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Re: The Soyuz "Flyabout" Picture Update Thread
« Reply #160 on: 06/08/2011 12:19 am »
I think this is one of my facvourites although there are so many to choose from.

I've tweaked the colour cast.

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Re: The Soyuz "Flyabout" Picture Update Thread
« Reply #161 on: 06/08/2011 12:33 am »
Anybody besides me looking at these pictures and noticing things they never took notice of before?

Me, the spare/other docking unit on node 3 port.
How big the ATV is. So glad we got these pics with it there. Bummer we missed out on HTV last time.

I'm sure I, and other amateurs, will take notice of more as I continue to look. Others here might know this stuff like the back of their hands, I'm sure.
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Re: The Soyuz "Flyabout" Picture Update Thread
« Reply #162 on: 06/08/2011 12:36 am »
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Me, the spare/other docking unit on node 3 port.

That particular piece has been a right nuisance to me whilst building the model as it kept getting moved around and I kept having to relocate it :)!!

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Re: The Soyuz "Flyabout" Picture Update Thread
« Reply #163 on: 06/08/2011 12:39 am »
Figures they get released while I'm out on the road!  ;)  But they were definitely worth the wait!  Stunning imagery indeed!

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« Reply #164 on: 06/08/2011 12:59 am »
Jonathan Amos has just run an article about these images on the BBC News website. :)
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Re: The Soyuz "Flyabout" Picture Update Thread
« Reply #165 on: 06/08/2011 01:02 am »
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!

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« Reply #166 on: 06/08/2011 01:23 am »
Jonathan Amos has just run an article about these images on the BBC News website. :)

Even calls Endeavour a her (which he doesn't normally do) :)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13691608
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Re: The Soyuz "Flyabout" Picture Update Thread
« Reply #167 on: 06/08/2011 01:37 am »
Not really surprised  a shuttle defined as female.  Ships for some reason are always defined as she, her, etc. I have no idea how that got started though.


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Re: The Soyuz "Flyabout" Picture Update Thread
« Reply #168 on: 06/08/2011 01:57 am »
This one's probably my favorite: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-27/hires/iss027e036752.jpg

You can see AMS really well in that one.

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Re: The Soyuz "Flyabout" Picture Update Thread
« Reply #169 on: 06/08/2011 02:15 am »
I think I'm gonna cry...

lost for words...

to the US government... I can't believe you guys chose to retire the shuttle...
The Sky is NOT the Limit...

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Re: The Soyuz "Flyabout" Picture Update Thread
« Reply #170 on: 06/08/2011 02:33 am »
Alan's wrote a second, on the camera - and nice hat tip to us here :)

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/06/07/6807504-camera-burns-after-space-stardom
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Re: The Soyuz "Flyabout" Picture Update Thread
« Reply #171 on: 06/08/2011 03:01 am »
Alan's wrote a second, on the camera - and nice hat tip to us here :)

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/06/07/6807504-camera-burns-after-space-stardom

"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:  ;)

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Re: The Soyuz "Flyabout" Picture Update Thread
« Reply #172 on: 06/08/2011 03:02 am »
Anyone have any Idea when the HD video will be released?

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Re: The Soyuz "Flyabout" Picture Update Thread
« Reply #173 on: 06/08/2011 03:04 am »
Excellent, thanks, Lee!!

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Re: The Soyuz "Flyabout" Picture Update Thread
« Reply #174 on: 06/08/2011 03:04 am »
Excellent, thanks, Lee!!

You betcha!

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Re: The Soyuz "Flyabout" Picture Update Thread
« Reply #175 on: 06/08/2011 06:08 am »
Nice to wake up and see most of my favorite space hardware in the same place in LEO :) .

Really captures a historical moment brilliantly.

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Re: The Soyuz "Flyabout" Picture Update Thread
« Reply #176 on: 06/08/2011 07:14 am »
Hi all, drooling over all these awesome images like the rest of you. Forgive me if this is covered elsewhere or common knowledge or something, but in this image:

http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/557263main_iss027e036647_full.jpg

one can clearly see some damage on one of the arrays in the lower left. I was just curious if there's some backstory to that and if it's known how it happened. Furthermore is it something that needs repair (and can it be done?). If there is already a write-up on this somewhere I'd greatly appreciate a link.

In the meantime, back to downloading all these... I'll be all set for desktop images for quite some time :)

Many thanks!

EDIT: Nevermind... I see now it's the S1 radiator and the damage was first seen back in 2008... and of course it's well-covered here. I should have spent more time searching!

« Last Edit: 06/08/2011 07:33 am by bookemdano »

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Re: The Soyuz "Flyabout" Picture Update Thread
« Reply #177 on: 06/08/2011 09:14 am »
I think about all the people that made this possible by their work over the last four decades...  four decades ago to this day, the shuttle was still in limbo, facing an uncertain future.

I think about 2001, inevitably... jaw dropped.
Yes, the shuttle / ISS duo suffered some tragedies and many delays over the years. There had been many doubts about the finality of the whole project since 1984 and Reagan adress.
But they build it; NASA did it in the end.

The "low Earth orbit" phase is coming to an end. For all their flaws, NASA build a RLV that fly to a space station. Congrats to them.
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Han shot first and Gwynne Shotwell !

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Re: The Soyuz "Flyabout" Picture Update Thread
« Reply #178 on: 06/08/2011 09:26 am »
Very happy with my new desktop background picture  :D :

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Re: The Soyuz "Flyabout" Picture Update Thread
« Reply #179 on: 06/08/2011 09:53 am »
Now on L2, full dump of all the images, currently 271 in total :)

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