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At number 3 with 68% approval ! Jump the couch !!

Giant Sandworms for Duna !!!

Ditto this ^ It is disrespectful to say NASA re-used Apollo 1 parts

Though the exact time of ISON's death is uncertain it does appear to be no more. All that is left is a cloud of debris without a nucleus," Alex Young of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center told AFP in an email on Tuesday. Dubbed the "Christmas Comet", the icy giant described as a massive, dirty snowball skimmed past the Sun at a distance of just 1.1 million kilometres around 1830 GMT on Thursday (0530 AEDT on Friday). It had been estimated that ISON would undergo temperatures of 2700 Celsius and lose three million tonnes of its mass per second as it made its journey around the sun. Most astronomers had predicted the comet, with an estimated diameter of some 1.2 kilometres, would not survive the flypast. Still, some observers had held out a sliver of hope that the 4.5 billion-year-old comet might have survived. Karl Battams, a scientist at the Naval Research Laboratory, wrote a brief obituary for the comet, formally known as C/2012 S1 (ISON) after the telescope called the International Scientific Optical Network used by the Russian astronomers who spotted it in 2012. "Never one to follow convention, ISON lived a dynamic and unpredictable life, alternating between periods of quiet reflection and violent outburst," Battams wrote. "Survived by approximately several trillion siblings, Comet ISON leaves behind an unprecedented legacy for astronomers, and the eternal gratitude of an enthralled global audience." http://news.ninemsn.com.au/technology/2013/12/04/13/07/comet-ison-is-confirmed-dead

In serial staging, shown above, there is a small, second stage rocket that is placed on top of a larger first stage rocket. The first stage is ignited at launch and burns through the powered ascent until its propellants are exhausted. The first stage engine is then extinguished, the second stage separates from the first stage, and the second stage engine is ignited. The payload is carried atop the second stage into orbit. http://exploration.grc.nasa.gov/education/rocket/rktstage.html What system does the Russians, EU use ?

I was wondering what is the convention for naming the stages on real life rockets ? ^ top = ^^ middle ^^^ bottom

Best go to local doctor and see if sleeping pills will help > just a suggestion.

More likely Kevlar sandwiched between 2 sheets of titanium; the new airbus's use aluminium sandwiched between fibreglass, carbon fibres are way TOO brittle.

You're a Kerbal, for Kr@ken sake ! Live for the risk !! Die for Science !!

How do people know this info, when it (MOOSE) was shelved in the 1960's ???

Would it be possible to use jet engines as lifters In Real Life ??

Yes, I too have to stop typing LKO instead of LEO. Everyone else wonders why you are so excited about Higg's Boson, I mean REALLY excited,,, you know what I am talking about (right?) You count down the days; hours; minutes til China's lunar rover lands. <just so you can critique it> You went to Halloween dressed as a HUMAN. At start of letters you type: "dear space command"

I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of CCTV coverage, I SUPER excited waiting for live transmit ions from the Lunar surface

Anyone know how long China's rover will take to get to the Moon ?

The Chang'e-3 rocket carrying the Jade Rabbit rover blasted off around 1.30 am, the CCTV official broadcaster showed in live footage from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the country's southwest. As it shot into the dark sky, mission observers could be heard reporting at regular intervals that things were proceeding "normally". Within an hour the director of the launch centre Zhang Zhenzhong appeared before staff and declared the mission a "success", CCTV showed. The probe is due to land on the moon in mid-December to explore its surface and look for natural resources. It is the world's third lunar rover mission following the United States and former Soviet Union decades earlier. Chief probe designer Sun Zezhou hailed the mission as having "great scientific and economic significance", according to the Xinhua state news agency. "The mission has contributed to the development of a number of space technologies and some of them can be applied in the civilian sector," it paraphrased Sun as saying. China sees its space program as a symbol of its growing international status and technological advancement, as well as of the Communist Party's success in reversing the fortunes of the once impoverished nation. It aims to establish a permanent space station by 2020 and eventually send someone to the moon. Since 2003 it has sent 10 astronauts into space and launched an orbiting space module, Tiangong-1. It also sent probes to orbit the moon in 2007 and 2010. The first of those intentionally crashed into the moon's surface at the end of its mission. Data it collected was used to create in 2008 what Xinhua called "the most complete lunar hologram to date". The second probe was sent to "verify key technology", orbit the moon and take pictures of the landing site in preparation for Chang'e-3, Xinhua said. After completing that task it was sent into deep space to monitor an asteroid. The latest mission would bolster scientific knowledge as well as national pride, said Morris Jones, an independent space analyst based in Australia. "The Chinese are making rapid advances in spaceflight," he said. "They're going to get a lot of prestige out of this mission." The moon remains "largely unexplored", Jones added, so "I expect that the Chinese rover will probably throw a few surprises our way scientifically". The rover's name Jade Rabbit, or "Yutu", was chosen in an online poll of 3.4 million voters. It comes from an ancient Chinese myth about a rabbit living on the moon as the pet of Chang'e, a lunar goddess who swallowed an immortality pill. The vehicle can climb slopes of up to 30 degrees and travel at 200m per hour, according to its designer, the Shanghai Aerospace Systems Engineering Research Institute. Unlike earlier American and Soviet versions, the Chang'e-3 could "accurately survey landforms at the landing site and identify the safest spots on which to land", Xinhua has said. China was able to improve on earlier rovers by incorporating technology developed in recent decades, said Jones. These included optical navigation systems which could provide pictures to warn of unsafe landing spots, whereas American and Soviet rovers could only rely on radar to gauge their distance from the ground, he said. The mission had generated anticipation in recent days, with users of Sina Weibo, China's version of Twitter, vowing to stay up to watch the live coverage. "The news on TV about Chang'e 3 has made me incredibly proud," one commenter said ahead of the launch.

The launch is to be delayed for a few more days. > dec2 http://news.ninemsn.com.au/technology/2013/11/30/13/35/china-to-launch-moon-rover-next-week

To stop myself from starting a RANT about how BAD "Captain" Janeway is for turning Borg into a pet hu-man. GAHHHH ! Janeway is not even EVIL !!!

Which of the Star Trek series do you like best: Original or the Next Generation ? We will NOT even discuss how BAD Voyager (series) was; god the producers could not even stomach it !

I was wondering how if any probes been sent to Jupiter or Saturn moons yet ? (not counting Voyager's flyby)

Any Ksp'ers able to read Japanese ? It has been 30 years since I (last) practiced... sigh. "Promise" is the eleventh single by Japanese recording artist Kohmi Hirose. It was released on November 27, 1997 The song was popularized on the Internet through its use in the "Get Down" (ゲッダン Geddan?) meme. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promise_(Kohmi_Hirose_song)

China is taking their own baby steps, currently they are sending up craft to practise their docking techniques. Ditto on the space stations; it far more profitable to develop drug, exotic materials and science research in LEO. Hopefully the Chinese will start renting space on ISS.

Why ? The Chinese could launch 100 probes for the cost of taking 3 countrymen to the Moon... People forget that USA wasted 10 years of their national budget just getting there.