Space Oddity by David Bowie
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NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg is a self proclaimed crafter. A week ago she made a stuffed dinosaur from scraps on the space station. The little T-rex is made form the lining of Russian food containers and the toy is stuffed with scraps from an old T-shirt. While many toys have flown into space, this is the first produced in space.
Photos: Karen Nyberg, via CollectSpace
Scenes from today’s launch failure when an Antares rocket exploded as it blasted off from Wallops Island, Virginia. The unmanned spacecraft was carrying 5,000 pounds of gear for the crew of the International Space Station.
Just as an aside, the aerospace companies I’ve been working with (via the film ‘I want to be an Astronaut’) manufacture and design the first (Aerojet Rocketdyne) and second (ATK) stages for the Antares rocket. Bad day. Thankfully, only cargo, scientific experiments, food, and launch pad architecture were the only collateral damage in this anomaly.
It’s always heart-wrenching to see an anomaly such as this. While there were not crewmembers on board, nor any high-profile experiments, it’s never easy seeing a rocket fail. It’s even harder knowing that this happened to a private company, who will have a harder time recovering from this mishap than a government agency.
While it’s easy to speculate, we must remember that there can be numerous causes, some not so obvious, and that we must wait for the facts when they come in. Orbital is a company with a long history in the aerospace industry. There are bound to be mistakes. Escaping the pull of Earth’s gravity is far from easy; sometimes we can be used to everything working properly that we forget there can be errors. Orbital will find the problem, implement a solution, and carry on better than before.
Next time you try to invalidate bisexuality, Freddie Mercury and David Bowie will descend from the heavens singing in glorious harmony and smack you upside the head.
“i just want to go home” said the astronaut.
“so come home” said ground control.
‘‘ｓｏ ｃｏｍｅ ｈｏｍｅ’’ said the voice from the stars.
I JUST NOTICED SOMETHING
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