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Next ISS Commander's Spacewalk Golf Shot Raises Concerns
Space.com ^
| 2/27/2006
| Todd Halvorson
Posted on 02/28/2006 11:48:55 AM PST by mwilli20
CAPE CANAVERAL - A spacewalking Russian cosmonaut plans to hit a golf shot outside the International Space Station this summer as part of a publicity campaign that already has raised safety concerns.
Clad in a cumbersome spacesuit and anchored to a specially designed tee box, Pavel Vinogradov will hit a six-iron drive along side the station's Russian segment, taking great care not to hook the ball into the outpost.
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TOPICS: Extended News; Miscellaneous; Technical
KEYWORDS: golf; iss; spaceprogram; spacestation
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To: Moonman62
Didn't he also hit a six iron? He should hit a one iron so he can at least say he hit the club good once.
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posted on
02/28/2006 12:27:15 PM PST
by
1Old Pro
To: dead
Air or no air, I'll bet I could slice a drive in space.And if there is any other planet in our galaxy with liquid water on it, my ball will find it.
You play golf exactly the same way I do.
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posted on
02/28/2006 12:33:30 PM PST
by
SpottedBeaver
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To: mwilli20
This picture shows Apollo 14 astronaut Alan Shepard swinging his makeshift golf club for the third time. The golf ball is actually visible in flight, as the white dot in the upper right corner of the picture. Behind Shepard, you can see astronaut Ed Mitchell, who later threw an improvised javelin. (We took this still image from a video clip of the Apollo 14 mission, which you can see in its entirety here: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a14/video14.html.)
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posted on
02/28/2006 12:35:05 PM PST
by
Grim
To: mwilli20
It may go down as the longest tee shot in history.
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posted on
02/28/2006 12:38:01 PM PST
by
BigSkyFreeper
(Proud to be a cotton-pickin' Republican on the GOP Plantation)
To: presidio9
Meanwhile, the Chinese are headed to the moon.We've already been there twice. The ISS is just a precursor to man living on the moon for longer periods of time, which will be the precursor to man living on Mars.
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posted on
02/28/2006 12:39:31 PM PST
by
BigSkyFreeper
(Proud to be a cotton-pickin' Republican on the GOP Plantation)
To: mwilli20
To: BigSkyFreeper
The ISS is just a precursor to man living on the moon for longer periods of time No, the ISS was a stop-gap to give the shuttles somewhere to go and to keep the Russians from disbanding thier program entirely. We haven't learned anything from the ISS that we didn't learn on Mir. Anymoney that would be spent on future manned space shuttle trips would be better deposited towards a permanent moon presence now. In otherwords, stopp all manned flights for the next five years and spend the money on that instead.
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posted on
02/28/2006 12:44:16 PM PST
by
presidio9
("Bird Flu" is the new Y2K Virus -Only without the inconvenient deadline.)
To: mwilli20
Has it occurred to anyone that the station and golf ball would then be in intersecting orbits. He may miss the station on the first shot, but it will cross the station's path again every 45 minutes( or thereabouts, assuming a 90 minute orbit at that altitude) for another try. And what about all the other satellites in or near that orbital band???
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posted on
02/28/2006 12:45:03 PM PST
by
Hiryusan
To: Constitution Day; cspackler
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posted on
02/28/2006 12:49:53 PM PST
by
Toby06
(Hindsight alone is not wisdom, and second-guessing is not a strategy)
To: Constitution Day
I didn't know you were a fan...
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posted on
02/28/2006 1:25:52 PM PST
by
cspackler
(There are 10 kinds of people in this world, those who understand binary and those who don't.)
To: mwilli20
"...taking great care not to hook the ball into the outpost. Danger Will Robinson.
I know every time I try real hard not to hook ... I hook.
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posted on
02/28/2006 1:33:43 PM PST
by
Ditto
To: mwilli20
I'll be the Russians are doing it with the blessing of NASA. I don't care to have what money they take from me in taxes to have this kind of thing supported.
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posted on
02/28/2006 1:34:56 PM PST
by
Gaffer
To: coconutt2000
A golf ball shouldn't be able to "hook" in any direction in space. It should continue to head in a straight line.... gravity permitting. Believe me, if I were to hit a golf ball in space--or anywhere else--it would slice.
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posted on
02/28/2006 1:35:24 PM PST
by
Skooz
(Chastity prays for me, piety sings............Modesty hides my thighs in her wings......)
To: coconutt2000; trebb
A golf ball shouldn't be able to "hook" in any direction in space.
Of course you are correct, I should have said he mis-hits the ball and it hits the panels...
Although if the ball were traveling, and rotating very fast... :-)
http://www.ebtx.com/ntx/curvball.htm
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posted on
02/28/2006 1:55:27 PM PST
by
mwilli20
To: Hiryusan
Has it occurred to anyone that the station and golf ball would then be in intersecting orbits. He may miss the station on the first shot, but it will cross the station's path again every 45 minutes( or thereabouts, assuming a 90 minute orbit at that altitude) for another try. And what about all the other satellites in or near that orbital band??? Not quite. Both the station and the golf ball are in similar orbits. The golf ball is moving away at, say, 100 mph. Ignoring that the slightly higher velocity would cause it to move to a higher orbit, it would take roughly 266 hours (11 days) to cover the roughly 26,600 mile circumference of the orbit. Of course, that is ignoring the fact that faster objects orbit at different altitudes, and ignoring that the station keeping thrusters occasionally boost the station's altitude.
Good thought, though -- do we really want a golf ball flying around near the station's orbit as a potential hazard for incoming vehicles?
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posted on
02/28/2006 3:25:19 PM PST
by
MikeD
(We live in a world where babies are like velveteen rabbits that only become real if they are loved.)
To: dead
And if there is any other planet in our galaxy with liquid water on it, my ball will find it.
I feel your pain.
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posted on
02/28/2006 5:00:03 PM PST
by
TomasUSMC
((FIGHT LIKE WW2, FINISH LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM.))
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