Posted on 03/28/2022 3:31:56 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Astrophotographers often produce breathtaking images of distant galaxies, planets, and moons from Earth. But Dr Sebastain Voltmer captured something very different and yet equally incredible, last week. He photographed the International Space Station (ISS) while astronauts Matthias Maurer and Raja Chari were outside performing a spacewalk. This may be the first ground-based image that has captured two astronauts out on a spacewalk at the same time.
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And all along I thought it was Hollywood. Foolish me.
Great job.
I would bet that the surveillance optics on Haleakala have some good stuff.
They imaged damaged shuttle tiles IIRC.
The International Space Station is a wonder of science. Its value is not much. All they do could be done at a fraction of the cost via highly advanced satellites. The ISS is a political entity and not driven by science though it does science.
Bring them home and de orbit the station over the South Pacific and use our monies in efficient science research.
We now have plans to go back to the Moon, it is idiocy. We can do it at great cost. What knowledge will be gained by a mission that is mainly concerned with payload to keep the human alive and not science. Robotics are cheap and when they fail a human does not die.
When lift to orbit and to the moon is economic I have not problems with man or women on the moon. It is not economic today and just political theater.
** It is not economic today and just political theater.**
That doesn’t matter to the global elite, they just make the working class fund, build, and risk their lives for those expensive projects.
Well said. The proposed manned flights to Mars are greater, um, lunacy.
That’s exactly what I say about it.
There are manufacturing processes that they are learning to do in zero gravity that can’t successfully be done on Earth. There is a wealth of information online about the development of zero gravity manufacturing, and the possibilities of what it means are amazing.
I’ve seen pictures like this before. Advanced amateur astronomers can load software into their computerized telescope drives and follow the ISS across the sky when it’s visible. Some of them have taken some extraordinary pictures of the Shuttle and ISS together, but this is a first.
You can only live and work in space by learning to live and work in space. Yes, automated robotics is much cheaper. But you are not getting real world living experience doing that.
The International Space Station is a wonder of science. Its value is not much. All they do could be done at a fraction of the cost via highly advanced satellites. The ISS is a political entity and not driven by science though it does science.
Bring them home and de orbit the station over the South Pacific and use our monies in efficient science research.
We now have plans to go back to the Moon, it is idiocy. We can do it at great cost. What knowledge will be gained by a mission that is mainly concerned with payload to keep the human alive and not science. Robotics are cheap and when they fail a human does not die.
When lift to orbit and to the moon is economic I have not problems with man or women on the moon. It is not economic today and just political theater.
There was a 3rd astronaut but he drifted away out of the frame. Burned up later on during re-entry...
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