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NASA Astronaut Jeff Williams Sets New US Space Endurance Record With 521 Days (cbsnews.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CBS News: Space station commander Jeff Williams set a new U.S. space endurance record Wednesday, his 521st day in orbit over four missions, eclipsing the 520-day record set earlier this year by astronaut Scott Kelly at the end of his nearly one-year stay aboard the lab complex. Williams now moves up to 17th on the list of the world's most experienced astronauts and cosmonauts. The overall record is held by cosmonaut Gennady Padalka, who logged 878 days in orbit over five missions. Williams, Soyuz TMA-20M commander Alexey Ovchinin and flight engineer Oleg Skripochka were launched to the space station March 18. They plan to return to Earth Sept. 6 (U.S. time), landing in Kazakhstan to close out a 172-day mission. At landing, Williams will have logged 534 days aloft, moving him up to 14th on the space endurance list. Williams first flew in space in 2000 aboard the shuttle Atlantis, the third shuttle flight devoted to station assembly. He served as a flight engineer aboard the station in 2006 and completed a second long-duration stay in 2010, serving as a flight engineer and then commander of Expedition 22. "I wanted to congratulate you on passing me up here in total number of days in space," Kelly radioed Williams Wednesday. "It's great to see another record broken. [...] But I do have one question for you. And my question is, do you have another 190 days in you?" Kelly was referring to the time Williams' current mission would have to be extended to equal Kelly's U.S. single-flight record. Williams laughed, saying "190 days. That question's not for me, that's for my wife!"
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Prolonged stays in space seem to cause our bodies to break down in all kinds of interesting ways. Eventually we're going to need to either find some way around that or some way to adapt to it.
A bullet may have your name on it but splash damage is addressed "To whom it may concern."
Build a ring and use solar sails to make it rotate. That could simulate gravity and mitigate those issues.
Actually, sending anything into the sun is very, very hard.
You have to decelerate the ship from the 108,000KM/h we're currently in so something the sun's gravity would pick, and that's a LOT of fuel, SPECIALLY if you're talking about sending 1 billion of people to space and then decelerating.
It's probably cheaper to just you know, give em jobs and actually good education, but that is just as politically incorrect as your suggestion sadly.
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Was it 878 or 879 days for Gennady Padalka?
That is easier said than done. To actually make this work without getting the person subjected to it sick (due to differential gravity between head and toes, so to speak), that ring would have to be HUGE.
There were some experiments with artificial gravity done by Gemini 11, they attached a tether to their AGENA docking target and started rotating with it. The gravity generated was in the 0.0001g ballpark IIRC, though. This would probably be far more realistic to do, i.e. creating a capsule and a counterweight and spinning them about each other, because you need way less mass and you could easily put capsule and counterweight at a huge distance and rotate them slowly while still generating a reasonable amount of gravity. The problem is that the cable to connect them has to be made out of something that's better at not ripping than anything we can manufacture right now.
Artificial gravity by rotation look cool on paper, it's the little problems that keep it from happening.
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I have been in my parents' basement for much more than 521 days!
Oh, right, I forgot it wasn't 1982 anymore. And that despite all our disagreements, we and Russia are a team in this regard with each new record representing a victory for humanity in which we all share.
Damn good job Jeff, we're proud of you. Gennady, that is so mind mindbogglingly impressive! We're damn proud of you too!
Never thought I'd be able to say this but--You can't get much more American than GNAA these days, can you?
Actually it's really stupid, because the push for ultra long periods gives us a stupid low value of n. But, that's what happens when NASA get overwhelmed by bureaucrats and runs off the scientists.
Exactly!!!
NASA should instead have thousands of people go through 3-6 hour stays in microgravity.
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I've never heard about that association before but I love the name.
Are they behind this movie in any way?
This is possible the only thread where it will be on topic.
The GNAA used to post about making a digitally remastered version of the movie. I never watched it to see if that was actually true. However, their posts certainly used to make frequent references to that movie.
The gravity generated was in the 0.0001g ballpark IIRC, though.
It sounds small, but we don't really have any knowledge of how much would be sufficient.
If I were to pull a number out of my arse I would speculate that a full 1g is unnecessary and that the human body will handle far less than that. Possibly with minor issues that can't be verified without a statistically significant amount of people exposed to lower gravity.
As far as we know 0.01g is good enough to get away from most problems.
The Gemini crew reported they couldn't actually feel any gravity, all they could observe was that objects in the capsule slowly moved towards the outside of the tether-system.
A full 1g is probably not necessary, but how much is, that's the big question. Unfortunately we're not really in any position to produce e.g. .8g for a prolonged (read: several months) time to see whether this has any negative effect on the test subject.
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"eclipsing the 520-day record set earlier this year by astronaut Scott Kelly at the end of his nearly one-year stay"
Down here on Earth, a year is, like, 356 or so days. Oh, yeah, this year it's 366 days.
It's different up there? Who knew?
deleting the extra space after periods so i can stay relevant, yeah.
i hope that he sets a new record tomorrow.
They have close to a hundred at that time period. However, there's a lot more data to be collected from 30-60 day stays to validate what little we actually know right now.
"You may return from 521 days in space, But when you return its the same old place And you tell me, you don't believe, We're on the eve of destruction?"
There is no God, and Dirac is his prophet.
Well, given that there's a trip a month to ISS and one spot there, we could have gotten 10x as much data on a much broader spread of people instead of just 1 data point.
Perhaps you could use a lot of gravity maneuvers for that.
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