey flew to the edge of space and then smashed into a destroyer (https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/02/that-time-a-monkey-flew-to-the-edge-of-space-and-then-smashed-into-a-destroyer/)

cute story

Funniest part of the story.


So we got some [diagonal wire cutters] to cut him out of his contour couch.

[datachicane]

Heh, that takes me way back to when I cribbed those photos for Lemmingnet.

https://web.archive.org/web/20091026182821/http://geocities.com/revlimited/monkey.htm

[SteveH]

Heh, that takes me way back to when I cribbed those photos for Lemmingnet.

https://web.archive.org/web/20091026182821/http://geocities.com/revlimited/monkey.htm

:thumbup:

the good old days :rofl:

[datachicane]

I dropped burnt monkey carcass references in half a dozen stories after that. More fun than I should have been allowed to have.

[Napoleon]

:rofl::rofl:

[dando]

We've installed the final work platform in Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building to support work on the Space Launch System, or SLS, the most powerful rocket ever built. Get the details: http://go.nasa.gov/2l3FQrB

http://go.nasa.gov/2l3FQrB

Yowza. :eek: :thumbup:

[SteveH]

The Air Force’s secretitve X-37B space plane may—or may not—be about to land (https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/02/the-air-forces-secretitve-x-37b-space-plane-may-or-may-not-be-about-to-land/)

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/X37b-800x425.jpg

[dando]

The Air Force’s secretitve X-37B space plane may—or may not—be about to land (https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/02/the-air-forces-secretitve-x-37b-space-plane-may-or-may-not-be-about-to-land/)

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/X37b-800x425.jpg

You them mirrors never worked.... :tony:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4232406/Is-Air-Force-X-37B-spaceplane-set-land-2-years.html

[Insomniac]

CRS-10 Successful Launch and Landing at KSC this morning.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giNhaEzv_PI

[dando]

Watched the stream live this AM. That was one low cloud deck. :eek: It was up, up, and away! and then disappeared.

[dando]

Apparently nrc ponied up....

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-spacex-announcement-20170227-story.html

;)

[nrc]

Apparently nrc ponied up....

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-spacex-announcement-20170227-story.html

;)

No current plans to leave the atmosphere, thanks. :cool:

[dando]

No current plans to leave the atmosphere, thanks. :cool:

C'mon, man...what could possibly go wrong? :gomer: ;)

[Insomniac]

That's a lot of money to hang out on a sound stage. :D

[Gnam]

:laugh:

[dando]

Space Race 2? Does it ship Prime?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/03/02/an-exclusive-look-at-jeff-bezos-plan-to-set-up-amazon-like-delivery-for-future-human-settlement-of-the-moon/?utm_term=.1e396b9e4f96""

[SteveH]

Blue Origin releases details of its monster orbital rocket (https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/03/blue-origin-releases-details-of-its-monster-orbital-rocket/)

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/new-glenn-large2-980x631.jpg

[Gnam]

US manned space program:

https://s15.postimg.org/yaokzda1n/Dumpster_Fire2.jpg

[dando]

SLS plans (long article)...

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2017/04/nasa-goals-missions-sls-eyes-multi-step-mars/

[Gnam]

Catalog of objects in orbit.

It's not all junk, but there's a lot of junk up there.

http://stuffin.space/