Tag Archives: space

30-AUG

Takeoff

This Way to the Rocket Launch Live
Spinning the Engines up to Speed

Thousands of operations are performed before the rocket can leave the launch pad, and dozens of engineering cameras track these operations.

This is also a good preview of NASA’s super heavy-lift launch vehicle, the Space Launch System (SLS), mankind’s new vehicle for the next trip to the Moon.

The first flight of Artemis and the full Orion spacecraft is scheduled to launch on SEP 05.

Update: The launch date was actually Wednesday, November 16, 2022 at 6:47 AM (UTC).

14-AUG

To the Moon

Korea Aerospace Research Institute of South Korea is exploring the moon with Danuri.

This Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter is tasked with surveying lunar resources such as water ice, uranium, helium-3, silicon, and aluminium, and will produce a topographic map to help select future lunar landing sites.

Ballistic Lunar Transfer

Mission is scheduled to be launched today, 4 August 2022, on a Falcon 9 launch vehicle.

rocketlaunch.live <- look for video from 2022

14-MAR

SpaceX

Falcon 9 (MAR 04 UTC) Crew-8
  • Psychological safety is the enemy of urgency, progress, orbital velocity.
  • Musk’s preferred buzzword is hardcore.
  • Discomfort is a good thing, a weapon against the scourge of complacency.
  • Vacations, work-life balance, days of mental rest, are not his thing. Let that sink in.

No other natural substance has such a complex aroma associated with so many contradictory descriptions; however, it is usually described abstractly as animalistic, earthy and woody or something akin to the odor of baby’s skin.

wikipedia.org/wiki/Musk

18-OVER

Space Guy!

This is the kind of nonsense that sparks the neurons of cosmic comicsness, by Tim Richard.

B: Home base to team leader, is the Fox in the Cage? Over!
C: Negative! The Chickens are in Lockdown and the Alert Level is Green!
B: Send Scorpion Two and Yodeling Moose to Deliver the Package!
C: Affirmative! Operation Stale Cookie is under way. The Banjo Lessons are en route!
B: Copy that! Have Nauseous Squirrel check the Bed for Spiders! Over!
C: Painting the Mule red now! Over!
B: Be sure to leave room for Dessert! Copy that?
C: Roger! Will they Apply Ointment to the Affected Area?
B: Negative! First we need to Shampoo the Monkey! Over!

A: You and Cliff have a really strange code.
B: Code?

For more of the same type of storylines, check out The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.