Space and stuff

[Professor Toffee]

I want rings too, would never tire of rings

 

[DualityNSNO]

Wow.

Would love rings round Earth though. Would be ace.

Rings or new ground first?

Probably new ground to be fair. In fact I'd hope so really...

Rings would be pretty cool though.

 

[Paulie]

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/11/141119084506.htm

 

[ste d' indica]

Space Lids.. The new Orion rocket should launch today, there's been a couple of holds but you can watch the whole thing here:

http://www.theguardian.com/science/...-test-flight-for-nasas-mars-ship-live-updates

 

[ste d' indica]

Or you can go straight to NASA.. http://www.nasa.gov/

 

[canuckblue]

I want rings too, would never tire of rings

There's a joke or two in there somewhere...

 

[ste d' indica]

They're going for one last chance today, T -15 minutes..

 

[Encoder]

Love this:

 

[ste d' indica]

Scrubbed.. gutted. They're gonna try again tomorrow. Cool watching it all though.

 

[ste d' indica]

Love this:

Ace that. I could listen to Carl Sagan all day.

Those scenes on Mars were straight out of Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy.

 

[ste d' indica]

"31 seconds and we're going for auto-sequence start.."

Well not quite, we're about an hour away from the first launch attempt, Orion is fuelled and the weather is green:



http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html#.VIGLimf32O0

 

[ste d' indica]

Looking good to go in less than 15 minutes.

 

[TheFinnFan]

Looking good to go in less than 15 minutes.

Whats the mission?

 

[bluemangroup]

Whats the mission?

To expand our minds.

 

[ste d' indica]

Whats the mission?

Orion is the next reusable spacecraft with potential for lunar, asteroid and mars missions, so this is the first time it's gone into space. Its currently heading for an orbit of 3600 miles, the furthest any crew capable craft has gone since Apollo. Very cool.