LFairbanks Posted September 15, 2015 Author Share Posted September 15, 2015 Haven't posted in this thread for a while. Sorry. Here is a picture none of us here will see in person. http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/good-morning-from-the-international-space-station-0 Mongosg8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheWolf Posted September 15, 2015 Share Posted September 15, 2015 Hey, that photo is upside down. Did you see this one? http://www.space.com/30485-international-space-station-sun-photo.html Mongosg8 and LFairbanks 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mongosg8 Posted September 15, 2015 Share Posted September 15, 2015 (edited) Hey, that photo is upside down. Did you see this one? http://www.space.com/30485-international-space-station-sun-photo.html Taken on my BDay ..Really cool . I seen this on BBC America ..love seeing the perspective between the ISS to the Sun in this photo. Really makes you think of the size of the sun ...especially knowing that its diameter is almost 400 times larger than our moon & 400 times farther . Edited September 15, 2015 by Mongosg8 LFairbanks and TheWolf 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LFairbanks Posted September 17, 2015 Author Share Posted September 17, 2015 Interesting article on the progress of Orion. http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-completes-key-milestone-for-orion-spacecraft-in-support-of-journey-to-mars Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LFairbanks Posted September 21, 2015 Author Share Posted September 21, 2015 Not space related, but still fascinating. Interesting to see the first picture and our thoughts on testing back then. http://www.lanl.gov/discover/publications/national-security-science/2015-july/_assets/doc/NSS-jul2015-atomicphotographer.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LFairbanks Posted September 24, 2015 Author Share Posted September 24, 2015 (edited) A couple of interesting articles that I stumbled upon. The one made me thirsty.....yummy. May drink my own, in a pinch. I'm sure the water tastes fine as long as you don't think about it. My kid and I actually saw that machine being prepared to be sent to the ISS. I will have to see if I can find the picture. http://www.newser.com/story/212908/how-much-urine-this-astronaut-will-drink-in-a-year.html http://www.newser.com/story/213059/how-1st-woman-in-space-nearly-never-returned.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=foxnews&utm_campaign=rss_science_syn Couldn't find my picture, but this is one I found on the internet. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081111210838.htm Edited September 24, 2015 by LFairbanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LFairbanks Posted September 24, 2015 Author Share Posted September 24, 2015 Interesting picture of an exploding star. Hard to comprehend the size of something like this. http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/hubble-zooms-in-on-shrapnel-from-an-exploded-star Mongosg8 and TheWolf 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LFairbanks Posted September 26, 2015 Author Share Posted September 26, 2015 Thought this was a cool picture of the Nile at night. Interested to find out what NASA has discovered in relation to Mars. Suppose to be a major finding. http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/the-nile-at-night Mongosg8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LFairbanks Posted September 29, 2015 Author Share Posted September 29, 2015 (edited) Looks like NASA has found evidence of water on Mars. Only 3% of Mars has been mapped in high enough resolution to see the water. It has taken 10 years to map that 3% (2.4% to be exact). It apparently only seeps and is salty. http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-confirms-evidence-that-liquid-water-flows-on-today-s-mars Last nights Supermoon Eclipse. Next Supermoon Eclipse won't happen until 2033. http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/supermoon-eclipse-in-washington Edited September 29, 2015 by LFairbanks Mongosg8, TheWolf and PT3 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PT3 Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 Looks like NASA has found evidence of water on Mars. Only 3% of Mars has been mapped in high enough resolution to see the water. It has taken 10 years to map that 3% (2.4% to be exact). It apparently only seeps and is salty. http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-confirms-evidence-that-liquid-water-flows-on-today-s-mars Last nights Supermoon Eclipse. Next Supermoon Eclipse won't happen until 2033. http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/supermoon-eclipse-in-washington It's a big, BIG universe out there...and we don't know .000000000000000001% about our own galaxy. Crazy to even think about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LFairbanks Posted October 3, 2015 Author Share Posted October 3, 2015 (edited) What a hurricane looks like from space. http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/hurricane-joaquin-from-the-international-space-station Edited October 3, 2015 by LFairbanks wely324, Mongosg8 and TheWolf 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wely324 Posted October 5, 2015 Share Posted