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New NASA space junk policy: open back door and fling it out



 
 
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Old November 19th 06, 10:54 PM posted to sci.space.policy
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Default New NASA space junk policy: open back door and fling it out

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...19/wnasa19.xml

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Old November 20th 06, 07:08 PM posted to sci.space.policy
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Default New NASA space junk policy: open back door and fling it out

More of the British 'sneer at your betters' smarminess,
compounded (as in the BBC piece below) by flagrant ignorance...
as in the Moon's alleged "low-gravity atmosphere".
Typical final recourse of terminal civilizational losers.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...19/wnasa19.xml


Cosmonaut prepares for golf stunt

A Russian cosmonaut is preparing to hit a golf ball during a spacewalk
outside the International Space Station (ISS).

Flight engineer Mikhail Tyurin will knock a lightweight ball off a tee above
the ISS's Russian docking port.

A Canadian golf club maker is paying the Russian space agency an undisclosed
sum for Tyurin's time.

Nasa held up the stunt for months while safety experts checked possible
flight paths to make sure the ball would not head back towards the space
station.

"I play ice hockey and my understanding is that it is very similar," said Mr
Tyurin, who has been taking many practice swings to brush up his technique
ahead of the shot, which will be carried out during a spacewalk on
Wednesday.

Responding to discussion over the safety, the flight engineer replied: "No
question it's safe."

Nasa flight director Holly Ridings added: "Of course the crew is taking this
very, very seriously so they've been doing a lot of practice."

"There is absolutely no re-contact issue with the space station."

Federal law bars the US space agency from getting any money for its
involvement.

Mr Tyurin, who has been aboard the station since September, isn't expected
to smack the ball, just tap it with the club. The ball itself weighs just
4.5g (0.16 ounce) instead of the standard-issue 45g (1.6 ounce) ball.

The Russian has to make the shot one-handed because his bulky spacesuit
prevents him from bringing his hands together.

Station commander Michael Lopez-Alegria, who is accompanying Tyurin during
the spacewalk, will help set up a camera to film the shot for an upcoming
television commercial.

Tyurin's drive is expected to be one for the record books, though not
everyone agrees on how long the ball will fly. Nasa figures it will fall
into Earth's atmosphere and be incinerated within three days.

Toronto-based club maker Element 21 Golf - which is paying for the orbital
golf shot - is betting on three years.

During the Apollo 14 moon mission in 1971, US astronaut Alan Shepard hit a
golf ball with a six-iron from the lunar surface and boasted that it
travelled "miles and miles" in the low-gravity atmosphere.

Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/h...ch/6164988.stm

Published: 2006/11/20 12:15:11 GMT


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Old November 21st 06, 12:10 AM posted to sci.space.policy
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Default JUST **** ON THE UNIVERSE - it worked on Earth.

Jim Oberg wrote:

More of the British 'sneer at your betters' smarminess,
compounded (as in the BBC piece below) by flagrant ignorance...
as in the Moon's alleged "low-gravity atmosphere".
Typical final recourse of terminal civilizational losers.


I thought everyone was supposed to be winners in the civilized world.

Silly me. I guess we're just not civilized then.

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Old November 21st 06, 12:06 PM posted to sci.space.policy
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Default New NASA space junk policy: open back door and fling it out

I like Jim Oberg's latest article about space junk.
It is posted at: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15817106

Probably the best way to dispose the space junk is
to use it as a means of propulsion (to bring the
space station to a higher orbit). I would spin the
space station about its center of mass to generate
pseudogravity and space junk velocity. If the space
station spins, the microgravity experiments would
be restricted to a place that is located at its
center of mass. The spinning space station could
unfurl electrodynamic tether and use it as another
means of cheap propulsion.
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Old November 27th 06, 01:33 AM posted to sci.space.policy
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Default New NASA space junk policy: open back door and fling it out

Jim Oberg wrote:
More of the British 'sneer at your betters' smarminess,
compounded (as in the BBC piece below) by flagrant ignorance...
as in the Moon's alleged "low-gravity atmosphere".
Typical final recourse of terminal civilizational losers.


BBC not buying your pieces anymore huh? At least you're not bitter or
anything.
 




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