The Space thread

[clevername]

thank you for now introducing me to i09, ghost. it will now be visited daily.

that new Betelguise picture they just put up is pretty amazing, too.

[ghostrunner]

thank you for now introducing me to i09, ghost. it will now be visited daily.

that new Betelguise picture they just put up is pretty amazing, too.

That's my internet mistress when I'm away from GRB these days.

[TimeForGuinness]

A must have bookmark: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/

[clevername]

sweet, another daily visit.

[InvincibleCakeEater]

Anybody catch the Space Station last week when it was visible for a couple minutes? It was pretty damn cool.

[mikechamp]

15 minutes could save you 15% or more... of New York City??!?!?

Wait, what?!?!??

Chunks of China's Powerful Rocket Fall Back to Earth, Narrowly Missing NYC

The large core stage of China's Long March 5B rocket reentered Earth's atmosphere and plummeted out of control to the surface earlier this week. At 100 feet long and 16 feet wide, it's the largest piece of space junk to fall uncontrolled from low-Earth orbit in almost 30 years.

Initial reports suggested the almost 20-ton rocket stage had fallen into the Atlantic Ocean, off the west coast of Africa. But new reports from social media and some African news organizations suggest pieces of the rocket may have been strewn across parts of Cote d'Ivoire.

If the Long March 5B core stage reentered Earth's atmosphere just 15 minutes earlier, chunks of it very likely could have fallen across New York City, Ars Technica reported.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/chunks-china ... 00307.html

[mikechamp]

For those who either care or are bored, there is a space launch scheduled for less than 3 hours from now. The live NASA TV feed can be viewed from the link below:

https://www.facebook.com/FoxNews/videos ... 598700717/

[GeddyWrox]

Here's a youtube link from NASA if you would rather not give any clicks to Faux News on facebook:

[Radbird]

Watching on NASA channel. T-minus 30 minutes, currently loading fuel

I love this stuff.

[BottenFieldofDreams]

Safety be damned. Hopefully Donald Trump will step in and make them go out no matter what. Weather schmeather!