Author Topic: The Soyuz "Flyabout" Picture Update Thread  (Read 106879 times)

Offline Frandolf

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Re: Where are the Soyuz Fly about pictures?
« Reply #180 on: 06/08/2011 10:10 am »
Remember folks, these are nasa.gov images. Blog about them, tweet about them, print them out and put them on frakking signposts.

You've got the nasa.gov links. Let's make it go viral.

Done.

Printed the historic pic, placed it prominently in our breakfast room and discussed it on the breakfast table with my colleagues. Tweet is done, next is blog entry  ;D

Thanks to Paolo, Dmitry, Roskomos, NASA, ESA and last but not least NSF  ;D

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Re: The Soyuz "Flyabout" Picture Update Thread
« Reply #181 on: 06/08/2011 10:15 am »
Quote
"But on NASASpaceflight.com, the word was that Nespoli used a Nikon D3X digital camera for the stills."

The word was?  I do have a bit of supporting evidence:

All you have to do is hover the mouse cursor over the thumbnail in Windows Explorer and it tells what type of camera was used.

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Re: The Soyuz "Flyabout" Picture Update Thread
« Reply #182 on: 06/08/2011 11:04 am »
Now on L2, full dump of all the images, currently 271 in total :)

About half a gigabyte! Absolutely amazing .

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Re: The Soyuz "Flyabout" Picture Update Thread
« Reply #183 on: 06/08/2011 12:48 pm »
What a shots!!
Absolutely stunning!

In Spanish:
¡Unas fotos cojonudas!

Thank you Paolo!!!!!  :)

Love them

Paolo Nespoli is my hero!!

Forza Italia!!!


:-)

A wish to ammend my post to also send thanks to all those who made this happen, and especially to Dimitri Kondratyev for stationkeeping of the Soyuz - great job!
And also thanks to Cady Coleman that stayed sitted on his Kazbek, not shaking the spacecraft  :D

One of the best crews in the ISS!

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Re: The Soyuz "Flyabout" Picture Update Thread
« Reply #184 on: 06/08/2011 01:19 pm »
The BBC article is currently the fifth highest read article (popularity) and the NUMBER ONE most shared article on their site!
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Re: The Soyuz "Flyabout" Picture Update Thread
« Reply #185 on: 06/08/2011 03:51 pm »
NASA TV is showing the HD Video now.
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Re: The Soyuz "Flyabout" Picture Update Thread
« Reply #186 on: 06/08/2011 03:55 pm »
NASA TV is showing the HD Video now.

Watching it on my big screen, WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
<----First launch of DISCOVERY, STS-41D!!!!

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Re: The Soyuz "Flyabout" Picture Update Thread
« Reply #187 on: 06/08/2011 03:56 pm »
*Salutes the cameras*

You served us well!  ;D
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Re: The Soyuz "Flyabout" Picture Update Thread
« Reply #188 on: 06/08/2011 04:04 pm »
NASA TV is showing the HD Video now.

Thanks for the heads-up! :)
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Re: The Soyuz "Flyabout" Picture Update Thread
« Reply #189 on: 06/08/2011 04:15 pm »
NASA TV is showing the HD Video now.
Is it on the internet anywhere?

like a download, Youtube, Anywhere?

I missed it on NASA Tv

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Re: The Soyuz "Flyabout" Picture Update Thread
« Reply #190 on: 06/08/2011 04:27 pm »
NASA TV is showing the HD Video now.
Is it on the internet anywhere?

like a download, Youtube, Anywhere?

I missed it on NASA Tv

I'd stay tuned to NASA TV, they're playing todays video files now and it'll be on that I'm sure.
« Last Edit: 06/08/2011 04:28 pm by Mapperuo »
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Re: The Soyuz "Flyabout" Picture Update Thread
« Reply #191 on: 06/08/2011 04:51 pm »
NASA TV is showing the HD Video now.
Is it on the internet anywhere?

like a download, Youtube, Anywhere?

I missed it on NASA Tv

I'd stay tuned to NASA TV, they're playing todays video files now and it'll be on that I'm sure.

Thanks

can't wait to see it

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Re: The Soyuz "Flyabout" Picture Update Thread
« Reply #192 on: 06/08/2011 05:03 pm »
Found it on YT here:

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Re: The Soyuz "Flyabout" Picture Update Thread
« Reply #193 on: 06/08/2011 05:10 pm »
You can hear the Soyuz background noise! I was actually looking for that.
The view is breathtaking, and the sound is way cool (even if a bit monotonous)!
Good for simulator makers ... :)
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Re: The Soyuz "Flyabout" Picture Update Thread
« Reply #194 on: 06/08/2011 05:19 pm »
In your opinion (as a group), could one of these images become a new icon of human spaceflight, as much as the Earthrise picture taken by Apollo 8 crew?
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Re: The Soyuz "Flyabout" Picture Update Thread
« Reply #195 on: 06/08/2011 05:27 pm »
"Icon"? No. Not at all in the same boat. The Earth rising over the moon is fundamentally SO much different than a picture of the space station. I would bet 98% of the "general" public looking won't notice a difference from any other ISS picture they've seen. They do know what the Earth looks like :)

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Re: The Soyuz "Flyabout" Picture Update Thread
« Reply #196 on: 06/08/2011 05:38 pm »
"Icon"? No. Not at all in the same boat. The Earth rising over the moon is fundamentally SO much different than a picture of the space station. I would bet 98% of the "general" public looking won't notice a difference from any other ISS picture they've seen. They do know what the Earth looks like :)

Good point. I agree in part. On the other hand these pics of the ISS have the Shuttle attached. There won't be many more like these.
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Re: The Soyuz "Flyabout" Picture Update Thread
« Reply #197 on: 06/08/2011 05:38 pm »
In your opinion (as a group), could one of these images become a new icon of human spaceflight, as much as the Earthrise picture taken by Apollo 8 crew?

No for a couple reasons:

-Earthrise was the first time the earth had been seen by humans in it's entirety.
-1968 was a history changing year in the US and the world: Tet Offensive, King and Kennedy assasinations, hippies, Prague Spring, Nixon elected, beginning of the environmental movement, etc.

-To the average person in 2011 this is just another spaceship picture. (which is sad.)
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Re: The Soyuz "Flyabout" Picture Update Thread
« Reply #198 on: 06/08/2011 05:39 pm »
In your opinion (as a group), could one of these images become a new icon of human spaceflight, as much as the Earthrise picture taken by Apollo 8 crew?
I think they are certainly inspirational and it is amazing to see the shuttle docked to a fully constructed ISS but I don't think it compares with the Apollo 8 earthrise photo.  Snapping a picture of our planet from another celestial body is in a whole different league than anything photographed in low Earth orbit.  That said, the photos are absolutely amazing and it is the crowning achievement of more than 30 years of work in making this possible.  To me the pictures represent the culmination of the true mission of the shuttle program, even more so than Hubble.  100 years from now people will look at these and marvel at what we were able to accomplish during that time with our space shuttle.

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Re: The Soyuz "Flyabout" Picture Update Thread
« Reply #199 on: 06/08/2011 06:12 pm »
For those interested in statistics, the thread views for this one jumped from 10,140 to 19,301 between the photo release and now.  ;D

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