An ESA (European) section to put in (ESA) European news other that rocket launches. (Other ESA news story's or DLR or CNES news)So NON Ariane, VEGA news so to say.
A separate ISS Live events section, and ISS General Discussion section, both as sub-forums under the main ISS section heading.If it was up to Chris we'd have a York City FC section.
You may as well re-architect the main menu while you're at it.For instance, sacrilege it may be, does it continue to make sense to have "Shuttle" in-between Commercial and SLS/Orion?
Quote from: Space Pete on 05/27/2015 01:47 pmA separate ISS Live events section, and ISS General Discussion section, both as sub-forums under the main ISS section heading.If it was up to Chris we'd have a York City FC section. York City FC section going live in an hour!!!!! I'll be converting Americans, one American at a time. Operation Hearts and Minds!
A Topic (at the extreme bottom) for discussion of space games like Orbiter Space Flight Simulator or Kerbal Space Program? probably not right for a forum of this caliber.
Quote from: DatUser14 on 05/27/2015 01:40 pmA Topic (at the extreme bottom) for discussion of space games like Orbiter Space Flight Simulator or Kerbal Space Program? probably not right for a forum of this caliber.Oh, I don't know - put the modeling and 3d modeling simulation topics with it and call it some sort of hobbyist corner or some such.games, crafts (paper models, plastic models), amateur (rockets, miniature 3d rocket engines), drones, etc.
I second the ESA / Aroanespace split.I would also like a stargazing / sky observation section (is it tangent enough to space flight?)
I think a "Spaceflight Entertainment" would consolidate all relevant book/game/television/movies topics into one forum.
This Spaceflight Entertainment and Hobbies idea is superb, however. That's going to happen.
Quote from: Chris Bergin on 05/27/2015 08:05 pmThis Spaceflight Entertainment and Hobbies idea is superb, however. That's going to happen.I feel that there are not enough threads for books, games, movies, modeling, etc. on their own. My previous suggestion was just a forum that would include all of them in one place, and that could be further split up sometime in the future if needed. But you shall make the hard decisions
So I also saw a fair number of threads about space flight colleges and career options. It wouldn't be a very big section to start with, but it'd be an important one to have. Heck, if we help one student or one person looking at careers then it'd be worth it."Aerospace Education, Colleges and Careers Section"?
Quote from: nadreck on 05/27/2015 05:30 pmMaybe EM-Drive could be split out of Advanced Concepts into its own category.[Chris says no]
Maybe EM-Drive could be split out of Advanced Concepts into its own category.
I think reorganizing the three "Missions" sections in "HLV / SLS / Orion / Constellation" into a new BEO section "Missions Beyond Earth Orbit" would be a logical name and maybe add a couple more categories in there to address main belt asteroids and beyond, and other (Venus, Mercury, and eccentric orbits).
I like the idea of moving the EM Drive and such into another section. Huge interest in it, but not the sort of thing I set the site up to cover.
Quote from: Chris Bergin on 07/20/2015 08:47 pmI like the idea of moving the EM Drive and such into another section. Huge interest in it, but not the sort of thing I set the site up to cover.What would you call the section though?
I know it would be a lot of work, but how about making a "Historical Manned Spaceflight" main section.
..and relocating the Space Shuttle section there instead of Shuttle still having its own main section (I still miss the Shuttle, but it is history now.)
We have historical areas, but that's not our strengths.
Quote from: Chris Bergin on 07/27/2015 12:17 pmWe have historical areas, but that's not our strengths.I understand your point, but I caution against downplaying the historical section. That is why I pay the subscription. The news site info I can get in other places (spaceflightnow, space news, aviation week) albeit maybe a week or two later. But nowhere else is there such a wealth of data like Ed Kyle's classic Atlas and Titan imagery threads. Even classic data from early Shuttle missions is easier to find here than on NASA's own labyrinthian website. I actually consider it this site's greatest strength. That's why I suggested you give it a more prominent position on the front page.
Now when BO has gone public with its plans, we'll have to carefully monitor if/when there is enough BO threads (launch site dev + NSF "spies", testing, launches) to make it a section of its own.
