Spaaaaace (Part 1)

Scottish space upstart’s rocket crashes into the drink

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Japan space agency blows up eight satellites aboard Epsilon rocket

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:musical_note: Cookin’ the data, cookin’ the data… :musical_note:

“That’s where it becomes quite subjective,” she says. “We are working with scientists through this process … to make sure we’re showcasing the data as much as possible and we’re being as honest as possible.
“But it is subjective now because we are adjusting like tonality and contrast, colour and all these things to really make the features in each filter more prominent or just to showcase and highlight those different regions.”

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How to watch Jupiter-bound NASA probe’s gravity assist flyby from Earth

Space watchers hoping to get a glimpse of a near-Earth object of the NASA kind will want to look to the skies this weekend as Jupiter-bound probe Lucy makes a close pass of our planet for a gravity assist, just in time for its first anniversary.

Launched last year on October 12, Lucy will pass just 490 miles (790 km) above the Earth on Sunday, October 16.

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seems dangerous. if nasa keeps bleeding off our rotation this way, won’t we all fall into the sun?

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It’s purely holographic puke. Which you can never clean out.

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Everyone’s a critic.

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After the initial plan to make Enterprise space-worthy was scrapped, there was renewed interest in doing so after Challenger was lost. Instead NASA slapped together a bunch of spare parts and called it Endeavour

I know the program manager who was involved in that Endeavour construction, uh , endeavor. He described nothing fitting properly and how it was a flying patchwork of quick fixes.

ETA: speling

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spongebob squarepants GIF

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Still, 25 flights, no unscheduled rapid disassembly… Looks like NASA really got their money’s worth from the duct tape company there.

Seriously though, looking at the long and winding road the shuttle took from a pretty straightforward original concept to the “finished” jack-of-all-trades-device it was force-morphed into, it is somewhat amazing it ever got off the ground at all and could be operated for so long.

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Moon-viewing with snacks, brilliant.

The soup looks very tasty. However, the egg white representing clouds made me think of this, sorry:

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NASA OKs spacewalks, upgrades helmets after fishbowl mishap

Spacewalks outside the International Space Station are set to resume after NASA temporarily paused all such activity to investigate an issue that caused water to accumulate in one astronaut’s helmet.

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