Mastodawn

Als alle die explodierende Challenger sahen, war zunächst ein Moment Stille. Dann der Kommentar aus dem Kontrollraum:

Obviously a major malfunction.

So war das damals. Nur Fakten, keine Emotionen.

With the Artemis II launch last night, I thought I'd post a photo of one of Glasgow's more unusual architecturel sculptures, and the city's only sculpture of a space shuttle. Titled Space, it's one of four related panels by Brian Kelly on a 1980s housing development on Edzell Street in the west of Glasgow.

#glasgow #sculpture #spaceshuttle #whiteinch #architecture

Herbert Blankesteijn 1d ago

Na de geslaagde lancering van #Artemis is het goed dit verontrustende verhaal te lezen over de problemen met het hitteschild, dat nodig is voor een behouden terugkeer. (En bedenk dat een heelhuidse landing niet betekent dat het veilig was.) #SpaceShuttle https://idlewords.com/2026/03/artemis_ii_is_not_safe_to_fly.htm

Artemis II Is Not Safe to Fly (Idle Words)

NewsletterTF 1d ago

NASA's Flown Vehicle Gambit: An Intact Shuttle or Empty Promise?

NASA wants to move a flown space vehicle intact. Find out if moving the Space Shuttle Discovery to Houston is possible and what challenges exist.

#NASA, #SpaceShuttle, #Discovery, #Houston, #SpaceTransport

https://newsletter.tf/nasa-rules-moving-space-shuttle-intact-houston/

NewsletterTF 1d ago

NASA has new rules for moving a flown space vehicle, requiring it to stay intact. This is a big challenge, especially for a Space Shuttle.

#NASA, #SpaceShuttle, #Discovery, #Houston, #SpaceTransport
https://newsletter.tf/nasa-rules-moving-space-shuttle-intact-houston/

NASA's Strict Rules for Moving Space Shuttles Intact to Houston

NASA wants to move a flown space vehicle intact. Find out if moving the Space Shuttle Discovery to Houston is possible and what challenges exist.

NewsletterTF

Edwin Groothuis 1d ago

The beauty of the broadcasts of the shuttle launches.

Five days in advance they started streaming the camera feed and the mission control channel. You knew the name of every station being called, you know exactly of what was happening, you know the messages about "hey something weird is happening, have a look" or "there is a boat in the exclusion zone" or the dreaded "weather? NO GO".

How can we get people interested in STEM if we don't get the insides to projects like this?

#stem #spaceshuttle #launch #artemis2

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Droppie [infosec] 🐨

2d ago

@Artemis201 @AkaSci in fairness to & respect for you, i should mention the context in which i made my original reply to you. it was not complimentary [not in any way attacking you, but instead... keep reading] at all, in that, per a recent series of negative posts i made about #nasa & #artemis2, i expect this mission to fail, with loss of the astronauts. my cynicism is predicated in the larger context of merka today, being a fascist hellhole of flat-earth anti-science delusion, actively at war with facts, science, & morality [wrt eg its unremitting war on LGBTQI & especially T peeps]. a country under this evil orange dictator & his malign RWNJ skyfairydelusional acolytes which has actively destroyed its climate science databases & expertise, which has replaced top-tier medical expertise with actually stupid snake-oil salesmen, which seeks actively to discredit & hide its shameful black history, which even now is destabilising the world yet again with its delusional projections of violence perpetrated by immature boys with penis anxiety. a country which, IMO, not only has not learned from the #spaceshuttle o-ring & insulation catastrophes, but seems intent on wilfully ignoring the proper engineering requirements. for instance, i have recently read a report [linked in one of my recent posts] discussing the unexpected wholesale damage to the heat insulation on artemis1, which apparently shed chunks rather than merely losing the outer layers during re-entry as designed... yet this same inadequate spec iirc remains on artemis2.

fwiw.