The Official Space Flight Thread - The Space Station and Beyond

Cosimo · 21 Mar 2016 at 08:10

Atlas V OA-6: Encapsulation and payload mate:

Cosimo · 21 Mar 2016 at 09:30

Atlas V OA-6: Mission Profile:

Mission site:

https://www.orbitalatk.com/news-room/feature-stories/OA6-Mission-Page/default.aspx

Launch scheduled for March 23 at 03:05 - 03:35 UTC

Glaucus · 21 Mar 2016 at 09:57

Somehow it passed me by, but Heston cooks space food for tim peak. 2 patter, 1st part is on 4od.

Cosimo · 21 Mar 2016 at 10:27

Time for some virtual-reality space invaders!

After two hours of putting Project Sidekick through its paces they came across a hidden game: virtual-reality space invaders! Mission control allowed them a moment of fun.

The special effects were added later and no astronaut (or aliens) were harmed in the making of this video.

Tim explains: “Sidekick creates a virtual-reality world on the International Space Station so we can 'drop' markers, procedures or documents in one location and they will still be there if we leave the module to return later. Ground control can come into our virtual world and we can use it for doing tasks together – for example the VR world can point out exactly what switches to flip or which screws to loosen, handles to turn and even guide us to storage locations. The game was just a bit of fun where Scott and I were being attacked by aliens from all over the place and we fired our canons by squeezing our fingers together. We had to dodge their missiles hence a lot of ducking and weaving going on...much fun!”

Project Sidekick:

http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/n...rate-to-bring-science-fiction-to-science-fact

Cosimo · 22 Mar 2016 at 06:16

Preview of Atlas V OA-6, the next ISS resupply mission:

Cosimo · 22 Mar 2016 at 06:43

Tim Peake shows how gyroscopes can be used to keep spacecraft stable:

Cosimo · 22 Mar 2016 at 12:19

Living and working on the moon:

Cosimo · 23 Mar 2016 at 06:34

Tim Kopra of NASA and Flight Engineers Jeff Williams of NASA and Tim Peake of ESA (European Space Agency) discuss life and research aboard the station:

Cosimo · 23 Mar 2016 at 06:36

Atlas V OA-6 on the way:

Cosimo · 23 Mar 2016 at 06:55

Atlas V OA-6 post launch briefing:

Cosimo · 23 Mar 2016 at 10:41

Atlas V OA-6 launch highlights from the United Launch Alliance:

Cosimo · 24 Mar 2016 at 10:05

We have another 360° view. Here we have the third module, Zvezda. Launched on 12 July 2000, the Russian module supplies life support for the Station and crew quarters. All five of Europe’s Automated Transfer Vehicles docked with the module:

Cosimo · 25 Mar 2016 at 11:16

Looking towards the future with the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM), which is an expandable habitat technology demonstration for the ISS. This will be carried in an upcoming SpaceX Dragon resupply mission to the ISS and from there will be unpacked and attached to the side of the station:

More:

https://www.nasa.gov/content/bigelow-expandable-activity-module

Nazbit · 25 Mar 2016 at 23:53

I'll be watching the Cygnus docking on nasa TV tomorrow morning, I assume it docks to the underside of harmony where the dragon goes?

Although it could go under unity now that the pmm is on tranquility?

Cosimo · 26 Mar 2016 at 07:31

This week:

Cosimo · 26 Mar 2016 at 07:37

Nazbit said:
I'll be watching the Cygnus docking on nasa TV tomorrow morning, I assume it docks to the underside of harmony where the dragon goes?

Although it could go under unity now that the pmm is on tranquility?

It will dock to the earth facing port on Unity.

Dragon SpX-8 (April 4) will then dock on Harmony. This will be the first time we will see a dual docking operation from to commercial spacecraft on the station.

Nazbit · 26 Mar 2016 at 08:43

Cosimo said:
It will dock to the earth facing port on Unity.

Dragon SpX-8 (April 4) will then dock on Harmony. This will be the first time we will see a dual docking operation from to commercial spacecraft on the station.

Cool, that was my next question!

So when it comes to commercial crewed vehicles, they will use the existing pma2/old shuttle position and the space side of harmony? Is that right? The space side of unity must be obstructed by the main truss?

But while two cargo ships may be berthed from time to time there will only be one commercial crew vehicle? For the current American Crew (with one Russian doing swapsies).

So interesting.

What's a good book Cosimo? More interested in the technology and engineering of space flight than the science of space itself.

Cosimo · 26 Mar 2016 at 08:59

Progress MS-2/Soyuz 2-1A being prepared for launch:

Launch to the station is scheduled for March 31 at 16:20 UTC.

OA-6 Cygnus capture is expected around 10:40 UTC today.

Live coverage will start here at 09:30:

http://www.ustream.tv/nasahdtv

Cosimo · 26 Mar 2016 at 10:26

Some great images coming in:

Nazbit · 26 Mar 2016 at 10:52

Perfect timing! Thought we weren't going to see it

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