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Posted: Sep 26, 2024 - 2:59pm

           NASA crashes DART into asteroid

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Posted: Sep 22, 2024 - 3:06pm

Here's a fascinating program that is/was on PBS that includes Marc Buie (he was awarded the Order of the Lion by the Sengalese government). He's working with a local astronomer to do something incredibly controversial: tell the Muslim community what the right time is to pray. The clerics there have their times, but the planet shifts and those times are wrong. Now, science abuts religious practice. Wow.

Here's Marc explaining what the consequence would be if you don't get the right measurements at the right time in the right place (maybe because of weather or other logistics). Well, maybe you can get it later?


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Posted: Sep 20, 2024 - 8:11pm

 Steely_D wrote:

I was a freshman, 1976, at LSU, walking down the hallway of Hatcher dorm when I heard a 'boop' repeatedly coming from a room, that sounded exactly like the opening of Echoes. Aha! Another Floyd fan! Turns out it was something else, but I became friends with Marc Buie. We roomed together, played in a punk band together, won (!) a campus Trivia Bowl together, got put on disciplinary probation together, and have been friends ever since. 

He became a planetary scientist with a very very long and impressive résumé while I watched. His pictures of Pluto are in the Smithsonian. Recently, a decades-long project came to fruition where he discovered, then achieved a flyby, or the farthest known object in our solar system - Arrokoth. My wife and I (and Marc's friend, Brian May) were there for the flyby.

Now, a couple of years later, he's summarized a mind-blowing achievement.

 https://aasnova.org/2024/09/13...



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Posted: Sep 20, 2024 - 6:50pm

 Steely_D wrote:

I was a freshman, 1976, at LSU, walking down the hallway of Hatcher dorm when I heard a 'boop' repeatedly coming from a room, that sounded exactly like the opening of Echoes. Aha! Another Floyd fan! Turns out it was something else, but I became friends with Marc Buie. We roomed together, played in a punk band together, won (!) a campus Trivia Bowl together, got put on disciplinary probation together, and have been friends ever since. 

He became a planetary scientist with a very very long and impressive résumé while I watched. His pictures of Pluto are in the Smithsonian. Recently, a decades-long project came to fruition where he discovered, then achieved a flyby, or the farthest known object in our solar system - Arrokoth. My wife and I (and Marc's friend, Brian May) were there for the flyby.

Now, a couple of years later, he's summarized a mind-blowing achievement.

 https://aasnova.org/2024/09/13...



Very cool and Arrokoth would be a great band name
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Posted: Sep 20, 2024 - 6:25pm

I was a freshman, 1976, at LSU, walking down the hallway of Hatcher dorm when I heard a 'boop' repeatedly coming from a room, that sounded exactly like the opening of Echoes. Aha! Another Floyd fan! Turns out it was something else, but I became friends with Marc Buie. We roomed together, played in a punk band together, won (!) a campus Trivia Bowl together, got put on disciplinary probation together, and have been friends ever since. 

He became a planetary scientist with a very very long and impressive résumé while I watched. His pictures of Pluto are in the Smithsonian. Recently, a decades-long project came to fruition where he discovered, then achieved a flyby, or the farthest known object in our solar system - Arrokoth. My wife and I (and Marc's friend, Brian May) were there for the flyby.

Now, a couple of years later, he's summarized a mind-blowing achievement.

 https://aasnova.org/2024/09/13...

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Posted: Sep 10, 2024 - 9:23am

Educational Services Staff with a Spacemobile Vehicle

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Posted: Aug 27, 2024 - 9:06am

 Beaker wrote:

Great explainer by the dean of space reporting, Miles O'Brien.




Wait! That doesn’t look like the Miles O'Brien from DS-9.  
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Posted: Aug 26, 2024 - 6:54pm

Great explainer by the dean of space reporting, Miles O'Brien.


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Posted: Aug 24, 2024 - 6:02am

NASA will announce today whether its stranded astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, will come home on the problematic Starliner craft they arrived on, some time in September, or will be enjoying an even lengthier stay on ISS until returning home on a SpaceX Dragon with Crew 9 in February 2025.  Launched on June 5th, Butch and Suni's flight to ISS and stay was only supposed to last only eight days.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and leadership will hold an internal Agency Test Flight Readiness Review on Saturday, Aug. 24, for NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test. About an hour later, NASA will host a live news conference at 1 p.m. EDT from the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.

