May 09, 2009
I've seen things you people
wouldn't believe.
Attack ships on fire off
the shoulder of Orion...
(More inside)
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March 17, 2009
20 miles above Earth for £56
… Next day morning (2.00 AM) was expected to ride Bujaraloz, people listed the release basically good for your situation. Feia un matí fred amb molta boira com podreu observar a les fotografies. Was a very cold morning mist as you can see the photos. Primerament vam començar a inflar el globus (un procés força llarg ja que vam utilitzar el 75% de la bombona gran d’heli d’Abelló-Linde).
First, we began to inflate the balloon (a very long process because we use 75% of the large cylinder of helium-Abelló Linde). Mentrestant, seguíem preparant: comprovar les cordes, col•locar totes les alimentacions, fer alguna petita prova inicial… Un cop inflat el globus i comprovat el seu free-lift (aprox. 1.5Kg) vam iniciar-nos a fer el muntatge definitiu. Meanwhile, we continued prepare: see the strings, put all the feeds, do a little test ...
Once the balloon inflated and checked their free-lift (approx 1.5Kg) we started to make us the final assembly. En aquests moments els nervis ja començaven a pujar força. At this time because the nerves were beginning to rise strongly. Acabat tot el procés, pels voltants de les 8.55 AM vam engegar la sonda Meteotek, deixant-la uns minuts de proves abans de llençar-la. Finish the whole process, from around 8:55 am we start the probe Meteotek, leaving the few minutes of testing before launching it. El compte enrere quedava cada vegada més aprop! The countdown was increasingly close!
Comprovada la recepció de dades i el funcionament correcte de tots els dispositius, a les 9.10AM vam efectuar el llançament. Verified the receipt of data and proper operation of all devices, at 9.10AM we conducted the launch. Un moment històric! A historic moment!
We quickly rose to the car and began one of the most intense: the follow-up. During the first few minutes the nerves were so high they tend to infinity faster than an exponential! Seemed that everything was going well: sensors marked the values provided, GPS positions reported valid, the increasing number of pictures correctly ...
It was not until 10.000m (a psychological barrier) that we take the calm and gaining confidence. La seguíem gairebé en paral•lel, i cal dir també que la simulació durant l’ascens semblava complir-se amb força precisió. The following, almost in parallel, and must say that the simulation during the ascent seemed to meet quite precisely. Van caldre algunes parades per reorientar l’antena o esperar a la sonda. They need some stops to reorient the antenna or wait for the probe.
Jordi Fanals Oriol, El tutor & his pupils
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January 10, 2009
Take your protein pills and put your helmet on
Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles
I'm feeling very still
And I think my spaceship knows which way to go
Tell my wife I love her very much she knows
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The Original Press Kit for the Apollo 8 flight, 40 years ago. (pdf. From Gizmodo)
(Major Tom figure above by Steven Harnack)
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September 06, 2008
Moving Atlantis
The Mobile Launcher Platform is a two-story steel structure which provides a transportable launch base for the Space Shuttle. First used in the Apollo/Saturn program, the Platforms underwent modifications for the Shuttle.
Unloaded, a Platform weighs about 8.23 million pounds. With an unfueled Shuttle aboard, it weighs about 11 million pounds.
A Crawler-Transporter moves a fully assembled Space Shuttle, mounted on a Mobile Launcher Platform, from the Vehicle Assembly Building to the launch pad. The huge tracked vehicles, originally used during the Apollo era, underwent modifications for the Shuttle. With the Space Shuttle aboard, the Crawler can creep at a maximum speed of about 1 mile per hour; unloaded, it can manage about 2 miles per hour.
