The Raging Sandwich
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5 hours ago, qzgy said:
We just guessed the delta-v requirements. We'll send a rescue mission if they get stuck.
Is it bad if that's exactly what I do? To be honest, I don't even really know exactly what delta-v is and how to calculate it.
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8 hours ago, Pine said:
They look like toys!
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April 12
1960: The first Mercury capsule produced by McDonnell was presented to NASA.
1961: Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first ever man in space and the first in orbit when he was launched on Vostok 1. His flight was designated for 1 orbit around the Earth. The controls were completely automated to keep Gagarin from manually piloting the spacecraft. After orbiting once, the retrofire command was given. After successful retrofire, the service module remained on the main capsule. It remained on the capsule even after entering the atmosphere, causing the spacecraft to rotate until the straps holding the two burned through. After a successful reentry, Gagarin ejected from the capsule, then landing with his own parachute after jumping out of the seat. He was recovered safely the same day.
1979: Soyuz 33 and its crew of 2 landed back at Earth.
1981: The first Space Transportation System (STS-1), or the space shuttle, was launched with veteran Gemini and Apollo astronaut John Young and rookie Robert Crippen. They orbited the Earth 37 times in the Columbia after landing back at Earth on April 14.
1985: STS-51-D and its crew of 7 launched into orbit on a 7-day mission. It released Anik C1, a Canadian communications satellite, and Syncom IV-3, another communcations satellite (which failed to reached geosynchronous orbit and was repaired on STS-51-I on August 31), on April 13.
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1 minute ago, cratercracker said:
Photo taken from a plane. High over Kamchatka's midlands. (Kamchatka is my motherland)
Photo of "Veluchunsk" volano. Kamchatka.
Amazing!
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9 hours ago, Adstriduum said:
The black hole uses the Sun as the template, so you just crash on the surface. However, I think the extreme gravity might tear it apart. I have not tested it yet, though. I'm too scared to go close to that thing
If you get too close, you just sort of explode. Happened to me.
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Only 474 days away!
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April 11
1943: The California Rocket Society tested the first hybrid rocket using oxygen and carbon.
1970: Apollo 13 and its crew of James Lovell, Fred Haise, and John Swigert were launched to the Moon. The fourth S-IVB stage entered into a parking orbit. After burning a second time, the CSM undocked from the S-IVB stage and docked with the lunar module, then detaching that from the S-IVB. The S-IVB stage then burned itself in an impact trajectory towards the Moon, impacting on April 14, triggering the Apollo 12 seismometer. The ion detector equipment also recorded a jolt of over 2,500 watts during the impact. On April 13, the SM oxygen tank 2 started rapidly losing pressure and the current in fuel cells 1 and 3 started to drop. This resulted in loss of oxygen and primary power in the SM and an abort of the mission. The crew powered down the CM and used the LM for propulsion and life support. The LM first made a course correction to have a free-return trajectory around the Moon. After swinging around the Moon, the LM was used again to shorten the travel time back to Earth. They splashed down successfully in the South Pacific ocean.
1984: Soyuz T-10 and its crew of 3 landed back at Earth after a mission to the Salyut 7.
1991: STS-37 and its crew of 5 landed back at Earth.
1995: T Keith Glennan, the first NASA administrator (1958-1961) died.
2006: The ESA's Venus Express conducted its orbital insertion of Venus.
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"Our new spaceplane is going to Pluto."
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If I can, I'll have to bust out my telescope too and do some asteroid huntin'
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...serves hot dogs. And nothing else.
This hot dog cart...
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April 9
1963: The Soviets proposed using the Vostok spacecraft as a training craft for cosmonauts going into Soyuz missions. The Vostok would be used for training flights like MiG-15UTI training flights. This was when they proposed mass production of Vostok and Soyuz as military craft.
1965: It was announced that the manned flight control would be transferred to Houston from Cape Canaveral.
1980: Soyuz 35 and its crew of 2 launched into orbit on a mission to the Salyut 6.
1983: STS-6 and its crew of 4 landed back at Earth.
1994: STS-59 and its crew of 6 launched into orbit on an 11 day mission. It carried SIR-C SAR Radar.
April 10
1979: Soyuz 33 and its crew of 2 launched into orbit on a mission to the Salyut 6. It failed to dock to the station after the main engines didn't fire the planned 6-second burn closing in on rendezvous. The docking was called off and they used the backup engine to deorbit. The backup engine fired too long and the crew underwent a steep reentry.
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@WinkAllKerb'', where would I find the entity hierarchy tab? Also, I don't really know what a lot of this means like "bone scheme" because I just started today. Thanks for the help!
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So I made a space station in Blender:
I'm trying to make an animation with it, sort of like a 2001 sort-of docking scene. So a couple questions:
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How do I get rid of the dotted cube thing off of the bottom of it (I have no clue what I did to get it there and what it does?) -
How do I make the whole thing one whole piece instead of everything being separate pieces - How do I make it rotate?
If you know how, thanks for answering as I'm new to it.
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@MrMeeb, nice use of the Tron: Legacy soundtrack!
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April 8
1952: The Redstone missiles were given their official name.
1964: The unmanned Gemini-Titan 1 was launched. It was the first launch of a Gemini vehicle into orbit. It was to test the structural integrity of the spacecraft and to test of the new Titan II missile could launch the spacecraft into orbit. While in orbit, the spacecraft and the second stage did not detach. No recovery was planned and the mission was successful after 3 hours. The spacecraft was still tracked until its orbit decayed and it reentered on April 12 over the Atlantic.
1980: Voyager 1 discovered Saturn's moon Telesto.
