The Space Thread

Anyone seen the Fight for Space (2016) documentary?

"Fight for Space explores the past, present, and future state of the US Space Program, while making the argument that the exploration of space brings economic and cultural benefits to the nation. This film probes why and how the space program came adrift, will examine our current plans and asks, why don't we have a more ambitious space program and what steps can be taken to fix it?"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2878846/

http://www.fightforspace.com/

Thought it was really interesting and thought-provoking. 

Supported the kickstarter, so that's also why. 

Check it out if you can find it somewhere. 

1953 ussr starts testing hydrogen bomb

1954 us icbm program given high priority

1957 ussr tests their first icbm. sputnik placed in space later that year

1958 first full range us icbm test

1959 us deploys titan and atlas icbms. ussr deploys r-7a later that year

1961 kennedy announces goal to put a guy on the moon. apollo program begins.

its not like they wanted to put nukes on the moon or anything

  On 7/12/2017 at 9:24 PM, phling said:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/136797589@N04/35071652633/

Beautiful image and I really like the fish eye like perspective. Juno must be bathing in radiation during such a pass.

NASA doing a bulk dump of old aircraft films:

https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/nasa-uploads-hundreds-of-rare-aircraft-films-to-youtube-1797119276

Int-Ball, the Japanese camera drone bot, is now operational aboard the ISS:

http://en.rocketnews24.com/2017/07/22/say-hello-to-int-ball-the-newest-and-cutest-member-of-the-international-space-station-【videos】/

かわいい

  On 7/25/2017 at 1:32 AM, Rubin Farr said:

Int-Ball, the Japanese camera drone bot, is now operational aboard the ISS:

 

http://en.rocketnews24.com/2017/07/22/say-hello-to-int-ball-the-newest-and-cutest-member-of-the-international-space-station-【videos】/

Yeah this guy is actually cute. 

Cassini begins deep dives into Saturn's atmosphere:

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/08/14/health/cassini-probe/index.html

sat outside yesterday for an hour to watch the meteor shower. saw three shooting stars, also saw two things that looked like ufos, same size as a star, not as bright but moving faster than a plane. I WANT TO BELIEVE. 

satellite? 

Space X's pressurized space suit

  On 8/17/2017 at 11:58 PM, jules said:

satellite? 

yeah well, that's what i'm told. i just don't understand, if it's a satellite shouldn't we see more of them at night, how many of them are up there? like thousands?

  On 8/24/2017 at 11:15 AM, Rubin Farr said:

Space X's pressurized space suit

 

You could say they'll be going...

  On 8/24/2017 at 11:53 PM, Braintree said:

 

  On 8/24/2017 at 11:15 AM, Rubin Farr said:

Space X's pressurized space suit

 

 

You could say they'll be going...

 

 

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  On 8/24/2017 at 8:43 PM, yek said:

 

  On 8/17/2017 at 11:58 PM, jules said:

satellite? 

yeah well, that's what i'm told. i just don't understand, if it's a satellite shouldn't we see more of them at night, how many of them are up there? like thousands?

 

Many satellites -if not most- are in geostationary orbit, meaning they're far out at about 36.000km and they don't 'move' fast in the sky. They remain at the same spot above earth, so they don't move along with the stars during the night. Just some 500 are in low earth orbit and those are the ones you can see clearly. You can't see them all of the time though. You see them some time after sundown and before sunrise. Between those times they're in earth's shadow. When their solar panels reflect the sunlight just right they can become super bright. But that's just seconds long and then they 'disappear' again. You just need some luck.

You can also see the ISS easily with the naked eye, I saw that and Mir. Looks like a very bright, very fast (faster than a plane), star. 

  On 8/25/2017 at 12:44 PM, caze said:

You can also see the ISS easily with the naked eye, I saw that and Mir. Looks like a very bright, very fast (faster than a plane), star. 

Yeah that fucker is bright, seen at dusk and dawn.  

  On 8/25/2017 at 1:09 AM, t yst r said:

 

  On 8/24/2017 at 8:43 PM, yek said:

 

  On 8/17/2017 at 11:58 PM, jules said:

satellite? 

yeah well, that's what i'm told. i just don't understand, if it's a satellite shouldn't we see more of them at night, how many of them are up there? like thousands?

 

 

Many satellites -if not most- are in geostationary orbit, meaning they're far out at about 36.000km and they don't 'move' fast in the sky. They remain at the same spot above earth, so they don't move along with the stars during the night. Just some 500 are in low earth orbit and those are the ones you can see clearly. You can't see them all of the time though. You see them some time after sundown and before sunrise. Between those times they're in earth's shadow. When their solar panels reflect the sunlight just right they can become super bright. But that's just seconds long and then they 'disappear' again. You just need some luck.

 

I've seen satellites fairly often in rural areas with little light pollution, they look like really fast, steady planes that don't blink and fade in and out.

Only UFO I've seen high up in the sky started off looking like a satellite until it slowed down and veered off in a descent trajectory before disappearing. I would guess it was some high altitude test plane. I was at White Sands, NM and I figure what I was watching could of easily been over one of many test ranges in the American West.

  On 7/22/2017 at 2:43 AM, Rubin Farr said:

NASA doing a bulk dump of old aircraft films:

 

https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/nasa-uploads-hundreds-of-rare-aircraft-films-to-youtube-1797119276

aw yiss

bunch of declassified nuke tests were uploaded recently, some surreal and fascinating footage 

North Pole of Saturn as captured by Cassini

^ second impact

*geek*

^ it's actually a hurricane.

so sick

ive recently been getting into listening to recordings of planets and stars. shit is insane.

Tomorrow, Cassini will make its suicide dive into Saturn's atmosphere, and return the first deep atmospheric data in the planet's history:

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/09/13/world/cassini-mission-ending/index.html

  On 9/14/2017 at 6:51 AM, Rubin Farr said:

Tomorrow, Cassini will make its suicide dive into Saturn's atmosphere, and return the first deep atmospheric data in the planet's history:

 

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/09/13/world/cassini-mission-ending/index.html

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/09/15/us/cassini-mission-ends/index.html

Some cool photos from Cassini here, these are beautiful: