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[Pipcard]

There was a six-year gap, between 1975 (Apollo-Soyuz Test Project) and 1981 (first flight of the Space Shuttle), in which the United States did not have human space launch capability.

There is a six-year gap, between 2011 (last flight of the Space Shuttle) and 2017 (when the crewed Dragon and CST-100 are expected to launch).

 

[Andy44]

There was a six-year gap, between 1975 (Apollo-Soyuz Test Project) and 1981 (first flight of the Space Shuttle), in which the United States did not have human space launch capability.

There is a six-year gap, between 2011 (last flight of the Space Shuttle) and 2017 (when the crewed Dragon and CST-100 are expected to launch).

It may turn out to be more than 6 years, depending on whether schedules can be kept.

1981 was different, though. The memory of the moon landings was still pretty young.

 

[Urwumpe]

To give a broad hint:

http://news.discovery.com/space/the-case-of-the-contraband-corned-beef-sandwich.htm

 

[Artlav]

Meanwhile, on the Pacific coast of South America.

 

[C3PO]

Holy cow that looks nice!

 

[Andy44]

Meanwhile, on the Pacific coast of South America.

Doing some traveling, Artlav? Or just dreaming amidst the never-ending winter?

 

[statickid]

To be honest, if I had to rank the Mary Celeste, it would be the farthest one out on both axes

I live right by the Salish Sea!

 

[Matias Saibene]

Meanwhile, on the Pacific coast of South America.

How beautiful! I live very close to the coast (but the Atlantic side) and yet still (in this part of the world we are in Autumn) have beautiful sunsets.
How about this?

Funes / Villnöß, Italy

 

[Artlav]

Doing some traveling, Artlav? Or just dreaming amidst the never-ending winter?

Dreaming...

How i would walk along the beach one day...

Dig up the plunder of the long forgotten pirates...

And throw a party.

Chile is such a good place to be, after the fall-looking winter back home.
The sky is weird and the Moon is upside down, however.

 

[Andy44]

The sky is weird and the Moon is upside down, however.

I am generally very good at visuallizing things in 3D, but I have to really concentrate to picture that geometry inside my head, even though it's so simple and I actually know what it looks like...

BTW, the photo of you is missing the mad scientist's lab coat I envision you wearing...

 

[orbitingpluto]

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned it's the 50th anniversary of Gemini 3. Anyway, hopefully this short(slightly longer than a minute) video embeds properly:


<iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/BqBgDsa9yUk?feature=player_detailpage" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Edit: it didn't, so here's a link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqBgDsa9yUk&feature=youtu.be

Edit2: The video is now embedded just down the page in another post, no need to follow the link to Youtube now.

 

[mojoey]

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned it's the 50th anniversary of Gemini 3. Anyway, hopefully this short(slightly longer than a minute) video embeds properly:


<iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/BqBgDsa9yUk?feature=player_detailpage" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Edit: it didn't, so here's a link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqBgDsa9yUk&feature=youtu.be

Just copy and paste the link, the forum doesn't parse HTML on it's own by default. Don't forget to get rid of the 'S' in https.

Example:

 

[orbitingpluto]

Thanks for the help Mojoey, this embedding stuff wasn't easy to figure out.

 

[Mojave]

So I've been messing around with pixel art. No idea how two neatly dressed, civilized looking individuals managed to find their way into a poorly lit dungeon but they did.

 

[Prowler901]

Thanks for the help Mojoey, this embedding stuff wasn't easy to figure out.

NASA Celebrates the 50th Anniversary of Gemini 3 - YouTube

Sniff, sniff.... Anybody else smell corned beef? :rofl:

 

[mojoey]

Sniff, sniff.... Anybody else smell corned beef? :rofl:

I just thought I was bleeding.

 

[Urwumpe]

What the ................

http://www.via-alpina.org/en/page/237/der-rote-weg

Should somebody ever need something to do during a 161 day sabbatical...

 

[TMac3000]

Has anyone seen the Cosmic Journeys series?
I felt pretty positive about it--anything with depictions of deep space is always fun

 

[dgatsoulis]

Has anyone seen the Cosmic Journeys series?
I felt pretty positive about it--anything with depictions of deep space is always fun

If you are talking about the series on the YT channel SpaceRip, then yes. The "Christopher Lee" voice of the narrator had me at "hello".

 

[meson800]

So China* continues it's DDoS attack against Github/free speech. 48+ hours of continuous DDoSing (even though Github is going like a champ, no service interruption)
http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/27/8299555/github-china-ddos-censorship-great-firewall
https://twitter.com/githubstatus

*Now, technically that can't be proven. But a driving force behind the DDoS is a couple of Badiu, a Chinese search provider, edge devices in the Great Firewall. Additionally, the repos initially being hit were the Chinese translation of the New York Times at greatfire, a repo dedicated to subverting the Great Firewall. Badiu claims that they aren't responsible, but come on. If they weren't behind it/being forced to by the Chinese government, then they could have easily shut down the DDoS by now.