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Astronaut Snaps Epic Star Trek Selfie In Space
mpicpp writes with this story about astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti's tribute to a Star Trek icon. "Captain Kathryn Janeway led the USS Voyager through many harrowing lost-in-space adventures. She was the first female Starfleet captain to take the lead role in a 'Trek' series. Janeway is fictional, but she is an inspiration to many women interested in space. European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, the first Italian woman in space, took a moment to celebrate Captain Janeway at around 250 miles above Earth. Cristoforetti is currently aboard the International Space Station. She tweeted a selfie on April 17 while dressed in a Star Trek: Voyager-style red and black uniform with a purple turtleneck. The image shows her pointing a thumb at SpaceX's Dragon supply capsule."
Especially the decision to have the planet above her, rather than below her - helps bring home that we're talking REAL space, not TV space....
"I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
I love her reference to Voyager episode The Cloud. Her coffee quote is a direct lift from Cpt. Janeway in that episode!
Does not bode well.
Really cool picture!
Voyager kinda sucked at first, but actually got pretty good once they ran into the Borg. For some reason Star Trek writers have a history of hating women in command roles.
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+3 Style Points for creative use of her personal weight allowance.
That means she owes a Bajillion dollars to Paramount now.
The Space Program just blew its budget.
Is it a command module? Never saw that before.
She utilized this uniform as part of her personal effects allowance. Also, if she manages to attract top drawer people to space careers, she's making the program better. It's a photo op.
If only we could fall into a woman's arms without falling into her hands
People in positions like hers have a great opportunity to encourage children.
Hopefully there are more pictures like this that can be used to get more kids interested in Star Trek.
Why... does it have to be Voyager...
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
Please do fuck off. NASA can have as much of my tax dollars as they want.
Better them than putting it towards the next military misadventure.
Is it really "epic"? Isn't really just "kinda fun"?
I guess I'm an old man for refusing to adopt the new meaning of "epic" to mean "mildly interesting", but I'm not trying to be pedantic. That was just the first thing that jumped into my head. I read the headline, was prepared for something huge, and then saw the picture and thought, "Eh.... that's really a stretch to call this 'epic'. It's kind of neat and fun, and I'm amused, but that's about the extent of it."
"Meanwhile, our taxpayer funded astronauts are doing cosplay in space, and inventing "space espresso" machines. Maybe it's time to completely defund NASA after all."
Because NASA has a history of hating good PR, right?
Buzz Aldren: "Epic? (yawn) Call me when she snaps one from the moon."
Proverbs 21:19
...But what I really want is a Star Trek spin on the "space potato" video.
Tell me you don't.
I'm surprised, astonished even, that the internet is not full with: "will you marry me!?" or "do you want my kids?" posts.
She is a pretty taugh woman, intelligent, good lucking and successful in what she is trying to acomplish ...
Well, I have a crush on italians in general, so my voice does not count :)
Cost free eBook I read (by iBook/Kobo/Amazon/ObookO/Gutenberg etc.): "The Green Odyssey" by Philip Jose Farmer.
I wonder how the crema reacts in free fall. Can they foam milk?
Mostly random stuff.
Unfortunately Janeway was one of the examples of this. There is no way she would have been a captain of a ship. Every time I saw any part of Voyager it was Janeway making an extremely stupid command decision. I had no problem with them having a female captain, I had a problem with her character being so incredibly stupid and annoying. Though Kirk was pretty good at doing bone headed things as well.
Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon what's the difference? All steal money from devs and control with walled gardens.
Really cool picture!
Voyager kinda sucked at first, but actually got pretty good once they ran into the Borg. For some reason Star Trek writers have a history of hating women in command roles.
WTF?
Star Trek didn't have a problem with it; it was just rare overall in those days. Admiral Nachaeff and Commander Shelby come to mind--perfectly believable as command personnel. The captain on the other starship in Enterprise--the Columbia, was it--did a good job and might have worked well with better writing. The actress who played Dr. Polaski could probably have done it, although IIRC she didn't get a great critical reception and she might have some Scott Bacula type moralizing problems. Patrick Stewart had great command presence; Avery Brooks had okay command presence and grew a bit into the role; Kate Mulgrew had little command presence and was given terrible writing to work with.
Kate Mulgrew was terrible for the Janeway part, and Voyager, for the most part, was badly written. There *some* good stuff with the Doctor and with Seven, and a few good interactions between the others (Didn't they warn you about Ferengi at the Academy?), but the quality of most of the writing was least-common-denominator middle-school terrible. The enemies were neither believable nor interesting.
Seriously, compare the Romulans in "Balance of Terror" in TOS to *any* enemy in Voyager.
Compare any of the characters to Garek.
Yeah.. There's a reason the USA and Russia (then the USSR) still lead in that area, though other nations are starting to catch up. I got downmodded for speaking the truth.. go figure.
is like a female CEO posing for a selfie as Carlie Fiorina.
These are very important questions NASA will need answers for when we want to get tired TV producers, insurance salesmen, personnel officers, public relations executives, management consultants etc to colonise another planet.
Absolutely. NASA and Star Trek have a long history together. Ask the current crop of NASA engineers about what inspired them, and I'm going to bet a good many of them will talk about Star Trek. It's no coincidence that the first space shuttle was named Enterprise. Likewise, Star Trek has a history of taking the best current theories of NASA engineers and physicists, and at least throwing around enough plausible-sounding techno-babble (e.g. the Heisenberg compensator in the transporters) to make the geeks happy.
Irony: Agile development has too much intertia to be abandoned now.
You're right, and let me add that also the astronaut came from ESA. She's Italian, and definitely not on the NASA payroll. But this is Slashdot, so reading the TFA and not talking out of your ass seldom happens.
[OT: I'm posting AC because I used mod points, but lately I'm observing that, as average post quality decreases, average AC posts quality is slightly increasing. Too bad that average AC post quality was very low to start with :-/]
NASA can have as much of my tax dollars as they want.
Better them than putting it towards the next military misadventure.
No, you'll have to succeed at a long of congressional campaigning before that world exists. The one we have, NASA will get way less of our tax dollars than they ask for.
She's in micro-gravity. "Stand[ing]" might not have the meaning or affect you expect.
If someone has one, they'll wear a Star Trek red shirt.
Have gnu, will travel.
I never said it 'did' anything for them or not..
Aren't we supposed to put them all in spaceship B, and send them ahead? As long as there's a bath for the captain on the bridge, it should be fine.