NASA's big launch
Tomorrow, NASA will attempt to return to space after an 11-year hiatus in which it had no launch vehicles at all. Their Artemis rocket will generate the most thrust of any space vehicle ever launched to date - some 8.8 million pounds. It will send an un-piloted Orion crew capsule to a point thousands of miles beyond the moon, then brush past the moon before returning to earth in October. Liftoff window is set for 8:33 to 10:33 am Eastern; NASA TV coverage will begin about four hours before the launch.
To read lots more about the mission, some press kit material can be found here:
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/around-the-moon-with-nasa-s-first-launch-of-sls-with-orion
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No no, that's for Science Fair volcanoes.
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Tomorrow Afternoon
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Gonna be a long day in my chair. Air Force football, the Artemis attempt, and then Notre Dame.
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Rocky Raab: 30445255822619/comments/30445247842459
Gonna be a long day in my chair. Air Force football, the Artemis attempt, and then Notre Dame.
Hey Rocky, can you pull a few strings for me and have them hold the launch until 3 o'clock? Michigan vs Colorado starts at noon and might not be over before 2:17. Oh who am I kidding, Michigan will be ahead by at least 20 pts by then, so I can turn them off and catch the launch. 😁 Bob
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Nor is there any strong likelihood the launch will go at 2:17, either. As I said earlier, first test launches never go as expected.
I'll be watching Air Force, which won't be TV broadcast. So I'l have to stream it online and switch back and forth to NASA.
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montanajoe: 30445255822619/comments/30445258460699
Well, I know on rockets you gotta have the right amounts of baking soda and vinegar
These days it's Diet Coke and Mentos(sp?)..........I think. 🤔
Fueling THAT candle would take a whole bunch of 2-liter bottles.
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They're fueling it right now. It takes six hours to fill it. And they've already had to stop while they troubleshoot another hydrogen leak.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s new moon rocket sprang another dangerous fuel leak Saturday, forcing launch controllers to call off their second attempt to send a crew capsule into lunar orbit with test dummies.
The first attempt earlier in the week was also marred by escaping hydrogen, but those leaks were elsewhere on the 322-foot (98-meter) rocket, the most powerful ever built by NASA.
There was no immediate word on when NASA might try again. After Tuesday, a two-week launch blackout period kicks in. Extensive fuel leak repairs could require that the rocket be hauled off the pad and back into its hangar, possibly pushing the flight into October.
Launch director Charlie Blackwell-Thompson and her team tried to plug Saturday’s leak the way they did the last time: stopping and restarting the flow of super-cold liquid hydrogen in hopes of removing the gap around a seal in the supply line. They tried that twice, in fact, and also flushed helium through the line. But the leak persisted.
Blackwell-Thompson finally halted the countdown after three to four hours of futile effort.
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Thanks for posting, Allen. I was out doing a grocery run.
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"Launch director Charlie Blackwell-Thompson and HER team"
I think I've discovered the problem.
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Well darn it. I was lookin' forward to seein' that.
I was looking at some pictures of Artemis and the fuselage looks to be made out of rusty metal. Did they just leave it paintless in order to save weight? I imagine enough paint to cover that whole thing would weigh quite a bit.
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Blackwell-Thompson is the holder of multiple patents related to launch vehicle interface standardization concepts, and command and control methods and systems. She has received numerous awards, including multiple Space Flight Awareness Team Awards, the astronaut's Silver Snoopy for her work on the Hubble Space Telescope, the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal, the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal, and the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Stellar Award.
Blackwell-Thompson is a native of Gaffney, South Carolina, where she graduated from Gaffney High School. She now resides in Merritt Island, Florida, with her husband and three children
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The U.S. government is not telling us the truth about manned space flights with long term flights with Moon bases because it's a death sentence for anyone's brain up there. Even lead covered helmets will not prevent it. They better start coming up some improved technology or they are going to run out of volunteers.
serf
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@...: 30445255822619/comments/30445259395611
Blackwell-Thompson is the holder of multiple patents related to launch vehicle interface standardization concepts, and command and control methods and systems. She has received numerous awards, including multiple Space Flight Awareness Team Awards, the astronaut's Silver Snoopy for her work on the Hubble Space Telescope, the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal, the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal, and the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Stellar Award.
