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Oxygen leak on the ISS!
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TheGreenGoblin » Wed Sep 30, 2020 9:32 am
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Apparently it is on the Russian side of the station! What a metaphor for our foolishness on earth.
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Peterheid would need an offy lot o' bombing, though.
Eight Beefy toos? Twelve, more like. Sixteen might do the job.
Fukkn place needs to be glazed.
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Fri Sep 10, 2021 10:53 am
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Engine failure on leaving the ground
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llondel » Mon Aug 30, 2021 2:36 pm
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An interesting practical demonstration of engine out on lift-off and subsequent recovery of a rocket. They determined that one of the main engines...
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Good job it walked the way it did! Looks like it followed the engine-out procedure down the valley before climbing away =))
Goes to show how far...
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Mon Aug 30, 2021 3:48 pm
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Amazon Black-Moonday sale
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Boac » Tue Jul 27, 2021 7:14 am
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Apparently Bezos has offered an 'up to' $2 BILLION(!) discount to NASA if they award the moon lander contract to Blue Origin.
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The trouble with all this improper stuff in lawsuits is that most of the time it just comes down to you didn't choose us .
As for never been done...
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Tue Aug 17, 2021 3:55 pm
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ISS Thread
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Boac » Thu Feb 06, 2020 10:13 am
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Seems we do not have one! Latest crew recovery went well. Christina Koch is back on Earth after 328 days in orbit.
A bit of excitement earlier when...
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The latest Russian module for the ISS safely docked yesterday after many 'issues', but then apparently began firing its thrusters in an uncontrolled...
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Tue Aug 03, 2021 7:32 pm
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Space Oddities...
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TheGreenGoblin » Fri Jul 30, 2021 7:34 pm
Nothing is certain in life but death, taxes, and paperwork. Even when you’re an astronaut.
Buzz Aldrin, the NASA astronaut who was the second man to...
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Fri Jul 30, 2021 7:34 pm
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Another Billionaire Space Program
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PHXPhlyer » Thu Jul 29, 2021 8:54 pm
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The Porsche dynasty is taking on Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk in space
London (CNN Business)Porsche SE, the family holding company that controls...
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The emissions tests will be interesting =)) =))
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Thu Jul 29, 2021 10:26 pm
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Sat Jul 03, 2021 4:53 pm
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Balloon to "Space"
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PHXPhlyer » Wed Jun 23, 2021 10:09 pm
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On sale: $125,000 balloon trips to the edge of space
(CNN) — If you're trying to avoid airborne viruses, heading to a near vacuum might not be...
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I was big fan of Joe Kittinger as a kid, and followed his career carefully and lapped up the history of his high altitude leap from a balloon into...
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Thu Jun 24, 2021 8:19 am
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Return To The Moon
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PHXPhlyer » Sat Apr 10, 2021 3:11 am
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NASA's Artemis program will land the first person of color on the moon
Will they land on the dark side (asking for a friend)?
NASA's Artemis...
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That’s a big one :D
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Last post by Woody
Sat Jun 12, 2021 9:05 pm
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Fast Radio Bursts
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TheGreenGoblin » Fri May 21, 2021 5:19 am
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FRB's have been in the popular press this week, as even the so-called serious press has been inclined to ludicrous hyperbole about the the strength...
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For an entertaining history of this branch of research you can't beat the UK's very own Curious Droid.
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Fri May 21, 2021 5:45 am
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Plutonium-244
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TheGreenGoblin » Sun May 16, 2021 6:31 am
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It used to be said that any plutonium isotopes extant on the earth had been created as a result of man's nuclear research, weapons and industry, as...
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In the latter case I should have said the mathematics of twisted or deformed shapes of course.
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Last post by TheGreenGoblin
Wed May 19, 2021 5:59 am
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The Chinese out of control again...
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johngreen » Tue May 04, 2021 7:19 am
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This could be interesting methinks...
