The reruns of The Big Bang Theory of late have been the ones where Wolowitz goes to the space station and then has trouble readjusting to his ordinariness upon his return. Funny stuff.
Last night they showed the one where the guys try to break him of the habit of constantly reminding everyone that he's an astronaut. They do it by likening him to a senile Buzz Aldrin, who I take it is generally a pretty good sport about that kind of stuff.
I'm not sure NASA budget was greatly changed as much as moved around. Certainly JSC budget was dramatically cut after the end of Shuttle. This isn't really a bad thing, because NASA isn't advancing much faster than say SpaceX.
This particular rocket was launching a supply mission to ISS. Orbital isn't much of a liquid fuel booster company, as they started off providing the solid fuel boosters that make up most of the US ICBM arsenal. For some reason, Orbital decided to use liquid, and to save development costs, they purchased the first stage cores from a Ukranian company. So for Dad Bones, the rocket wasn't quite from North Korea, but it also wasn't exactly a US design either. They flown this first stage 4 previous times without a major anomaly.
The launch was supposed to be the day before yesterday. I was working the late shift and my boss (who works insane 65-hour weeks, and thus has a very elastic notion of work/play boundaries) dragged me out to the lawn to watch the launch. He was very upset when some idiot sailed into the exclusion zone around the launch site and aborted the launch. They had to empty out the fuel and reset for the catastrophic launch attempt yesterday. There's some question about whether the scrubbing and cycling of fuel and other preparations might have caused the loss of control and destruction of the flight.
And ironically, even if the rogue sailor had been back in the exclusion zone when the rocket exploded, he would have been perfectly safe.
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Ugh.
This is about the last thing we needed.
Wasn't NASA massively defunded?
Dang. Did they contract it out to North Korea?
The reruns of The Big Bang Theory of late have been the ones where Wolowitz goes to the space station and then has trouble readjusting to his ordinariness upon his return. Funny stuff.
Last night they showed the one where the guys try to break him of the habit of constantly reminding everyone that he's an astronaut. They do it by likening him to a senile Buzz Aldrin, who I take it is generally a pretty good sport about that kind of stuff.
Because . . . when he's not in the mood . . .
** POW!!! **
That shouldn't make me feel good.
But it does.
Should have used a trampoline.
We don't need NASA, we need gigantic money waste and free health care!
Eric - OMG Moon landing conspiracists. Inspired by the lame ass band REM and other leftwing brain deficiencies.
Since NASA's main job is muzzie outreach "what difference does it make" that it can't get a rocket into orbit?
For Deborah, this is what I used to do...
I'm not sure NASA budget was greatly changed as much as moved around. Certainly JSC budget was dramatically cut after the end of Shuttle. This isn't really a bad thing, because NASA isn't advancing much faster than say SpaceX.
This particular rocket was launching a supply mission to ISS. Orbital isn't much of a liquid fuel booster company, as they started off providing the solid fuel boosters that make up most of the US ICBM arsenal. For some reason, Orbital decided to use liquid, and to save development costs, they purchased the first stage cores from a Ukranian company. So for Dad Bones, the rocket wasn't quite from North Korea, but it also wasn't exactly a US design either. They flown this first stage 4 previous times without a major anomaly.
The launch was supposed to be the day before yesterday. I was working the late shift and my boss (who works insane 65-hour weeks, and thus has a very elastic notion of work/play boundaries) dragged me out to the lawn to watch the launch. He was very upset when some idiot sailed into the exclusion zone around the launch site and aborted the launch. They had to empty out the fuel and reset for the catastrophic launch attempt yesterday. There's some question about whether the scrubbing and cycling of fuel and other preparations might have caused the loss of control and destruction of the flight.
And ironically, even if the rogue sailor had been back in the exclusion zone when the rocket exploded, he would have been perfectly safe.
Not North Korea, Russia. The engines were Russian space program surplus--on sale. No sh!T.
btw I am moving from sc to tx.
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