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  1. Voyager, because of the golden record. Favorite manned spacecraft?
  2. ZBar is an open-source C barcode reading library with C++, Python, Perl, and Ruby bindings 0
  3. I have lost several times since my last post.
  4. I have lost a dozen times since my last post.
  5. MSR-D / MSR-3: Manned Spaceflight Research 3, Carry two people in the same capsule. Two astronauts will be spending time in space for about 20 days, two times the mission time on MSR-2. Both astronauts will perform spacewalks at the beginning and end of the time spent in space. Mission: SUCCESS ! 64/5/18 - 64/6/08 (Year/Month/Day) Spacecraft: CREM-C, Siren-C upper stage, on top of Satyr III. Crew: 2 (Василий Коновалов, Kirk Newton) Usual pre-launch procedures. Both crewmembers were woken up 6 hours before the launch, and had a variety of seemingly nonsensical medical tests performed on them. 2 hours before launch, they are placed in the new capsule. It is bigger than before, so the rest of the rocket has to compensate. During the remaining days of April, the CSP was trying to figure out what rocket to use for the mission. Should it be a new Satyr rocket? Daedalus-I? Entirely new line of rockets? One of the... dumber people in the team of engineers suggested to "just make it bigger." To everyone's surprise his suggestion was taken seriously. Satyr III is somewhat bigger than the Satyr II, to hold the crew module. The Siren-B was also "just made bigger," being developed into the Siren-C. The timer counted down as usual. As it was counting down, various other nonsensical tests were performed on the rocket and its payload. As all the tests were eventually completed, the timer counted down to T-0. The core stage and the two boosters on the rocket fired up. Umbilical towers were seperated from the rocket and crew module as it lifted off without any problems, to the surprise of everyone there. "Rocket is now traveling at Mach 1.... Boosters are now dead weight, jettisoning them." Eventually the core stage ran out of fuel, too "Core stage has gone out as well. Jettisoning core stage and firing up Siren-C..." The Siren-C upper stage fired up and did the rest. "Siren-C cut off, coasting to orbital insertion burn...." "Firing up Siren-C for a second time to perform orbital insertion.... complete !" After the Siren-C outlives its usefulness, it is jettisoned. In orbit, Kirk and Basil are given the go-ahead to leave the spacecraft for about 5 hours. They both seal and pressurize their space suits, and crawl out of their respective hatches. They do plenty of SCIENCE! including taking pictures of various islands and continents...and each other, producing a somewhat iconic photo of Basil being reflected on Kirk's visor. At night, Kirk decides to attempt to prove Basil wrong. He squints his eyes as hard as he can, trying to draw the borders of West and East Germany in his head. He fails to see anything out of the ordinary. Just boring old lights. He thinks to himself "maybe that Russian guy has time traveling powers..." Eventually they are ordered to go back inside. They crawl inside their hatches and seal them shut. They depressurize their space suits and carry on with their even longer stay in space. To pass the time, CSP occasionally brings in friends and family of the crewmembers to speak to them through Mission Control. Approaching the end of their time in space, Mission Control tells them to leave the capsule for the second and final time. More SCIENCE! is done outside. Of course, more pictures are taken too. Kirk has a brilliant idea and takes a picture of the Moon. "We'll go there one day..." At the end of their last spacewalk, they get back inside and close the hatches for the final time. As Basil searches for the duct tape inside one of the many unnamed or even mislabeled compartments, a guy at Mission Control tells him the following: "You're reaching for the duct tape, aren't you? I know you are. We've ran the hatches through zillions of tests, you do not need to patch them up with duct tape. Our poor engineers would kill for even a few centimeters of duct tape! Don't you know how lucky you are?" Little did he know, Basil was laser-focused on sealing the hatches with duct tape, and barely heard half of what was being said to him until after he had finished the job. "Too late, already finished." "Okay, whatever, just... fly safe, have a nice re-entry." The retro-thrusters on the bottom of the capsule fire, slowing down the capsule to a perigee inside a lower layer of the atmosphere. Usual re-entry ensues. Mission Control notes that Kirk had almost gone unconscious due to the harsh gee forces on re-entry. On recovery, it is also noted that both crew members' bone density significantly decreased. (Happy new year!!)
  6. I have 3 hours 10 minutes. Now I have less than an hour.... now 10 minutes!! The president is on TV now.
  7. My wish? Uhh... I wish my country stops losing people (type "fastest shrinking country" into google if you want to know what country.) I think I'm asking for too much though Goal? Do everything I want to do in KSP, hopefully before KSP2. I already went to Duna, I'd like to do some kind of Jool 5 mission maybe.
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