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holy shit lol, i think that rocket deserves a PHD, cas its one very smart rocket

Does anyone know the specific make of flight suit that NASA uses currently? The royal blue coveralls to be specific.

[url]http://sservi.nasa.gov/articles/nasas-lro-snaps-a-picture-of-nasas-ladee-spacecraft/[/url] Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter took a picture of the LADEE spacecraft: [QUOTE]LADEE is in an equatorial orbit (east-•to-•west) while LRO is in a polar orbit (south-•to-•north). The two spacecraft are occasionally very close and on Jan. 15, 2014, the two came within 5.6 miles (9 km) of each other. As LROC is a push-broom imager, it builds up an image one line at a time, so catching a target as small and fast as LADEE is tricky. Both spacecraft are orbiting the moon with velocities near 3,600 mph (1,600 meters per second), so timing and pointing of LRO must be nearly perfect to capture LADEE in an LROC image.[/QUOTE] [t]http://sservi.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/lro_view_of_ladee_labeled_0.jpg[/t] [img]http://sservi.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/ladee_blowup_nn.png[/img] [img]http://sservi.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/m1144387511r.long_animation_updated.gif[/img]

Apparently some trees were chopped down from in front of my room's window and as a result I have a clearer view on the sky. Picked up some binoculars and even though they were small (5x21), it still blew my mind how much more detail they added.

Man it's getting sick. The clouds seems to have established a permanent base over Scandinavia.

[QUOTE=GoldenDargon;43725417]Does anyone know the specific make of flight suit that NASA uses currently? The royal blue coveralls to be specific.[/QUOTE] Anyone? [t]http://i.imgur.com/th8VSJo.jpg[/t]

[QUOTE=Swebonny;43739532]Man it's getting sick. The clouds seems to have established a permanent base over Scandinavia.[/QUOTE] Yup.. [IMG]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2668640/lterm.PNG[/IMG] I haven't seen a single celestial object, including the sun since the 12th of January..

We had sun for a good 20 minutes over here, about 40-50 minutes away from Larpar, on thursday or wedensday!

[QUOTE=GoldenDargon;43725417]Does anyone know the specific make of flight suit that NASA uses currently? The royal blue coveralls to be specific.[/QUOTE] currently since they launch on russian hardware they wear sokol flight suits, but for the orion they are developing the space-shuttle's orange suits into full pressure suits for certain EVAs and IVA launches, unlike the shuttle though, they won't need to carry parachutes as the capsule has its own launch escape system also they are going to be white

Managed to saw the ISS with the naked eyes minutes ago for the first time in my life, it was amazing, I was actually looking for it on the east but it was already on top of my head, good thing is that there were no clouds, it really moves fast tho

Cosmos trailer during the superbowl: [video=youtube;Z-bBAyxiTus]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-bBAyxiTus[/video]

isnt that being revived by neil degras tyson?

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/ZPPce24.jpg[/IMG] Some more from a member on nasaspaceflight: [url]https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B0NWW2tf69ZBXy1TSW5Xc25Bd0E&usp=sharing[/url] Oh my GOOOOOOOOD. [editline]3rd February 2014[/editline] OP: [url]http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=32202.495[/url] [editline]3rd February 2014[/editline] That's going to [I]fly.[/I]

[QUOTE=Sableye;43768374]isnt that being revived by neil degras tyson?[/QUOTE] It's being revived by a lot of people, but Tyson will be narrating it. [editline]3rd February 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=OvB;43769415][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/ZPPce24.jpg[/IMG] Some more from a member on nasaspaceflight: [url]https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B0NWW2tf69ZBXy1TSW5Xc25Bd0E&usp=sharing[/url] Oh my GOOOOOOOOD. [editline]3rd February 2014[/editline] OP: [url]http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=32202.495[/url] [editline]3rd February 2014[/editline] That's going to [I]fly.[/I][/QUOTE] AaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaa :0

Sold my useless laptop and planning on buying a 200mm lens for my 600D. Can't wait.

[url]http://www.gibson-barnes.com/prod-294932/Fsl-27p-Flight-Suit.html[/url] [img]http://www.gibson-barnes.com/assets/files/sme-product/294932/294941.jpg[/img] Think I found one that matches the actual suits.

[t]http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Z5.jpg[/t] holy shit that thing is like huge, they're up to some serious stuff there also while that above pic looks like the falcon grasshopper 2 was on fire, it was NOT that soot is from static test fires [editline]4th February 2014[/editline] [t]http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Z3.jpg[/t] [t]http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Z9.jpg[/t] that thing is huge [editline]4th February 2014[/editline] [t]http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Z3A1.jpg[/t] note the structure between the tank and the engine, these are production falcon 9's, they are at least at some point in the near future going to launch with legs (probably not land though)

That picture is fairly old now. I think most if not all of those F9 v1.1 cores have launched. Those should be CASSIOPE, SES-8, Thaicom-6, and maybe the GH2 or CRS-3 for the last. All of those cores were leg-capable.

[URL]http://www.ustream.tv/nasahdtv[/URL] [del]Launch in 5 minutes. Supply rocket to ISS.[/del]

[QUOTE=Swebonny;43797893][URL]http://www.ustream.tv/nasahdtv[/URL] [del]Launch in 5 minutes. Supply rocket to ISS.[/del][/QUOTE] Damn, I was out. :(

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGRXWtzWz-Y[/media] Fucking Hadfield. I want to buy him a beer

Arghh, my equatorial mount for my 80mm refractor has these metal nubs with flat keys cut into them used to control the mount, but you cant really rotate them by hand. The telescope came with these knobs on the ends of flexible rods, and at the other end is a hole for the bolts on the mount, and it has this tiny screw that keeps it from slipping. Recently I found that on one of the two rods the screw has stripped, so now I need to get another one. Currently I just am using a small clamp in place of the knob thing, but jupiter is high up in the sky from where I am right now, and the telescope or the counterweight rod gets in the way of the clamp when I am looking at it.

[QUOTE=Dacheet;43817283] Fucking Hadfield. I want to buy him a beer[/QUOTE] i want to buy his mustache a beer

Well, there goes. [IMG]http://4st.me/pGNcr.png[/IMG]

MESSENGER has taken its 200,000th image of Mercury [t]http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/gallery/sciencePhotos/pics/EN1028560063_69M.mosaic.web.jpg[/t] [editline]10th February 2014[/editline] Also, asteroid Itokawa to scale: [t]http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4075/4875401960_2cbbbfc28a_o.jpg[/t]

Panorama from the surface of Mars: [url]http://www.360cities.net/image/mars-panorama-curiosity-solar-day-530#555.55,-4.96,70.0[/url]

[QUOTE=Pelf;43863353] Also, asteroid Itokawa to scale: [t]http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4075/4875401960_2cbbbfc28a_o.jpg[/t][/QUOTE] "Paris Space Control, the Turd has landed, I repeat the Turd has landed"

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/UAunkOI.png[/IMG] FUCKING FINALLY YES! I'm praying to every God in existence that the forecast is correct.

Just found out that the radius of Neptune is less than 4x that of earth. I always though it was much larger.

[QUOTE=Swebonny;43872837][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/UAunkOI.png[/IMG] FUCKING FINALLY YES! I'm praying to every God in existence that the forecast is correct.[/QUOTE] Omg [img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2668640/omg.PNG[/img] Omgomg. I actually saw the sun a couple days ago!! Then some clouds came back before night. :v: