The Official Space Flight Thread - The Space Station and Beyond

SlyReaper · 16 Jan 2013 at 20:01

an uncrewed Orion will launch atop a Delta IV Heavy rocket and fly 3,600 miles above Earth's surface, farther than a human spacecraft has gone in 40 years.

Wut? Since it's unmanned, how can they possibly claim that? I'm pretty sure there are human spacecraft billions of miles above the Earth's surface, with names like "Voyager" and "Pioneer".

End Creditz · 17 Jan 2013 at 01:20

Pretty damn sure Pioneer and Voyager craft didn't have seating

Cosimo · 17 Jan 2013 at 08:30

Cosimo · 17 Jan 2013 at 17:47

More from LRO:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/news/mona-lisa.html

LRO will image the GRAIL impact site when LRO and the sun are directly over the impact site in March/April.

Cosimo · 18 Jan 2013 at 06:57

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Cosimo · 19 Jan 2013 at 08:18

Glaucus · 22 Jan 2013 at 22:54

Been watching some of the ress conferences planetary resources have given, well mainly their big one for April. Fascinating stuff, they have some huge names both in the company and investors.
And what I like to see is some dates as well, want to launch their first telescope to fine Near earth asteroids within 24months (by April 2015).
This really does look promising after some watching and reading.

Glaucus · 24 Jan 2013 at 17:11

Planetary's Resources' President & Chief Engineer (and former NASA scientist) Chris Lewicki chats with Cambridge House Live anchor Bridgitte Anderson about his company's efforts to mine asteroids in space. His company is backed by billionaires like James Cameron, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt, Google founder Larry Page and many other notable tech billion/millionaires. It was taped January 21, 2013, at Cambridge House International's Vancouver Resource Investment Conference.

Cosimo · 25 Jan 2013 at 07:20

Cosimo · 25 Jan 2013 at 14:53

Cosimo · 26 Jan 2013 at 07:46

Cosimo · 28 Jan 2013 at 15:53

Launching from SLC-41, Cape Canaveral on January 31 at 01:48-02:28 GMT.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/tdrs/launch/tdrsk-prelaunchfeature.html

Cosimo · 29 Jan 2013 at 07:15

PermaBanned · 29 Jan 2013 at 19:56

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/17i8mf/iam_kristian_von_bengtson_an_architect_on_a_diy/

This may interest some of you.

Gonzo0 · 29 Jan 2013 at 22:01

Really high quality ride on board space shuttle SRBs from launch until splash down:

Amazing stuff :cool:

the1gooner · 29 Jan 2013 at 23:39

^^^ absolutely spectacular. Awesome to watch that. Any more like it?

Gonzo0 · 30 Jan 2013 at 08:40

There are quite a few more on board videos on youtube although the one above is one of the most high quality ones i've seen.

The_blue · 30 Jan 2013 at 15:33

Thanks Gonzo0!

Cosimo · 31 Jan 2013 at 08:48

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

The Official Space Flight Thread - The Space Station and Beyond