I like to suggest to introduce a own subforum for suborbital launches.Clustering them all in a single thread (http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=11281) inside the "Other Launchers (Korean, Brazilian etc.)"-subforum is rather confusing and makes discussions on a individual mission or sounding rocket really hard to follow. And there are a lot of interesting suborbital missions and vehicles to discuss.I would suggest to place it inside the "International Space Flight (ESA, Russia, China and others)" section, so that suborbital launches of all countries can be discussed there together.
Quote from: Skyrocket on 12/14/2015 10:17 amI like to suggest to introduce a own subforum for suborbital launches.Clustering them all in a single thread (http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=11281) inside the "Other Launchers (Korean, Brazilian etc.)"-subforum is rather confusing and makes discussions on a individual mission or sounding rocket really hard to follow. And there are a lot of interesting suborbital missions and vehicles to discuss.I would suggest to place it inside the "International Space Flight (ESA, Russia, China and others)" section, so that suborbital launches of all countries can be discussed there together.Copy that.So a good idea to would be to start some suborbital standalone mission threads from now onwards, so we have a collection to move into the standalone section.
Quote from: Chris Bergin on 12/14/2015 01:26 pmQuote from: Skyrocket on 12/14/2015 10:17 amI like to suggest to introduce a own subforum for suborbital launches.Clustering them all in a single thread (http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=11281) inside the "Other Launchers (Korean, Brazilian etc.)"-subforum is rather confusing and makes discussions on a individual mission or sounding rocket really hard to follow. And there are a lot of interesting suborbital missions and vehicles to discuss.I would suggest to place it inside the "International Space Flight (ESA, Russia, China and others)" section, so that suborbital launches of all countries can be discussed there together.Copy that.So a good idea to would be to start some suborbital standalone mission threads from now onwards, so we have a collection to move into the standalone section. Thanks! Perhaps it would be a good idea, to leave an official note at the end of the generic Suborbital thread, that now suborbital mission threads should be started as stand alone threads and not to be added to the generic suborbital thread.
Quote from: Skyrocket on 12/14/2015 01:39 pmQuote from: Chris Bergin on 12/14/2015 01:26 pmQuote from: Skyrocket on 12/14/2015 10:17 amI like to suggest to introduce a own subforum for suborbital launches.Clustering them all in a single thread (http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=11281) inside the "Other Launchers (Korean, Brazilian etc.)"-subforum is rather confusing and makes discussions on a individual mission or sounding rocket really hard to follow. And there are a lot of interesting suborbital missions and vehicles to discuss.I would suggest to place it inside the "International Space Flight (ESA, Russia, China and others)" section, so that suborbital launches of all countries can be discussed there together.Copy that.So a good idea to would be to start some suborbital standalone mission threads from now onwards, so we have a collection to move into the standalone section. Thanks! Perhaps it would be a good idea, to leave an official note at the end of the generic Suborbital thread, that now suborbital mission threads should be started as stand alone threads and not to be added to the generic suborbital thread.Are you going to differentiate military suborbital flights from civilian ones.
Quote from: Star One on 12/14/2015 03:18 pmQuote from: Skyrocket on 12/14/2015 01:39 pmQuote from: Chris Bergin on 12/14/2015 01:26 pmQuote from: Skyrocket on 12/14/2015 10:17 amI like to suggest to introduce a own subforum for suborbital launches.Clustering them all in a single thread (http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=11281) inside the "Other Launchers (Korean, Brazilian etc.)"-subforum is rather confusing and makes discussions on a individual mission or sounding rocket really hard to follow. And there are a lot of interesting suborbital missions and vehicles to discuss.I would suggest to place it inside the "International Space Flight (ESA, Russia, China and others)" section, so that suborbital launches of all countries can be discussed there together.Copy that.So a good idea to would be to start some suborbital standalone mission threads from now onwards, so we have a collection to move into the standalone section. Thanks! Perhaps it would be a good idea, to leave an official note at the end of the generic Suborbital thread, that now suborbital mission threads should be started as stand alone threads and not to be added to the generic suborbital thread.Are you going to differentiate military suborbital flights from civilian ones.Might be useful, as the purpose of military missile flights and scientific sounding rockets is quite different.
