WeaverWho are you?What do you want?Registered Userregular
edited May 2009
The new Fine Guidance Sensor 2 has passed all functional tests from the ground. The second of the two replacement battery modules is also reporting in the green. So far, all work on this servicing mission has been successful.
Just_Bri_ThanksSeething with ragefrom a handbasket.Registered User, ClubPAregular
edited May 2009
I just hope we come up with a way to get things into and out of orbit more cost effectively in the near future. Think space blows your mind now? Just wait until we are making daily trips up.
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So the EVA on Friday, my step-son was home from school that day, and I was tracking the EVA on NASA TV, and the free-floating astronaut was prepping equipment in the cargo bay. They had a really great, daylight view of him from one of the cargo bay cameras and I forget who it was but somebody asked him to wave at the camera, so I get my boy (who just turned six) to look and he sees a man in space "waving at him".
He gets the biggest grin possible on his face and slowly puts his hand up and waves back and oh man that is the fucking coolest thing ever
Makes me wonder what sort of attitude his generation will have towards space travel, having grown up with it in a totally different context then anyone else
this is really something I've always wondered too. For me, space is still one of the only things that can inspire complete and utter awe from me.
but how will my children react? will they still be filled with wonder at the vastness of space? will they go "holy shit" every time a giant hi-res picture of a nebula shows up?
Especially given that the general public attitude towards space can barely be described as "permissive" and public interest/funding seems like it's at an all time low
My close pals dad is the head at Langley research center and apparently NASA is taking a 5 year hiatus from launches and all sorts of sad jazz
Supposedly we intend to be on Mars by the late 2020s, though.
I'm pretty sure knowledge of space and space travel is still pretty niche.
I'd say my 4-7 year old cousins have the same general ideas about space and what we've done there as I did when I was that age. Maybe even less.
Because frankly, in those 15-18 years nasa's been pretty much marginalized.
edit: It's not like cell phones and the internet, which they are aware of and interact with almost/every day. Where as when I was young these things were pretty big leaps.
So the EVA on Friday, my step-son was home from school that day, and I was tracking the EVA on NASA TV, and the free-floating astronaut was prepping equipment in the cargo bay. They had a really great, daylight view of him from one of the cargo bay cameras and I forget who it was but somebody asked him to wave at the camera, so I get my boy (who just turned six) to look and he sees a man in space "waving at him".
He gets the biggest grin possible on his face and slowly puts his hand up and waves back and oh man that is the fucking coolest thing ever
Makes me wonder what sort of attitude his generation will have towards space travel, having grown up with it in a totally different context then anyone else
this is really something I've always wondered too. For me, space is still one of the only things that can inspire complete and utter awe from me.
but how will my children react? will they still be filled with wonder at the vastness of space? will they go "holy shit" every time a giant hi-res picture of a nebula shows up?
Especially given that the general public attitude towards space can barely be described as "permissive" and public interest/funding seems like it's at an all time low
My close pals dad is the head at Langley research center and apparently NASA is taking a 5 year hiatus from launches and all sorts of sad jazz
Supposedly we intend to be on Mars by the late 2020s, though.
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FandyienBut Otto, what about us? Registered Userregular
edited May 2009
Are you making that face at me or the five year hiatus
FandyienBut Otto, what about us? Registered Userregular
edited May 2009
I like being able to occasionally get the inside skinny on whats going on around NASA. I got my bud to ask him about all the bullshit we saw in that secret space film where I learned about the goddamn space serpents, too, and evidently he just looked at him, deadpan, and said "I sure haven't heard anything about UFOs."
And I know this got announced but he got my friend pretty stoked about the new shuttles, apparently they're going to be wingless and traditional rocket-that-sheds-pieces style
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WeaverWho are you?What do you want?Registered Userregular
edited May 2009
Every time that Atlantis passes over the northern coast of Madagascar, I'm all
"SHUT DOWN EVERYTHING!"
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edited May 2009
I've developed such an emotional attachment to this crew; if something goes wrong during landing I am going to be completely inconsolable.
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edited May 2009
This entire mission really deserves a lot more respect and recognition than it has been receiving.
This entire mission really deserves a lot more respect and recognition than it has been receiving.
