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Just stumbled upon this today, it's the entire catalogue of images taken by the apollo missions http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/ 
** The Official Space Flight Thread - The Space Station and Beyond **
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Soyuz TMA-22 undocking is live now NASA TV and due to touchdown in Kazakhstan at 12:45 BST (07:45 EDT):
http://www.ustream.tv/nasahdtv
http://www.ustream.tv/nasahdtv
Soyuz has landed:
Crew being taken out:
Commander Dan Burbank and Flight Engineers Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin are home after their 165 day mission.
Commander Dan Burbank and Flight Engineers Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin are home after their 165 day mission.
The Enterprise ferry flight has left Dulles International Airport and is on its way to John F. Kennedy Airport, New York. Hopefully there will be a live stream from New York around 17:00.
It's arrived so we'll have to wait for the videos.
Don
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17867586
Testing has started of the Skylon intake cooling system. If Skylon takes off, it's a potential game changer.
Edit: Shuttle vid:-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-17874273
Testing has started of the Skylon intake cooling system. If Skylon takes off, it's a potential game changer.
Edit: Shuttle vid:-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-17874273
Enterprise over New York yesterday:
Another gem:
In preparation for SpaceX's launch of the Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station on May 7, SpaceX is test firing the engines of its Falcon 9 rocket at 20:00 (BST). The webcast will start here at 19:30 (BST):
http://www.spacex.com/updates.php
http://www.spacex.com/updates.php
Captain Alan Poindexter's interesting article, Photography In Space.
Man of Honour
I'm still amazed a jumbo can carry a shuttle.
Well that ones been modified for the task hasn't it, plus the shuttle is made of lightweight space age stuff aren't they, they prob weigh less than a full cargo hold on an Antonov, the spruce goose kinda proved that thrust > aerodynamics and weight.
Soldato
Added to that the shuttle is kinda meant to fly anyway - it carries a percentage of it's own weight aerodynamically. You can see that the shuttle is actually mounted at an angle of attack that allows it's aerodynamics to work.
Soldato
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-04/18/esa-jupiter
Well, god knows there's worse things to spend a billion euros on...
Well, god knows there's worse things to spend a billion euros on...