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.
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.
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...