Just to clarify, a Progress can carry that much away from the station, but you don't get it back in useable condition. The Dragon can (in theory at least) not only carry it away, but bring it back down safely.
Small re-entry capsules have been flown on Progress, but the capacity is limited to a few 10s of kg.
Also bear in mind that price for a seat on a Soyuz is what is advertised, not what is necessarily paid. NASA doesn't seem to be very good at negotiating prices and I'm not aware of any of the "Tourists" saying exactly how much it cost them. Informed speculation ranges between "One seat sold pays for the whole flight" to "There's a healthy profit margin built in".
The Shoemaker-Levy impacts were happening on the side of Jupiter not visible from Earth. Voyager, Galileo and Ulysses all had a different view of the planet, so the view from 3 billion miles away is better than "none at all".
The Kindle is shipped direct from the USA to wherever instead of from the local Amazon at what appears to be a not free cost, and attracts import duties of various kinds on top of the total. Adds about 40 quid (65ccu) to the basic price.
Unfortunately for your ice sheet theory, the large bluestones are all there is in the area. Glaciation would also have brought huge quantities of identifiable smaller bits right down to gravel size.
One model for anti-matter is that it is a normal particle travelling backwards in time. The energy from a particle/anti-particle annihilation is the energy released by it changing direction under this model. As far as the particle is concerned, it is behaving normally in a gravitational field by falling downwards, but when we look at it from our usual time axis it appears to be falling up.
The shuttle has *no* abort modes while the SRBs are burning, once they've lit they are going to go somewhere and a problem will destroy the orbiter. Having only one of them light would be a Really Bad Day.
The backup for a Soyuz parachute failing to deploy is to jettison it and use the backup instead.
The Soyuz pad at Kourou won't be set up for manned launches. It may get that capability added, but not before 2010. And besides, the launchers and manned craft will still come from Russia and a large proportion of the ground crew will be Russian. It's also French territory and US-France relationships haven't exactly been strain free...
Using White Knight 2, the carrier aircraft, not Spaceship 2. Take a small rocket that does have enough delta-V for orbital insertion up on the carrier aircraft instead of a Spaceship 2.
It may also involve a Spaceship 2.5 without the passenger capability that acts as a flyback second stage and releases a third stage at apogee.
It's been working in the UK for years, although the minimum period is 30 years rather than 25 and some material will have a 50 or 100 year delay. The Public Records Office tends to store material by date rather than by subject, so the relevant shelves become accessible to researchers at the beginning of each year. Indexes may or may not be available, actually finding a declassified document still takes a lot of effort.
This year we've had a look at the timetable of Harold Wilsons resignation, and found out an Argetinean invasion of the Falkland Islands was predicted. Apparently not much happened in 1976.
It's unlikely. Neither of the asteroids that have been orbited and landed on so far have shown any sign of surrounding debris and, apart from a couple of small satellites, not have any of those pictured in passing. Obviously they'd avoid any targets showing signs of cometary behaviour at this time.
Not true. Under international maritime law, abandoned at sea, if you recover, the original owner (who may now be an insurance company) must be given the opportunity to reclaim it on payment of reasonable (set by an admiralty court) expenses to you.
In any case government property remains government property, and you must have that governments permission before attempting salvage operations. See the fun Curt Newport had recovering a sunk Mercury capsule recently.
Any true Briton with a knowledge of history would know that the British Broadcasting Company, founded in 1922, became the Corporation at the start of 1927.
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Just to clarify, a Progress can carry that much away from the station, but you don't get it back in useable condition. The Dragon can (in theory at least) not only carry it away, but bring it back down safely.
Small re-entry capsules have been flown on Progress, but the capacity is limited to a few 10s of kg.
Also bear in mind that price for a seat on a Soyuz is what is advertised, not what is necessarily paid. NASA doesn't seem to be very good at negotiating prices and I'm not aware of any of the "Tourists" saying exactly how much it cost them. Informed speculation ranges between "One seat sold pays for the whole flight" to "There's a healthy profit margin built in".
