SPACE

Yak · Post by **Yak** » Sat Sep 16, 2006 12:19 pm 0

The Final Frontier

anon76235 · Post by **anon76235** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 11:12 am 0

GET INTO IT

Zoot · Post by **Zoot** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 12:36 pm 0

Heads up again:

Atlantis is getting ready to undock from the ISS (about an hour).

It's all live on NASA TV as usual.

Zoot · Post by **Zoot** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 1:20 pm 0

I wonder if they'll play "The Blue Danube" as they undock?

Maybe they only do that for docking

Zoot · Post by **Zoot** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 10:12 am 0

Heads up, space freaks:

Atlantis is coming home today - there are two opportunities for the landing:

1: Lands at 1:55pm EDT which I think is 17:55 BST

2: Lands at 3:30pm EDT which should be 19:30 BST

(Check my conversions before shouting at me, however!)

It will all be live on NASA TV as usual.

Come home safe, guys and gals................

Bog · Post by **Bog** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 1:04 pm 0

Godspeed, fellers.

RedOktober · Post by **RedOktober** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 1:33 pm 0

NASA IS RUNNING WINDOWS!!
NASA IS RUNNING WINDOWS!!

Quick! Somebody do something!

Glyndwr · Post by **Glyndwr** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 1:36 pm 0

stealthbanana wrote:
PVB wrote: Love the Astronaut POV headcam.

Funny watching everything go dark just now.
Its the Cylons......

There's a whole heap of them in a field.... Pylons.

kalmar · Post by **kalmar** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 2:40 pm 0

RedOktober wrote:NASA IS RUNNING WINDOWS!!
NASA IS RUNNING WINDOWS!!

CAPS LOCK!

SPACE!

PVB · Post by **PVB** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 4:49 pm 0

Has NASA TV changed since last time, because all I can get is a really small/poor image using either WMP or QT?

I'm sure the quality and image size was better last time I watched.

Saint Sandy · Post by **Saint Sandy** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 6:00 pm 0

deep hole found on Mars:
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/0 ... _hole.html

'This feature on Mars is a candidate cavern entrance. It is northeast of Arsia Mons â€“ one of the four giant Tharsis volcanoes on the red planet.'

Ok, so maybe the above pic doesn't look that interesting, but the prospect of a cave system / environment capable of supporting lifeforms is.

........

http://www.space.com/bestimg/result.php ... =strangest
... Top 10 strangest things in space

'Like life on Earth, galaxies can "eat" each other and evolve over time. The Milky Way's neighbor, Andromeda, is currently dining on one of its satellites. More than a dozen star clusters are scattered throughout Andromeda, the cosmic remains of past meals. The image above is from a simulation of Andromeda and our galaxy colliding, an event that will take place in about 3 billion years.'

PVB · Post by **PVB** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 8:18 pm 0

Landing's off until tomorrow at the earliest:

The STS-117 crew is getting an extra day in space thanks to poor weather conditions at Kennedy Space Center, Fla. Space shuttle Atlantis has five landing opportunities available Friday, with the first at 2:18 p.m. EDT in Florida.

Thunderstorms in the vicinity of Kennedy forced flight controllers to wave off both opportunities today. Controllers and the Spaceflight Meteorology Group will closely monitor forecasts for Fridayâ€™s opportunities in Florida and at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

The first opportunity Friday is on Orbit 218 and calls for a deorbit burn at 1:16 p.m. The second is on Orbit 219, with the deorbit burn at 2:52 p.m. and landing at 3:54 p.m. at Kennedy.

If Florida weather does not cooperate, three opportunities are available at Edwards. The first is on Orbit 219. This afternoon, the crew will adjust Atlantisâ€™ orbit to set the stage for this opportunity, which has the deorbit burn occurring at 2:46 p.m. and landing at 3:49 p.m.

The second opportunity for the California base is on Orbit 220. The deorbit burn would occur at 4:21 p.m. and landing at 5:24 p.m. The final opportunity is one orbit later which calls for the deorbit burn to occur at 5:58 p.m. and landing at 6:59 p.m.

Fridayâ€™s weather forecast for Kennedy calls for the threat of thunderstorms in the area and high winds are a possibility at Edwards. Opportunities are also available Saturday.

StarshipUK · Post by **StarshipUK** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 12:03 am 0

Ain't they already stayed up there for a few days more than they were gonna? I thought I read somewhere if they stay up there too long they would run out of food for everyone and the shuttle would run out of fuel or something like that.

I guess more importnatly though, could they also run out of toilet paper?

PVB wrote:Landing's off until tomorrow at the earliest:

The STS-117 crew is getting an extra day in space thanks to poor weather conditions at Kennedy Space Center, Fla. Space shuttle Atlantis has five landing opportunities available Friday, with the first at 2:18 p.m. EDT in Florida.

Thunderstorms in the vicinity of Kennedy forced flight controllers to wave off both opportunities today. Controllers and the Spaceflight Meteorology Group will closely monitor forecasts for Fridayâ€™s opportunities in Florida and at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

The first opportunity Friday is on Orbit 218 and calls for a deorbit burn at 1:16 p.m. The second is on Orbit 219, with the deorbit burn at 2:52 p.m. and landing at 3:54 p.m. at Kennedy.

If Florida weather does not cooperate, three opportunities are available at Edwards. The first is on Orbit 219. This afternoon, the crew will adjust Atlantisâ€™ orbit to set the stage for this opportunity, which has the deorbit burn occurring at 2:46 p.m. and landing at 3:49 p.m.

The second opportunity for the California base is on Orbit 220. The deorbit burn would occur at 4:21 p.m. and landing at 5:24 p.m. The final opportunity is one orbit later which calls for the deorbit burn to occur at 5:58 p.m. and landing at 6:59 p.m.

Fridayâ€™s weather forecast for Kennedy calls for the threat of thunderstorms in the area and high winds are a possibility at Edwards. Opportunities are also available Saturday.

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 12:27 am 0

Saint Sandy wrote:deep hole found on Mars:
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/0 ... _hole.html

'This feature on Mars is a candidate cavern entrance. It is northeast of Arsia Mons – one of the four giant Tharsis volcanoes on the red planet.'

Ok, so maybe the above pic doesn't look that interesting, but the prospect of a cave system / environment capable of supporting lifeforms is.

Cool pic.

How, how long will it take a rover to reach there

RedOktober · Post by **RedOktober** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 6:11 pm 0

It's taking a bloody long time to get this shuttle down...

YakYak

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