SPACE

F-ZeroOne · Post by **F-ZeroOne** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 10:34 am 0

Yeah, thanks for coming back a couple of centuries from now and nearly killing us all.

merman · Post by **merman** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 11:38 am 0

Rare dead star found "near" Earth

Neutron star! Ace!

WhiteSpy · Post by **WhiteSpy** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 4:13 pm 0

http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/lunar/ ... guidelines

WiteWulf · Post by **WiteWulf** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 4:16 pm 0

Team Llamasoft for a lunar landing, then?

F-ZeroOne · Post by **F-ZeroOne** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 4:26 pm 0

For those interested in a refreshing take on the "real space exploration"-type book, you could do worse than "Riding Rockets" by Mike Mullane.

WiteWulf · Post by **WiteWulf** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 5:36 pm 0

God speed STS-120!

Taking another big chunk of ISS (the Harmony module) into orbit...

Orava · Post by **Orava** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 5:38 pm 0

WiteWulf wrote:God speed STS-120!

Taking another big chunk of ESS (the Harmony module) into orbit...

I watched the launch on NASA TV. All went very smootly. Although I saw some pieces of foam/ice detach a few minutes into the flight. Hope all is well.

PVB · Post by **PVB** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 5:51 pm 0

Orava wrote:
WiteWulf wrote:God speed STS-120!

Taking another big chunk of ESS (the Harmony module) into orbit...
I watched the launch on NASA TV. All went very smootly. Although I saw some pieces of foam/ice detach a few minutes into the flight. Hope all is well.

Let us know before the launch next time please?

moosedude · Post by **moosedude** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 5:54 pm 0

did anybody catch the meteor showers last night, around 10pm? apparently the earth had moved through debris left by hailey's comet.

Orava · Post by **Orava** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 7:05 pm 0

PVB wrote:Let us know before the launch next time please?

I think the next one is in December... The European Space Lab going up.

WiteWulf · Post by **WiteWulf** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 8:08 pm 0

PVB wrote: Let us know before the launch next time please?

I only found out when I saw it on the TV news, I was surprised no one had mentioned it on here beforehand!

WiteWulf · Post by **WiteWulf** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 3:05 pm 0

And in other news...Comet Holmes has just become approximately a million times brighter than it should be and is, allegedly, easily visible with the naked eye. Gotta be worth a look sometime over the next few nights:

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observin ... 75326.html

Chuffmeister · Post by **Chuffmeister** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 3:38 pm 0

merman wrote:Rare dead star found "near" Earth

Neutron star! Ace!

http://www.amazon.com/Dragons-Egg-Del-R ... 034543529X

Wumpus4x4 · Post by **Wumpus4x4** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 1:52 pm 0

Just watching the spacewalk on NASA TV. Interesting stuff (in a "why is this thing not working properly?" sort of way) on the helmet cam shots. Sounds like they've got an expensive repair to do in the future. Oh and they're having problems with their digicams. Routine stuff like whether they've filled the memory card or just messed up the settings, but IN SPACE!!!

PVB · Post by **PVB** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 6:28 pm 0

Shuttle due to land at 6:02pm tonight (UK time).