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NASA set to test Orion spacecraft (deep space exploration) Thursday

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Megasoum

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Hmm interesting. They're using a drone over the Pacific to get images from the capsule when it will be coming back down.


Guys, we live in the future!
 
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CadetMahoney

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RoKKeR said:
NASA set to test Orion spacecraft (deep space exploration).

It looks like a throwback to the Apollo era, but NASA's new spaceship is roomier and designed to go far beyond the moon -- to an asteroid and eventually Mars.
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an asteroid then mars = deep space?

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Chichikov

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By the way, if you're an American citizen - WRITE YOUR REPRESENTATIVE.
Tell them you want more of that shit, throw in a couple of patriotic bullshit lines about how proud you are to be an American and blah blah US leads the way
especially if your representative is a Republican :p]/spoiler].
I know I spam that in every such thread, but those thing absolutely matter and they do make a difference.

CadetMahoney said:
an asteroid then mars = deep space?

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Deep space is used interchangeably, but in the context of the SLS, it's mean outside of earth orbit.

Atrophis said:
Ok whenever that SLS flies I gotta be there!

See you guys in a few hours for splashdown.
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I think it's slated for 2018, if I'm back in the US by then, I will most certainly be there.
 
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Megasoum

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Chichikov said:
By the way, if you're an American citizen - WRITE YOUR REPRESENTATIVE.
Tell them you want more of that shit, throw in a couple of patriotic bullshit lines about how proud you are to be an American and blah blah US leads the way
especially if your representative is a Republican :p]/spoiler].
I know I spam that in every such thread, but those thing absolutely matter and they do make a difference.


Deep space is used interchangeably, but in the context of the SLS, it's mean outside of earth orbit.


I think it's slated for 2018, if I'm back in the US by then, I will most certainly be there.
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Yeah the latest dates are 2018 for the SLS Block 1 for an unmanned flight around the moon (Apollo 8 style).



Less than 5minutes before the burn


Edit: BURN BABY BURN
 
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Megasoum said:
Hmm interesting. They're using a drone over the Pacific to get images from the capsule when it will be coming back down.


Guys, we live in the future!
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We will when we can get the FAA to fuck off with the drone restrictions and come up with something more reasonable than drone operators needing a license to pilot an actual aircraft.
 
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Megasoum

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https://twitter.com/NASA/status/540878439595900928/photo/1

Here's Earth as seen from #Orion during its flight out to a peak altitude of 3,600 miles away from the planet.
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Just watched an old Apollo 11 documentary, this stuff inspired me. It is crazy to think that the US developed the program essentially from nothing to landing 2 men on the moon in 8 years. And with the technology they had back then.. It's really a testamant to the funding they gave NASA, and the men that were working on it. Incredible.

Blows my mind that essentially mission control for Apollo 11, the mainframe controlling everything until the craft took over was essentially the power of a laptop. The computer on the Lunar Module had about the power of a digital watch and shut down several times before they landed on the moon because it couldn't handle the info it was receiving on it's own radar altimeter. And that they almost ran out of descent fuel. Crazy.
 
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P3P5I

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I slept through the launch so I'm going to watch the stream in a few minutes. My senior project involves the Orion capsule, so I hope they get good measurements from this flight!
 
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RyanardoDaVinci

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Man, I would've done anything to go along for this ride!

4hrs and two trips around the world -- it takes longer to drive to my grandparents house!
 
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NYCmetsfan

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I wish I would have woken up. I can seemost rocket launches from my house. Watched many many shuttle launches growing up. This is awesome
 
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