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Re: Orbital Antares/Cygnus ORB-D Party Thread
« Reply #140 on: 09/29/2013 12:48 pm »
Second stage capture confirmed at 8:44 am EDT.  Congratulations, Orbital and NASA!
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Re: Orbital Antares/Cygnus ORB-D Party Thread
« Reply #141 on: 09/29/2013 12:48 pm »
Woooo Congrats Orbital and Cygnus on the successful berthing.

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Re: Orbital Antares/Cygnus ORB-D Party Thread
« Reply #142 on: 09/29/2013 12:58 pm »
Great job Orbital,
Rock solid against any problem to deliver a outstanding performance!
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Re: Orbital Antares/Cygnus ORB-D Party Thread
« Reply #143 on: 09/29/2013 10:11 pm »
I'm truly impressed by Orbital and their partners how they performed this test mission.

Such an impressive mission should have a "catch-prase" like the "famous" "Dragon by the Tail" quote from Don Pettit, like James Dean of Florida Today (@flatoday_jdean) suggested, but i have not come up with anything cool yet.

Given the PVGF position on the backside of the Cygnus the naturally equivalent expressions I could think of on the spot would be something like:

"Catch a Swan by the Tailfeathers" (really silly), or

"Grab the Swan's a$$" (really rude).

Surely someone here must have a better suggestion as to what catch-phrase Karen could have said?

EDIT: fixed up link

« Last Edit: 09/29/2013 10:51 pm by InfraNut2 »

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Re: Orbital Antares/Cygnus ORB-D Party Thread
« Reply #144 on: 09/29/2013 10:46 pm »

I'm truly impressed by Orbital and their partners how they performed this test mission.

Such an impressive mission should have a "catch-prase" like the "famous" "Dragon by the Tail" quote from Don Pettit, like James Dean of Florida Today (@flatoday_jdean) suggested, but i have not come up with anything cool yet.

Given the PVGF position on the backside of the Cygnus the naturally equivalent expressions I could think of on the spot would be something like:

"Catch a Swan by the Tailfeathers" (really silly), or

"Grab the Swan's a$$" (really rude).

Surely someone here must have a better suggestion as to what catch-phrase Karen could have said?

Orbital themselves just gave it a go in this tweet:

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Orbital Sciences @OrbitalSciences

@AstroKarenN Fantastic photo of #Cygnus.  Thanks for leading the swan to the nest.

Really sweet/nice/cute/"Aawww...", but not much of a cool-factor...

Swan's could be sort-of cool, like The "Cyggi" mascot in MCC-H.

EDIT: fixed up link
« Last Edit: 09/29/2013 10:57 pm by InfraNut2 »

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Re: Orbital Antares/Cygnus ORB-D Party Thread
« Reply #145 on: 09/30/2013 01:23 am »
"Took Odette's hand?"

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Re: Orbital Antares/Cygnus ORB-D Party Thread
« Reply #146 on: 09/30/2013 02:31 am »
Sunday Sunday Thoughts Before Bedtime thread! ;D

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Re: Orbital Antares/Cygnus ORB-D Party Thread
« Reply #147 on: 10/11/2013 03:05 pm »
Looks like we were premature with our name of the Keg Party thread.    Maybe next launch?
 
 
 
http://news.yahoo.com/beer-space-11-olds-tiny-brewery-fly-space-120708499.html
 
« Last Edit: 10/11/2013 03:07 pm by Prober »
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Re: Orbital Antares/Cygnus ORB-D Party Thread
« Reply #148 on: 10/11/2013 03:10 pm »
Looks like we were premature with our name of the Keg Party thread.    Maybe next launch?
 
 
 
http://news.yahoo.com/beer-space-11-olds-tiny-brewery-fly-space-120708499.html

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Re: Orbital Antares/Cygnus ORB-D Party Thread
« Reply #149 on: 10/11/2013 03:24 pm »
This is PERFECT, you guys! The next party thread has justification now for being called a Kegger.
« Last Edit: 10/11/2013 03:25 pm by Robotbeat »
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Re: Orbital Antares/Cygnus ORB-D Party Thread
« Reply #150 on: 10/11/2013 05:40 pm »
Considering it will launch in the middle of the night full and provide a nice light show, how about a rave?
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Re: Orbital Antares/Cygnus ORB-D Party Thread
« Reply #151 on: 10/11/2013 06:57 pm »
Another co-incidence is that December 15 is roughly the same time when the Chinese will try putting their lander, rover & flag on the Moon (give or take 2-3 days either side....), so maybe we need to get drunk for the upcoming Christmas invasion of lunar territory.   ;)
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Re: Orbital Antares/Cygnus ORB-D Party Thread
« Reply #152 on: 10/24/2013 01:47 am »
A huge send out of congrats to the teams at Orbital for pulling off such a great misision.

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Re: Orbital Antares/Cygnus ORB-D Party Thread
« Reply #153 on: 10/24/2013 08:02 am »
Congratulations to Orbital.

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Re: Orbital Antares/Cygnus ORB-D Party Thread
« Reply #154 on: 10/24/2013 03:01 pm »
So Orbital has joined the music video crowd.......  :D

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Re: Orbital Antares/Cygnus ORB-D Party Thread
« Reply #155 on: 10/24/2013 04:41 pm »
Congrats to all the teams, well done!  :)
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Re: Orbital Antares/Cygnus ORB-D Party Thread
« Reply #156 on: 10/24/2013 04:54 pm »
So Orbital has joined the music video crowd.......  :D

A very cool video!

Congratulations to all the folks at Orbital! :)
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Re: Orbital Antares/Cygnus ORB-D Party Thread
« Reply #157 on: 10/25/2013 01:38 am »
I forgot about the unberthing and missed it.  Congratulations to Orbital for a great mission!
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Re: Orbital Antares/Cygnus ORB-D Party Thread
« Reply #158 on: 10/25/2013 06:57 pm »
So Orbital has joined the music video crowd.......  :D

A very cool video!

Congratulations to all the folks at Orbital! :)

yes, agree.....now someone cut them a check.  :)
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Re: Orbital Antares/Cygnus ORB-D Party Thread
« Reply #159 on: 11/04/2013 02:24 pm »
Only place could think this could stay on topic:

https://twitter.com/ThePaleRedDot/status/395946517468827648/photo/1

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