Redstone used liquid fuels too, alcohol and liquid oxygen. WvB was heavily involved in its design.
The Shoemaker-Levy impacts were happening on the side of Jupiter not visible from Earth. Voyager, Galileo and Ulysses all had a different view of the planet, so the view from 3 billion miles away is better than "none at all".
The Kindle is shipped direct from the USA to wherever instead of from the local Amazon at what appears to be a not free cost, and attracts import duties of various kinds on top of the total. Adds about 40 quid (65ccu) to the basic price.
Apart from the aqueducts, roads and sanitation?
I'll go out and come in again...
Unfortunately for your ice sheet theory, the large bluestones are all there is in the area. Glaciation would also have brought huge quantities of identifiable smaller bits right down to gravel size.
How does it compare to the Top Gear Reliant Robin Shuttle? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b4WzWFKQ20
Though that now seems to be quite a bit less...
Midnight. Oh well...
Being a journalist on their press release distribution list will probably be the quickest way, otherwise just keep refreshing the SpaceX site.
Elsewhere SpaceX have said they'll give 36 hours notice of the launch time.
One model for anti-matter is that it is a normal particle travelling backwards in time. The energy from a particle/anti-particle annihilation is the energy released by it changing direction under this model. As far as the particle is concerned, it is behaving normally in a gravitational field by falling downwards, but when we look at it from our usual time axis it appears to be falling up.
The shuttle has *no* abort modes while the SRBs are burning, once they've lit they are going to go somewhere and a problem will destroy the orbiter. Having only one of them light would be a Really Bad Day.
The backup for a Soyuz parachute failing to deploy is to jettison it and use the backup instead.
The Soyuz pad at Kourou won't be set up for manned launches. It may get that capability added, but not before 2010. And besides, the launchers and manned craft will still come from Russia and a large proportion of the ground crew will be Russian. It's also French territory and US-France relationships haven't exactly been strain free...
Using White Knight 2, the carrier aircraft, not Spaceship 2. Take a small rocket that does have enough delta-V for orbital insertion up on the carrier aircraft instead of a Spaceship 2.
It may also involve a Spaceship 2.5 without the passenger capability that acts as a flyback second stage and releases a third stage at apogee.
The intended payload was running behind time, but was launched as Sputnik 3 a few months later.
Err, no. They're defending the *son* of a guy who is *alledged* to have broken the law.
It's been working in the UK for years, although the minimum period is 30 years rather than 25 and some material will have a 50 or 100 year delay. The Public Records Office tends to store material by date rather than by subject, so the relevant shelves become accessible to researchers at the beginning of each year. Indexes may or may not be available, actually finding a declassified document still takes a lot of effort.
This year we've had a look at the timetable of Harold Wilsons resignation, and found out an Argetinean invasion of the Falkland Islands was predicted. Apparently not much happened in 1976.
It's unlikely. Neither of the asteroids that have been orbited and landed on so far have shown any sign of surrounding debris and, apart from a couple of small satellites, not have any of those pictured in passing. Obviously they'd avoid any targets showing signs of cometary behaviour at this time.
The British Military are world leaders at outsourcing.
Or it could mean China and most of the rest of the world continue to be interoperable and the USA is left running an isolated branch.
You've got the wrong side of the sofa there, Doctor Who is traditionally watched from *behind* it.
abandoned at sea, if you recover, it's yours
Not true. Under international maritime law, abandoned at sea, if you recover, the original owner (who may now be an insurance company) must be given the opportunity to reclaim it on payment of reasonable (set by an admiralty court) expenses to you.
In any case government property remains government property, and you must have that governments permission before attempting salvage operations. See the fun Curt Newport had recovering a sunk Mercury capsule recently.
Would someone like to explain why NASA gets to shut down an ESA project?
The US decided not to go ahead with their half of the Solar Polar Project at a fairly advanced stage, now they want to shut down the other half?
There's some suspicion that Declan actually lives there. Many of the other engineers actually go home now and again.
Any true Briton with a knowledge of history would know that the British Broadcasting Company, founded in 1922, became the Corporation at the start of 1927.