Florentine_Pogen Posted January 3, 2020 Share Posted January 3, 2020 The NASA link below is to Boris Chertok’s fascinating 4 volume work “Rockets and People” on the history of Soviet rocketry from it’s earliest days .Chertok was one of Korolev’s main collaborators at OKB-1, I read these books a few years ago and are well worth the time.https://www.nasa.gov/connect/ebooks/rockets_people_vol1_detail.html 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted January 7, 2020 Share Posted January 7, 2020 For any insomniacs out there SpaceX are about to launch a load of broadband satellites and try to land various bits of the rocket. Here's a space geek doing a live wittering on about it thing. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Priti priti priti Patel Posted January 7, 2020 Share Posted January 7, 2020 Good chance to see the Starlink 2 train pass overhead tonight between 5 - 7 pm depending on where in the UK you are. For my flat in London the best time will be about 6.45 pm when I should see a good 20 or so objects flying past. For a random spot in Glasgow it will be about 5.30 pm. But multiple opportunities throughout the evening. Click here: https://www.heavens-above.com/SelectLocation.aspx?lat=55.8537&lng=-4.2352&loc=Unnamed&alt=0&tz=GMT to set your location, then Click here: https://www.heavens-above.com/AllPassesFromLaunch.aspx to see when to look up. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthernLights Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 (edited) Oldest material on Earth discovered Surprisingly it wasn't the Only an Excuse joke book. Edited January 14, 2020 by NorthernLights 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted January 15, 2020 Share Posted January 15, 2020 Oh my God we're all going to die. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjc Posted January 15, 2020 Share Posted January 15, 2020 (edited) Not sure if this has been posted before. An interesting watch and an interesting guy. PS - the link to the thread is the bit about the universe being a circulating highway. Edited January 15, 2020 by sjc 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted January 15, 2020 Share Posted January 15, 2020 (edited) 56 minutes ago, welshbairn said: Oh my God we're all going to die. What do we have that's bigger than 240? Edited January 15, 2020 by Hedgecutter 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 On 15/01/2020 at 11:55, MixuFixit said: I didn't know but red dwarfs lifetime is about 10x as long as a sun type star. We should all move to proxima centauri which should buy us enough time to figure out what we're supposed to do. Brian Cox just told me me we should be safe for up to a hundred trillion years if we dress up warmly. Then we'd have to figure out how to cross into the multiverse. Good to have a plan though, and how lucky to have a red dwarf so close by! I'll work on nicking a Falcon Heavy if you can work on turning an asteroid into a generational spaceship with telly, football and decent food etc. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted January 17, 2020 Share Posted January 17, 2020 1 minute ago, MixuFixit said: Hope you like vindaloos Better have top range air recycling filtration systems installed, or it could get a bit nasty. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dorlomin Posted January 18, 2020 Share Posted January 18, 2020 SpaceX to try tomorrow to launch their Falcon 9\Dragon capsule abort test. Should be a great watch. Rumours they may try for a human flight to the ISS by March. NASA seem to want a couple of parachute tests before they green light the human flight but it seems the US may soon be putting people back in space. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted January 18, 2020 Share Posted January 18, 2020 After a few years it would be just as boring as ours. Can it not just stay still for one fucking moment, I'm trying to read here! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AberdeenHibee Posted January 18, 2020 Share Posted January 18, 2020 The United States Space Force being roundly mocked for their unveiled uniform. They must be anticipating lots of space trees? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted January 18, 2020 Share Posted January 18, 2020 17 minutes ago, AberdeenHibee said: The United States Space Force being roundly mocked for their unveiled uniform. They must be anticipating lots of space trees? What is it? I can't see anything. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 Can you see me now? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 13 hours ago, dorlomin said: SpaceX to try tomorrow to launch their Falcon 9\Dragon capsule abort test. Should be a great watch. Early weather reports indicate it could be early in the 1pm - 7pm window this afternoon. They had to postpone from yesterday because of rough seas and wind in the recovery area for Dragon. Worth remembering that the Russians had to do this for real with Soyuz in 2018, worked perfectly. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 2pm our time. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 3pm now. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 13 hours ago, AberdeenHibee said: The United States Space Force being roundly mocked for their unveiled uniform. They must be anticipating lots of space trees? Shows what you know! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 12 hours ago, welshbairn said: Can you see me now? Are you the big one on the right on your own? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 3.30 pm now, better be worth it. Will be streamed here from about 15 minutes before launch. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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