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I assume it's safer to lose the trunk before deorbit burn in case anything goes wrong with the separation. If there were too be any problems in the separation, I'd rather have the option to return to the ISS and not be committed to a deorbit

Crew faced the direction of travel at launch, so they were lying on their back when on the pad - same as all previous craft.

They've got an abort lever under the central screen where both can reach it. That's it

Weather is expected to go green at T-10

"Does anybody know what those white small boxes are that Douglas Hurley got out of his leg-pouch (and puts back after un-fueling)?" They just mentioned it on the live feed. Crew provisions (snacks) and tablets (electronic, not vitamin pills!) that they will take out and use on orbit.

If you open Nasa's main feed and their media feed in separate windows, you get a nice dual-aspect view of the crew!

The BBC News article said they were 'evacuated'. I assume that means jumping into the Soyuz capsules. Did they actually detach from the ISS?

Are there any images of the capsule after it's been recovered? It'd be interesting to see close-up photos and see how it looks compared with Apollo capsules.

I had it on in the background for the whole day. And again on the second day when they actually launched it. The video from the UAV when it re-entered was amazing to watch

I'd interpret that as normal procedure. If there is a chance that the rocket will launch then they want the drone inthe air. Even if it's a 1% chance.

IIRC they had to replace a few gyros in the last hubble servicing mission. As these gyros can fail at any time, I expect that at some point in the future, sufficient of them will fail again that NASA can no longer point Hubble in the direction that they want. This will probably happen suddenly...

Oddly, the adjective for Saturn (ie, relating to Saturn) can either be 'Saturnian' (obvious) or 'Cronian' (derived from Cronus - the Greek version of Saturn).

Not at all. :thumbup:

From what I can remember, I took a look over the original BTC code before putting this functionality into TransX. In short, the answer is 'neither is exactly correct', but one is more accurate than the other. From what I can remember, TransX is more accurate (otherwise I'd just have copied BTC...

Sidereal period of the Earth (how long it takes to rotate 360° on its axis).

OK - must have remembered the rounded number and then misread the thread. Time for bed I think

Someone's got to beat my time. Come on folks! Oh, and vsfx, the max speed for the 16:35 run was 15km/s (GS I think - you may need to check the playback as I don't have orbiter installed anymore) Edit again: For those interested in the history, here...

It was more of a drama about Feynmann and his involvement in the commission, rather than about the challenger or the commission itself.

Enjo - Love it. I remember the genesis of this topic and initial discussions with you and Face about it. Alas, my life moved on and I haven't had any time to develop for orbiter in far far too long (though did manage to load it the other day in an attempt to intercept 2012 DA14 (but failed!!!)...

C++ does have a handy workaround for this which guarantees a rigid enum <==> int mapping no matter which compiler has been used: enum myEnum { one = 1, two = 2, three = 3 } It will compile it such that the enum entry 'one' gets given the value 1 etc. Then you can very happily cast...