The Official Space Flight Thread - The Space Station and Beyond

lord filbuster · 25 Apr 2012 at 21:21

Just stumbled upon this today, it's the entire catalogue of images taken by the apollo missions http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/ :cool:

Cosimo · 27 Apr 2012 at 09:20

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

Cosimo · 27 Apr 2012 at 12:51

Soyuz has landed:

Cosimo · 27 Apr 2012 at 13:05

Crew being taken out:

Commander Dan Burbank and Flight Engineers Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin are home after their 165 day mission.

Cosimo · 27 Apr 2012 at 15:25

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.

Cosimo · 27 Apr 2012 at 16:44

It's arrived so we'll have to wait for the videos.

Jokester · 27 Apr 2012 at 17:27

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

Glaucus · 27 Apr 2012 at 17:35

Sweet, I hope it works. How long are tests scheduled to last?

Cosimo · 28 Apr 2012 at 09:23

Cosimo · 28 Apr 2012 at 09:51

Enterprise over New York yesterday:

Cosimo · 29 Apr 2012 at 17:30

Nice animated video of Orion from Full Werks studio:

http://vimeo.com/41118744

Cosimo · 30 Apr 2012 at 09:10

Another gem:

Cosimo · 30 Apr 2012 at 17:27

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

Cosimo · 1 May 2012 at 11:17

Cosimo · 2 May 2012 at 08:13

Captain Alan Poindexter's interesting article, Photography In Space.

Von Smallhausen · 2 May 2012 at 08:25

I'm still amazed a jumbo can carry a shuttle.

ubersonic · 2 May 2012 at 09:14

Von Smallhausen said:
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.

SteveOBHave · 2 May 2012 at 09:24

ubersonic said:
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.

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.

PermaBanned · 2 May 2012 at 23:46

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...

Cosimo · 5 May 2012 at 08:31

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