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#340
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Steven Pietrobon
on 08 Dec, 2020 05:58
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Screen grabs of the nose cone opening and docking.
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#341
by
Stimbergi
on 08 Dec, 2020 05:59
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#342
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vaporcobra
on 08 Dec, 2020 08:13
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#343
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FutureSpaceTourist
on 08 Dec, 2020 15:37
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#344
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mlindner
on 08 Dec, 2020 17:48
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About to break post-Shuttle ISS mass record
Who keeps mass records in pounds? This is an embarrassment to all engineers and scientists.
NASA PAO does, to communicate with the US general public, which uses pounds.
One of NASA's jobs, in my opinion, should be to help educate the interested, not to talk only to most parochial among them. How hard would it be to say ISS set a new mass record of 452,154 kg (996,828 lbs)?
Pounds are used by engineers all across the United States.
Educating them in units they understand is better than educating them in units they don't understand. Kilograms are practically unknown in the US for the general populace. You may not like that, but that's how things are. My engineering schooling in the US also used a mix of metric and imperial units. (Homework problems for example would generally alternate every-other problem switching between imperial and metric units and you were expected to get the answer using the imperial units rather than converting to metric and then converting back.) Using imperial units does not make you less intelligent nor does it say anything about someone's intelligence.
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#345
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Vettedrmr
on 08 Dec, 2020 17:57
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Pounds are used by engineers all across the United States.
Educating them in units they understand is better than educating them in units they don't understand. Kilograms are practically unknown in the US for the general populace. You may not like that, but that's how things are. My engineering schooling in the US also used a mix of metric and imperial units. (Homework problems for example would generally alternate every-other problem switching between imperial and metric units and you were expected to get the answer using the imperial units rather than converting to metric and then converting back.) Using imperial units does not make you less intelligent nor does it say anything about someone's intelligence.
+1 I teach engineering to high school kids, and they're taught that metric is fundamentally better, although absolutely zero of them can tell why. I tell them that US engineers are "bi-lingual" when it comes to measuring things, and that they have to be conversant in both.
Now, back to our regularly scheduled SpX-21 coverage!
Have a good one,
Mike
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#346
by
zubenelgenubi
on 08 Dec, 2020 18:32
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Moderator: The units discussion has run its course, and it's only tangentially relevant to the thread topic. Stop.
The IT security/hacking discussion is off-topic. Stop.
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#347
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FutureSpaceTourist
on 08 Dec, 2020 22:05
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/50695843192/NASA Johnson Follow
The upgraded SpaceX Cargo Dragon vehicle approaches the International Space Station
iss064e010904 (Dec. 7, 2020) --- The upgraded SpaceX Cargo Dragon vehicle approaches the International Space Station as both vehicles were orbiting above the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Mexico. Near the top right of the photograph is a portion of the SpaceX Crew Dragon vehicle docked to the forward port of the Harmony module. The Cargo Dragon would dock about an hour later to Harmony's space-facing port marking the first time two Dragon spaceships would be docked to the station at the same time.
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#348
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FutureSpaceTourist
on 09 Dec, 2020 10:06
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#349
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FutureSpaceTourist
on 09 Dec, 2020 12:36
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#350
by
FutureSpaceTourist
on 09 Dec, 2020 13:45
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#351
by
FutureSpaceTourist
on 09 Dec, 2020 14:14
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#352
by
Jansen
on 09 Dec, 2020 14:22
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#353
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haywoodfloyd
on 09 Dec, 2020 14:26
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Falcon 9 returning to Port Canaveral this morning.
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#354
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haywoodfloyd
on 09 Dec, 2020 14:33
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#355
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haywoodfloyd
on 09 Dec, 2020 14:34
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#356
by
haywoodfloyd
on 09 Dec, 2020 14:37
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#357
by
FutureSpaceTourist
on 09 Dec, 2020 14:38
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https://twitter.com/nasaspaceflight/status/1336695785170165765 Falcon 9 B1058.4 Port Canaveral arrival.
SpaceX returning another booster for reuse, while testing Starship at Boca Chica - the latter will mark the evolution to returning the entire vehicle (both the Super Heavy and Starship = Full Reusability).
youtube.com/watch?v=D8bZkT…
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#358
by
FutureSpaceTourist
on 09 Dec, 2020 15:08
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https://twitter.com/gregscott_photo/status/1336698689763618819#SpaceX's OCISLY & B1058.4 return to Port Canaveral this cold FL morning. Fresh off the #CRS21 mission of delivering supplies & experiments to the ISS using the new Cargo Dragon2. This is the 1st time with 2 Dragon spacecrafts are at the ISS together. #NASA #Science #spacexfleet
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#359
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cohberg
on 09 Dec, 2020 18:38
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JAXA astronaut Sochi Noguchi in the SpaceX Cargo Dragon
(Dec. 7, 2020) --- JAXA astronaut Sochi Noguchi is pictured inside the newly arrived SpaceX Cargo Dragon vehicle wearing personal protective equipment. Safety goggles and masks are required when a crew member opens the hatch and enters a new spacecraft for the first time due to dust and debris that may have been dislodged during the ascent to space.
Source:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/50698363418/in/photostream/