Author Topic: The CRS-2/SpX-2 "Junk in the Trunk" Party Thread (Read 159472 times)

InfraNut2 · « **Reply #440 on:** 03/04/2013 07:28 am »

@Cmdr_Hadfield sure tweets alot...

I like that.

The Toronto sun cartoonist pokes a little gentle fun at it:

InfraNut2 · « **Reply #441 on:** 03/05/2013 10:41 am »

I like this "unwritten rule of life in space" coined by Molly McCormick of SpaceX yesterday:

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@Molliway: Pro tip: never get between on-station astronauts and fresh fruit.

beancounter · « **Reply #442 on:** 03/06/2013 03:45 am »

Quote from: InfraNut2 on 03/05/2013 10:41 am

I like this "unwritten rule of life in space" coined by Molly McCormick of SpaceX yesterday:

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@Molliway: Pro tip: never get between on-station astronauts and fresh fruit.

Yes I was watching that and boy did they reallty go for it. Diving and swanning around. Great to watch.

Be fantastic to have the chance to do it yourself. Oh well

InfraNut2 · « **Reply #443 on:** 03/06/2013 06:29 pm »

She funny...

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@Molliway : After extensive calculation, SpaceX engineers have concluded that the Grapple Bar extraction target is smaller than a womp-rat.

InfraNut2 · « **Reply #444 on:** 03/06/2013 07:05 pm »

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Douglas H. Wheelock @Astro_Wheels

Love the new office 'digs'...so much fun on Capcom console! What a great view...'Here Be Dragons'... :-) pic.twitter.com/y7edTPFXAT

InfraNut2 · « **Reply #445 on:** 03/06/2013 07:46 pm »

A picture from my favorite country...

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Chris Hadfield @Cmdr_Hadfield

Oslo, Norway, lovely northern city, rarely seen from the International Space Station. pic.twitter.com/JRaa6qBaN7

Its rarely seen because ISS does't pass over it, so it is only seen to the north when the nothernmost point of the orbit falls right south of norway.

And guess who is in Oslo, Norway right now?

Elon musk is there promoting the European version of Tesla Model S and announcing that the first superchargers outside north america are to come in Norway. He just finished a presentation and Q&A about an hour ago. (The only other place in europe he had time for this time was the car show in Geneva yesterday).

(Norway has the best incentives in the world for electric cars by a wide margin and more electric vehicles are bought here per million citizens than anywhere else, again by a big margin).

EDIT: a couple of hours later, Elon ( @elonmusk ) tweeted:

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Am in Oslo to thank the Norwegian customers of @TeslaMotors personally. Highest Model S orders per capita in the world.

EDIT2: Second picture of scandinavia posted later that evening shows the perspective on Scandinavia from ISS that i talked about:

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Cmdr_Hadfield Chris Hadfield

Tonight's Finale: Scandinavia on the horizon, far to the north of the Space Station's orbit. pic.twitter.com/jBnjNqYEoV

bjornl · « **Reply #446 on:** 03/06/2013 07:52 pm »

So... now that the junk is no longer in the trunk, is this thread to be ended?

Joffan · « **Reply #447 on:** 03/06/2013 08:01 pm »

Nah, rename it "Junk from the Trunk" and party on, dude.

mlindner · « **Reply #448 on:** 03/07/2013 08:37 am »

For anyone who was watching the SpaceX stream with the new caster Kiko Dontchev, I knew him back when he was at UofM. He's a really cool guy, crazy good engineer and an awesome speaker. (The scripting in the SpaceX stream kind of ruined his speaking style though.)

Here is a TEDx talk that he did at UofM at cubesats that was well done.

Edit: Side note: I've thought for a while, NSF's forums needs a dedicated section for Cubesat missions, there is getting to be a tremendous amount of missions every year and if they haven't already, they'll soon be passing "normal" satellites in amount of missions flown.

Sohl · « **Reply #449 on:** 03/07/2013 12:25 pm »

I'm glad to see the 'junk' is no longer in the trunk.

Again, good job NASA and SpaceX!

baldusi · « **Reply #450 on:** 03/07/2013 06:59 pm »

Twitted by SpaceX's Kyle Cothern:

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Kyle Cothern ‏@risknc

@Molliway what you mean to say is, Dragon just got the reach around from Canada Arm, Junk was removed from Trunk.

I suspect somebody has been reading here.

mr. mark · « **Reply #451 on:** 03/09/2013 04:32 am »

Video of CRS-2/SPX-2 launch with inspirational soundtrack and footage.

dcporter · « **Reply #452 on:** 03/09/2013 05:22 pm »

Best kind of mission updates... infrequent and boring.

oiorionsbelt · « **Reply #453 on:** 03/09/2013 11:32 pm »

Quote from: dcporter on 03/09/2013 05:22 pm

Best kind of mission updates... infrequent and boring.

Grasshopper updates.....the best cure for infrequent and boring mission updates.

woods170 · « **Reply #454 on:** 03/10/2013 03:23 pm »

Quote from: mr. mark on 03/09/2013 04:32 am

Video of CRS-2/SPX-2 launch with inspirational soundtrack and footage.

Not trying to spoil the party here, but I find the footage of the now disfunct shuttle launchpad in the video anything but inspirational.

SpacexULA · « **Reply #455 on:** 03/10/2013 03:28 pm »

Quote from: oiorionsbelt on 03/09/2013 11:32 pm

Grasshopper updates.....the best cure for infrequent and boring mission updates.[/quote]

Mission updates are never boring. Sir I need your Space amazing people membership card , it's been revoked.

Jim · « **Reply #456 on:** 03/10/2013 04:24 pm »

Quote from: mlindner on 03/07/2013 08:37 am

For anyone who was watching the SpaceX stream with the new caster Kiko Dontchev,
Edit: Side note: I've thought for a while, NSF's forums needs a dedicated section for Cubesat missions, there is getting to be a tremendous amount of missions every year and if they haven't already, they'll soon be passing "normal" satellites in amount of missions flown.

They are boring