** The Official Space Flight Thread - The Space Station and Beyond **

[DJMK4]

https://www.flickr.com/photos/projectapolloarchive

Over 8000 images of Apollo astronaut trips to the moon.

The images are unprocessed versions of original NASA scans - http://petapixel.com/2015/10/02/every-moon-photo-shot-by-apollo-astronauts-is-now-on-flickr/

Incredible, some of my faves

 

[Nate--IRL--]

Love this thread, thanks Cosimo

Nate

 

[Glaucus]

Gwynne Shotwell has said SpaceX mars rocket will have 3-4times as much thrust as a falcon heavy. FH is already 17,615kN it's going to be a beast.
For comparison Saturn V is 34,020 kN and SLS 39,440kN

 

[Cosimo]

A look to the future with Sierra Nevada Corporation’s (SNC) Dream Chaser Cargo System mission:

 

[Cosimo]

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is scheduled to launch the NROL-55 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) at 13:49 BST today from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Launch will be live here:


http://www.ulalaunch.com/webcast.aspx

 

[Cosimo]

The NROL-55 mission launch:

 

[Cosimo]

This week:

 

[Cosimo]

New video of Virgin Galactic's NewtonThree rocket engine. A single NewtonThree rocket engine will power the first stage of the LauncherOne orbital vehicle. The test was conducted in Mojave, California and the NewtonThree engine fires for ninety seconds:

 

[Cosimo]

Three companies, Firefly Space Systems, RocketLabs USA and Virgin Galactic have been awarded contracts to build/launch missions dedicated to CubeSats:

Media conference:

More:

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/cubesat-launchers-expected-to-open-research-opportunities-for-all

 

[Cosimo]

Rollout of a Proton-M with the Turksat-4B communications satellite:

Launch is set for Friday at 21:40 BST.

 

[Cosimo]

^^^

The launch:

 

[Cosimo]

This week:

 

[sityeuropa]

Messing around with a huge Galaxy picture.

Found that the amount of stars hurts your eyes

 

[Cosimo]

A look back at NASA's Project Morpheus vertical takeoff and vertical landing (VTVL) test vehicle in action:

More:

https://morpheuslander.jsc.nasa.gov/

 

[Cosimo]

Preview of the spacewalks station Commander Scott Kelly and Flight Engineer Kjell Lindgren are scheduled to perform on October 28 and November 6:

 

[Cosimo]

This week:

 

[Cosimo]

A look at the spacewalk which will occur on the 28th:

Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren will service the Canadarm2 robotic arm, route cables for a future docking port and place a thermal cover over some dark matter detection experiment.

 

[Cosimo]

A look at the second spacewalk which will occur on November 6th:

Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren will return the port truss cooling system back to its original configuration after repair work completed back in 2012.

 

[Cosimo]

World View, the commercial spaceflight company, has successfully completed a major milestone test flight. This test flight carried a scaled down, replica spacecraft to a final altitude of 100,475 feet (30624 meters):

They will now be ready for full scale system testing.

More:

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-rele...-spaceflights-300166082.html?tc=eml_cleartime

 

[Cosimo]

Great animation telling us all about the Rosetta mission: