The Soyuz only has room for three. That's why you've never seen more than three residents on the ISS at any given time. If there was four, they would have to tell really bad "certain ethnic" jokes in order to determine who gets a parachute and who gets left behind.
As part of the CAIB recommendations / requirements, NASA and Lockheed have spent considerable time and money studying foam and ice impacts like they've never been studied before.
With the greatly improved cameras monitering this launch, all anomolous impacts from foam peeling off of the external tank and striking the orbiter will be evaluated by ground teams kept on standby throughout the mission. Using state-of-the art impact analysis codes, a decision will be made on whether the RCC panels and/or ceramic heat shields were hit hard enough to have sustained damage.
And to answer Timothy's question, the shuttle is not a comfortable place to live for more than 20 days. The longest shuttle mission ever was only 17 days. Living in the crew cabin on the shuttle is roughly equivilant to living inside of a chevy suburban with six of your closest friends. The batteries and CO2 scrubbers in shuttle would fail soon after 24 days. In short, the shuttle is a poor substitute for quarters on the ISS.
The Linux Cluster is a huge success. In fact, two other branchs in my organization are dumping their old Sun hardware and switching to linux clusters.
I make my living as a Sys Admin. It doesn't matter to me at an employment level whether I support 4x Ultra Enterprise boat ankers or 40x Dell boxes running Linux.
Who said I was anywhere near Ellington Field? I am at NASA Glenn Research Center, which is the focus of microgravity research within NASA. The KC-135 (which used to be housed at Glenn) flies up here to pick up the research modules. It's here right now.
I think you should apologize for labeling me a troll.
I'm actually sitting only 300 yards away from NASA's KC-135, affectionately known as the Vomit Comet. This is the aircraft that NASA uses to do micro-gravity research. (ie. zero-g flights with experiments in tow.)
I've had the opportunity to fly on the thing but turned it down. (Yeah I'm a big chicken. A big green-in-the-face chicken in fact.)
Reckon I won't be spending $3000 to do what I could have done for free....
So are you trying to argue that this is a rational pricing scale? All it has done is force my organization to switch to an 8-node linux cluster. That only cost us $12,000.
So does this mean that Sun is going to give up trying to squeeze $20,000 from me just for upgrading my 10-proc Ultra Enterprise from Solaris 7 to Solaris 10?
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The Soyuz only has room for three. That's why you've never seen more than three residents on the ISS at any given time. If there was four, they would have to tell really bad "certain ethnic" jokes in order to determine who gets a parachute and who gets left behind.
As part of the CAIB recommendations / requirements, NASA and Lockheed have spent considerable time and money studying foam and ice impacts like they've never been studied before.
With the greatly improved cameras monitering this launch, all anomolous impacts from foam peeling off of the external tank and striking the orbiter will be evaluated by ground teams kept on standby throughout the mission. Using state-of-the art impact analysis codes, a decision will be made on whether the RCC panels and/or ceramic heat shields were hit hard enough to have sustained damage.
And to answer Timothy's question, the shuttle is not a comfortable place to live for more than 20 days. The longest shuttle mission ever was only 17 days. Living in the crew cabin on the shuttle is roughly equivilant to living inside of a chevy suburban with six of your closest friends. The batteries and CO2 scrubbers in shuttle would fail soon after 24 days. In short, the shuttle is a poor substitute for quarters on the ISS.
The Linux Cluster is a huge success. In fact, two other branchs in my organization are dumping their old Sun hardware and switching to linux clusters.
I make my living as a Sys Admin. It doesn't matter to me at an employment level whether I support 4x Ultra Enterprise boat ankers or 40x Dell boxes running Linux.
Who said I was anywhere near Ellington Field? I am at NASA Glenn Research Center, which is the focus of microgravity research within NASA. The KC-135 (which used to be housed at Glenn) flies up here to pick up the research modules. It's here right now.
I think you should apologize for labeling me a troll.
I'm actually sitting only 300 yards away from NASA's KC-135, affectionately known as the Vomit Comet. This is the aircraft that NASA uses to do micro-gravity research. (ie. zero-g flights with experiments in tow.) I've had the opportunity to fly on the thing but turned it down. (Yeah I'm a big chicken. A big green-in-the-face chicken in fact.)
Reckon I won't be spending $3000 to do what I could have done for free....
So are you trying to argue that this is a rational pricing scale? All it has done is force my organization to switch to an 8-node linux cluster. That only cost us $12,000.
What are you, a large SUNW stockholder?
So does this mean that Sun is going to give up trying to squeeze $20,000 from me just for upgrading my 10-proc Ultra Enterprise from Solaris 7 to Solaris 10?
Reality Check available here. Heh!