Author Topic: Flight crew assignments  (Read 1898144 times)

Online Chris Bergin

Re: Flight crew assignments
« Reply #2640 on: 06/07/2017 06:16 pm »
Political suits all there.
Support NSF via L2 -- Help improve NSF -- Site Rules/Feedback/Updates
**Not a L2 member? Whitelist this forum in your adblocker to support the site and ensure full functionality.**

Online Chris Bergin

Re: Flight crew assignments
« Reply #2641 on: 06/07/2017 06:23 pm »
Here we go...
Support NSF via L2 -- Help improve NSF -- Site Rules/Feedback/Updates
**Not a L2 member? Whitelist this forum in your adblocker to support the site and ensure full functionality.**

Online Chris Bergin

Re: Flight crew assignments
« Reply #2642 on: 06/07/2017 06:24 pm »
Support NSF via L2 -- Help improve NSF -- Site Rules/Feedback/Updates
**Not a L2 member? Whitelist this forum in your adblocker to support the site and ensure full functionality.**

Online Chris Bergin

Re: Flight crew assignments
« Reply #2643 on: 06/07/2017 06:25 pm »
Support NSF via L2 -- Help improve NSF -- Site Rules/Feedback/Updates
**Not a L2 member? Whitelist this forum in your adblocker to support the site and ensure full functionality.**

Online Chris Bergin

Re: Flight crew assignments
« Reply #2644 on: 06/07/2017 06:27 pm »
.
« Last Edit: 06/07/2017 06:55 pm by Chris Bergin »
Support NSF via L2 -- Help improve NSF -- Site Rules/Feedback/Updates
**Not a L2 member? Whitelist this forum in your adblocker to support the site and ensure full functionality.**

Online Chris Bergin

Re: Flight crew assignments
« Reply #2645 on: 06/07/2017 06:28 pm »
SpaceXer!
« Last Edit: 06/07/2017 06:55 pm by Chris Bergin »
Support NSF via L2 -- Help improve NSF -- Site Rules/Feedback/Updates
**Not a L2 member? Whitelist this forum in your adblocker to support the site and ensure full functionality.**

Online Chris Bergin

Re: Flight crew assignments
« Reply #2646 on: 06/07/2017 06:30 pm »
There we go!
Support NSF via L2 -- Help improve NSF -- Site Rules/Feedback/Updates
**Not a L2 member? Whitelist this forum in your adblocker to support the site and ensure full functionality.**

Online Chris Bergin

Re: Flight crew assignments
« Reply #2647 on: 06/07/2017 06:31 pm »
The new class!
Support NSF via L2 -- Help improve NSF -- Site Rules/Feedback/Updates
**Not a L2 member? Whitelist this forum in your adblocker to support the site and ensure full functionality.**

Offline astropl

  • Regular
  • Full Member
  • **
  • Posts: 256
  • Poland
    • Loty kosmiczne
  • Liked: 51
  • Likes Given: 2
Waldemar Zwierzchlejski (astropl)
http://lk.astronautilus.pl

Online zubenelgenubi

  • Global Moderator
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 11175
  • Arc to Arcturus, then Spike to Spica
  • Sometimes it feels like Trantor in the time of Hari Seldon
  • Liked: 7400
  • Likes Given: 72464
Re: Flight crew assignments
« Reply #2649 on: 06/07/2017 06:34 pm »
Brian K. Kelly, Director, Flight Operations Directorate performed the astronaut candidate introductions.

(He would be the current boss of Ascan Bob Hines!)

Robert Lightfoot welcomes the candidates to NASA, then introduces Mike Pence.

Acting Admin Lightfoot notes the VP's birthday is today.  (Happy 58th Birthday, Mr. Pence!)
« Last Edit: 06/07/2017 06:41 pm by zubenelgenubi »
Support your local planetarium! (COVID-panic and forward: Now more than ever.) My current avatar is saying "i wants to go uppies!" Yes, there are God-given rights. Do you wish to gainsay the Declaration of Independence?

Offline eric z

  • Full Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 545
  • Liked: 475
  • Likes Given: 2127
Re: Flight crew assignments
« Reply #2650 on: 06/07/2017 06:42 pm »
 Three cheers for the new astronaut class! May they have long, exciting, fulfilling and safe careers exploring outer space. :)

Online zubenelgenubi

  • Global Moderator
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 11175
  • Arc to Arcturus, then Spike to Spica
  • Sometimes it feels like Trantor in the time of Hari Seldon
  • Liked: 7400
  • Likes Given: 72464
Re: Flight crew assignments
« Reply #2651 on: 06/07/2017 06:43 pm »
Has anyone as high up the Executive Branch as Vice President ever attended or spoken at an astronaut candidate class announcement?
***

Pence announces that he'll head the re-constituted National Space Council.