The two Crawlers are about 20 feet high, 131 feet long, and 114 feet wide - about the size of a baseball diamond. Each one weighs about 6 million pounds unloaded. A Crawler has eight tracks, each of which has 57 shoes or cleats. Each shoe weighs approximately one ton
Crawler Transporter in LEGO and as papermodel
Also, NASA reunion
(Click on all pix above to biggify)
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May 15, 2008
The Mineral Moon
The Mineral Moon. A mosaic of 53 images that was recorded by the Jupiter-bound Galileo spacecraft as it passed near the moon in 1992. The pictures were recorded through three spectral filters and combined in an exaggerated false-color scheme to explore the composition of the lunar surface as changes in mineral content produce subtle color differences in reflected light. (Click twice on pix to biggify)
Landing Sites On The moon
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March 16, 2008
Sunrise in Missouri
A web site dedicated to the ever-changing skies of Missouri, Dan Bush's Missouri Skies
The new Google Sky. (The historical constellations layer are created from the historical maps available at the David Rumsey Historical Maps Collection)
Probably a re-post: Spacewalking, spaceworking astronauts
All New – Featuring the personal websites of Grow-a-brain’s readers! Today –Pen-Elayne on the Web. Submit yours for consideration.
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March 09, 2008
In the Shadow of the Moon
A new documentary by Ron Howard
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February 09, 2008
The Human Orrery
Astronaut's Statement on the Death of His Mother while he was orbiting earth aboard the ISS
Workers from the Columbia Reconstruction Project Team lay debris from the space shuttle Columbia on a large grid
UFOs - Usborne World of the Unknown. (From The Pointless Museum)
An orrery is a mechanical device that illustrates the relative positions and motions of the planets and moons in the solar system in heliocentric model
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December 20, 2007
Solar Flare
NASA Video of active Solar Flare
The Old Negro Space Program. (More by Andy Bobrow: Everything I Know About Life I Learned From My Cock)
Fly me to the moon 3D adventure
A giant spider attacks the shuttle Atlantis
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October 30, 2007
Gravity!
The Temple of Gravity from Burning Man
A NASA flash work for its STS 108 Space Shuttle Mission (Ok, so it was done in 2001)
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October 07, 2007
Space Quids
A panoramic view of the sky over Death Valley
"Did a blurred view of the moon influence the smile of the Mona Lisa?" asks artist David Dodson…
For sale: Full Scale Apollo Lunar Module
Sputnik 2 (Russian Newsreel)
Some Russian designers have started a production of a big, moon-shaped light-box calling this project our Personal Moon
The following is a listing of pictures electronically placed on the phonograph records which are carried onboard the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft
Quasi Universal Intergalactic Denomination, or Quid, a new currency for space travelers
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August 19, 2007
The Lifting Bodies Blues
The Lifting Bodies Blues. (YT. From Rob Cruickshank)
Top 10 Best Spacewalks in History
Google Maps With Updated Cloud Cover Satellite Imagery
Skylab Restoration Project (With photos)
A list of People with craters of the Moon named after them. (From Anarchaia)
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May 19, 2007
‘Space, here I come’
Virgin Galactic plans to offer sub-orbital spaceflights and later orbital spaceflights to the paying public
Space Adventures is a space tourism company that provides access to space to private citizens
A beautiful photograph of Stephen Hawking goes zero-G
Demonstration of licking, eating and drinking, X-ray of hand, Supermarket, Diagram of vertebrate evolution, and other pictures placed on the phonograph records which are carried onboard the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft
Pre-Flight Activities of the Shuttle Discovery, Rarely Seen by the General Public
Again - How do you 'go' in space?
I am gone “fishing” for a few weeks. This post has been pre-blogged for your enjoyment
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March 25, 2007
The Expanding Universe
Remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go 'round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.
(This must be a re-post. Graphic above from The Max Planck Institute)
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February 02, 2007
Space Vacuum
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Apollo 12 mission to the moon, the astronauts Conrad, Gordon and Bean commissioned a comic book drawn by the fabled Alfredo Alcala to get across their experiences to a wider audience. (Thank you, Avi)
Apollo 15 Astronaut Dropping a Feather and a Hammer on the Surface of the Moon. (YouTube)
More: On the most recent STS-116 Discovery mission, Astronaut Loses Camera in Space
Cat’s Eye Nebula. (Click on pix to biggify)
Re-post: Apollo landing Locations at Google Moon
I documenti del processo di Galileo Galilei – The original documents on the trial of Galileo Galilei in the Vatican Secret Archives
Russell W. Porter's Pencil Sketches of Palomar Observatory
Carl Sagan with a model of the Viking lander
Picture above of Fires in Southeast Asia from Earth Observatory
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