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Wow, I'm glad these guys are using metric for describing the flight trajectory--I hate listening to NASA broadcasts: "The vehicle is now travelling at an altitude of 20 miles and a velocity of 10,000 feet per second." I need a calculator to figure out what that means. ;)

I guess the ESA must finally be reading Trevor Johns' tutorials. ;)

I remember when I first started learning TransX it was quite difficult, and there was no IMFD around at that point. When IMFD came out, at first, there were no tutorials or instruction manuals, and I found it impossible to use. Now it appears as if the roles of these two MFDs have been...

Right now I am playing AMSO on an unfamiliar computer, and I have noticed the shortcut to move the camera position in the virtual cockpits is cntrl+alt+arrow key. Unfortunately this also has the effect telling windows to rotate my screen 90 degrees. Is there any way I can disable the keyboard...

Basically the politicians in congress that fund NASA are concerned about their sponsors (the aerospace companies) receiving bloated contracts for developing a completely new, yet immediately obsolete launcher, the Ares I. The reason they don't use an EELV to launch the Orion capsule is basically...

Wait, Exoflight got released? :rofl:I remember when I first started playing Orbiter like five or six years ago Exoflight was already vaporware. What is the release like? Is it decent? I can't try it out on the computer I've got for the time being.

What is so "silly" about it? The fact that it doesn't have wings, doesn't look like anything in 2001 or Star Wars? The Ares I is designed to do one thing, launch 5 people to the ISS with minimal payload or 3-4 people to the moon. While I agree the details of the Ares I are not worked out in full...

Ironically, the recent ruling by the US supreme court against the suspension of habeus corpus for guantanamo bay detainees, also sets a judicial precedent about the status of military bases as sovereign pieces of US land. John McCain was born on a US military base in Panama--thus this decision...

They'll definitely make it to the Moon before the US. They're gonna have a strong enough economy and a strong enough drive for nationalistic glory (take a look at the Olympics ;)).

Very cool trajectory this thing takes. First out to jupiter and then a swing in front of the giant planet bends the spacecraft's perihelion down close to the sun's surface. http://solarprobe.gsfc.nasa.gov/sp4_fig1.jpg

I recently reinstalled windows and am now doing a clean install of Orbiter, and I forget how to get rid of the black sky when I am on Earth? I installed the atmospheric enhancements, but during the day on Earth, I can see blue haze on the horizon but the sky is black. I've messed with the...

Don't know if anybody saw this yet, there aren't any posts on the Space news forum yet, so here you go. That's a picture of subsurface ice revealed by the pressure of the Phoenix's retrorockets--or at least the scientists are 98.5% sure its ice. Although the ice in this picture is...

I like how the new official NASA motto is "Follow the Water", kinda cheesy. I hope that means the next stop's Europa.

Hey all! Today is my birthday as well. :) It's my 21st, and hopefully my best present today will be a picture of the Phoenix's solar panels succesfully deployed. :cheers:

This sounds like a flytandem challenge.;)

This is sweet man! The only thing is in the first picture of the S VB, where the MEM is: i'm pretty sure that the MEM's shroud is contained within the shell of the S-2 and not just above it like you have. The book should have an illustration in the beginning showing this. But probably it is a...

I met Buzz Aldrin at a book signing, very briefly. He seemed somewhat aloof, but it was a book signing.;)

This looks great, awesome model work!