LordFerret

Indeed, what is it? I'm not about to download anything without an idea of what it is first.

Been a while since I looked through here. Thank you for your service gentlemen~.

This is a stretch not knowing what this thing looks like (you should post a picture), but ... how about a rover? You could build and send up a sturdy rover - a mobile platform. Drive the thing underneath the module in question, and then retract the landing legs on it and have it sit down on the rover. Then, drive the rover over to where you want it and then extend the lander legs again. I've been thinking along these lines for my own Mun/Minmus bases construction.

Too bad none of these launches is for a new telescope or other such scientific equipment.

Not sure what this relates to, but I'll say Orks... they're too dumb to understand money. You couldn't even get one dumb mercenary for 40K let alone a Marine. lol

Not in the entire history of mankind does that ever happen. lol

Most all other debris I've seen (in other footage) floats along at the same speed as the spacecraft, in a cloud, or trails off slowly behind as the tether did. If that debris did originate from the craft, what caused it?... a steady stream of it no less, in all different directions and speeds. They're not John Glenn's "Fireflies" either, flecks of frost, as they're all identical. Neither are they a result of lens flare... they pulse, and not synchronously. This is the one they can't explain. Not to my satisfaction anyway.

That was debunked, the 'particulates' are too random in directions and pass behind and in front of the tether.

Of all the alleged UFO footage out there, the one they can't explain is the Tether incident on STS-75... 'things' passing both in front of and behind the severed tether. These 'things' have also shown up in other NASA footage. I've heard a number of people express they think they're a possible lifeform which lives in the upper fringes of our atmosphere, native to Earth??? You tell me.

I found it (thank you Google)... and can even see the displays in the Earth view. Cool, I love old aircraft. I see the runway is indeed useless, although there is another airport not far to the north and east. My friend tells me she visits her friends in Mytishchi, and knows of Monino but never knew there was an air museum there. Looks like they now have something to do on their next visit lol. I should dig up my pictures from the airshow I worked in 2001 at Lakehurst NAB, Blue Angels and a lot of other stuff ... plus something extra special from WWII Pacific theater, the real deal.

True, kinda sorta. The V-1 was a rocket powered (pulse-jet) glider... a flying bomb, akin to a cruise missile. Being the first of its kind, and first flight(s) of such, with Hanna onboard, I'd still give it (her) credit. The German program may be irrelevant to the Space Race proper, but were it not for their technology there would have been no space race in the first place. You have to give credit where credit is due.

Cool pics, thanks for sharing. Where are these static displays?... in Moscow? I've a friend there, will have to talk to them about this.

I've been arguing that for quite some time now... and the first 'astronaut' for a sub-orbital flight was Hanna Reitsch - a woman.

Hump Day! Mike! Mike! Mike!

Brings to mind the disappearnce of Iran's Fajr satellite.

I must protest. This bias for potatoes really grates on me. What about yams, or beets, or broccoli even?

How about instead of a show, they just broadcast non-stop everything that goes on... development, construction, testing, training. Kind of like a NASA TV (or ESA's equivalent), but broader, open and unedited - or the word of the day here in this nation, "transparent". If the world really sees something in that, they'll get the interest and backing. Maybe. There's issues/problems that could develop with that too though. Then again, there's that whole UN Outer Space Treaty thing-a-ma-jingy ... how will the world handle that? Who gets to claim rights to Mars? Who defines where you'll land and build your colony? And, most importantly, who (what nation) will reap the rewards of the science gained and natural resources found there to have? As for getting there, we have the technology to sling whatever out there to it, we've done so already with probes and landers/rovers (although a number of them didn't quite make it at first, did they). I fail to understand why focus wouldn't be on a robotic colony, sent there to build and grow and evaluate first.

With all due respect and compliance to the Mod's request... Your first sentence there is, I suspect, the issue here. And, no, I don't have all the answers... what I have is nearly 60 years of life experience, watching, following, listening, witnessing. As for what's available from NASA, I'm intimately familiar with the resources - NSSDCA (great place to start) and NAIF for example to name a few I rely on, Simbad and other CDS tools as well... and then, of course, there's Google (etc). Long before there was a KSP, I meddled with Celestia and other such things. As for Mars One... I believe it to be on the order of a scam. If not a scam outright, a pipe-dream. Between the players involved, the chosen engine to drive interest (and generate funding) - a reality show, it cannot hold a serious note. I see no serious legitimate science/industry leaders having any interest or part in it, and no apparent backing by any other agency (NASA, ESA, etc). Everyone whom I have discussed it with has pretty much held the same 'sarcastic' opinion of it and its 'contestants'... (pardon the pun, but it has been the general consensus I've run into) At best, at this moment, it is very poorly planned; And if its implementation follows suit? The above pun could end up quite right.

If you wish to nit-pick with that, fine - they're one in the same. My point still being, the general public was in essence shut out in the midst of the Apollo program, call it the militarization of NASA. Like I said, I'm old enough to remember this ... unless of course it's suggested I'm hallucinating. As Bill Phil points out, it's only by recent law that NASA has been doling out the fruits of the tax dollars spent... and that could change at any time, at the stroke of someone's pen. I will continue to ask: where are the open channels to data and findings; why the need for special communications bands/frequencies and encryption; why does all imagery get screened first before being released to the public; etc etc etc. What's the excuse? That's not what I consider a 'public' agency. And I'd still like to know why the transmissions from JAXA's moon mission where disallowed broadcast in the US. I have a lot of questions, none of which you will be able answer definitively.

Yes, done that! Not a problem ... chutes and lander legs.

The SCANsat mod, using the BTDT scanner on your craft, will give you a readout of the slope in degrees beneath you (as well as what Biome you're in). Even works on your rover, so you don't need to rely on the Navball, although the Navball does give you a good clear indication of the slope's orientation. (Ninja'd by GreenWolf lol)

In the beginning, when it was a public agency, access to all its data and technology was open ... mission data streams (video/radio) were wide open, anybody could tune in and watch. All that ended after the government clamped down, during Apollo, it was all locked up ... the mission data is transmitted on non-conventional bands and oft encrypted, to keep the public eye off. Now, they feed you bits and pieces, what they want you to know about.

Will time be relative across branes? I'm thinking perhaps not, such as proposed (by I forget her name) that gravity here in our brane is a weak force - yet extends across branes and could exist as yet an even weaker force elsewhere, or stronger. (Wish I could remember her name, wrote a superb book on/about string-theory. )

No, NASA started out as a 'public' agency. I'm old enough to remember that.

"Because of Mars One’s eventual failure, Roche fears that people will lose faith in trustworthy agencies like NASA and perhaps even scientists in general." Right from the start, I thought it a pipe-dream and had doubts. This doesn't surprise me. As for the statement by Roche, I lost faith in NASA ages ago when the government took over and it was no longer a public agency ... and as for scientists?... "global warming" / climate change / climate disruption / whatever you want to call it, clinched it... I take everything they claim at this point with a grain of salt.