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Fri Apr 24, 2020 3:02 pm
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13 minutes to the Moon..
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TheGreenGoblin » Mon Apr 13, 2020 12:51 pm
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Have been listening to this series on the BBC World Service in tribute to the astronauts of Apollo 13, 50 years after their extraordinary escape from...
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I hadn't appreciated what an important role the Australians played in saving the Apollo 13 mission ...
The little-known role Australia played in...
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Sat Apr 18, 2020 2:21 am
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How big is your satellite?
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TheGreenGoblin » Fri Mar 27, 2020 1:30 pm
Satellites are getting smaller, cheaper, and more complex – it really is rocket science, and its changing the world. FINN’s editor-in-chief Alan...
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Fri Mar 27, 2020 1:30 pm
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Duck!
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Boac » Thu Mar 05, 2020 1:27 pm
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Thu Mar 05, 2020 9:12 pm
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Space Instrumentation
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Magnus » Sat Jan 19, 2019 12:08 pm
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Rocket Science isn't rocket science.
I worked on instrumentation for the James Webb Space Telescope. The instrumentation was fairly straightforward,...
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Hopefully they don't use the same batteries as the Dreamliner.
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Last post by llondel
Tue Mar 03, 2020 6:58 pm
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Apollo 8 - Navigation musings
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TheGreenGoblin » Tue Feb 18, 2020 4:57 am
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I was watching a documentary on Apollo 8, the first mission ever to obit the moon and began to consider the issues of navigation for such a mission...
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- mentioned in Riding Rockets is 'Hoot' Gibson (F-14s)..
Flew as a pilot for Southwest airlines until he was forced to retire at 60!
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Fri Feb 28, 2020 6:15 pm
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Fri Feb 28, 2020 1:12 pm
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RIP - Heather Couper
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TheGreenGoblin » Fri Feb 21, 2020 4:31 pm
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Heather Couper Astronomer
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There was a joke about a blonde, inevitably, and I can't quite remember how it goes, but the punchline is that she is at some fancy dinner with...
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Last post by Capetonian
Sat Feb 22, 2020 10:05 am
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Apollo Accidents/Incidents
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TheGreenGoblin » Fri Feb 21, 2020 4:04 pm
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I had always assumed that while every flight was perilous, that there had only been 2 Apollo missions that had been marred by serious...
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I have always liked this photograph taken from the Apollo Soyuz hookup.
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Fri Feb 21, 2020 6:35 pm
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Dr Rendezvous...
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TheGreenGoblin » Sat Jan 25, 2020 12:06 pm
I have been reading Buzz Aldrin's remarkably candid second autobiography 'Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon' dealing with...
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Last post by TheGreenGoblin
Sat Jan 25, 2020 12:06 pm
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Gagarin - First man in space
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Alisoncc » Sat Jan 11, 2020 8:49 am
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Just watched the biopic/movie of Yuri Gagarin's life, preparation and flight into space. It was very matter-of-fact, no melodrama. Seemed to just end...
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His take on the accident which took Gagarin's life was that there was no conspiracy. Just Soviet inefficiency he said, which they did not want to...
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Last post by TheGreenGoblin
Sat Jan 11, 2020 7:35 pm
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What shape is the universe?
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TheGreenGoblin » Mon Nov 04, 2019 5:27 pm
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Our understanding of the universe could be fundamentally wrong, astronomers say
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One of the most interesting things in cosmology is that factors such as the expansion rate of the universe and mass estimates lie right on the...
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Last post by boing
Mon Dec 09, 2019 5:00 pm
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The Voyager space craft.
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TheGreenGoblin » Mon Nov 04, 2019 8:02 am
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I watched this documentary yesterday on Amazon Prime... The Farthest and found it to be a most poignant and interesting recollection of the Voyager...
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Thanks for that GG,the best explanation I have ever read about the amazing journey of these two marvels.
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Last post by bob2s
Mon Nov 04, 2019 9:49 pm
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The bearded one hopes to fly high!
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TheGreenGoblin » Mon Oct 28, 2019 3:25 pm
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Sir Richard Branson chose a fortuitous day to be at the New York Stock Exchange for the flotation of Virgin Galactic. The market climbed into Bull...
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Beardy must have changed his tune. Eons ago I bought Virgin shares - never did anything and after a few years Beardy got fed up with the snooping...
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Last post by CremeEgg
Mon Oct 28, 2019 8:15 pm
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India's moon probe goes missing.
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TheGreenGoblin » Sat Sep 07, 2019 6:44 am
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India's attempt to land on the surface of the Moon appears to have ended in failure after its historic spacecraft went missing.
The probe, named...
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I wonder whether India asked or we offered.
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Last post by Pontius Navigator
Tue Sep 17, 2019 8:14 pm
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The Loonies
by Sisemen » Sat Aug 24, 2019 10:28 am
Spotted this while idly looking at FR24
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Last post by Sisemen
Sat Aug 24, 2019 10:28 am
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Wed Aug 21, 2019 9:15 am
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Planetary Defense
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Fox3WheresMyBanana » Mon Apr 29, 2019 11:29 pm
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You may not realise that NASA has a Planetary Defense Office, to the best of my knowledge the only one on the planet.
So, since Superman isn't about...
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Please do not read the above if you are not security cleared.
Reminds me of the Irish bomb disposal instructions
Cut the blue wire
(p.t.o.)
..but...
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Last post by Fox3WheresMyBanana
Fri May 03, 2019 7:16 pm
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Antares launch
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Boac » Wed Apr 17, 2019 9:01 pm
Just gone off - impressively on-time with no hitches so far. Roger Chaffee goes into space at last.
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Last post by Boac
Wed Apr 17, 2019 9:01 pm
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Insight on Mars
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Boac » Tue Nov 27, 2018 12:11 pm
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Lovely to watch the live broadcast from Mission Control as it landed. A great job. I did not realise it is the 8th 'soft land' from NASA on Mars!
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Amazing the Martians allowed it to land. More misions to Mars have been lost than to all the other objects in the Solar System put together. Go...
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Last post by OFSO
Wed Nov 28, 2018 4:14 pm
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Soyuz malfunction during launch
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Boac » Thu Oct 11, 2018 9:19 am
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Down and reported alive and well. Bit of a wait for the current ISS crew!
NASA LIve
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Information from the Russian space agency on the failure.
For want of a nail and that kind of thing.
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Thu Nov 01, 2018 4:35 am
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Minerva
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by Slasher » Thu Oct 25, 2018 8:19 am
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I am quite impressed with the manner in which the missions are progressing.
What's especially unique, apart from the primary mission itself, is...
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Might reduce manufacturing costs a bit if some Sons of the Sand were given a box of bits and told to assemble a space-qualifiied research project. In...
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Last post by OFSO
Tue Oct 30, 2018 8:35 pm
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50th Anniversary of some momentous days
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Alisoncc » Thu Oct 11, 2018 4:07 pm
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50th Anniversary of some momentous days coming up in 2019. Given how little has been accomplished in the intervening years what would be a fitting...
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I vote for launching Trump to Mars. =))
Apologies for hijacking a serious post.....
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Thu Oct 11, 2018 5:02 pm
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Tue Oct 10, 2017 5:59 am
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Flying live fish
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Fliegenmong » Mon May 16, 2016 8:35 am
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What's involved in this? Anyone had any experience?
I knew a guy South of here who had a fish place on the Tweed river, and found a market for...
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Day-old chicks have been known to 'cook' if packed too tightly, poor buggers. Sadly, not too much meat on them..............
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Fri Apr 14, 2017 6:36 pm
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