To be honest if it wasn't for SE I wouldn't have even really known anything was happening.
It seems like NASA doesn't really get much press attention. I don't think I've even heard any mention of it on the news here at all, aside from one or two articles in the online paper. But I don't really watch the news, so I can't say if it's been shown or not.
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edited May 2009
outstanding thread
good show, weaver
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edited May 2009
Thanks. It saddens me that the next time we'll see a launch vehicle dock with the HST will be to drop it into an atmospheric burn. Especially when it has given us, before the upgrades of this mission, such images as:
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I had no idea they were going to finish off Hubble
I grew up in Orlando, watching space shuttle launches with my naked eye every time they happened, so I've always had a soft spot in my heart for the space program
Thanks. It saddens me that the next time we'll see a launch vehicle dock with the HST will be to drop it into an atmospheric burn. Especially when it has given us, before the upgrades of this mission, such images as:
What is the first image of?
Is that a galaxy with like a dust ring or something?
So the EVA on Friday, my step-son was home from school that day, and I was tracking the EVA on NASA TV, and the free-floating astronaut was prepping equipment in the cargo bay. They had a really great, daylight view of him from one of the cargo bay cameras and I forget who it was but somebody asked him to wave at the camera, so I get my boy (who just turned six) to look and he sees a man in space "waving at him".
He gets the biggest grin possible on his face and slowly puts his hand up and waves back and oh man that is the fucking coolest thing ever
WeaverWho are you?What do you want?Registered Userregular
edited May 2009
Atlantis has released Hubble and is now 14,000 feet from the telescope. In one hour the orbiter will conduct an orbit adjustment burn to lower its altitude to 160 nautical miles. NASA TV will have video from the shuttle again in about five minutes.
also, an astronaut is twittering as it happens - his username is astro_mike
That's Mike Massamino, who will also be filming the landing of Atlantis from inside the flight deck, and was given special dispensation from his Catholic priest to miss church yesterday.
Sure it looks cool, but at what cost? I wonder how many generations of countries living in disgusting poverty could have been fed in exchange for one NASA launch. To me, this isn't proof of American "superiority", but more so arrogance. Pretty good look at how America prefers to spend millions to reinforce its image of technological superiority in the world rather than help those in need.
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Also, you'd totally hit it with a robotic arm.
chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
Especially given that the general public attitude towards space can barely be described as "permissive" and public interest/funding seems like it's at an all time low
My close pals dad is the head at Langley research center and apparently NASA is taking a 5 year hiatus from launches and all sorts of sad jazz
Supposedly we intend to be on Mars by the late 2020s, though.
If I had to do a space walk I would just be crying the entire time.
Cry and snotting so hard that the tears and snot would hang around my head and cause me to suffocate.
I'd say my 4-7 year old cousins have the same general ideas about space and what we've done there as I did when I was that age. Maybe even less.
Because frankly, in those 15-18 years nasa's been pretty much marginalized.
edit: It's not like cell phones and the internet, which they are aware of and interact with almost/every day. Where as when I was young these things were pretty big leaps.
And I know this got announced but he got my friend pretty stoked about the new shuttles, apparently they're going to be wingless and traditional rocket-that-sheds-pieces style
"SHUT DOWN EVERYTHING!"
fine, fine, I'll post in your thread some more
dang, no need to be so pushy
To be honest if it wasn't for SE I wouldn't have even really known anything was happening.
It seems like NASA doesn't really get much press attention. I don't think I've even heard any mention of it on the news here at all, aside from one or two articles in the online paper. But I don't really watch the news, so I can't say if it's been shown or not.
Which is a real shame.
That makes me
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Fucking Obama should be all "We choose to go to mars this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy but because they are hard."
Too bad we have the stupid economy to fix...
good show, weaver
I grew up in Orlando, watching space shuttle launches with my naked eye every time they happened, so I've always had a soft spot in my heart for the space program
I'm sad
What is the first image of?
Is that a galaxy with like a dust ring or something?
This is so sweet. Awesome, Weaver.
More great photos from the mission here.
They don't seem to be doing much of anything
Other then being perky
Man.
The priest said it was ok because Mike was
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getting closer to God.
But as usual, the comments make me angry.
Ugh why am I still reading them?