Posted on 10/13/2021 10:26:00 PM PDT by Trillian
“Orbiting the planet?”
I thought this was a sub-orbital mission, where all the rocket does is go up and come down, like the Mercury missions of Alan Shepard and Virgil Grissom.
he’s really 90? holy cow. Born 1931. I’m really happy he’s happy. What a view! And what an experience!
Steady as she goes now.
Other than a few more feet higher, the same thing could have been accomplished with the bunch of them inside the fuselage of an descending aircraft from 40,000 feet.
A valid point with one major omission. The part about going up and back down in one piece is the qualifier there. He boldly went and came back alive!
He has unquestionably led a full life.
“Oh Jesus” - an unexpected remark from a Jewish actor.
Except for the view.
Good catch. LOL. I bet would have a good laugh at that one.
Clearly he was overwhelmed.
Yes, a bit ahead of themselves. This was simply up and back down at the same location area. They may have orbited a cloud.
After landing, Shatner kept comparing the trip up and down again to life and death, as though life is a thin membrane of atmosphere that only takes a few seconds to go through, and then you’re dead, I guess. I don’t know why he saw it that way.
I once told a fellow worker, when we flew to Atlanta from Salt Lake City. “Well another good landing”, he asked how I knew it was a good landing? I told him “you walked away din’ja?”
My question is this:
In a descending aircraft, it is only the illusion of weightlessness because one is falling at the same rate as the aircraft. Gravity is still pulling on one's organs the same was as on the ground. This is probably why people throw up, because their bodies feel the directional pull of gravity but their eyes are showing a different experience.
In true outer space, people are far enough from the gravitational pull of the earth to be in true weightlessness. Blood flow is harder without the pull of gravity, digestion is harder, excretion is harder, and so on and on.
In this case, was the capsule far enough from earth to be true weightlessness or was it simply at the top of a parabola?
-PJ
A lot of effort for such a short time. The other folks go up for days now. I'm trying to figure out why Bezos is still spending money for this suborbital effort--18 launches--compared to over 130 orbital launches by SpaceX.
They took a ride on a ship that looks like Bezos's penis, and everybody knows what that looks like, because his girlfriend's brother uploaded the pictures Bezos had texted to her.
That launch and landing was amazing. That rocket went up far faster than I expected, having grown up watching Gemini, Apollo, and space shuttle launches that just took about forever, it seemed, to lift off.
I was very impressed with the way that rocket landed itself and the capsule came down.
It was the stuff out of the sci-fi novels I used to read as a teenager come to life.
If the pilot is capable of maintaining the proper parabolic trajectory, weightless is experienced on both the ascending limb and the descending limb of the arc.
Regards,
From the article:
[...] the 90-year-old Shatner pulled his face as close to the window as possible to soak in the once-in-a-lifetime few.
Regards,
Why sub-orbital? Well because that whole re-entry thingy gets to be a bit of a scorcher. The Bezos penis with windows is quite an accomplishment but it lacks the rigor of a re-entry vehicle from an orbit.
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