The Raging Sandwich
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April 19
1932: Robert Goddard first tested a liquid fuel-rocket with gyro stabilization. It used 8 gyro-fins to stabilize it. It reached 135 feet and flew for a total of 5 seconds.
1971: The first manned space station, Salyut 1, was launched. After achieving a stable orbit, the cover for the scientific equipment bay did not open, leaving many experiments unusable. Otherwise, it was functioning well. It included a number of military experiments along with many scientific experiments.
1982: The Salyut 7 space station was launched. It was less advanced and involved as Salyut 6 even though it had the same design. Two resupply modules originally intended for the then cancelled Almaz station docked to Salyut 7 to make a larger station. It reentered after losing fuel on February 7, 1991 over Argentina. It was attempted to control the reentry but all attempts failed, leaving some parts of the station to land in a small town called Capitan Bermudez, but no one was hurt.
1985: STS-51-D and its crew of 7 landed back at Earth.
More coming later today
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8 hours ago, Ultimate Steve said:
@The Raging Sandwich Gotta love Mondays! Good luck with your ACT's. And migraines. And power outages.
Well, I had this box full of 50 colored pencils, and I manage to drop it very often... the worst is when you drop it and all 50 spill down the crowded staircase...
BTW is it alright if I add that to my list of quotes?
Yep!
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7 hours ago, TheKosanianMethod said:
On Easter, the fire alarm in my church went off at the end of the service. We continued like normal, we had about a minute left. By the time the rest of the altar servers and I had lined up and walked to the back of the church (within a minute of the alarm), the last six rows were completely empty - apparently all of the old people bolted as soon as the alarm went off.
Nice, what denomination are you?
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April 18
1951: Aeromed 1 Biological mission was launched. It was the first Aerobee sounding rocket to carry a monkey onboard, though its name is unknown.
1968: Two workers were killed while working on the Soviet N1 rocket.
2002: the Stardust spacecraft reached the Aphelion of its orbit (2.72 AU).
2003: Stardust exited solar conjunction, where the Sun was blocking its view of Earth, making it temporarily invisible.
2014: SpaceX's Dragon CRS-3 was launched to the ISS. It was also the first launch of the Falcon 9 with a recoverable first stage. During launch after the first stage was jettisoned, it landed vertically in the ocean to be recovered. After achieving orbit, the second stage separated the spacecraft along with 5 cubesats. The spacecraft delivered supplies to the station and undocked on May 18. It landed safely in the Pacific the same day.
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On top of everything with my super fun Monday, the transformer that gives power to several houses on my street blew up, caught fire, and wasn't fixed until sometime after 10 pm. Now I get to take ACTs! Exciting.
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2 hours ago, DiscoSlelge said:
Yep
What mods did you use to get it to look like that?
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April 16
1956: David Brown was born. He flew on STS-107, the failed Columbia mission in 2003.
1962: The N1 Soviet Moon rocket among other ICBMs was authorized.
1972: Apollo 16 and its crew of Charles Duke, Thomas Mittingly, and John Young were launched on an 11-day mission to the Moon. The S-IVB stage and the spacecraft were first put in a parking orbit. Translunar Injection came a little less than 3 hours after launch. The tracking of the S-IVB stage was lost on April 17. It impacted the Moon on April 19 triggering the Apollo 12, 14, and 15 seismometers. The spacecraft entered lunar orbit on April 19. Crewmembers Charles Duke and John Young landed on the Moon on April 20. The first EVA was conducted the next day. The crew traveled a total distance of 2.6 miles on the first EVA with the lunar rover. The second EVA was on April 22. The total distance traveled on the lunar rover then was 6.9 miles. The third and final EVA was the next day, where the crew traveled 7.1 miles. Thomas Mittingly stayed in lunar orbit during the surface exploration of the two other crewmembers. The ascent stage of the LEM lifted off the surface on April 23 and docked with the CSM. The LEM was jettisoned on April 24. A subsatellite was ejected from the spacecraft but crashed into the Moon on May 29.
2005: The Cassini spacecraft conducted a successful flyby of the moon Titan.
April 17
1967: The Surveyor 3 lunar lander was launched. It landed on the Moon on April 20. It would later be visited by Apollo 12 in November, 1969.
1970: Apollo 13 and its crew landed safely in the Pacific ocean. 4 hours before reentry the SM was jettisoned and the LM was jettisoned 1 hour before reentry.
