Kent Gee
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@KentLGee
@BYU professor & former Dept. Chair @BYU_PhysAstro. Karl G. Maeser award '24. Tweets about acoustics, physics, faith, running, baseball, & misc. Opinions mine.
The rumblings about a death at Starbase of an employee under a contractor last Friday morning appear to be true. 4:16AM, about 2 hours before the already claimed time, I spotted an ambulance w/ emergency lights. All the cranes working on the gigabay stopped work shortly before this time stamp and work did not occur for several hours afterwards
You can't spell discovery without "disco" 50 years ago today, NASA launched a 2-foot (60-cm) ball that transformed studies of Earth’s shape, rotation, and gravity field. It has no sensors, no batteries, no electronics… just 426 retroreflectors that allow scientists to make extremely precise distance measurements using lasers. LAGEOS is still orbiting Earth, and is expected to remain in its very stable orbit for millions of years!
BREAKING: Starship Flight 12 NET May 12, 22:30 UTC / 17:30 CDT An advisory has appeared on the CADENA Operational Information System. - NEW Trajectory - Afternoon Launch Window The window spans 22:30 - 00:43 UTC, which is 17:30 - 19:43 Starbase local time. Instead of flying the corridor between Florida and Cuba, Starship Flight 12 appears to be targeting a more inclined corridor, threading the needle between Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula, Cuba, the Cayman Islands, Jamaica, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic. Despite this change in launch trajectory, splashdown remains in the Indian Ocean, with a corridor running through Madagascan, Mauritian, and Australian airspace. 🗺️ CADENA Operational Information System Credit to @NeedPizza42 for spotting
Like a wild horse running free
April 24th - on this day in 1990, Discovery launched from Launch Complex 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center for its tenth mission, STS-31. The main purpose of this mission was to deploy the Hubble Space Telescope in Low Earth Orbit. Discovery's five-member crew included Commander Loren Shriver, Pilot Charles Bolden, and Mission Specialists, Bruce McCandless, Steven Hawley, and Kathryn Sullivan. The picture shows Discovery lifting off from Launch Complex 39B with Columbia undergoing preparations for STS-35 on Launch Complex 39A in the foreground.
SLS vs Saturn V, this time from the umbilical view Just got my hands on this side angle of the Saturn V lifting off and wanted to compare it to my remote video from the same angle. Very cool seeing the Saturn V's stages get progressively wider as it rises through the frame.
