Outer space thread

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They're real, and they are visiting WNC:

On remote trail, man stumbles upon heavy, mysterious object possibly from outer space

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They're real, and they are visiting WNC:

On remote trail, man stumbles upon heavy, mysterious object possibly from outer space

Bizarre but not bizarre. With all the space junk out there, this is gonna be more commonplace (if it's space junk).

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Live cool look at Starliner docking. Apparently there are thruster issues atm.

Starliner is based mostly on Space Shuttle era technology. WTF?

https://www.youtube.com/live/EXYNaqp1hU ... O6iT_aGcFc

Meanwhile, Elon Muskiedoodle had another spectacular success this morning. https://youtu.be/INUZ9-8p24o?si=pqprih_et3IuER3J

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Live cool look at Starliner docking. Apparently there are thruster issues atm.

Starliner is based mostly on Space Shuttle era technology. WTF?

https://www.youtube.com/live/EXYNaqp1hU ... O6iT_aGcFc

Meanwhile, Elon Muskiedoodle had another spectacular success this morning. https://youtu.be/INUZ9-8p24o?si=pqprih_et3IuER3J

Boeing Starliner: New leak delays astronaut undocking from space station

Boeing. I hope the hatch stays on.

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Boeing. I hope the hatch stays on.

Starliner is based mostly on Space Shuttle era technology. WTF?

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Boeing. I hope the hatch stays on.

Starliner is based mostly on Space Shuttle era technology. WTF?

Maybe they're production and quality control issues rather than design problems.

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Two astronauts wait to come home as Boeing races to understand spacecraft issues. Here’s what’s at stake

... Spaceflight veterans Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore arrived at the space station aboard the Starliner on June 6. NASA initially projected their stay would last about a week.

But troubles the vehicle experienced en route, including helium leaks and thrusters that abruptly stopped working, have raised questions about how the back half of the mission will play out.

Williams and Wilmore will now return no earlier than June 26, NASA announced Tuesday, stretching their mission to at least 20 days as engineers race to gain a better understanding of the spacecraft’s problems while it’s safely attached to the space station....

“The embarrassing backup is that a (SpaceX) Crew Dragon would have to go and retrieve the astronauts,” Lembeck said. The spacecraft “could be sent up with two crew members and sent back with four — and that would probably be the way home.”...

Who Is Sam Mohawk? New Boeing Whistleblower Steps Forward

Mohawk alleges that Boeing lost track of parts that were labeled as not up to design standards, according to Blumenthal. Those parts sometimes ended up in newly-built planes, Mohawk alleged, according to the senator.

"He said that he has been told by his supervisors to conceal this evidence from the FAA, and that he is being retaliated against as well," Blumenthal said in a statement cited by ABC News....

Ugh.

Boeing MAX Plane's Near Disaster Sparks New Federal Probe

Opps.

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I was skeptical of a lot of Boeing claims at first - not that I didn't believe the parts fell off, just that about 20,000+ commercial flights on Boeing planes travel each day without falling apart. But company culture affects performance in a lot of ways, including quality, and maybe Boeing needs a culture overhaul.

Being scolded by showboating congress critters who know nothing about aircraft manufacturing doesn't help, though.

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They're real, and they are visiting WNC:

On remote trail, man stumbles upon heavy, mysterious object possibly from outer space

Bizarre but not bizarre. With all the space junk out there, this is gonna be more commonplace (if it's space junk).

More space debris? NC resident suspects object that crashed into house came from above



Fuckin' Elon is bombing WNC:

Confirmed: Strange debris found around WNC part of SpaceX spacecraft

... "During its initial design, the Dragon spacecraft trunk was evaluated for re-entry breakup and was predicted to burn up fully," the release said.

Opps.

... One piece found on a remote trail in Haywood County was three feet high and so heavy it had to be carried out using a lawn mower....

Hey Musky, ya missed me

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I was skeptical of a lot of Boeing claims at first - not that I didn't believe the parts fell off, just that about 20,000+ commercial flights on Boeing planes travel each day without falling apart. But company culture affects performance in a lot of ways, including quality, and maybe Boeing needs a culture overhaul.

Being scolded by showboating congress critters who know nothing about aircraft manufacturing doesn't help, though.

Something needs to change.
Boeing blames missing paperwork for Alaska Air incident, prompting rebuke from safety regulators


2 'potentially hazardous' asteroids will streak by Earth this week, one as big as a mountain. You can watch it live.

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A three hour tour . . .

2 months after Starliner launched, astronauts still haven’t returned: See timeline

Boeing

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The Boeing Starliner crew might not return this year — or on the Boeing Starliner
NASA says it might send its astronauts home on a SpaceX vessel instead

Boeing: "Opps."

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The Boeing Starliner crew might not return this year — or on the Boeing Starliner
NASA says it might send its astronauts home on a SpaceX vessel instead

Boeing: "Opps."

