The thread for space cadets!

LamaGT said:
Does NASA have any serious project that is tackling with the task of sending humans to Mars? As I understand the SLS is one of the key requirements but what then? 2030 seems such a random date, I'm pretty sure it can be done faster.
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It has many; none of them lead to Mars, though.
 
peter grimes said:
*all work* beyond ISS? that can't be true. Nasa almost certainly provides services for NRO, at the very least. No way in hell they'll stop taking pictures of stuff.
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That's possible if they fall under DoD purview somehow. Other than that, I wouldn't be so sure. The President explicitly said everyone except Mission Control would stop working, but I don't know the exact truth of the matter.

I wonder if the Astronauts at the ISS had to stop work and doing experiments? I figure they would keep doing maintenance, but everything 'non-essential' would stop I would think.
 
hobbsyoyo said:
That's possible if they fall under DoD purview somehow. Other than that, I wouldn't be so sure. The President explicitly said everyone except Mission Control would stop working, but I don't know the exact truth of the matter.

I wonder if the Astronauts at the ISS had to stop work and doing experiments? I figure they would keep doing maintenance, but everything 'non-essential' would stop I would think.
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If I were them, I'd tell the ground control that I'd continue business as usual, because from the orbital perspective, the problems they have with the US government are beyond absurd.

So the Republicans decided to undermine their whole country, because they disagree with a mild version of public healthcare which has already been used in Europe for about a century. Perhaps now is a good time for the average Americans to experiment with little defenestration as an instrument of political change...
 
NASA got an exemption to keep prepping the MAVEN mission for launch. The justification came as a way to protect US property; MAVEN will serve as a new communications hub between the Earth and the two operating Mar's rovers. There are currently two other satellites fulfilling that duty but they're well beyond their expected life-cycle.
 
Crezth said:
A megawatt version of this would allow for real, repeatable, sustainable interplanetary travel. It's exciting in ways I cannot even describe just to think about it.

I'm an aerospace engineering student and I love space. :<
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how long would it take?
 
"Due to the lapse in federal government funding, this website is not available.
We sincerely regret this inconvenience."

no offence will be taken if the subject in question involves drawing energy from space or anything that involves efficiencies greater than 1 .
 
The government shutdown has now effected the space time continuum?
 
Comet ISON was imaged by one of our Mars robots.

I find this extraordinarily cool. I love the infrastructure we're establishing - multiple flexible machines that can reinforce and enhance other missions.

So far the comet appears to be at the lower end of the predicted range of dazzlingness. So it might not turn out to be as awesome as some had hoped, but we should still be able to see it with the naked eye.

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peter grimes said:
Comet ISON was imaged by one of our Mars robots.

I find this extraordinarily cool. I love the infrastructure we're establishing - multiple flexible machines that can reinforce and enhance other missions.

So far the comet appears to be at the lower end of the predicted range of dazzlingness. So it might not turn out to be as awesome as some had hoped, but we should still be able to see it with the naked eye.

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ison_from_mars_montage_2013_09_29-mro-1074x306.jpg
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I hate being right. :( I effing hate being effing right. :(

Spoiler :
(I may or may not have previously posted my thoughts on this; I always knew ISON would end up being a huge disappointment, at least for me; not to mention being a morning-only event, which I hate just as much as southern-hemisphere-only events.)
 
What do you guys believe we're the major rocket designs? I know there is Delta, Titan, Dragon, etc but if you were to list the most important rocket designs in chronological order what would they be?
 
Are we limiting this to spacecraft launchers or military rockets? I'm just going to name the ones I think were important for spaceflight and not all the important military launchers, excepting the V-2.

Goddard's first successful liquid fueled rocket (can't remember the name)
V-2
R-7
R-7
R-7
Did I say R-7/Soyuz?
Atlas
Thor/Delta
Titan
Proton
Saturn V
Space Shuttle
Long March
Falcon 9 (jury's still out)
Anatares (this one too)

I didn't put the Redstone missile on there, it was kind of a footnote as it didn't get much space use after the early Mercury missions (and it's civilian derivative, the Juno, putting Explorer I into orbit)
 
MrAzure said:
What do you guys believe we're the major rocket designs? I know there is Delta, Titan, Dragon, etc but if you were to list the most important rocket designs in chronological order what would they be?
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Most important in what respect?

V-2 -> everything else is derived from it in some way or another.

R-7 (the Vostok->Voschod->Soyuz launcher) -> the first medium-lift rocket, still in use. Without it there would be no Russian space programme.

Other than that, hobbs has listed the major American designs. He forgot the European Ariane rocket family, which has historically covered about 50% of the commercial GEO market... ;) Ariane-4 and Ariane-5 especially are robust, reliable vehicles which should not be omitted from any such list.
 
Hobbs limited to space launchers, I see you have a nice list.

Winner Most important in space use.
If I was going to make a mod about modern space travel, which rocket designs would I include that had the most technological or historical impact.

I have more details in this post:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?p=12802020
 
Let's talk about Constellations then lol
 
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