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Space – From Earth to the Edge of the Universe by editors Carole Stott, Robert Dinwiddie, David Hughes and Giles Sparrow; Dorling Kindersley(DK) Publishing; New York, New York; $40.00 (hard cover); 2010. Space is big…but so is this large format book. This is a...Opportunity Mars Rover: New Imagery of Crater!
NASA’s always on the go Opportunity Mars rover is inspecting Santa Maria crater – providing new imagery showing the geology of the relatively fresh feature. Scientists are delighted with the new photos that show outcrop exposures at the crater’s rim. Santa Maria...Gigantic Storm on Saturn: Cassini Spacecraft Catches the Action!
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn has imaged a huge storm – a raging event on the massive planet. “Just down on the ground today … our cameras on Cassini have captured sight of a gigantic storm recently erupted in the northern hemisphere of Saturn,”...Rim Shots! Mars Rover Examines Fresh Crater
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Confronting Space Debris – Strategies and Warnings from Comparable Examples Including Deepwater Horizon by Dave Baiocchi and William Welser IV; RAND Corporation; Santa Monica, California; $21.60 (paperback/special web discount); 2010. This is an absorbing and...Participate in Worldwide Space Station Wave Campaign
Wave to the U. S., European and Russian astronauts living and working aboard the International Space Station this week through a global campaign organized by www.isswave.org. The web site offers five different ways to find out when and where to look in the...Space Talk
@ThePrimalDino As a ksp vet myself I’m sure it wasn’t easy! Are you planning on making a youtube vid about how it works?
@Asomr1 I’m thinking about doing a mission to Duna with it and posting it to youtube. Not sure when it will be though
@ThePrimalDino @mightbejell0 SRBs are counted as .5th stage in US so no Shuttle is still a 1st stage
@SCEtoAUXs @mightbejell0 Shuttle can only be counted as a first stage when on the RS-25s.
After the tank drops, and the shuttle switches to OMS engines to complete orbit insertion, it is absolutely a second stage.
I’m not guaranteeing anything, but I’m going to make a huge push to try to make it out for this. I really can’t promise anything but man I really want to see this!
@DJSnM Unless we discover problems after mission data review, SpaceX will attempt to catch the ship with the tower on next flight
@asherbphotos Same here - Not sure how i'll pull it off
The worst nightmare for remote cameras almost happened for @tweetsiphotos and I today.
Absolutely horrifying how close of a call we both had. 💀
