This composite color full-disk visible image was captured 1:07 p.m. ET on Jan. 15 using several of the 16 spectral channels available on the GOES-16 Advanced Baseline Imager. The image shows North and South America and the surrounding oceans. (NOAA/NASA)
..... he has just come into the lander from the Moon's surface. He's been out working in the dust, for the last time. Like most lunar astronauts he has only taken half the allocated sleep time thus far in the mission, because he doesn't want to miss anything. He has sacrificed about a decade of his private life to be then & there on The Moon. Look into his eyes. He is a mix of happy/tired. What does the raised eyebrow mean? His colleague snapped this shot while he is on the blower checking back with Houston. That's a quarter of a million miles, and several days, away. If all goes well he will see a sunset through a full atmosphere again, though only by faultless navigation of a little bubble of humanity.
Lest We Forget
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Eugene Andrew "Gene" Cernan March 14, 1934 – January 16, 2017), (Captain, USN), was an American astronaut,naval aviator, electrical engineer, aeronautical engineer, and fighter pilot.
He traveled into space three times: as Pilot of Gemini 9A in June 1966, as Lunar Module Pilot of Apollo 10 in May 1969, and as Commander of Apollo 17 in December 1972, the final Apollo lunar landing. On Apollo 17, Cernan became the eleventh person, and most recent man, to walk on the Moon, since he was the last to re-enter the Lunar Module Challenger after the mission's third and final extravehicular activity (EVA). Cernan was also a backup crew member for the Gemini 12, Apollo 7 and Apollo 14 space missions.
He is part of history.
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
There is an allegation that SpaceX's launch manifest is being reordered.
BTW : when someone says 'Spacex sez' is there some SpaceX validated mode of this to occur ? I don't see any mention on their website and no link/source was mentioned for that article. Others I've searched are similarly vague. Is there some ( proximal ) public channel of info that SpaceX uses that I'm not aware of ?
Sorry to be a PITA but, with one thing and another, I've radically refreshed my credulity on un-sourced commentaries made by third parties.
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
We seem to keep having this problem and for a while now. I'm not blaming SpaceX. But in the last few years there have been various things claimed as being emitted by SpaceX, lacking detailed attribution ( like date/day/who and specific wording/content ) which even SpaceX have been unaware of ( before, during or after some 'revelation' ). In this case :
"SpaceX said Sunday that ..... "
"In a statement Sunday, SpaceX announced that ..... "
an embedded link to an original would be great ( preferably returned by a company server, https would be nice ). The clue is in the name here : that's why Tim Berner's Lee etc invented the hyperlink. I no longer trust derived quotation, life's too short etc ......
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Is there a better way to double check the intended SaceX intinerary?
I consider the forums run by NASASpaceFlight.com to be the premier source for this type of information. They have a deep core group of serious posting participants, some of whom are clearly current or former industry employees. The moderation is also quite capable.
With regard to this topic, they currently maintain a SpaceX manifest thread here. Moderators continually update the very first post in the thread to reflect "current wisdom" integrated across their sources. Posts at the end of this thread (and in some of the other threads) quite commonly give direct citations to sources on new claimed schedule information and updates.
This composite color
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This composite color full-disk visible image was captured 1:07 p.m. ET on Jan. 15 using several of the 16 spectral channels available on the GOES-16 Advanced Baseline Imager. The image shows North and South America and the surrounding oceans. (NOAA/NASA)
This is an epic photo of Gene
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This is an epic photo of Gene Cernan :
..... he has just come into the lander from the Moon's surface. He's been out working in the dust, for the last time. Like most lunar astronauts he has only taken half the allocated sleep time thus far in the mission, because he doesn't want to miss anything. He has sacrificed about a decade of his private life to be then & there on The Moon. Look into his eyes. He is a mix of happy/tired. What does the raised eyebrow mean? His colleague snapped this shot while he is on the blower checking back with Houston. That's a quarter of a million miles, and several days, away. If all goes well he will see a sunset through a full atmosphere again, though only by faultless navigation of a little bubble of humanity.
Lest We Forget
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Eugene Andrew "Gene" Cernan
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He is part of history.
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
ESA SmallGEO/H36W-1 liftoff
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ESA SmallGEO/H36W-1 liftoff replay
There is an allegation that
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There is an allegation that SpaceX's launch manifest is being reordered.
BTW : when someone says 'Spacex sez' is there some SpaceX validated mode of this to occur ? I don't see any mention on their website and no link/source was mentioned for that article. Others I've searched are similarly vague. Is there some ( proximal ) public channel of info that SpaceX uses that I'm not aware of ?
Sorry to be a PITA but, with one thing and another, I've radically refreshed my credulity on un-sourced commentaries made by third parties.
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Mike, I read the same news
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Mike,
I read the same news item a few days ago here.
I didn't question the source, just took it at face value to be true.
Is there a better way to double check the intended SaceX intinerary?
We seem to keep having this
)
We seem to keep having this problem and for a while now. I'm not blaming SpaceX. But in the last few years there have been various things claimed as being emitted by SpaceX, lacking detailed attribution ( like date/day/who and specific wording/content ) which even SpaceX have been unaware of ( before, during or after some 'revelation' ). In this case :
"SpaceX said Sunday that ..... "
"In a statement Sunday, SpaceX announced that ..... "
an embedded link to an original would be great ( preferably returned by a company server, https would be nice ). The clue is in the name here : that's why Tim Berner's Lee etc invented the hyperlink. I no longer trust derived quotation, life's too short etc ......
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
JumpinJohnny wrote:Is there a
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I consider the forums run by NASASpaceFlight.com to be the premier source for this type of information. They have a deep core group of serious posting participants, some of whom are clearly current or former industry employees. The moderation is also quite capable.
With regard to this topic, they currently maintain a SpaceX manifest thread here. Moderators continually update the very first post in the thread to reflect "current wisdom" integrated across their sources. Posts at the end of this thread (and in some of the other threads) quite commonly give direct citations to sources on new claimed schedule information and updates.
But the answer keeps changing.
SpaceX has just Twittered
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SpaceX has just Twittered :
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
As of about an hour ago from
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As posted about an hour ago on an Instagram by Elon :
... the historic Pad 39A ! :-))
That's the first Men On The Moon one ....
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal