What a great album. Unsurpassed.whatsgoingon wrote:Ether is the air that the gods at NASA breathe.
full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7sNfbprnKU
What a great album. Unsurpassed.whatsgoingon wrote:Ether is the air that the gods at NASA breathe.
Does the Soyuz module really have a window/port hole for taking pictures? And how do you steer it? OK, the Soyuz module is on top of a Russian rocket that ejects the module into orbit around Earth. After that the orbiting Soyuz module shall find the orbiting ISS and connect to it. Sounds complicated. But maybe there is a window so navigation is done by eye à la Costa Concordia?simonshack wrote:Dear Qprime,Q_prime wrote: Who took these pictures? From where?
Those images are credited to Italian Paolo Nespoli, who allegedly shot them in 2011 from the Soyuz module (pictured below) as it detached from the ISS for atmosphere re-entry and be parachute-landed down in Siberia.
(Paolo Nespoli is the astronot at far right)
Oh yeah, HeiwaHeiwa wrote: Does the Soyuz module really have a window/port hole for taking pictures? And how do you steer it? OK, the Soyuz module is on top of a Russian rocket that ejects the module into orbit around Earth. After that the orbiting Soyuz module shall find the orbiting ISS and connect to it. Sounds complicated. But maybe there is a window so navigation is done by eye à la Costa Concordia?
On return the Soyuz module disconnects from the ISS and slowly decends to Earth, opens a parachute and ... voilà ... you are on the snowy, ice cold steppe of Kazakstan or Russian Siberia somewhere! Amazing.
Of course, the spacious interiors of the Soyuz modules allow for comfortable handling of a 35mm reflex camera.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/europeansp ... 706892396/
Porthole of scorched Soyuz TM-33 reentry module
"ESA astronaut Roberto Vittori (IT) looks through the porthole of the scorched reentry module of Soyuz TM-33 as he waits for the members of the Russian recovery team to help the crew out shortly after landing in the steppes of Kazakhstan."
http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/20 ... kazakhstanLanding system: On a normal mission, descent is initiated by a 3-4 min ~155 m/s retroburn by the main engine, followed by OM and then SM ejection. The landing system is activated by pressure switch at 9-11 km and 850 km/h, with two sequential stabilizing drogues releasing the 4.25 m braking 'chute from the port compartment. The primary canopy is deployed reefed at 8 km. It is freed to its full 35.5 m diameter at a descent rate of around 35 m/s to reduce sink rate to 8 m/s. The reserve systems yields 10 m/s descent rate with 25 m 'chute, activated at 6 km. The heat shield is dropped at about 3 km some 5 min before landing to clear the base retromotors for a soft landing. Four solids are triggered by a radar altimeter about 2 m above the ground to cushion the impact. Touchdown is normally on land but Soyuz is equipped for water landings.
http://www.braeunig.us/space/specs/soyuz.htm
"The Russian Soyuz TMA-20 space capsule lands about 150 km south-east of the Kazakh town of Dzhezkazgan on May 24, 2011. A Soyuz space capsule carrying an Italian, a Russian and an American back from the International Space Station (ISS) has landed safely in Kazakhstan, Russian mission control said."
You really believe it?Jonathan wrote:There is a window near the top of the orbital module, facing forward - clearly visible below the docking mechanism - in the picture Heiwa posted above.
The photos and video where taken from there.
... no, the orbital module does not land, at least not in one piece ... same for the service module ...
Especially to seize the opportunity (Shuttle docked to ISS while another ship leaves the station) they interrupted the normal undocking - deorbiting procedure to give Nespoli about half an hour to get there - and back in afterwards - to take the photos and video - while the ISS turned to give different/better perspective.
See here for instance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymLaVD8mkrM
It says, "Four solids are triggered by a radar altimeter about 2 m above the ground to cushion the impact. "Landing system: On a normal mission, descent is initiated by a 3-4 min ~155 m/s retroburn by the main engine, followed by OM and then SM ejection. The landing system is activated by pressure switch at 9-11 km and 850 km/h, with two sequential stabilizing drogues releasing the 4.25 m braking 'chute from the port compartment. The primary canopy is deployed reefed at 8 km. It is freed to its full 35.5 m diameter at a descent rate of around 35 m/s to reduce sink rate to 8 m/s. The reserve systems yields 10 m/s descent rate with 25 m 'chute, activated at 6 km. The heat shield is dropped at about 3 km some 5 min before landing to clear the base retromotors for a soft landing. Four solids are triggered by a radar altimeter about 2 m above the ground to cushion the impact. Touchdown is normally on land but Soyuz is equipped for water landings.
http://www.braeunig.us/space/specs/soyuz.htm
Whenever I look at any piece of info I always try & establish the possible intent behind its dissemination. It is possible they want us to believe that NASA is this stupid and incompetent for plausible deniability in case the ISS comes crashing down, and this may be blamed on China given all the accusations being hurled at them for hacking. In fact, they have actually been talking about deliberately crashing the ISS into the ocean, so this blunder is a convenient excuse for it.AnonymousTruther2 wrote:NASA Laptop Stolen With Command Codes That Control Space Station
WASHINGTON (CBSDC) — NASA’s inspector general revealed in congressional testimony that a space agency computer was stolen last year with the command codes to control the International Space Station.
In a statement given to a House committee on the security challenges facing NASA, Paul K. Martin said that an unencrypted NASA computer stolen last year was one of 48 taken between April 2009 and April 2011.
“The March 2011 theft of an unencrypted NASA notebook computer resulted in the loss of algorithms used to command and control the International Space Station,” Martin said in his written testimony. “Other lost or stolen notebooks contained Social Security numbers and sensitive data on NASA’s Constellation and Orion programs.”
In 2010 and 2011, there were 5,408 computer security incidents at the space agency costing NASA an estimated $7 million.
“These incidents spanned a wide continuum from individuals testing their skill to break into NASA systems, to well-organized criminal enterprises hacking for profit, to intrusions that may have been sponsored by foreign intelligence services seeking to further their countries’ objectives,” Martin said.
Last year, NASA was the victim of 47(11?) cyberattacks, with 13 of those attacks successfully compromising the agency’s computers. In one of those attacks, credentials for more than 150 employees were stolen.
Another attack involved Chinese-based IP addresses that gained full access to systems and sensitive user accounts at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
The Office of Management and Budget reported that only 1 percent of NASA’s portable devices and laptops have been encrypted this year.
“Until NASA fully implements an Agency-wide data encryption solution, sensitive data on its mobile computing and portable data storage devices will remain at high risk for loss or theft,” Martin explained in his testimony.
In this handout image provided by NASA, astronaut Mike Fossum, Expedition 28 flight engineer, waits at an International Space Station’s pressurized mating adapter (PMA-2) docked to the space shuttle Atlantis, as the station’s robotic system moves the failed pump module (out of frame) over to the spacewalking astronaut and the shuttle’s cargo bay during a planned six-and-a-half-hour spacewalk on July 12, 2011. (credit: NASA via Getty Images)
(Nasa and Getty Images, again? is there something there?)
http://washington.cbslocal.com/2012/03/ ... e-station/
But of course.... they have actually been talking about deliberately crashing the ISS into the ocean ...