Think Boeing is effectively out of the space business?

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Think Boeing is effectively out of the space business?

Not until they get their Starliner back. It might be awhile

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The job might be boring, but one of the coolest job titles I've ever heard is 'NASA Planetary Defense Officer'. That's near superhero territory.

Lindley Johnson

Planetary Defense at NASA

https://x.com/AsteroidWatch

10 Things You Should Know About Planetary Defense


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Superhero territory, as I said. I'm not sure that I'm comforted by a handheld telescope, a spear and a medieval battlement, though

If a scary asteroid will actually strike Earth, here's how you'll know
"It becomes a national emergency event."

On April 13, 2029 (which happens to be Friday the 13th), something unsettling will happen.

A decent-sized asteroid, the 1,100-foot-wide Apophis, will pass so close to Earth it'll be visible in the sky from certain places. Crucially, the giant rock will not strike our humble planet. But it will pass closer than 20,000 miles from the surface, which is closer than where some of the United States' most prized weather satellites orbit....

I suspect that "scary" is not a NASA technical term. Whatever, we know who to blame, Lindley Johnson.

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The job might be boring, but one of the coolest job titles I've ever heard is 'NASA Planetary Defense Officer'. That's near superhero territory.




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Superhero territory, as I said. I'm not sure that I'm comforted by a handheld telescope, a spear and a medieval battlement, though

Is this some sort of trump creation?

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Is this some sort of trump creation?

https://media.tenor.com/images/3dda56a4 ... /tenor.gif

Obama

The Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO) is a planetary defense organization established in January 2016 within NASA's Planetary Science Division of the Science Mission Directorate.....

Save us, Barack and Michelle!

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NASA spacecraft keeps on going faster and faster and faster
"Once it's going, it's going."

Over the past couple years, NASA's Parker Solar Probe has continually smashed its own speed records. And in the next year, it will continue to break more records.

The agency's well-fortified spacecraft is swooping progressively closer to the sun, and during each pass, picks up more speed. In 2018, soon after its launch, the probe became the fastest human-made object ever built, and by 2024 it will reach a whopping 430,000 miles per hour.

At such a speed, one could travel from San Francisco to Washington, D.C., in 20 seconds....

Conceived by Obama, launched by DonOLD.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_Solar_Probe

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Is this some sort of trump creation?

https://media.tenor.com/images/3dda56a4 ... /tenor.gif

Obama

The Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO) is a planetary defense organization established in January 2016 within NASA's Planetary Science Division of the Science Mission Directorate.....

Save us, Barack and Michelle!

Edit:

NASA spacecraft keeps on going faster and faster and faster
"Once it's going, it's going."

Over the past couple years, NASA's Parker Solar Probe has continually smashed its own speed records. And in the next year, it will continue to break more records.

The agency's well-fortified spacecraft is swooping progressively closer to the sun, and during each pass, picks up more speed. In 2018, soon after its launch, the probe became the fastest human-made object ever built, and by 2024 it will reach a whopping 430,000 miles per hour.

At such a speed, one could travel from San Francisco to Washington, D.C., in 20 seconds....

Conceived by Obama, launched by DonOLD.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_Solar_Probe

Harumph.

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Harumph.

It's a lame logo and motto, but do you have anything against planetary defense or a solar probe?

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Defend this, NASA:

Mega meteorite tore up seabed and boiled Earth's oceans


The meteorite was 40-60km in diameter and left a crater 500km across

A huge meteorite first discovered in 2014 caused a tsunami bigger than any in known human history and boiled the oceans, scientists have discovered.

The space rock, which was 200 times the size of the one that wiped out the dinosaurs, smashed into Earth when our planet was in its infancy three billion years ago....

The meteorite S2 was much larger than the space rock we are most familiar with. The one that led to the dinosaurs’ extinction 66 million years ago was about 10km wide, or almost the height of Mount Everest.

But S2 was 40-60km wide and its mass was 50-200 times greater....

The team have now re-constructed just what the S2 meteorite did when it violently careened into Earth. It gouged out a 500km crater and pulverised rocks that ejected at incredibly fast speeds to form a cloud that circled around the globe.

“Imagine a rain cloud, but instead of water droplets coming down, it's like molten rock droplets raining out of the sky,” says Prof Drabon.

A huge tsunami would have swept across the globe, ripped up the sea floor, and flooded coastlines....

All that energy would have generated massive amounts of heat that boiled the oceans causing up to tens of metres of water to evaporate. It would also have increased air temperatures by up to 100C.

The skies would have turned black, choked with dust and particles. Without sunlight penetrating the darkness, simple life on land or in shallow water that relied on photosynthesis would have been wiped out....

But what Prof Drabon and her team found next was surprising. The rock evidence showed that the violent disturbances churned up nutrients like phosphorus and iron that fed simple organisms.

“Life was not only resilient, but actually bounced back really quickly and thrived,” she says....