The Official Space Flight Thread - The Space Station and Beyond

Cosimo · 20 Feb 2017 at 14:49

The landing zoomed in:

Cosimo · 20 Feb 2017 at 14:56

Rollout of "Soyuz-U" with transport cargo ship "Progress MS-05." Launch is scheduled for February 22 at 05:58 UTC:

Glaucus · 20 Feb 2017 at 14:58

wow that's close together isn't it, don't seem to recall them launching like that.
do souz cargo do the expedited arrival, or is that just the manned missions.

darkgen · 20 Feb 2017 at 17:03

That landing zooming in video is outstanding. Gives me hope we may see a man on Mars landing in my life time.

Cosimo · 21 Feb 2017 at 22:30

This week:

sHo0sH · 22 Feb 2017 at 07:10

So. Anyone have an idea what NASA's big discovery is going to be today at 6pm??

Are we all doomed? Have they found a huge meteor on a collision course? Or just another life supporting exo planet?

Cosimo · 22 Feb 2017 at 10:40

Russian ISS Progress 66 cargo craft launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan:

Cosimo · 22 Feb 2017 at 10:43

sHo0sH said:
So. Anyone have an idea what NASA's big discovery is going to be today at 6pm??

Are we all doomed? Have they found a huge meteor on a collision course? Or just another life supporting exo planet?

It will be an exoplanet discovery.

MookJong · 22 Feb 2017 at 10:58

Things online point to the fact they may have found an exoplanet with oxygen in the atmosphere. How much is the key though, as it could point to vegetation producing it.

Probably wont be that exciting but who knows.

sHo0sH · 23 Feb 2017 at 00:07

7 exo planets. Not too bad!
It'll be interesting to see what else they find with the new telescopes in the coming years

Cosimo · 23 Feb 2017 at 11:48

CRS-10 mission launch in UHD:

Cosimo · 23 Feb 2017 at 14:28

SpaceX Dragon cargo craft arrives at the station:

deuse · 23 Feb 2017 at 15:15

In the next 2 years they hope to spot planet nine. I find it very interesting.

Cosimo · 23 Feb 2017 at 16:11

Now Dragon is attached to the station:

Mobius 1 · 23 Feb 2017 at 22:42

The exoplanet discovery is some incredible news! I edited this poster to fit my phone.(makes a nice wallpaper) Uploaded for anyone else who might want it

http://i.imgur.com/bFgDQw7.jpg

Glaucus · 27 Feb 2017 at 21:46

wtf, did not see this coming. i hope htis happens.

wonder who these individuals our.
http://www.spacex.com/news/2017/02/...rewed-dragon-spacecraft-beyond-moon-next-year

We are excited to announce that SpaceX has been approached to fly two private citizens on a trip around the moon late next year. They have already paid a significant deposit to do a moon mission. Like the Apollo astronauts before them, these individuals will travel into space carrying the hopes and dreams of all humankind, driven by the universal human spirit of exploration. We expect to conduct health and fitness tests, as well as begin initial training later this year. Other flight teams have also expressed strong interest and we expect more to follow. Additional information will be released about the flight teams, contingent upon their approval and confirmation of the health and fitness test results.

Mobius 1 · 27 Feb 2017 at 21:50

Just Watching "cosmos : a spacetime odyssey"

Fantastic viewing if you haven't seen it already. It's on Netflix !

Anything else worth catching ?

Trig · 28 Feb 2017 at 12:05

Who here would actually want to be the first to do this?

Glaucus · 28 Feb 2017 at 12:25

Trig said:
Who here would actually want to be the first to do this?

james cameron has expressed interest before using a souz to go to the moon.
however musk has said

Musk also said that "it's nobody from Hollywood" when asked if the passengers are celebrities.

so that would rule him out.

also heard the google founders names being thrown about

but any names being thrown around are pure speculation.

but they are rich. going to be around 35million each. if im reading it right, says same cost as nasa pays for a suz seat which is somewhere on the 70-80million ballpark. media is suggetsing thats for teh trip rather than each. but that doesnt make finacial sense unless spacex is giving it to them at a massive discount, ~80million each would make far more sense.

seeing as falcon heavy is 90million then however much dragon, spacesuits and training on top.

i hope they pass the medical, then i expect we will find out, as it has to be some ceo or other person who public finding out about ill health would damage their company/job.

even if this does happen, its extremely ambitiouse time scale.
falcon heavy hasn't flown yet, nor has dragon2, and spacex says that the moon mission wont fly till astronauts have flown to the iss onboard dragon 2.

Glaucus · 28 Feb 2017 at 15:00

an interesting bit i hadnt heard

Musk said that NASA would have first pick on the 2018 moon flight, and SpaceX would bump the two space tourists (who have already placed a "significant deposit" for the trip) to a later flight if the space agency wanted the seats. Musk did not reveal who had purchased the moon flight seats on Dragon, or how much the trip cost per person.

"NASA always has first priority," Musk said Monday. "So if NASA decides to have the first mission of this nature be a NASA mission, then of course NASA would take priority."

makes me thin its some kind of political game, as nasa has been asked to see if it could launch astronauts to do a moon flyby on the very first SLS launched, and it all ties in with Apollo 8s 50 year anniversary(dec 21st 1968).

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