Extended applause for the families of the Ascans.

"If you find a box turtle on a fence post"--certainly didn't get there on its own--support of family, friends, teammates.

Referencing JFK's Rice University speech, Star Trek, and the Psalms.

End of speech, beginning of Q&A for the candidates.

(I have to step away from my computer--I won't get to watch the Q&A.)
« Last Edit: 06/07/2017 07:04 pm by zubenelgenubi »
Support your local planetarium! (COVID-panic and forward: Now more than ever.) My current avatar is saying "i wants to go uppies!" Yes, there are God-given rights. Do you wish to gainsay the Declaration of Independence?

Online Chris Bergin

Re: Flight crew assignments
« Reply #2652 on: 06/07/2017 07:08 pm »
SpaceXer Robb says he would like to ride on a vehicle he's been involved in (That'll be Dragon 2!)
Support NSF via L2 -- Help improve NSF -- Site Rules/Feedback/Updates
**Not a L2 member? Whitelist this forum in your adblocker to support the site and ensure full functionality.**

Online Chris Bergin

Re: Flight crew assignments
« Reply #2653 on: 06/07/2017 07:08 pm »
Raja says he doesn't care what he rides on (Orion, Starliner, Dragon 2...). He just wants to fly. Correct answer.
Support NSF via L2 -- Help improve NSF -- Site Rules/Feedback/Updates
**Not a L2 member? Whitelist this forum in your adblocker to support the site and ensure full functionality.**

Online Chris Bergin

Re: Flight crew assignments
« Reply #2654 on: 06/07/2017 07:11 pm »
Jasmin knew she wanted to be an astro in sixth grade when she got a book on Valentina Tereshkova!
Support NSF via L2 -- Help improve NSF -- Site Rules/Feedback/Updates
**Not a L2 member? Whitelist this forum in your adblocker to support the site and ensure full functionality.**

Online Chris Bergin

Re: Flight crew assignments
« Reply #2655 on: 06/07/2017 07:22 pm »
That was fun.
Support NSF via L2 -- Help improve NSF -- Site Rules/Feedback/Updates
**Not a L2 member? Whitelist this forum in your adblocker to support the site and ensure full functionality.**

Offline Star One

  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 13997
  • UK
  • Liked: 3974
  • Likes Given: 220
Re: Flight crew assignments
« Reply #2656 on: 06/07/2017 07:39 pm »
Second Tim Peake space flight under threat over cost dispute
https://www.ft.com/content/cfbea554-4904-11e7-a3f4-c742b9791d43

My opinion: If the UK wants its fair share of flight assignments, we should pay our fair share of the costs. Let's hope we don't (once again) throw away our HSF program because of short-sighted haggling over comparitively small amounts of money. :(

Is there a version of that story not hidden behind a paywall?

Offline SWGlassPit

  • I break space hardware
  • Full Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 845
  • Liked: 893
  • Likes Given: 142
Re: Flight crew assignments
« Reply #2657 on: 06/07/2017 07:41 pm »
I went to school with Loral.  She's one of the brightest people I know and will be a great astronaut.

Offline Targeteer

  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 6153
  • near hangar 18
  • Liked: 3364
  • Likes Given: 1138
Re: Flight crew assignments
« Reply #2658 on: 06/07/2017 09:31 pm »
My faith and pride shot threw the roof because (only) this nation can inspire individuals to strive and support them to create this resume... "Dr. Jonny Kim, 33, Lt., U.S. Navy, was born and raised in Los Angeles. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy, then trained and operated as a Navy SEAL, completing more than 100 combat operations and earning a Silver Star and Bronze Star with Combat V. Afterward, he went on to complete a degree in mathematics at the University of San Diego and a doctorate of medicine at Harvard Medical School. Kim is a resident physician in emergency medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital."
Best quote heard during an inspection, "I was unaware that I was the only one who was aware."

Offline Targeteer

  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 6153
  • near hangar 18
  • Liked: 3364
  • Likes Given: 1138
Re: Flight crew assignments
« Reply #2659 on: 06/07/2017 09:56 pm »
One more thought.  2 Geologists and 2 Doctors.  In a 4 person crew to Mars, 2 of them will be a Doctor and a Geologist...
Best quote heard during an inspection, "I was unaware that I was the only one who was aware."

Tags: Crew 9 
 

Advertisement NovaTech
Advertisement Northrop Grumman
Advertisement
Advertisement Margaritaville Beach Resort South Padre Island
Advertisement Brady Kenniston
Advertisement NextSpaceflight
Advertisement Nathan Barker Photography
0