Space - the final frontier (Misc.) II

[crimsonaudio]

After years of resisting it, SpaceX now plans to go public. Why?

Much of the AI race comes down to amassing and deploying assets."

arstechnica.com

 

[Bazza]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2005055593502179767

 

[Bazza]

2026 gonna be a big year for launches!

 

[Tidewater]

This is interesting, a time lapse series of images of the Kepler supernova over 25 years (enough time to see the expansion of the cloud.

I found this interesting

 

[crimsonaudio]

This is so cool!

Coverage, Briefing Set for NASA’s Artemis II Moon Rocket Roll to Pad - NASA

NASA’s integrated SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft for the Artemis II mission is inching closer to launch – literally.

www.nasa.gov

 

[dayhiker]

After years of resisting it, SpaceX now plans to go public. Why?

Much of the AI race comes down to amassing and deploying assets."

arstechnica.com

I'll be watching this IPO. I will probably invest in it.

 

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[crimsonaudio]

Live video:

 

[Bazza]

Nasa has started moving its Artemis II rocket from its assembly point to the launch area four miles away - ahead of the first crewed mission to the Moon in decades. The short, four-mile journey through part of Nasa's Kennedy Space Center is expected to take up to 12 hours, moving at less than one mile an hour. The mission - which could blast off as soon as 6 February - is expected to take 10 days. While it will take astronauts around the moon rather than touching down, it aims to set the stage for an eventual human landing on the lunar surface for the first time since the Apollo missions of the 1960s and 70s.

History!

 

[crimsonaudio]

 

[AlistarWills]

So they blew up stuff at Redstone/MSFC a few days back. I had read something they hinted at NASA building something back there. Anyone heard what?

 

[Elefantman]

So they blew up stuff at Redstone/MSFC a few days back. I had read something they hinted at NASA building something back there. Anyone heard what?

They are building this.

 

[Bamaro]

Actually, the original USS Enterprise, commanded by Pike and Kirk, NCC-1701, was built at the San Francisco Fleet Yards.

 

[Elefantman]

Actually, the original USS Enterprise, commanded by Pike and Kirk, NCC-1701, was built at the San Francisco Fleet Yards.

True, but Huntsville built the smoke pits for the galley. You can't expect a man to explore the galaxy without good barbeque ribs.

 

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[crimsonaudio]

The Apollo I tragedy, 59 years ago today.

Rest in peace Command Pilot Gus Grissom, Senior Pilot Ed White, and Pilot Roger B. Chaffee.

Heroes, all three...

 

[crimsonaudio]

Forty years ago today we lost Challenger with seven brave, amazing humans on board.

Rest in peace, heroes.

 

[Bazza]

Forty years ago today we lost Challenger with seven brave, amazing humans on board.

Rest in peace, heroes.

That was one of those "I remember where I was when it happened" events. Much the same as the JFK assassination and first moon landing.

I was working by myself at a job site in Sugar Mill - landscaping work. My friend Jerry Peludat, who was an irrigation contractor also working on the same project, arrived in his van. He walked up to me and said did you hear the news?

And yes - very cold that morning.

Jerry is/was an interesting guy. Dug all his irrigation trenches by hand - never with help from a motorized trencher. He was an amateur runner, who participated each year in one of the marathons - Boston or NY.

Sold term life insurance on the side.

He made a hand drawn schematic of every irrigation job on graph paper. Signed and dated.

Never cursed.

He later wrote a pamphlet on Enphezema, yet he never smoked.

He had a family with several sons, two of which would help him on jobs - one who ended up with the business and to date has the best reputation of all sprinkler contractors in the area.

Jerry moved to South Daytona and guess what he ended up doing as a side gig......transporting people to the airport and back.

God's peace to the Challenger 7 and their loved ones......

 

[crimsonaudio]

23 years ago today we lost Columbia. Rest In Peace, brave pioneers.

Crew of STS-107 for the Space Shuttle Columbia, lost on February 1, 2003.
- Commander: Rick D. Husband, a U.S. Air Force colonel and mechanical engineer, who piloted a previous shuttle during the first docking with the International Space Station (STS-96).
- Pilot: William C. McCool, a U.S. Navy commander.
- Payload Commander: Michael P. Anderson, a U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel, physicist, and mission specialist who was in charge of the science mission.
- Payload Specialist: Ilan Ramon, a colonel in the Israeli Air Force and the first Israeli astronaut.
- Mission Specialist: Kalpana Chawla, an Indian-born aerospace engineer who was on her second space mission.
- Mission Specialist: David M. Brown, a U.S. Navy captain trained as an aviator and flight surgeon. Brown worked on scientific experiments.
- Mission Specialist: Laurel Blair Salton Clark, a U.S. Navy captain and flight surgeon. Clark worked on biological experiments.

 

[dtgreg]

Actually, the original USS Enterprise, commanded by Pike and Kirk, NCC-1701, was built at the San Francisco Fleet Yards.

Only the warp engines were made here in Hville