The Space Thread - Launches, Events, Live Streams, Governments, Corporations, drama in Spaaaaaaaaaaaace

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Kwisatz00 said:
Ok I concede I was wrong, but I still will contest that they shot up as quick as an ICBM. The g forces would liquify them.
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Mercury Atlas and Gemini Titan both peaked at over 8g of acceleration and spent the majority of their flights well above the 3g that is typical these days. A limit, incidentally, that is maintained to avoid damaging payloads rather than crew. An untrained human can endure sustained acceleration of well over 4g without injury and brief peaks close to 7. Training can extend that.
 
WelperHelper99 said:
So I heard the toilet broke?
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Again? That design needs a major overhaul before they do Artemis 4 if so lol

Edit: checked the stream, no toilet info yet, but I love how the pilot wears two watches, one on each wrist

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Regarding the toilet, earlier today they were rotating the ship so the port where the waste dump comes out of would be in direct sunlight. The idea was that if the port was blocked by frozen material, the sun would melt or free it up.

I guess it worked partially, as the rather funny announcement was that the toilet was a go for "fecal use only". They still have to piss in bags though. Lol.
 
MerelyAPlateOfSpaghetti said:
Edit: checked the stream, no toilet info yet, but I love how the pilot wears two watches, one on each wrist
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apparently they cant use the toilet to pee, its fine for the other but the fan inside is broken and cant carry away liquid
as for his watches, wonder if its another astronaut post-stamp scenario lol
 
Troonos said:
If you really really really want to start tripping balls, if you could hypothetically survive the extreme tidal forces and radiation of a black hole and had a propulsion strong enough to hover you basically at the very surface of the event horizon, while seconds pass for you, thousands or millions or billions (depending on the mass of the singularity) of years pass for the universe due to the extreme time dilation that's strongest at the event horizon.
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If you really want to trip balls, you can theoretically use a spinning black hole to travel into another universe. It's a one-way trip of course.

Here's the science behind it:

 
Wahgonga said:
Regarding the toilet, earlier today they were rotating the ship so the port where the waste dump comes out of would be in direct sunlight. The idea was that if the port was blocked by frozen material, the sun would melt or free it up.

I guess it worked partially, as the rather funny announcement was that the toilet was a go for "fecal use only". They still have to piss in bags though. Lol.
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It would seem to me that this spacecraft should have heated dump exhausts like most commercial aircraft do. On most commercial aircraft there are waste water drain masts. Heated to keep the stuff liquified until dumped overboard. Why don’t they have it on the Orion spacecraft? Inb4 jets.
 

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Oh are they at the halfway point now? Thought I heard something putting on my headphones and forgot the tab the livestream's on wasn't muted lol.
 
Kari Kamiya said:
Oh are they at the halfway point now? Thought I heard something putting on my headphones and forgot the tab the livestream's on wasn't muted lol.
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As of now they are 183,850 miles from Earth, and 97,475 miles from the Moon. So they're well past halfway.
 
Toilet is still broken, their plan is to try to vent the toilet down to 10% full. Currently they are still using "CCU" or collapsible contingency urinal.

They said they tried vent the toilet but it only released 3% of the waste water. The next time they tried venting it was successful.
 
MerelyAPlateOfSpaghetti said:
Toilet is still broken, their plan is to try to vent the toilet down to 10% full. Currently they are still using "CCU" or collapsible contingency urinal.

They said they tried vent the toilet but it only released 3% of the waste water. The next time they tried venting it was successful.
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As long as it doesn't catch fire at this point I don't see it as a serious problem anymore. But they'll absolutely need to figure that shit out, literally.
 
Troonos said:
He listens to black welfare class grievance poem "Whitey's On Da Moon" every day. Fuck him.
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Fair enough, but I'd still take over literal snakes like Mark Kelly who voted to defund Artemis and then say he loves it, wouldn't stand up for US citizens, and has was one of those types I can't stand. A lot of post-9/11 astronauts were kinda bastards or nuts like that diaper lady. Really the low point of NASA was all during Obama, totally aimless, islamic outreach, only cared about CO2 nonsense.

 
Disdainer of the Plebs said:
Their stream producers suck. The hours of pointless yapping, the announcer with a voice for print, it felt like amateur hour compared to even SpaceX streams, and the 1960s presentations and footage make both of them look like titty baby nursery hour.

We're going back to the fucking moon, the presentation needs to have gravitas.
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I'm really hoping they get this streaming/presentation shit ironed out and squared away before we actually land on the damned thing, all of the other videos I've seen have been pretty good, but the stream itself left a whole lot to be desired. Black outs, distortion , cutting to the crowd reaction. Like dude, we're here to watch this fucking rocket tear itself asunder from Earth's gravity and fling itself at the fucking Moon, not look at boomers sitting in their lawn chairs a half mile away. Come the fuck on now, guys.

If Artemis IV actually lands on the fucking Moon and the stream cuts out or drops frames right when the landing legs are about to touch down, I'm gonna sperg out so hard it's gonna make the McDonalds Rick and Morty nugget sauce guy look like a big pussy. Or if they, at that moment, cut to some old guy sitting in a recliner/armchair watching it on his television set. Let's hope they get their shit figured out, it'd be pretty fucking anti-climactic if every other frame is dropped during the descent.

Also, cool fucking video, I guess I hadn't even noticed that before but you CAN see the sonic waves as soon as the SRBs begin firing: https://x.com/Mookafish/status/2040563843160551432

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Monday April the 6th is the moon flyby. Here's a schedule I grabbed from the NASA website for my fellow space farmers. All times are E.S.T.-

2:45 p.m.: Lunar observation period begins

6:47 p.m.: Predicted loss of communications as crew heads behind the Moon (estimated 40-min.)

7:02 p.m. Orion closest approach to the Moon

7:05 p.m.: Orion reaches maximum distance from Earth

8:35 p.m.: Orion enters period with Moon eclipsing the Sun

9:20 p.m.: Lunar observation period (flyby) concludes

9:32 p.m.: Solar eclipse period concludes

10:50 p.m.: Live downlink event
 
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