We're getting a new flood of amateur, non-physicists coming in and posting their own refutations to General Relativity, along with pages and pages of cut-and-paste illustrations that would do any second-grader proud. And that have all of the basis in actual physics and mathematics that you would expect of most second-graders.Or worse, we're getting people with some physics backgrounds who have gone off into the hinterlands and can't get their theories taken seriously by other members of their field, so they come here, presenting line after line of dense math equations that are meaningless to all but three or four people who read this forum, and then demand that we either accept their theory or tell them why it's wrong -- when, again, the amateurs (and even the professional engineers) on this forum are in no way capable of even following their equations, much less discussing or refuting them.
Recently I've been wondering if the special forum section for MSL is really still needed. There are only sporadic posts in there on the update thread and they get even rarer as you go to the other threads. Maybe it would be better to just have all the posts there moved into the Space Science forum. Or maybe a reorganization of the robotic spaceflight section in general. "Robotic exploration of the moon" "Robotic exploration of mars" "Robotic exploration of the outer planets", and so on. May be getting too detailed, but just a thought.
I think we could move all the Mars robotic threads into there and make it a more general section for those threads?
Should earth science missions such as Jason 2 & DSCOVR etc go in there as well?
honestly I believe we need a section on Space Economy, development and colonization.
Quote from: francesco nicoli on 01/02/2016 12:55 pmhonestly I believe we need a section on Space Economy, development and colonization.You're about five to thirty years down the line with that kind of thing though, surely that would go under advanced concepts.
3) Is a new section required for a specific topic (Starliner).
Quote from: Chris Bergin on 01/02/2016 05:58 pm3) Is a new section required for a specific topic (Starliner).Yes Please... Things will be going fast I think this year leading up to the first crewed flight in late 2017
Given the number (20+) of Small LV in development how about dedicated section for them.
Quote from: TrevorMonty on 01/04/2016 05:45 pmGiven the number (20+) of Small LV in development how about dedicated section for them. Yeah, there's a lot - thinking 39C....but do we have a lot of threads to require a section?
A cage match here and there might be a healthy way to keep the wildebeasts in a certain play area (mud pit pipeline). Then the rest of us (the meek) can then inherit the rest of the Earth!
I'm just thinking of the about plight of being a moderator. In someways to them, being a janitor might be a step up or two versus being a moderator. Like, I've seen people handing out towels in airport bathrooms that are more uplifting than what I've seen recently.
Cage match isn't happening. That sounds like a terrrrrrible idea
I like the forum the way it is. I would respectfully suggest to Mr. Scott that if he wishes to find a cage match, there are likely sites out there that can satisfy that desire.I just don't see this forum as in any way a competition. It's a means to express yourself and to gain/distribute information. Any such "cage match" mentality would turn it into a competition (by definition).So, please don't.
1) Interstellar missions / project starshot type of discussions2) Colonization technology3) International missions (collaborative international cross-agency missions to the moon, etc).4) Astronauts5) Space Phenomena. When there's a comet in town, people want to know where to check it out. Mira tends to vary. And there is always a star emitting some sort of signal that gets the fake news starting their covfefe.6) Fusion Power7) Nihilistic Data, Common Discussions of Doom, Planetary Extinction, A Global Warming Dashboard/Metrics Scoreboard, Total Global Catastrophe / Survival Management, Steven Hawking's Fear of the Week. Could get a lot of commentary, certainly will keep the fire burning. At the dumpsters will be located in one spot.
It probably wouldn't get too many threads but a place to put information about future payloads (satellite constellations, DoD competitions, etc.) that haven't been assigned to a launcher yet could be handy.
If there is an asteroid that is discovered heading toward earth,
I suggest we rename “HLV / SLS / Orion / Constellation” to include “Beyond-LEO HSF” as there are 3 such subsection (HSF NEA, Moon, Mars) that aren’t explicitly included in the old title. This does cause some confusion as everyone just puts anything General HSF Mars related in the SpaceX Mars section.
All done.Wondering if we could merge NEA into SLS general and move change the NEA section to the Lunar Gateway stuff. Maybe in the future when we've got more threads on the latter.
Polite suggestion for removing a section:With Dream Chaser now with its own section there is a lot of overlap between the content in the Commercial Space forum and the Commercial Crew Vehicles forum. Those two could probably be rolled together without losing anything.
The concern was that on a 150 page thread. So we started a new update thread to solve that.
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