Recent content by Andy44

The photo of the observing team in that link is very cool, captures the nasty weather aspect of it mentioned in the text, and it amazes me that all these people around the planet here on the ground are working in conjunction with a robotic spacecraft in the outer fringes of the solar system to...

That test says I'm 27. Sure, yeah, let's go with that...

Yuri Gagarin "First Orbit" - YouTube

Also can't wait to see how Finn's character development once again gets quashed by portraying him as a buffoon who goes on pointless missions and accomplishes nothing.

The technology behind the moving dartboard is hardly retro, but that was funny! Reminds me of this on the usefulness scale:

Have they caught any fairings intact yet? As opposed to fishing them out of the water? (Has that even been done?)

At first I thought it said "Vintage", as in Telstar is a really old program and so here's an old satellite we've had sitting around so let's launch it and get our money's worth lol.

Gotta love the old Hercules, going strong since the 50s, and Lockheed Martin's test pilot actually loops this newest version while wringing it out at an air show. I've never seen a C-130 do this, before. (Loop is around 6:30, but the entire video is awesome)

The sheer size of the sky is beyond staggering. What tiny things are we to get a glimpse of what's out there and never get to see it up close.

Ya know, sometimes I really love you guys! :cheers:

It's a shame the BBC doesn't allow comments on those pages, for stories like this the comments are always the best part. Then again, internet culture is what led to this in the first place.

Shame to see the Delta II retiring. It's been a good launch vehicle.

Cool footage of Apollo-Little Joe II vehicles being built and flown, put to really good music:

No, Cassini detected waves that had to be slowed down by a factor of five to get them into the audio range, according to the video (at 1:10). We've seen this sort of thing before; Cassini, Galileo, and near-earth satellites have picked up radio waves from the magnetic fields of Saturn, Jupiter...