** The Official Space Flight Thread - The Space Station and Beyond **
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Soldato
Ta.
Range is GO for launch.
We are GO for flight.
Away and ignition. 
Soldato
Away
Pegasus away:
Now 370 miles up and stage 3 burn complete.
NuSTAR has been successfully placed in orbit and solar panels being deployed.
Soldato
Damnit beaten ^ 
Tis an awesome pic
Tis an awesome pic
Here we go sim i have booked us a ticket
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Why thank you kind sir. Looking forward to the trip. :):D
Yes, its the kind of one in a bazillion years thing that happens all the time in the movies
Edit:
Align in 2D (overhead view) I mean, not in 3D I don't think (although that may also be "possible" but logarithmically more unlikely)
Man of Honour
Voyager 1 is is approaching the edge of our Solar System as suspected from recent messages it has been sending back to us.
This is going to be a rather historic event, a man made object leaving its home solar system and venturing into unknown space!
Stats on the mission:
Current distance:
11.1-billion-miles.
Speed:
38,000 MPH
Time taken for radio messages to come back to us:
16+ hours.
Voyager 1 Launch date:
1977
Voyager 1's onboard camera stopped recoding images back in 1990 and since then has been only sending back reporting data. Voyager 2 is still a long way behind AU wise.
I think the most powerful quote here is the below because it just shows what can be accomplished in relatively short time and with a project still in its infancy:
"When the Voyagers launched in 1977, the space age was all of 20 years old,"
The full NASA article can be found here: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-177
This is going to be a rather historic event, a man made object leaving its home solar system and venturing into unknown space!
Stats on the mission:
Current distance:
11.1-billion-miles.
Speed:
38,000 MPH
Time taken for radio messages to come back to us:
16+ hours.
Voyager 1 Launch date:
1977
Voyager 1's onboard camera stopped recoding images back in 1990 and since then has been only sending back reporting data. Voyager 2 is still a long way behind AU wise.
I think the most powerful quote here is the below because it just shows what can be accomplished in relatively short time and with a project still in its infancy:
"When the Voyagers launched in 1977, the space age was all of 20 years old,"
The full NASA article can be found here: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-177
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Spacecraft currently docked with the ISS:
