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Antares Successfully Launches ISS Re-Supply Cargo Ship (nasaspaceflight.com)
Long-time Slashdot reader PuddleBoy quotes NasaSpaceflight.com: Northrop Grumman Innovation System's Antares rocket has launched the NG-10 Cygnus, named the S.S. John Young, on its way to the International Space Station on Saturday morning from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Virginia... With its second and final flight of 2018 upon it, Antares lofted the S.S. John Young Cygnus up to the International Space Station with 3,268 kg (7,205 lb) of pressurized cargo and 82 kg (181 lb) of unpressurized cargo....
Cygnus is undertaking a two phase to the International Space Station, aligning for close approach to the orbital lab for grapple on Monday morning, 19 November -- just over 48 hours after launch. Expedition 57 Flight Engineer Serena Aunon-Chancellor will grapple Cygnus with the Station robotic arm, known as the SSRMS or the Space Station Remote Manipulator System).
John Young was a pioneering astronaut who died in January at the age of 87 -- 36 years after he became the ninth person to walk on the moon, driving the Lunar Roving Vehicle. He was also the commander on the very first Space Shuttle flight in 1981.
"We're really proud to name it after John Young," said one executive at Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems, "and we'll work hard to do him proud."
Cygnus is undertaking a two phase to the International Space Station, aligning for close approach to the orbital lab for grapple on Monday morning, 19 November -- just over 48 hours after launch. Expedition 57 Flight Engineer Serena Aunon-Chancellor will grapple Cygnus with the Station robotic arm, known as the SSRMS or the Space Station Remote Manipulator System).
John Young was a pioneering astronaut who died in January at the age of 87 -- 36 years after he became the ninth person to walk on the moon, driving the Lunar Roving Vehicle. He was also the commander on the very first Space Shuttle flight in 1981.
"We're really proud to name it after John Young," said one executive at Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems, "and we'll work hard to do him proud."
Launched from Wallops Island, VA. Great morning to view it!
It's resusable then ? /.
Or is this launch in some other way noteworthy ?
A journalist would tell us, an editor would make sure he did.
But:
And "a two phase to the International Space Station" ? /.
Only spacex is able to put rockets into space! How is it possible that another company was able to do it? Where is Rei when we need him???
Wow. Just wow.
So fix the summary!
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The linked NASA obit reveals that John Young was a moonwalker. That’s pretty cool - when I was younger, I tried over and over to figure out how MJ did that but never was able to master it.
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John Young was a pioneering astronaut who died in January at the age of 87 -- 36 years after he became the ninth person to walk on the moon, driving the Lunar Roving Vehicle.
The poor bastard. Imagine having to spend 36 years driving a moon rover. Couldn't NASA get him back to Earth somehow?
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Should have been called the "S.S. John Young's Corned Beef Sandwich" Delivery Vehicle
...or the "S.S. John Young Farting Citrus" Delivery Vehicle.
John Young was too awesome for words.
Musk will have it cancelled. It demonstrates that there isn't actually a ULA monopoly. He's already pulled that stunt once.
...is probably most accomplished space-traveler to date; which means he's most accomplished traveler of all time.
John Young flew Gemini, Apollo, and the Shuttle. No one else has flown on three different space vehicles, and that's not even counting the LEM. John Young piloted the CM on Apollo 10, and walked on the Moon later. No other human being ever has been to the Moon twice and also walked on it except the (also now-late) Gene Cernan. That is a club of 2; the most unbeatable bar-brag story of all time, and it will be years before another person can make that claim. Sad.
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I'll never understand why (besides the obvious thinly veiled PR garbage) they started naming disposable cargo drones after famous individuals. "Hey you did amazing things in life, now we're going to slap your name on the side of a tin can shoved full of supplies, slap it on the side of a station for a month, and then shove it full of trash and toss it into the atmosphere, and its to "honor" you".
It was a gorgeous night for being on Virginia's eastern shore to watch a Wallops launch. Crystal clear sky full of stars, more than a few sizable meteors to amuse us while we waited, and a great view across the water to the pad. Most interesting part of it was the sound. Obviously they don't let anyone up close for these - most of us were miles away ... so, a long delay for the ignition and launch rumble to catch up with us. But the the initial ignition was a very interesting sound. Several of us remarked on how it sounded like an enormous gong being struck, or a huge, deep bell strike.
... and since it was 36F out, the mosquitoes were asleep and the notorious local sulfur/swamp smell wasn't too awful. What IS that smell? That's definitely what puts the Ass in Assateague Island.
Don't know enough about how ignition works on Antares, but that was a really unique sound. Then, after that incredibly deep ringing boom, a heartbeat or two, and then the growing roar as the thing got oft the pad. Shortly, we got the familiar crackling on top of the roar, and the rocket was arcing well out over the water and was up to MECO in very short order. Could hear it almost the entire time, even though it was just a faint purr by the time it cut off.
First time I've had the pleasure of watching a launch in person. And this was a pretty modest machine. I can only imagine what it was like to watch a Saturn V go up, or what Space-X's BFR will be like when the time comes. If you've never done this, and can make the logistics work, do it. Nothing else like it.
For reference, we parked along the Queen's Sound boat ramp that juts off of the Chincoteague causeway. Would love to have been closer, but security had every ideal back road in the closer surrounding farmland blocked off for safety. The visitors center was swamped, no parking, long walk in. As it happens, I think we ended up watching from a better spot anyway
Kudus to NG and NASA for a good launch. That was really something to see.
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proved with the maiden flight of the shuttle Columbia that they were the gutiest test pilots in world history, and they will probably never be out-done.
1. The entire shuttle stack had never been previously flown - no other spacecraft has ever been flown for the very first time manned, and there is no way that NASA would ever have the institutional balls to do that again.
2. Space shuttle engines had repeatedly exploded on the test stand during development, and they were required to perform at nearly their limits for that flight. Solid rocket boosters of that type (re-usable and segmented) and size had never before been used for a launch, indeed NASA had never previously launched people on a solid booster. NASA had also never before launched people on a first stage that used a liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen first stage, nor had they ever launched people on an asymmetric shaped vehicle, nor on a launcher with assymetric thrust.
3. Space shuttle thermal tiles kept falling off of the orbiter just with it sitting still on the ground. NASA and North American Rockwell thought they'd solved it and they shipped the orbiter to Florida for the first launch, only to have HUNDREDS of tiles fall off just from the several hundred knots airflow while being ferried on the 747 - but Young and Crippen needed those tiles to stay on in Mach25 re-entry airflow to avoid being incinerated on reentry.
4. There was NO ABORT MODE for the first 2 minutes of flight. Young and Crippen were given ejection seats as a fig leaf to ease public concerns, but they were aware that if they ejected from an exploding vehicle, the burning chunks of the SRBs would kill them, and if they ejected while the SRBs were functioning properly, they would be incinerated in the rocket plumes.
5. While the non-spaceworthy Enterprise had successfully done glide tests from the back of the 7474 out at Edwards years earlier, no shuttle had ever flown an entire re-entry path, and shuttles had no go-around capability - so John and Bob had to glide all the way home from space to the runway at Edwards for the first time based on data from very primitive computer simulations (that were based on highly speculative data) only. Later shuttle flights benefitted from real data for those flight regimes gathered from the sensors on that first reentry and glide.
6. That first flight had no robot arm (so no ability to inspect the outside of the orbiter while on orbit), and no spacewalk capability (no ability to go out and fix anything), and no other vehicles were flight-capable yet (no rescue capability, no matter how hard another crew and ground personnel might work).
7. Ground personnel and procedures were so new and untried that several ground crew were killed aboard the orbiter just working on it at the pad shortly before that flight.