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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.
+3 Style Points for creative use of her personal weight allowance.
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
The Cupola.
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."
It's the Cupola. Basically a dome full of windows.
There's no real command module or "ops" if you like DS9. Control is distributed.
Or she's got the most valuable cosplay star trek uniform ever. One that's actually been to 'space'.
Buzz Aldren: "Epic? (yawn) Call me when she snaps one from the moon."
Proverbs 21:19
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.
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.