Posted on 04/25/2021 5:07:41 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
THE SPACEX starstip is reported to have had a near miss with a UFO - with astronauts on board told to buckle up and prepare for a crash, Nasa has revealed.
While en route to the International Space Station after a successful launch in Florida, the four crew members were notified they could soon collide with an unknown object.
There was no time to perform an avoidance manoeuvre and instead the astronauts on board SpaceX's recycled Crew Dragon capsule, the Endeavour, were told to put on their pressurized suits in case of a collision, reports Futurism.
"The NASA/SpaceX team was informed of the possible conjunction by US Space Command," Nasa spokesman Kelly Humphries said.
"The object being tracked is classified as ‘unknown'.
“The possibility of the conjunction came so close to the closest approach time that there wasn’t time to compute and execute a debris avoidance manoeuvre with confidence, so the SpaceX team elected to have the crew don their pressure suits out of an abundance of caution."
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I doubt they can do a damn thing without compromising the docking with the space station.
Minutes to launch, followed by over a day to creep out to the station’s orbit.
To paraphrase Han Solo, “Orbital rendezvous ain’t like dustin’ crops, boy.” I doubt there’s much margin for flying by the seat of your pants.
Hmm. Did anyone have a camera on hand?
Uh, there was no time to do an avoidance maneuver but there was time to "don their pressure suits"?
The only avoidance maneuver is probably a return to Earth. It isn’t an episode of “Men Into Space”. I expect it would take a lot of fuel to radically change their course and still meet the space station. Then there would be no return option if something really did go wrong.
“Uh, there was no time to do an avoidance maneuver but there was time to “don their pressure suits”?
That’s what they said. Exactly how long does it take to calculate and initiate an avoidance maneuver with that ship and what was the likelihood of success given the vectors of both objects?
Its like a winch thing it brings your head down to your ass so you can kiss it good bye
I hope it aint the 10 mm
Just some space junk , I watched it on NASA TV
Weather satellite? Space gas?
Well duh, the sun is a lot cooler at night.
UFO identified in your gif....
Easy way to prove it is not from Earth. The burger is beef and since Biden made his pronoucement against eating beef, this could only have come from an extraterrestrial source. We don’t eat beef.
The space aliens studied our mutilated cattle (recent thread on FR) and used the dna library to create their own cattle. Then ate them as Big Boy burgers——probably with fries and a Coke.
Xi looking disgusted in photo....Xi was very unhappy when informed that his interceptor missed....
“Billions of people we got. Billions. But can any of them pull off a successful hit? No? Then what good are the bums?”
told to buckle up....
By the flight attendants who sternly said to stop walking down the aisle to flirt, to sit down and buckle up and stop smoking cigarettes.
That was pretty clear.
They put on their pressure suits...
Well, more likely the suits were already mostly on. So they completed the last few steps to be ready.
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Bad reporting headline - they were told to put on their full suits just in case as there was not time to maneuver to avoid IT - but IT never came closer than 45 miles
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