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A Pimp Named DaveR
07/17/09

In reply to Video of NASA's Orion Crew Module's Majestic Ejection System
Not to be nitpicky -- but this isn't actually how the manned Orion launch escape system would work. This is a simulation of the first full-scale test of the system, which uses a small fake booster and a boilerplate capsule.

The real Orion won't be launching from White Sands. It also doesn't have airbags. The Orion capsule isn't going to be designed to land on land -- water landings only. The airbags are an addition to the test boilerplate Orion to... well, to keep it from breaking when it lands.

This test is really just to see whether all the systems work together as planned. Later tests will fine-tune the hardware, making sure that the escape motors don't pull the capsule away too fast (too much g-force on the astronauts inside) or too slow (you do kinda want to avoid the exploding or out-of-control rocket behind you...).
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GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMorn
07/16/09

In reply to Video of NASA's Orion Crew Module's Majestic Ejection System
It looks like a giant jacket button is falling on you.
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frigg
07/16/09

In reply to Video of NASA's Orion Crew Module's Majestic Ejection System
is there an ejection system from the ejection system? It looks like a lot of stuff has to go right in the midst of what would be a catastrophic failure.
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bl1nk2much
07/16/09

In reply to Video of NASA's Orion Crew Module's Majestic Ejection System
i totally misread that header...i though it said majestic erection system...

Pretty neat stuff what NASA can do though..
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Xeno
07/10/09

In reply to The Max Launch Abort System Launch Makes Me Want to Be an Astronaut Again
Chief: Alright people I need ideas for additions to our vehicle. Go!

Tech 1: Racing Stripes!

Chief: NO! Next.

Tech 2: Umm... lasers. Pew Pew!

Chief: We'd blind all the rescue pilots! Next.

Tech 3: Exactly 15 stages consisting of 342 different designs of parachute?

Chief Genius!
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Margatron
07/10/09

In reply to The Max Launch Abort System Launch Makes Me Want to Be an Astronaut Again
The Orion abort system seems a bit more logical when you need to get your astronauts the hell away from the burning exploding carcass of the rocket body. That said, the parachute sequence was fascinating to watch. Very exciting for improving other varieties of launches.
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GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMorn
07/10/09

In reply to The Max Launch Abort System Launch Makes Me Want to Be an Astronaut Again
JINX no like.

Can not cause thermal curtain failure and send Max to space!

JINX and Max, friends forever!

But seriously, was anyone else a little weirded out by the people going "Slow down, slow down"? They honestly sounded like the people I used to hear at model rocket launches.
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OMFG! Horny Manatees!
07/10/09

In reply to The Max Launch Abort System Launch Makes Me Want to Be an Astronaut Again
omg that should soooo be a ride at Six Flags!
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loslosbaby
05/09/09

In reply to From Earth To Moon Redux: How The Next Moonshot Will Happen
"Armstrong landed that old thing on a wing and a prayer..."

Buzz Aldrin landed the Eagle, and spoke the first words heard from the moon too!

"Contact Light... Okay, Engine Stop"
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Con Seannery
05/09/09

@loslosbaby: And, because neither of the gave a damn about who got out first and it happened to Armstrong, many people don't even know who Aldrin is.
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frigg
05/09/09

@Con Seannery '09: Illegal in 1 Giz: Actually, I think the astronauts, competitive by nature (especially that crop), were very aware of the significance of that first step. Armstrong called it for himself.
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bosskev
05/09/09

In reply to From Earth To Moon Redux: How The Next Moonshot Will Happen

Here's how you--as an astronaut--would experience the mission...
More realistically, here's how I--as a lazy-assed civilian--would experience the mission:

(And, uh, no, that is not me in the picture.)
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bosskev
05/09/09

@bosskev: ...and if I'd realized this was going to end up on The Dead Zone That Is Page 2, I wouldn't have bothered, lazy-ass or otherwise.
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jawzzy
05/09/09

