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Didn't find a thread on this, so... http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/01/wednesdays-near-earth-asteroid-caught-on-film/ Yeah, kind of a yawner, but space "news" nonetheless. Hail :probe:

Hi all, This may be slightly off-topic, but not that far. Question: are any of you into resin modeling of rockets and/or spacecraft? I've done quite a few polystyrene models over the years, of all kinds (planes, ships, tanks). Built many dozens when I was a kid, pretty much stopped when I...

Hi All, I'm working on setting up my compiler, it's VS 2005 Express. I'm starting out simple, intending to test it by simply re-compiling an existing DLL using the given source code. I'm using soyuztma, with CVEL source code by the CVEL man himself, David Henderson. The code is perhaps 2...

Orbinauts, I find myself using Soyuz TMA frequently, even though it is (perhaps like its real-life counterpart) not very "sexy." But, I submit that it is an extremely important spacecraft, and might soon be one of the only manned spacecraft around. It has long seemed a pity that its Orbiter...

Hi Computerex or tl8, or anyone who knows, I've got a possible issue when I'm using UMMUFA with SoyuzTMA 0.6 (the last version). I can add crew, no problem. I can also transfer them to the "stock" Orbiter ISS, ProjectAlpha_ISS, which I believe to be a "config file-only" kind of vessel (no...

I was looking up ideas for a flying scale model Gemini-Titan, and stumbled across this page online. O*M*G : http://www.cjsaviation.com/shr ... (Either she's got remarkable talent AND good looks, or she's the gf or wife of a lucky scale rocket expert, and well, sex sells...) Lest this thread...

Hi all, Just ran across this article. I did not know this before, but apparently there are NASA guys are working on the Jupiter design in their spare time, and they are working "with the help of retirees and other space enthusiasts." Now who could THEY be? (*ahem* Simcosmos?) Maybe it's the...

Perhaps Orbiter isn't the best way to simulate this, but has anyone made a simulation of a meteor shower? I'd like to see objects of various sizes and various trajectories, to see what they look like hitting the earth's atmosphere. Ranging from the size of sand grains (as in common meteor...

Hi all, I was reading FlyingSinger's blog: http://flyingsinger.blogspot.com/ the other day, and saw his "Why Space?" meta-post from about April 15th. It brought up the long-debated issue of "why spend money on space exploration when there so many social problems to be solved here on earth..."...