Ars Technica NewsNASA issues draft request for moving space shuttle Discovery—or Orion capsule https://arstechni.ca/hwRF #NASAFlownSpaceVehicleMultimodalTransportationMultipleAwardContract #NationalAirandSpaceMuseum #StevenF.Udvar-HazyCener #OneBigBeautifulBillAct #requestforproposal #spacecenterhouston #SenatorJohnCornyn #SenatorTedCruz #spaceartifacts #orioncapsule #spacehistory #Spaceshuttle #Smithsonian #Discovery #orbiter #Space #draft #NASA #RFP
A century after the first rocket launch, Ars staffers pick their favorites https://arstechni.ca/UkXH #favoritelaunches #robertgoddard #Spaceshuttle #Features #falcon9 #Space #soyuz #space
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Every little bit counts
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Spaceflight 🚀📆 1983 Mission summary STS-9, Commander John Young* : "Had we then activated the Backup Flight Software, loss of vehicle and crew 💥 would have resulted" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-9#Mission_summary
* the only astronaut to walk on the Moon and fly on the #SpaceShuttle
WIRED - The Latest in Technology, Science, Culture and BusinessThis Is the Worst Thing That Could Happen to the International Space Station
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...15 Jahren, Letzter Start des #Spaceshuttle Discovery
N-gated Hacker News🚀✨ Ah, the 90s! When connecting to the internet felt like launching a space shuttle 🚀✨. This "nostalgia hit" has all the charm of waiting for paint to dry while a modem screeches your ears off. 🤦♂️💾 If you miss the sound of dial-up, just stick a fork in your ear and save the coffee money. ☕💸
https://dialup95.com/ #90sNostalgia #InternetMemories #DialUpModem #TechThrowback #SpaceShuttle #HackerNews #ngated
https://dialup95.com/ #90sNostalgia #InternetMemories #DialUpModem #TechThrowback #SpaceShuttle #HackerNews #ngated
The #Buran also had emergency ejection seats 💺 for all crew members (absent on the #US shuttles) and was free from the specific design flaws that contributed to the destruction 💥 of two shuttles in flight, the #Challenger in 1986 and the #Columbia in 2003 https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/baikonur-buran-soviet-space-shuttle/
There was no way that one could have confidence that conditions the next time might not produce #erosion three times more severe than the time before. Officials fooled themselves into thinking they had such understanding and confidence, in spite of the peculiar variations from case to case. A mathematical model was made to calculate erosion. This was a model based not on physical understanding but on empirical curve fitting https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman
