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New NASA space junk policy: open back door and fling it out
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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. wrote in message oups.com... 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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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. http://cosmic.lifeform.org |
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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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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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