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It is worth remembering that the US threw Skylab back to earth. Slightly more control over re-entry, but not a lot. However, yes, China does need to...
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Last post by llondel
Sun May 09, 2021 4:48 pm
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More Chinese orbital negligence...
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TheGreenGoblin » Tue May 04, 2021 7:27 am
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A huge Chinese rocket is set to fall back to earth in an uncontrolled re-entry after a space station launch.
The 21-ton Long March 5B rocket carried...
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JG's topic has a 'useful' visualisation if you want to place any bets :))
Apologies to John Green. I didn't see his thread..
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Tue May 04, 2021 8:06 am
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Excitement at CERN
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TheGreenGoblin » Tue Mar 23, 2021 9:37 am
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Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva have spotted an unusual signal in their data that may be the first hint of a new kind of...
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Does that mean that any life that may have existed on Proxima Centauri b disappeared on Feb 1 2015?
Well any life in line with the beam of energy...
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Sun Apr 25, 2021 3:11 pm
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Where would we be?
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Boac » Sun Apr 25, 2021 9:22 am
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It would be interesting to philosophise on where we would be as a race if we had not left the planet.
Let's start with no Satellite TV, probably no...
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British Naval Labs invented the LED if I remember correctly. Appears my memory may be slightly distorted but, hey, who cares......
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Sun Apr 25, 2021 12:21 pm
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Low Earth Orbit
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TheGreenGoblin » Wed Apr 21, 2021 6:11 am
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There is so much stuff happening in and around our oblate spheroid that is not just SpaceX or NASA orientated, that I thought it worth posting this...
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Before long there will be so much junk in low orbit that it won't be safe to launch anything because of the probability of hitting some of it. The...
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Thu Apr 22, 2021 2:08 am
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Mon Apr 12, 2021 2:39 pm
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The Guatemalan Space Agency!
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TheGreenGoblin » Fri Feb 19, 2021 4:55 am
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I feel we should try and avoid politics in space but this news deserves comment, and derision, in my opinion!
Nicaragua has created a new...
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After staying up too late, as well? :-? =))
PP
;)))
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Sat Feb 20, 2021 9:54 am
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Thu Jan 21, 2021 2:46 am
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Light that candle!
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TheGreenGoblin » Wed Jan 13, 2021 2:49 pm
NASA's SLS rocket core stage will soon be test fired
The SLS is NASA's go-to rocket to send astronauts to the moon by 2024 as part of its Artemis...
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Wed Jan 13, 2021 2:49 pm
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Big Bang and Black Holes
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TheGreenGoblin » Tue Jan 05, 2021 8:40 am
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For all the cosmology/physics geeks here...
On January 8th 2021 Professor Hawking’s birthday, two online public outreach lectures about the science...
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It's also William Hartnell's birthday, so he shares the day with Dr Who.
An excuse for that wonderful theme tune...
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Tue Jan 05, 2021 5:46 pm
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Back in the Olden Days
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OFSO » Sun Dec 27, 2020 11:29 am
Three-Axis-Stablised spacecraft are kept pointing the right way by Hydrazine thrusters on each corner (and sometimes also by spinning flywheels which...
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Sun Dec 27, 2020 11:29 am
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All of the planets will be visible until Friday, November 13.
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PHXPhlyer » Fri Nov 13, 2020 7:46 pm
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All of the planets will be visible until Friday, November 13. (Sorry Pluto)
You can see every planet in our solar system this week
By Giulia...
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The best meteor shower of 2020 will feature multi-colored shooting stars on Sunday night
The best meteor shower of 2020 will feature...
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Sun Dec 13, 2020 7:03 pm
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Beautiful views in space...
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TheGreenGoblin » Tue Nov 17, 2020 10:12 am
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Anybody care to take a guess at what this is...
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Shhhh! Don't them them it's not just aircraft emitting chemtrails!
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Sun Dec 13, 2020 6:41 pm
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