Blackwell-Thompson is a native of Gaffney, South Carolina, where she graduated from Gaffney High School. She now resides in Merritt Island, Florida, with her husband and three children
Yea but can she do common core math? Don
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dcon12: 30445255822619/comments/30445248744219
https://forums.gunbroker.com/discussion/comment/11354474#Comment_11354474
Yea but can she do common core math? Don
Nobody can do common core math
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serf: 30445255822619/comments/30445272707483
The U.S. government is not telling us the truth about manned space flights with long term flights with Moon bases because it's a death sentence for anyone's brain up there. Even lead covered helmets will not prevent it. They better start coming up some improved technology or they are going to run out of volunteers.
serf
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What do you know that isn't published? Yes, there have been changes in the brain but it is thought to be the effects of microgravity. That isn't something a lead lined helmet would even be considered for. It also doesn't appear to be a death sentence;
MRI reveals long-term effects of space travel on the brain – Physics World
Brain MRI shows that long-duration microgravity exposure expands astronauts’ brain fluid volumes and can cause pituitary gland deformationBob
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BobJudy: 30445255822619/comments/30445227895451
https://forums.gunbroker.com/discussion/comment/11354475#Comment_11354475
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What do you know that isn't published? Yes, there have been changes in the brain but it is thought to be the effects of microgravity. That isn't something a lead lined helmet would even be considered for. It also doesn't appear to be a death sentence;
https://physicsworld.com/a/mri-reveals-long-term-effects-of-space-travel-on-the-brain/
Bob
Space travel can seriously change your brain
This is your brain on space.They need to hide from solar flares also Bob,so yes there are possible dangerous long term side effects they need to work on.Sending out A.I. machines to The cosmo is the way to go and Elon Musk misson to Mars is selling us a big fat dream that is not viable yet just like NASA is doing with this new mission protocols of a moon base ventures in my opinion. Wasting tax payers dollars on man missions need s to be put on hold. A new space station within the Van Allen belt is plausible and that is where they should focus on for now for humans in space.
serf
In this study, the team performed brain MRI(magnetic resonance imaging, a technique that uses specialized scanners to image parts of the body using magnetic fields) on 11 astronauts (10 men and one woman) both before and after they traveled to space and for up to a year after their return. These MRI images showed that, with long-duration exposure to microgravity, the brain swells and cerebrospinal fluid, which surrounds the brain and spinal cord, increases in volume.
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Bob, it's serf. He could find a conspiracy in the fact that the earth spins.
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Rocky Raab: 30445255822619/comments/30445273122587
Bob, it's serf. He could find a conspiracy in the fact that the earth spins.
Welll..... It does spin counterclockwise. There must be something ominously significant in that fact. 😉 Bob
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BobJudy: 30445255822619/comments/30445261690395
https://forums.gunbroker.com/discussion/comment/11354501#Comment_11354501
Welll..... It does spin counterclockwise. There must be something ominously significant in that fact. 😉 Bob
Northern Hemisphere superiority assumption, BJ.
You’re privilege is showing.🙂🤔
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Life follows art? Charlie was the name of the astrophysicist in Top Gun #1.
By the way I got a photo of Kelly McGillis off of the uncensored version of "Witness" that I would love to post. Got a screen shot with a $700 Nikon camera. Very clear photo. Would like to post it but I would get kicked off the forum.
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I am guessing this aint the pic your talking about
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Don McManus: 30445255822619/comments/30445260096283
https://forums.gunbroker.com/discussion/comment/11354504#Comment_11354504
Northern Hemisphere superiority assumption, BJ.
You’re privilege is showing.🙂🤔
There is no center of the universe and I guess no top or bottom either, But there is plenty of spin!😁
serf
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Sponge bath scene. Amish didn't have fancy bathtubs.
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serf: 30445255822619/comments/30445261038747
https://forums.gunbroker.com/discussion/comment/11354506#Comment_11354506
There is no center of the universe and I guess no top or bottom either, But there is plenty of spin!😁
serf
Poppycock. I know at least three people who are the center of the universe.
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Going in the shed and taken apart
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Don McManus: 30445255822619/comments/30445274315163
https://forums.gunbroker.com/discussion/comment/11354512#Comment_11354512
Poppycock. I know at least three people who are the center of the universe.
Is this guy one of those three people?
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