** The Official Space Flight Thread - The Space Station and Beyond **

[taz488]

I use this Just choose the city you live in or the closest one and it will show a list of all the sightings for the next month or so

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/cities/region.cgi?country=United_Kingdom&region=England

if its at night and not cloudy, can i see it without a telescope?

and how do i locate '12 above W 22 above SSE' ?

i want to see the ISS

 

[PermaBanned]

If it's less than 15 degrees above the horizon you're going to have a very hard time seeing it (in the UK at least) - but as long as you know the general direction and time you can just find a dark spot and keep your eyes open, it will be the bright thing that's moving stupidly fast

 

[Marine Iguana]

Human Mission to an Asteroid

 

[Cosimo]

As we near GRAIL launch the payload fairing has been added to the booster:

The GRAIL twins are each about the size of a washing machine.

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Launch is scheduled for September 8 at 13:37 BST (08:37 EDT).

 

[IceBus]

So we now have no ability to get to the ISS... This is what we get for relying on the Russian space program...

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/26/world/europe/26russia.html

 

[GarethSouthgate]

So we now have no ability to get to the ISS... This is what we get for relying on the Russian space program...

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/26/world/europe/26russia.html

[Perma and Simman] But obligations!! [/Perma Simman]

 

[PermaBanned]

So we now have no ability to get to the ISS... This is what we get for relying on the Russian space program...

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/26/world/europe/26russia.html

Soyuz's are by far and away the most reliable spacecraft ever built. We should probably be thankful for this, and hopefully it will be sorted before too long.

 

[The $6m Dan]

Don't worry about human space flight, there are people working on that.

 

[kedge]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/17/us-russia-space-idUSTRE77G5GQ20110817

Not good. Where's people's hearts nowadays?

NASA pays it more than $50 million per flight to send its astronauts to the space outpost.

I'm sure someone could find a much better use for that kind of money here on earth with all of its troubles.

Don't get me wrong, i appreciate science giving us all a great view of Gods creation

 

[Greg0986]

if its at night and not cloudy, can i see it without a telescope?

and how do i locate '12 above W 22 above SSE' ?

i want to see the ISS

If it is at night and not cloudy, it is the brightest thing in the sky, no need for a telescope. You will not miss it

If it is below '15 or so you will not see it that well unless you are on top of a hill. Just look the way it is arriving from and keep looking

 

[PermaBanned]

NASA pays it more than $50 million per flight to send its astronauts to the space outpost.

I'm sure someone could find a much better use for that kind of money here on earth with all of its troubles.

Don't get me wrong, i appreciate science giving us all a great view of Gods creation

I think a lot of the points raised in this video apply not just to the JWST, but to space flight in general.

Plus, $50m? That's nothing compared to how much it would cost to launch themselves

 

[PermaBanned]

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2011/aug/HQ_M11-180_ISS_Update.html

So that's 3PM Monday? I think...

 

[PermaBanned]

From Fragile Oasis, England under the setting sun.

 

[Marine Iguana]

If they can't get the Soyuz problem solved by November then the ISS will be unmaned for a while

International space station could be de-crewed by November

 

[PermaBanned]

That's really the earliest date though, i suspect they would carry on with a three person crew as long as possible - which would easily be until February 2012, maybe even until the arrival of ATV 3 depending on how their Soyuz holds up.

 

[Marine Iguana]

Lets hope the Russians sort it out, They just need a really big hammer to make it all ok

 

[Cosimo]

Picture time:

Soyuz TMA-02M bringing three new members of Expedition 28 to the ISS on June 9th.

 

[Cosimo]

Watched another documentary (Discovery Channels “Last Shuttle”) about the last shuttle mission last night and still find it hard to believe that it's all over.

I know we’re looking at the present and to the future but I couldn’t resist this trip down memory lane with this great picture of the shuttles first night flight. It was Challenger, STS-8 on 30th August 1983.

Back to the present and eight more days before GRAIL launch.

 

[Metalface Mark]

Another one of Endeavour and Discovery at KSC:

Discovery will go to the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia and Endeavour to the California Science Center in Los Angeles.

I went to the California Science Center in June, I was excited as I was going to see the Apollo-Soyuz test project as well as Pete Conrad and Dick Gordon's Gemini craft, they had put the whole thing in storage to refurb everything for the shuttle coming.

I was Absolutely gutted! I even had a mini huff, telling the entry person that it was a disgrace and words to that effect

 

[Metalface Mark]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14659005

Right, so all Soyuz launches are grounded until they figure out what went wrong. Would i be right in saying that this is the first time since Yuri Gagarin's flight that humanity has had no manned space flight capability?

Pretty sure there was none in the period after the Apollo 1 fire as the Russians were dealing with their own Soyuz 1 disaster, so there were no manned space flights for well over a year.