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Old 04-06-2011, 03:14 PM
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I'm gonna call BS on that video. How'd they get the cameras there? CONSPIRACY!
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Today is the 50th anniversary of the first human in space!

Yuri Gagarin: First Human Space Flight in Pictures

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Old 04-12-2011, 11:08 PM
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Nope, sorry. It's the 150th anniversary of the attack on Fort Sumter.
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Old 04-13-2011, 12:57 AM
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American astronaut Colonel Catherine Coleman (on board the International Space Station) and Ian Anderson (of Jethro Tull fame) performed a flute duet in Gagarin's honor. Very nice.
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What's the deal here? Gagarin attacked Ft. Sumter from orbit? Why was I not informed of this? :pout:
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Private Rocket Firm Under Pressure to Fill Space Shuttle Void

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Private rocket builder SpaceX is trying to speed up testing of its new Dragon spaceship to enable it to visit the International Space Station on the next demonstration flight.

With NASA's space shuttle program set to retire later this year, the pressure is on for commercial providers to compensate for the loss of the shuttles' enormous cargo-carrying capability.

"We have a very serious responsibility here because the space shuttle is coming to a close ... What we've been told by NASA is that if we don't reach the space station by the end of this year, there's a risk that they will have to de-man the space station next year. We've got to be sure that we get to the space station. That is very much our primary focus."
Private Rocket Firm SpaceX to Fill Space Shuttle Void | NASA's Space Shuttle Program Retirement & National Space Symposium | Falcon 9 & Dragon Capsule, Commercial Space | Space.com

I actually had a contact at SpaceX through an engineer friend in California that I used to play volleyball with. When I separated from the Air Force and moved back there in 2008 (jesus fucking christ has it been that long?!) he tried to get me in for an interview, but they wouldn't consider anyone without a graduate-level degree. My highest credential apart from my military experience is still my GED, so yeah, that did not happen.

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It's interesting that when the shuttle is retired, US Astronauts will be launched by the Soyuz rocket which is just a development of a Russian missile that first flew in 1957.



Despite its age, the Soyuz is the most reliable launch vehicle ever flown. It shows, perhaps, that NASA went up a blind alley with the shuttle - sticking with an expendable launch system like Soyuz or a development of the Apollo Saturn launcher would have been a better decision. We might have landed men on Mars by now.

Hindsight is, unfortunately, something we don't have in advance.
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Our foresight is sorely lacking as well.
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Despite its age, the Soyuz is the most reliable launch vehicle ever flown. It shows, perhaps, that NASA went up a blind alley with the shuttle - sticking with an expendable launch system like Soyuz or a development of the Apollo Saturn launcher would have been a better decision. We might have landed men on Mars by now.

Hindsight is, unfortunately, something we don't have in advance.
American engineers sometimes sneeringly refer to Russian rockets as "BDB"s -- "Big Dumb Boosters" -- because of their relatively low technology. But then, that's why they're so reliable -- because they're so relatively simple and have so few complicated components that might fail.

Sometimes, simpler is better.
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This is the official thread to talk about advances in space exploration that don't have to do with Mars.
Manned space programs are a big dud compared to the unmanned programs. How can prancing on the moon or even mars compare to observing objects billions of light years from earth?

The next major adventure in space exploration will commence when the James Webb Space Telescope is up and running.
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Today's xkcd is relevant to this thread, as well as depressing as fuck1




1 Fuck isn't really depressing; this :^: is.
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A similar chart for "still-functioning man-made robots that have walked on another world" would be more positive.

But one for "still-functioning man-made robots that have walked on another world and returned safely to Earth" would not.
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Also, shouldn't there be an upturn in 2030 when ES goes to live on Mars?
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The hover text for that one is what's really depressing.

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The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space--each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision.
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Hate to be a hater - I usually <3 xkcd - but if there really are space-faring civilisations discovering the remains of planet-bound ones, then where the fuck are they?
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It's a big galaxy, not to mention universe. Odds are low anyone would stumble upon any given planet, including ours.
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The xkcd hover text does say "each", as in all of them. Allowing for hyperbole, it still seems like such a naive level of spacetech-optimism that I can't take it seriously, even as the sort of bittersweet joke that xkcd can do so well. Now maybe that's depressing.
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Space Tourism. It's the Wave of the Future! Book your trip today! :eager:



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Obviously, if you don't want Portal 2 spoilers, don't watch.

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This doesn't necessarily expand our understanding of outer space but it's still wicked cool.

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What you see above is the largest true-color photograph of the night sky ever created, shot by 28-year-old amateur astrophotographer Nick Risinger using six astronomical cameras. It’s not just the view of the sky from one location, but is instead a 360-panoramic view of the sky taken by trekking 60,000 miles across the western United States and South Africa starting in March 2010.
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