Tag: space
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According to news media: today, a billionaire is being taken into space, where the crew will open the rocket door and put him outside.
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The Polaris Dawn crew (billionaire Jared Isaacman, accompanied by a retired US Air Force pilot and two SpaceX employees) preparing to launch.
This seems like a great start, and I hope that the remaining 1,780+ billionaires left here on earth will be following suit soon.
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SPACEX - ISS Docking Simulator
SpaceX released a free simulator game of the ISS docking procedure. It's pretty challenging.
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Dan helps a 5 year-old launch stomp rockets to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 launch.
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The last Soviet citizen: The cosmonaut who was left behind in space - Russia Beyond
Repost of the story of Sergei Krikalev, who was aboard Mir when the Soviet Union collapsed and found himself both stateless and weightless.
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Mercury is the closest planet to all seven other planets
Just showing the simulation which we used to validate the Whirly Dirly Corollary. Kind of a fun fact about our Solar System and orbiting bodies in general. Check out our Physics Today article!
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Alka-Seltzer added to spherical water drop in microgravity
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Plasma Ben (YouTube)
This is just...wooooah. Proper "dude, my hands are huge" grade moment, for me, when I watched the bubbles form in the droplet of water. I had an idea about what would happen, and I was partially right, but by the time we were onto the third run-through of this … -
"Elon Musk"
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Lunar Lander
Back in 1997 Dan made a "Lunar Lander" game in Turbo Pascal. Twenty years on, he's re-implemented it in Javascript.
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Minutes away from completing my first hitchhiker mission, playing for the first time since 1.x, this happened. Nooooo!
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I can see (MegaLounge)Earth from here!
[this was originally posted to a private subreddit]
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ISEE-3
Back in early March, I posted comic #1337, Hack, about a wayward spacecraft. ISEE-3/ICE was returning to fly past Earth after many decades of wandering through space. It was still operational, and could potentially be sent on a new mission, but NASA no longer had the equipment to talk to itand announced that reconstructing the equipment…
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Hey, mods: how about a Lanius flair?
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Proxima Centauri is 4.3 light years way: too far to travel. Why don't we just use Mercury (which has an 88 day year) as a staging ground, and launch from there?
Mercury's year is only 88 days, so if we launch a rocket from there, we only have to travel for just over 1 light year, saving time and fuel.
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TIL that in 1970, British Rail patented the design of fusion-powered interstellar spaceship
British Rail flying saucer
The British Rail flying saucer, officially known simply as space vehicle, was a proposed spacecraft designed by Charles Osmond Frederick.
Purpose
The flying saucer originally started as a proposal for a lifting platform. However, the project was revised and edited, and by the time the patent was filed had become … -
Blimps… In Space
Now here's a funky idea - sub-orbital spaceflight in enormous helium balloons, up to a two-mile wide sub-space station (a permanant facility at the very boundries of our atmosphere). This could be used to carry spaceship components for assembly in orbit, and then launched using ion drives at a fraction of the price of rocket …