BudmanTX
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Cloudy here too.....we just had a rain storm come through...
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BudmanTX
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Nice grab btw..Venus is slowly climbing into the evening sky. Today is the sixth evening in a row that I’ve acquired it in binoculars.
I probably could have spotted it sooner, but clouds.
cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
The photo? Internet pic. No way my phone can perform like that.
BudmanTX
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missingtime
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Bruce Pennington/Nick Flook
RIP Michael Collins. The only human alive on July 21 1969 who wasn't in this photo.
raratt
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The Only Total Lunar Eclipse of 2021 Is Coming Next Month
You don't need special glasses to view this solar spectacle.
cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
I read an account of his experience of the mission. He was good with not being a moonwalker. His time in Columbia by himself he remembered as something special in a good way.
And now I’m gonna ruin it by telling the only Collins joke I know.
Q: How did Michael Collins train for the mission?
A: He dropped his wife off at the mall, then circled the parking lot until she came out.
It's way closer than any of us will ever get. Still to be close enough you could almost reach out and touch it, must have been tough. And it kinda sucks that most people don't recognize his name when they hear it.
I don't know if it's true or not but the story goes that when Neil Armstrong was thinking about what his first words would be from the moon's surface Collins joked that if you had any balls you'd say oh my god what is that thing, then scream and cut your mic.
cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
Eta Aquarids tonight. Peak is before dawn for North America.
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Debris from Halley's Comet to light up the sky this week
Halley's Comet is expected to bring shooting stars to Earth this week.
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lokie
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China begins building its own space station with launch of control module
China launched the first module of a planned space station on Wednesday. The Chinese space agency hopes to complete the sophisticated research lab in 2022, securing its status as a space superpower with long-duration orbital expeditions by three-person crews.
While smaller than the sprawling International Space Station, built by the United States, Russia, the European Space Agency, Japan and Canada, the Chinese Space Station, or CSS, will focus on the same objectives, including microgravity research, Earth observation and technology development.
At least 10 more launches are planned over the next two years to put at least two additional 20-ton research modules in orbit, to deliver supplies and, as early as this summer, astronaut crews, eventually giving the Chinese an operational space station of their own with a mass of more than 60 tons.
China begins building its own space station with launch of control module
Officials expect the project to take a couple years, but launch of the control module is a major step for China's increasingly sophisticated space program.
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Tiangong space station - Wikipedia
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The Long March-5B Y2 launch vehicle launched the Tianhe Core Module, the first component of the China Space Station, from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site, Hainan Province, China, on 29 April 2021, at 03:23 UTC (11:23). The Tianhe Core Module (天和核心舱) is the first component of the China Space Station (中国空间站), China’s new space station intended for long-term habitation. Credit: China Central Television (CCTV)/China National Space Administration (CNSA).
Rocket debris from China's space station launch is falling back to Earth — but where?
By Elizabeth Howell 1 day ago
The Long March 5B rocket's core stage could fall from space any day now.
The Long March 5B rocket carrying the core module of China's space station, Tianhe, blasts off from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on April 29, 2021. (Image credit: Hua Jiajun/VCG/Getty)
A large Chinese rocket is set to make an uncontrolled reentry back into Earth's atmosphere, but it is not yet clear exactly where or when the debris will hit our planet.
China's Long March 5B rocket is "unpredictably" falling back to Earth after launching a part of the new T-shaped Chinese space station on Thursday local time in Wenchang, according to SpaceNews. The 22.5-metric-ton Tianhe space station module is in its correct orbit after separating as planned from the core stage of the rocket, which is now expected to re-enter in a few days or about a week.
"It will be one of the largest instances of uncontrolled reentry of a spacecraft and could potentially land on an inhabited area," SpaceNews said. That said, the more likely possibility is the core stage will fall in an uninhabited place like Earth's oceans, which cover 70% of the planet. The odds of a particular individual being hit by space debris are exceedingly low, once estimated at 1 in several trillion.
‘Out-of-control’ Chinese rocket falling to Earth could partially survive re-entry
Long March 5B is doing 27,600km/h in failing orbit, with eventual crash site unknown, after launching space station hub
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Rocket debris from China's space station launch is falling back to Earth — but where?
The Long March 5B rocket's core stage could fall from space any day now.
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cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
Cool embedded videos of a Falcon 9 second stage disintegrating on reentry.
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China's rocket: Uncontrolled, unpredictable return home | DW | 04.05.2021
It's impossible to predict when and where China's Long March 5 rocket, a CZ-5B, will crash down to Earth. But it will. The question is: What's the risk?
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cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
A week ago Branson’s modded 747 flew here. This seems to be why.
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Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne is returning to space in June | TechCrunch
Orbital launch company Virgin Orbit has scheduled its next mission to space. Virgin Orbit will be returning its LauncherOne rocket to orbit in June to
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Medskunk
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Imagine if we came to Earth from Venus!
Imagine the sun in its earliest form when it was smaller, then Venus could probably be hospitable to life as we know it...
So as the sun gets swollen we move outwards in our solar system, hence Mars.... imagine!!
Im all sober weeks now dont question it LOL
Imagine the sun in its earliest form when it was smaller, then Venus could probably be hospitable to life as we know it...
So as the sun gets swollen we move outwards in our solar system, hence Mars.... imagine!!
Im all sober weeks now dont question it LOL
cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
Venus and a young moon
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raratt
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I used to tell my kids it is a Cheshire cat moon.
Star Dog
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This morning I noticed a particularly bright star in the sky, daylight was just creeping over the horizon but even when it got halfway daylight it was still cleary visible, its in the northern hemisphere just around sunrise in the east.
Can someone confirm its jupiter I'm seeing?
I checked Google but I can't find a definite answer but jupiter is visible during May.
Can someone confirm its jupiter I'm seeing?
I checked Google but I can't find a definite answer but jupiter is visible during May.
cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
Jupiter is currently in Aquarius and should be in the south at dawn.
Venus and Mercury are evening objects right now. Is it possible you saw the space station (which would visibly be moving west to east)?
BudmanTX
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start here....
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