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ISS Releases Baby Sputnik
illumina+us writes "CNN is running an article about the recent space walk taken by the personnel of the International Space Station. On today's walk the two astronauts 'carried out a 1-foot-long, 11-pound satellite called Nanosputnik, designed for experimental maneuvering by ground controllers.'" The article also has some tidbits on the ISS's gyroscope problems and how the thrusters used to compensate have caused problems for spacewalks in the past.
Umm, the fuel gets on the suits and once they get back into the station the stuff on the suits you know gets into the air?!?! Russian Rocket fuel is nasty stuff that you don't want to be breathing in or touching.
Holy bejeezuz you might actually have to think for a second like the guys at NASA/Russian Space Agency do!
Microlaika, a dwarf chihuahua, will soon be the launched onboard Nanosputnik 2 by the Sovi^H^H^H^H ISS.
Sheesh, what extiting times we live in. It almost makes that guy who claims we'll walk the on moon some day sound serious...
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
No, I'm using pretty standard and accepted practices when it comes to metrology. No decimal point, no trailing zeroes, it's to the nearest Mm unless specifically stated otherwise. As such, 5.3 Mm is to the nearest 100 km, and 5.000 Mm is to the nearest km.
Actually, it pisses me off that people who use metric will say 5000 kilometers instead of 5 megameters... effectively changing the base unit to suit their scale.
Actually, it pisses me off that people who use Imperial units will say 3000 miles instead of 190080000 inches... effectively changing the base unit to suit their scale.