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NASA, Air Force Perform Rescue Operations on Boeing Starliner
NASA astronaut Suni Williams cannonballs off a Boeing CST-100 Starliner test article after NASA engineers and Air Force pararescuemen climbed aboard the spacecraft to simulate rescuing astronauts in the event of an emergency during launch or ascent.
The Starliner is designed for land-based returns, but simulating rescue operations at NASA’s Langley Research Center’s Hydro Impact Basin in Hampton, Virginia, ensures flight crew and ground support are versed in what to do during a contingency scenario.
For more information about rescue and safety operations, see Commercial Crew: Building in Safety from the Ground Up in a Unique Way.
Credit: NASA/David C. Bowman
Grades don’t determine your intelligence.
Grades don’t determine your intelligence.
Grades don’t determine your intelligence.
Grades don’t determine your intelligence.
Audience member: “does this have any practical applications?”
Math lecturer: “probably not”
brilliant binaries 3/6/2019
M🌑🌑N ~ 3/1/2019
vintage book shopping. came across this curiosity(?)/monstrosity(?). no idea what to make of it.
THIS is what i study
andenes, norway 2/22/2019
crab contours 2/6/2019
have I mentioned that one week ago TODAY i launched a sounding ROCKET? (model pictured above)
We made it, friends.
Hi, I’m proud of this one. 10/23/2018
Let’s just talk about how much I love space... and my Nikon. 1/12/2018
You know that story of the Russian cosmonaut? So, the cosmonaut, He's the first man ever to go into space. Right? The Russians beat the Americans. So he goes up in this big spaceship, but the only habitable part of it's very small. So the cosmonaut's in there, and he's got this portal window, and he's looking out of it, and he sees the curvature of the Earth for the first time. I mean, the first man to ever look at the planet he's from. And he's lost in that moment. And all of a sudden this strange ticking... Begins coming out of the dashboard. Rips out the control panel, right? Takes out his tools. Trying to find the sound, trying to stop the sound. But he can't find it. He can't stop it. It keeps going. Few hours into this, begins to feel like torture. A few days go by with this sound, and he knows that this small sound... will break him. He'll lose his mind. What's he gonna do? He's up in space, alone, in a space closet. He's got 25 days left to go... with this sound. So the cosmonaut decides... the only way to save his sanity... is to fall in love with this sound. So he closes his eyes... and he goes into his imagination, and then he opens them. He doesn't hear ticking anymore. He hears music. And he spends the sailing through space in total bliss... and peace.
Another Earth (2011)
STAY : ... - .- -.-- : https://youtu.be/ZU_c8hTYAeM
Musa Manarov is a Azerbaijani cosmonaut who has spent 541 days in space.
I wanna give up daydreaming so bad. I’ve been doing it for 6 years now and I feel like I’ve missed out on so many things. I would lie and say I felt sick when my parents and siblings wanted to go out and do things just so I could be left by myself so I could pace around my room without being interrupted. When all my friend where having sleepovers I would decline the offers because I wanted to be by myself so I could daydream without the fear of them judging me. I use to throw a tantrum whenever my headphones broke and I could not get new ones right away. I would skip out on band practice just so I could get a few more hour in. I’ve caused myself so much stress because I would rather daydream than do my homework/study. I just graduated high school and I almost missed my graduation because I wanted to stay home and daydream. I use to think it was no big deal that it wasn’t interfering with my life that I was not missing out on anything, but now looking back I realize that I’ve missed out on so many things. I loved that I had the ability to go and pretend to be someone who was popular, confident, selfless...everything that I wanted to be. Even when everyone else my age had stop having imaginary friends. I mean I can’t describe the feeling of daydreaming. I love doing it so much but when I stop at the end of the day and I realized all of the stuff I could have done if I was had not spent all day running around my room (I have to paint my floor every other month because I’ve walked so much the paint has came off). I feel like a complete idiot for wasting my day like that. I am starting college next spring and I’m planning to intern for NASA next summer so I need to stop thinking about my imaginary world and who I am there and focus more on me in this one. But everytime I try to stop i can’t because it’s just to hard. The longest I’ve went without daydreaming was a week and that was because I was stuck in a hotel room with my siblings, but even than I would daydream when I was in the shower, in bed, or the car. I just want to try and stop for good or at least where it stops interfering with my social life.
when i grow up i wanna be an astronaut
Can I Be An Astronaut?
I'm trash at Maths but, I'm on the road to getting a degree in physical science. Its going to be hard but I want it.
For any Apollo enthusiasts.
Patrol the inner Solar System and defend your homeworld!
I am 40 years old today!
I have a birthday!
Today is Cosmonautics Day :)