Outer Space Thread

New Pagodi · Post by **New Pagodi** » October 31 14, 2:16 pm

It's been an awful week for space exploration.

Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo explodes after takeoff.

AdmiralKird · Post by **AdmiralKird** » October 31 14, 7:43 pm

pioneer98 · Post by **pioneer98** » November 12 14, 8:53 am

Philae lander is going to attempt to land on a comet:
http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/12/world/com ... countdown/

Gashouse · Post by **Gashouse** » November 12 14, 10:05 am

Live stream

http://new.livestream.com/esa/cometlanding

ghostrunner · Post by **ghostrunner** » November 12 14, 10:21 am

https://twitter.com/Philae2014

Twitter is great if you do it the right way.

Also, this guy just came down from the ISS, and had been taking some great pictures.

https://twitter.com/astro_reid

Vidor · Post by **Vidor** » November 12 14, 12:57 pm

That one-way private manned mission to Mars is a scam

https://medium.com/matter/all-dressed-u ... 76df527ca0

go birds · Post by **go birds** » November 12 14, 1:20 pm

thats an incredible read

Vidor · Post by **Vidor** » November 12 14, 1:33 pm

go birds wrote:thats an incredible read

Yup, found it on Longform.org, they link to great stuff pretty consistently.

IMADreamer · Post by **IMADreamer** » November 12 14, 2:23 pm

That was a great read. I feel sorry for the kid that just wants to go to space and dumped his girl to focus on it.

Vidor · Post by **Vidor** » November 12 14, 2:27 pm

IMADreamer wrote:That was a great read. I feel sorry for the kid that just wants to go to space and dumped his girl to focus on it.

I liked the technical musing on just how goddamn hard it would be to sustain human life on Mars. Just getting there would be pretty difficult with the lengthy spaceflight.

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