October 5, 2015 the pic below is pretty cool too, "Nile At Night" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LFairbanks Posted October 6, 2015 Author Share Posted October 6, 2015 On this day 31 years ago. http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/oct-5-1984-launch-of-history-making-sts-41g-mission Also thought I would share this. My brother shared this with me. It is a boat load of Apollo mission photographs. I browsed thru a few and found them fascinating. Would love to have the opportunity to see sights like this first hand. https://www.flickr.com/photos/projectapolloarchive/albums TheWolf 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wely324 Posted October 6, 2015 Share Posted October 6, 2015 On this day 31 years ago. http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/oct-5-1984-launch-of-history-making-sts-41g-mission epic photo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LFairbanks Posted October 7, 2015 Author Share Posted October 7, 2015 epic photo Interesting about that picture is what it was taken from. It was taken from a shuttle training aircraft. It is a modified plane and lands just like the space shuttle. So I have been told by someone who has. Interestingly enough everything is automatic and only the last 5 minutes is flown by a human being. The commander is the one that actually lands the space shuttle and the pilot assists with things such as putting the landing gear down. Once it goes down, there is no retracting it. Put it down too soon and you won't make the runway. That shuttle training aircraft to become a pilot requires 500 landings and a commander is required to do 1000 landings. http://www.spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts132/100525landing/ TheWolf 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkj4243 Posted October 10, 2015 Share Posted October 10, 2015 With Chris, (LFairbanks) posting many NASA space photos, I found out that NASA just released over 9,000 photos taken from the Apollo missions to the public. Link is below. https://www.flickr.com/photos/projectapolloarchive/albums/with/72157658592613769 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LFairbanks Posted October 10, 2015 Author Share Posted October 10, 2015 (edited) On this day 31 years ago. http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/oct-5-1984-launch-of-history-making-sts-41g-mission Also thought I would share this. My brother shared this with me. It is a boat load of Apollo mission photographs. I browsed thru a few and found them fascinating. Would love to have the opportunity to see sights like this first hand. https://www.flickr.com/photos/projectapolloarchive/albums With Chris, (LFairbanks) posting many NASA space photos, I found out that NASA just released over 9,000 photos taken from the Apollo missions to the public. Link is below. https://www.flickr.com/photos/projectapolloarchive/albums/with/72157658592613769 Fascinating to see some of those pictures. Edited October 10, 2015 by LFairbanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LFairbanks Posted October 17, 2015 Author Share Posted October 17, 2015 What an amazing opportunity. The opportunity to go and spend a day, let alone as many as Scott Kelly has. http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/scott-kelly-becomes-us-astronaut-to-spend-the-most-time-in-space Mongosg8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LFairbanks Posted October 27, 2015 Author Share Posted October 27, 2015 15 Years of Human Exploration in Low Earth Orbit. http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/space-station-crew-celebrates-15-years-of-human-space-exploration-in-low-earth-orbit JLKoupe, Mongosg8 and TheWolf 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LFairbanks Posted October 29, 2015 Author Share Posted October 29, 2015 Thought this was interesting to see. http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/colors-after-the-storms Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheWolf Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 That looks strange. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LFairbanks Posted October 30, 2015 Author Share Posted October 30, 2015 Interesting Selfie. http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/spacewalk-selfie TheWolf 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LFairbanks Posted November 3, 2015 Author Share Posted November 3, 2015 15 years of human occupation of the ISS as of today. http://www.nasa.gov/station15 http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/looking-back-international-space-station-at-the-start-of-expedition-1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LFairbanks Posted November 4, 2015 Author Share Posted November 4, 2015 I forgot all about this. I stumbled across it a week or two ago and was too tired to post. But here it is. It is daily views of the Earth on the Sun side. The images are taken from a satellite that is orbiting 1,000,000 miles away. http://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaStA Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 Very interesting stuff you have been posting. Thank you for sharing! LFairbanks 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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