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Space Exploration II: Always Looking up

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MichVandal

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So a new thread for space travel to keep the other one from being too big. I was going to add to that, but it's already too large for the old 50 page standard.

But what I was going to post is that the Boeing Starliner's first crewed launch is tonight, May 6. I searched for it on the U of Tubes and found a nasa link that will broadcast it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb3qcR2tUQs&ab_channel=NASA

Funny that spacex is broadcasting it, too. I suspect they will be more on the negative side if anything goes wrong- because of competition and all. And musk isn't exactly a honorable person.

Still, exciting to see this launch. And it will be the first crewed launch of the part of the system that will go to the moon.
 
LynahFan said:
I will be watching from my backyard (~25 mi from the Cape). Hope the door plug stays in and the emergency slide stays attached.....
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I trust the Rockwell side of Boeing a lot more than I trust the McDonell Douglas side...
 
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The Euclid Spacegasm has begun.

This photo of the Perseus Cluster (Messier I forget which number*) shows more than 1,000 galaxies in the foreground, with more than 100,000 galaxies in the background. That's a portion of the sky 35 arcseconds = 0.00972222 degrees.

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There is so much material coming from Euclid (which is attempting to create a 3D model of the observable universe), they having amateur astronomers analyze one photograph each, and they get to name each new galaxy they discover. Not new stars -- galaxies.


* 34
 
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Why does space have to use so many numbers that make your brain hurt? (The number of galaxies in the photo above in this case)
 
Currently watching a re-air of CNN's four part series into the shuttle Columbia's last flight and it's such a punch to the gut. Yet again bureaucracy and shoestring budgets rears it's ugly head at every turn.
 
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