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Beth Moses
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Beth Moses
@Astro_Beth
Professional astronaut, engineer, & retired Chief Astronaut Instructor. Humbled to have flown 6 suborbital spaceflights: VF01, Unity22, U25, G02, G03, G04.🕊️
Katılım Ocak 2014
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100 years ago today, Robert H. Goddard launched the world's first successful liquid-propellant rocket. The rocket went up to an altitude of 41 feet in 2.5 seconds and landed 184 feet away.
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I’ve had the chance to meet Frank White, who coined the term The Overview Effect and has written about it quite eloquently, albeit second hand. I think it would be fabulous if Frank could see the Earth from space himself! Ron describes Frank’s crowdfunding campaign herein:
Ron Rosano, #Galactic04 Astronaut@ronrosano
Frank White, author of The #OverviewEffect, is one of the humans most deserving of a space flight. Join me and 20+ astronauts, & hundreds of others in supporting the fundraise for his seat! moondao.com/overview #SendFranktoSpace youtu.be/lvLnI0cc57A
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Interesting piece. Zero G isn’t flying the Vomit Comet anymore. Unclear when or if they will resume flights. Glad I got to do it and hope someone will fill the void.
Ellie in Space 🚀💫@Ellieinspace
What do Stephen Hawking, Scott Manley, and Kate Upton all have in common? They've all done something that you can't do in the US currently, and it's a lack of critical research access I cover in my latest YouTube video. youtu.be/HDy0DrIq3ZM
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The Moon fundamentally changes the game for manned space exploration.
It is a next-level proving ground where astronauts can build habitats, harvest propellant and minerals from the lunar surface, and learn the skills necessary to go onto Mars.
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I have a unique shot in my archive showing the pilot POV in the orbiter and the perspective is kind of mind blowing. With current launch vehicles, crew can’t experience looking out the nose of the spacecraft on launch, which gives a phenomenal view.
Need to dig it up!
Chris Hadfield@Cmdr_Hadfield
This is a wild moment inside the cockpit, just 2 minutes after leaving Florida. At 150,000 feet, the sky has gone from light blue to black, and the ride on the huge, solid rockets has been violent, jamming us up through the air. Suddenly there's a blast of pyrotechnics. Even though we're going Mach 5, the air is so thin the explosion arches out in front of the windows. Now being pushed by just the 3 Shuttle engines, the ride goes smooth, with a huge feeling of relief - getting rid of those solids means you're much safer, and halfway to orbit. I've done it twice, Atlantis and Endeavour. A great start to an amazing adventure.
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I totally respect that Chris’s post was in reference to his two Shuttle launches and you are therefore thinking of modern *orbital* vehicles, ie capsules, but technically your statement isn’t accurate. VSS Unity (recently retired) and her forthcoming sibling, Delta, both allow not only the flight crew (pilots and engineers) but also customers to look out forward facing-windows on launch. I served on the flight crew of Unity six times, seated in two different engineer seats behind the cockpit, and could see out over the nose from initial release through boost all the way to strapping. One of the joys was detecting small differences in lighting, trajectory, and roll mission-to-mission!
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Crew 12: The Crew 12 fliers have asked for a private medical conference after the capsule docks with the International Space Station; during an earlier PMC, the crew indicated another PMC might be needed after docking. "We're going to go forward with that plan, so if you could just have the (flight) surgeon ready for us after we get all docked we would appreciate that." Mission control replied: "We'll be ready to support."
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@skorusARK Ansari X Prize was a pretty cool Capture The Flag too. And its descendant, VSS Unity, was a h*** of a ride! 🚀
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@Astro_Beth So proud to have been a part of the Curiosity team during my tIme at JPL. This type of science was exactly the reason we all worked so hard and paid such close attention to the cleanliness of every part of the system so that results like this would be robust.
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Please, everyone, stop and consider this:
Last year, a rover identified the largest organic compounds found on Mars. Further study took place to see if they may have come from something other than prior life on Mars. Nothing viable emerged. The team has concluded that “it is therefore reasonable to hypothesize that living things could have formed [the compounds on Mars].”
I repeat: NASA has just quietly published, after rigorous sample collection and follow-on analysis, that a reasonable scientific hypothesis exists that living things could have formed compounds on Mars.
Sources:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.11…
science.nasa.gov/blogs/science-…
NASA Mars@NASAMars
By studying samples analyzed by the Curiosity rover, scientists have taken another step toward understanding whether life could have ever existed on Mars. A new study suggests that non-biological sources cannot fully account for the abundance of organic compounds found in a sample collected by the rover. Dig into the details: go.nasa.gov/46AGzG5
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@Astro_Beth Also, pour me a Pan Galactic, Ford, it's time to celebrate. And also panic maybe.
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United Launch Alliance's Vulcan rocket today successfully launched national security spacecraft into geosynchronous orbit, including a "neighborhood watch" mission to patrol the strategic high ground of space.
Despite the solid rocket motor performance anomaly, the Vulcan booster and Centaur performed nominally and delivered the spacecraft directly to the intended orbit.
Learn more: newsroom.ulalaunch.com/releases/ula-v…
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@ABernNYC @mdcainjr The Vulcan vehicle rolls during its wild ride to orbit in this tracking video captured south of the launch site by Max Q Productions @CarstensPete
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Roughly 20 seconds after the liftoff of ULA's Vulcan rocket on the USSF-87 mission, there appeared to be a possible burn through of at least one of the solid rocket booster nozzles. We've reached out to ULA for comment. Video shot by @ABernNYC for Spaceflight Now
Watch:
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The Purdue name carries weight, earning Purdue the title of Most Trusted University Brand in the U.S. by Global Brands Magazine. We’re proud of the brand that represents our community every day. Learn more. 👇 purdue.university/4sDRCrB
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Purdue is taking bold steps toward the future of space research with quantum tech, semiconductor manufacturing and microgravity studies aboard Purdue 1. 🚀 The mission showcases Purdue’s drive to lead in exploration and innovation. purdue.university/3NJkONU
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@Astro_Beth @NASAAdmin I was actually speaking of locking the orientation from portrait to landscape.
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NASA astronauts will soon fly with the latest smartphones, beginning with Crew-12 and Artemis II. We are giving our crews the tools to capture special moments for their families and share inspiring images and video with the world. Just as important, we challenged long-standing processes and qualified modern hardware for spaceflight on an expedited timeline. That operational urgency will serve NASA well as we pursue the highest-value science and research in orbit and on the lunar surface. This is a small step in the right direction.
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