1976: Germany's Helios 2 spacecraft made the closest ever flyby of the Sun.
1990: Ronald Evans, Jr. died. He flew on Apollo 17.
1993: STS-56 and its crew of 5 landed back at Earth.
1998: STS-90 and its crew of 7 launched into orbit on a 16-day mission. It carried Spacelab, a science lab stowed inside the shuttle payload bay.
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Well... I woke up super tired, dropped my binder out of my locker and it sort of exploded when it hit the ground (someone helped me pick it up, so I have that going for me) and had to sort-of put everything back where it was, lost my peripheral vision in my right eye during lunch, and had a migraine in 6th period, making me have to check out of school. I also have the ACTs to take tomorrow and Wednesday. Isn't Monday fun?
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5 hours ago, DiscoSlelge said:
Awesome, is that at Jool?
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April 15
1970: Apollo 13 swung around the Moon on its way back to Earth, setting an altitude record of 401,056 km away from the center of the Earth. Radio contact was lost until they came back around. Later that day, they made a course correction with the LM descent stage to reduce the coast time to Earth.
2004: STS-122 was cancelled after the Columbia disaster.
2005: Soyuz TMA-6 and its crew of 3 launched into orbit on a mission to the ISS. It docked to the station on April 17.
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I think he's Ben Quadinaros
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April 14
1955: Wernher Von Braun became a U.S. citizen at Huntsville Highschool in Alabama.
1981: STS-1 and its crew of John Young and Robert Crippen landed back at Earth after the first spaceflight of the shuttle.
2002: The wake-up song for STS-110 was "All Star" by Smash Mouth, played for astronaut Walheim. (Included for Satire)
2015: SpaceX launched the Dragon CRS-6 ISS supply spacecraft into orbit on a 37-day mission. The recovery of the first stage of the Falcon 9 was attempted on a barge in the Atlantic but failed. The spacecraft arrived at the station on April 17. It was grappled by the robotic arm and docked to the Harmony module. It delivered supplies needed for the crew along with 16 cubesats that would later be deployed in orbit, mice, and a microgravity espresso machine.
I'll have to do April 15 and 16 later tomorrow, as I have no more time tonight.
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I don't know of anyone who could help you with this, but I do recommend Blender for 3D modelling and texture, its free and many game designers use it.
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I'm pretty sure anyone regardless of their scientific or religious viewpoints would disagree with ya there, pal, and as @0111narwhalz said...
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As much as I may agree or disagree, I'm surprised this isn't marked as political content.
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4 hours ago, NISSKEPCSIM said:
Ohh...
Yeah, it took me a while to figure out what rep was too.
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I got it spinning!
https://www.screencast.com/t/x13ujW5QO
Is there anyway I can make it go slower and make it continuous so it doesn't slow down and stop at the end?
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Thanks everybody for the help so far, making everything one whole piece like @Waxing_Kibbous said to do removed the weird cube at the bottom, so that's two things out of the way in one! Now on to rotation...
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5 hours ago, ProtoJeb21 said:
HahahahahaNO
It's just because of stupid genetics and stuff. I was missing an adult tooth and now I had to get a fake one. Right now it's attached to my braces, so I wonder what will happen when I have to get them off....
That's like something that's happened to me, how I lost a tooth a couple months ago and it hasn't grown back at all, it wasn't an adult tooth either. I don't think its genetics, though.
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@0111narwhalz, I know how to resize the windows, but that's about it.
Thanks, @WinkAllKerb'' and nawhalz
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@Waxing_Kibbous, how do I select multiple objects? I can only seem to select 1 at a time.
@WinkAllKerb'', where is the properties tab?
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April 13
1959: Discoverer 2 was launched. It was the first ever satellite to be completely stabilized, maneuvered in orbit, and to send a reentry vehicle back to Earth. The capsule ejection malfunctioned, causing the capsule to crash-land near Norway in Spitsbergen (though this was just speculation) instead of landing near Hawaii on April 14. After it was never found, it was suspected to be stolen by Soviets.
1960: Transit 1B, the first orbital navigation satellite, was launched. It was the first launch of a Thor/Ablestar rocket. The Ablestar stage had the first engine-restart in space.
1984: STS-41-C and its crew of 5 landed back at Earth.
Pandora IV (The grand tour)
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Drat, ran out of likes. I'm liking it so far, short, simple, and to the point.