@bosskev: I read it...have no fear. And I actually lolled.
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Nick
05/09/09

@jawzzy: i'm here with you brother. we will make it out together.
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Nick
05/09/09

@bosskev: and you too
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frigg
05/09/09

@bosskev: Sadly, I'm one of those lazy-assed page one'ers who never bothered to click over to the purgatory of page two, and hence never saw it.
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bosskev
05/09/09

@frigg: And you know what I just verified? Comments previously at the bottom of page 1 CAN end up getting shifted to page 2. As of this moment, at the top of this page (page 2) there is a comment from Con Seannery. Well, up until a few minutes ago, that same comment had been at the bottom of page 1. I'm guessing, even though there were, of course, no additional original comments inserted ahead of his, his comment must have shifted as more people replied to original comments.

Bottom line: even if your original comment initially posts at/near the bottom of page 2, there is no guarantee it is going to stay there.
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bosskev
05/09/09

@bosskev:

* sigh *

...at/near the bottom of page 1.
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frigg
05/09/09

@bosskev: I suppose comments are like life itself: no guarantees, and so easily dispatched from page one celebrity to page two obscurity in a snap. *sigh* And people wonder why I spend so much time in deep space. Get me off this rock, indeed!

@Con Seannery '09: Illegal in 1 Giz: Sir, yes sir!
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fastm3driver
05/09/09

In reply to From Earth To Moon Redux: How The Next Moonshot Will Happen
Personally we should quadruple NASA's budget. They are the most high tech "company" on almost every level. They create high tech jobs and very high tech material and construction jobs. Their tech trickles down to everything. The use of high end alloys, carbon fiber, manufacturing technologies, nano tech... They usually employee people in every state and inspire the creative people of the future. There is almost no negative.
I know it looks like we are wasting money on the surface but it all trickles down and is a better investment to me that say the military or social programs that prop up lazy non-productive people.
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Nick
05/09/09

@fastm3driver: horrible idea. what we need to do is to make space a more commercial endeavor. kinda like they are doing now with their outsourcing. not everything needs to be in-house because when corporations are asked to innovate due to a project they are on then they can keep the fruits of that labor if something new is discovered. they in-turn make money off of said fruit and the cycle perpetuates. that is exactly why our pharmaceutical industry is always driving for those new drugs. if you just make NASA, a government agency, bigger -- than you are moving in the wrong direction. A lot of the cool things that have come out of space exploration is because of the partnerships with private firms and i believe we just need to do it some more, but on a larger scale.

so yes i agree more money, but not directly at NASA as it is now.
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Aturayd
05/09/09

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I bet $10,000 the next person on the moon will either be black or female or both.
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Nick
05/09/09

@Aturayd: Snakes on a Mother F***in' Space Shuttle

and why can't it be some other minority astronaut? what the deuce.
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Con Seannery
05/09/09

@867-5309_Nick: It's clear he's a racist.
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Nick
05/10/09

@Con Seannery '09: Illegal in 1 Giz: burn him. he's a witch.
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Pwnerjam3.0
05/09/09

In reply to From Earth To Moon Redux: How The Next Moonshot Will Happen
this new mission is asinine
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Kaiser-Machead
05/09/09

@Pwnerjam3.0: Mind elaborating?
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Takamofo
05/09/09

In reply to From Earth To Moon Redux: How The Next Moonshot Will Happen
Wait... Wasn't Space Bat was NASA's last shot at the moon?
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Nick
05/09/09

In reply to From Earth To Moon Redux: How The Next Moonshot Will Happen
You hear the clunk of mating adapters

Stop, you're making me blush.

Great post, but you forgot about that part of little Timmy, the billionaire's son, that was sent as part of the financing for the mission. For at this point the republicans are back in control and decide to subsidize the mission with some good old fashion commercialism. And as little Timmy comes to, after the 20 g pull on the coca cola sponsored ares rocket, he begins to pester with the . . .

"are we there yet?"
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