1993: STS-56 and its crew of 5 launched into orbit on a 9-day mission. It carried the Atlas-2 and deployed Spartan 201, an X-ray astronomy satellite, on April 11 and retrieved it on April 13.
1997: STS-83 and its crew of 7 landed back at Earth.
2002: STS-110 and its crew of 7 launched into orbit on an 11-day mission to the ISS. It was delayed 2 times before launching on April 8. It carried the S0 truss segment, which was to grow into the solar wings and radiator trusses.
2006: Soyuz TMA-7 and its crew of 3 landed back at Earth.
2008: Soyuz TMA-12 and its crew of 3 launched into orbit on a mission to the ISS. It docked to the station on April 10 and undocked on October 24, landing safely back at Earth.
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11 hours ago, Triop said:
Working on a A Maze Zing Thing.
TBC
I did something like that once but it only had one level and it didn't have a roof. Mine wasn't that A Maze Zing.
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...has blown up a total of 56,934,568,221,900.1 times.
This incredibly large number...
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I have some more suggestions -
a radial docking port you can EVA out of and an option to put a flag on launch fairings.
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"To save fuel, we're going to cheat our launch vessel on top of a tall mountain for launch."
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I'd like a radial EVA hatch you can place anywhere on your ship.
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April 7
1968: Luna 14 was launched. It entered Lunar orbit on April 10 to study the Moon's gravitational field, and as revealed later, tracking and communications for a Soviet manned Lunar program.
1990: China launched Asiasat 1, their first commercial probe. It was originally Westar 6, retrieved in orbit by STS-51-A. It was refurbished and given to China for launch.
1991: An unscheduled EVA was conducted for STS-37 by Jerome Apt and Jerry Ross. They manually deployed the Compton Observatory's high-gain antenna which had failed to deploy.
2001: The 2001 Mars Odyssey was launched. It was to orbit Mars for studying surface mineralogy and radiation. After entering a parking orbit, it was boosted out of Earth's SOI and towards Mars. It left Earth's SOI on April 10. It entered Mars orbit on October 24.
2007: Soyuz TMA-10 and its crew of 3 launched into orbit on a mission to the ISS. It docked to the station on April 9. During reentry on October 21, the service module failed to separate from the capsule causing the spacecraft to tumble. The connecting ports eventually burned through and the capsule righted itself. The crew landed safely nearly 200 miles away from its planned landing point. The reentry was revealed until the same happened on TMA-11.
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2 hours ago, DiscoSlelge said:
Is that Ike in the background?
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April 4, continued
1997: STS-83 and its crew of 7 launched into Earth orbit on a 4-day mission. It was postponed 1 day as insulation around a water cooler had to be replaced. The launch was postponed 20 minutes the next day as their were abnormal oxygen readings in the payload bay. One of the three fuel cells providing energy and water to the shuttle had a problem, and thus the mission was cut short on April 6. The spacecraft landed on April 8. The shuttle carried equipment to be delivered to the ISS. The same equipment would be flown to the ISS on STS-94 in 1997.
2000: Soyuz TM-30 and its crew of 2 launched into orbit on a mission to the Mir. It docked to the uninhabited station on April 6.
2011: Soyuz TMA-21 and its crew of 3 launched into orbit on a mission to the ISS. It docked to the station on April 6. It undocked 8 days later than planned after the failure of Progress M-11M. Communications were lost after the deorbit burn but the crew landed safely.
April 5
1894: USSR leader Nikita Khrushchev was born. He was the leader of the Soviet Union from 1956-1964.
1949: Dr. Judith Resnik was born. She flew on STS-41-D and STS-51-L. She died in the Challenger accident.
1950: Dr. Franklin Chang-Diaz was born. He flew on STS-61-C, 34, 46, 60, 75, 91, and 111. Spaceflight achievement is holding a record of 7 spaceflights.
1965: Wally Schirra and Tom Stafford were chosen were selected as pilots of Gemini 6.
1975: Soyuz 18-1 and its crew of 2 was launched. The mission was to dock with the Salyut 4. During launch, the third stage failed to separate from the second stage but still ignited. The spacecraft was separated by ground control and the crew landed on a mountain. The capsule tumbled down the hill and got caught in some bushes.
1991: Astronaut Dr. Manley Carter died in a crash of a commercial airliner in New Brunswick, Georgia. He flew on STS-33.
1991: STS-37 and its crew of 5 was launched into Earth orbit on a 6-day mission. It deployed the Compton Observatory, later renamed the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, on April 7. Its high-gain antenna failed to deploy, so an unscheduled EVA was conducted to manually deploy it. It was deorbited on June 3, 2000 after numerous gyroscope failures.
1998: After the success of the movie Apollo 13, Tom Hanks released From Earth to the Moon, a TV series on the entire manned Apollo program.
2004: The Spirit Mars rover ended its primary mission.
2010: STS-131 and its crew of 7 launched into orbit on a 15-day mission to the ISS.
April 6
1973: Pioneer 11 was launched by an Atlas/Centaur rocket. It was the second spacecraft after Pioneer 10 to reach Jupiter. It did a Jupiter flyby in December, 1974. It used Jupiter's gravity to then slingshot it to reach Saturn in September, 1979. It was then catapulted out of the solar system. Telemetry systems were shut down on September 30, 1995.
1984: STS-41-C and its crew of 5 launched into orbit on a 7-day mission. It was the first repair of a satellite in orbit, the Solar Maximum Mission. It deployed the LDEF, a micrometeoroid satellite, on April 7.
1992: Science fiction writer Isaac Asimov died.
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...repairs blenders that came to life by the sliver of a space cube and were then blown up by a cannon in a house fire. (If anyone can say what this is from, you get a cookie.)
This camera...
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...needs a recommended amount of dedotated wam.
This appliance store...