What Happened To NASA?
What happened to NASA?
January 27, 2014
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NASA’s Space Shuttle program ended July 8, 2011, we no longer have any satellite boosting capacity, other than ‘throw-away rockets’ that were until then the mainstay.
The Space Shuttle was our ‘Cargo Capable Carrier’ from Earth to orbit, retreival of non-functioning, repair and return-to-orbit satellites, and, was re-usable. Only the orbiter’s main tank needed replacing when used (refitting was also required). Once the ‘way to go’ was worked out and snarls removed, many satelittes were put into orbit, including the very large ”International Space Station” inhabited by dozens of ”space fare-ers” up to now. There were a total of 135 missions. Canada produced the ”Canadarm”, the necessary mechanical arm used to remove ‘cargo’ and delicately place it into orbit.
Notable satellite, “The Hubble Space telescope” was one. Due to the vacuum of space and distance from gravity-heavy, atmosphere and tremor-filled Earth, the Hubble has, and continues to produce awesome images of billion light-year distant Stars and Galaxies. Now what could be more inspiring than that? Knowledge of other planets with lifeforms like our own would be a momentous occasion.
”SpaceX” in 2011 has commited to designing and building a heavy-lift, low-cost rocket booster that would do twice the job of current rockets, at a third of the cost, in the ‘mythical’ $1,000/pound range, still being worked on.
In 2012, NASA was building a heavy lift rocket bigger than the Saturn V, that would have a payload of 77 metric tons, due in 2017. But is it a Space Shuttle? Not being reusable, this would not be the case. It’s a ‘different package’ rocket, to be used for deep space missions.
Manned Mars missions would cost $500 million with a scaled up version of this new rocket, with a 130 ton payload, compared to a shuttle SRB worth $23 - $70 million. The SRB did have a lower payload.
So, space is not being ‘left alone’, we do have future plans for inter-planetary travel, and, it will be spectacular.
. Sources: Ask.com, Google images
DS
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DS 1/23/17
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Check these photos of the Oroville Dam and both spillways. They are revealing to the nature of the powerful force unleashed by dam waters.
The recent February rains caused so much flooding of the Feather River that the incredible amounts of water reached the top of the highest dam in America, at 901’. Officials increased the flow into the main Spillway from about 50,000 CFS to 100,000 CFS Sunday, to release full Lake Oroville waters, but that wasn’t enough.
Flooding occurred on Sunday in the Emergency Spillway, which was damaged, and DWR issued an evacuation notice to 188,000 residents of the Oroville Dam downstream area. Many were given the 1 hour notice.
Roads were packed, to the Evacuation Centers that had been set up. Residents exhibited extreme patience as numbers felt the crunch in leaving so quickly.
David Schaedler 2/15/17 4:45 am.
Project Blue on Kickstarter may photograph the first Earth-like planet
https://schaed.wordpress.com/2016/11/16/project-blue-on-kickstarter-may-photograph-the-first-earth-like-planet/
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DS 2/7/17
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David Schaedler, 9/7/18
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Ocean’s Source
Where does Earth’s oceans come from? It is said that comets brought water tot the earth, but look at comets. The comet that was landed on recently is veritably dry. Meteorites hold 22% of water in their rocks. If you seen the video where part of a meteorite is crushed and heated, water vapor forms. Meteorites that formed the Earth brought water in their rocks. You may say comets did the same, but have you thought of the amounts needed? Whatever rocks with that much water did it.
David Schaedler November 25, 2015
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