Link to this announcement of an upcoming ... announcement, now happening at 1pm EDT (11am MST)

Rumours are suggesting the nod will go to SpaceX Dragon.   If so, the Starliner program suffers a massive credibility hit - and may go back to development and testing, or get cancelled altogether.  Boeing is rumored to have already lost ~$1.6B on Starliner.


This is so embarrassing for Boeing and NASA, and the most insane advertising campaign imaginable for SpaceX.

Same but different, Butch and Suni's eight day cruise:

Meanwhile, SpaceX and Dragon are gearing up for the first commercial spacewalk, along with the highest orbit of Earth by a manned capsule since Apollo.


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Posted: Aug 8, 2024 - 2:31pm

The next flight test will be epic! The first attempt to catch the Starship booster in the 'chop sticks' will be attempted. Excitement guaranteed!

Will it work? Or will it be 'a farewell to arms'? :-)




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Posted: Aug 6, 2024 - 7:29am

water on the moon
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Posted: Aug 5, 2024 - 9:16am

NASA is having a bad run of luck.  Now the Cygnus resupply craft to ISS, launched yesterday, failed to conduct some altitude raising burns.  Will they fix it?  Will it make it to ISS?  Stay tuned!

NASA’s Northrop Grumman Cygnus Completes Solar Arrays Deployment

Shortly after launch, the spacecraft missed its first burn slated for 11:44 a.m. due to a late entry to burn sequencing. Known as the targeted altitude burn, or TB1, it was rescheduled for 12:34 p.m., but aborted the maneuver shortly after the engine ignited due to a slightly low initial pressure state. There is no indication the engine itself has any problem at this time.

Cygnus is at a safe altitude, and Northrop Grumman engineers are working a new burn and trajectory plan. The team aims to achieve the spacecraft’s original capture time on station, which is currently slated for 3:10 a.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 6.


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Posted: Aug 5, 2024 - 9:10am

Serious issues re the return of Starliner and its crew - they might have to come back on a SpaceX Dragon.

NASA likely to significantly delay the launch of Crew 9 due to Starliner issues
The primary reason for the delay is rather surprising.

At issue is the performance of the small reaction control system thrusters in proximity to the space station. If the right combination of them fail before Starliner has moved sufficiently far from the station, Starliner could become uncontrollable and collide with the space station. The thrusters are also needed later in the flight back to Earth to set up the critical de-orbit burn and entry in Earth's atmosphere.


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Posted: Aug 2, 2024 - 5:26pm


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Posted: Jun 27, 2024 - 3:12pm

this is mesmerizing...


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Posted: Jun 8, 2024 - 8:23am

Ho-lee muther!  They not only got super heavy to the location desired, they captured its soft landing into the ocean!   Next up with IFT5 - they'll try to catch it in the chopsticks!



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Posted: Jun 7, 2024 - 8:42am

Boeing is an over bloated crap fest. Not the same one I knew from the 60’s and 70’s. They over run project milestones, are upping the cost of below par work that they pass on to us, and have a management team that seems to be powered by a clueless society of inept leaders only interested in the Benjamins.

We’ve been lucky so far that nobody has parishes in a catastrophic event. 
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Posted: Jun 6, 2024 - 10:42am

 JrzyTmata wrote:

WHEW!!


If you're unlucky enough to be one of my kids, you'd know my opinions about the tremendous luck I associate with being born at just about the perfect time, in the right place, in history...the 60s... after the wars (too young for Vietnam) ... before the internet...with the greatest popular music explosion... and jet travel... and live TV from across the planet...  and then the arrival of the internet.... all with an appreciation that what just happened in space is an amazing accomplishment showcasing the utter brilliance of thousand upon thousand of humans, that those born a bit later take for granted. 


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Posted: Jun 6, 2024 - 10:35am

WHEW!!
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Posted: Jun 6, 2024 - 9:23am

 miamizsun wrote:

and the docking is coming up




Seems to be some issues...
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