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I don't know if the work of Alfonso Cuarón is widely known, he could be seen as just another Hollywood director for his work on a Harry Potter film. But his "Children of Men" is an incredible near-future dystopia with the most dramatic long sequences I've seen since Citizen Kane or Goodfellas...

Coolant? Urine bag? Though thinking about it, 2 litres of urine is quite a lot.

EVA aborted today apparently due to a leak of drinking water in Luca Parmitano's helmet. They returned to the station 1h35m into the EVA and everything's OK. http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-07/breaking-nasa-aborts-spacewalk-due-water-astronauts-helmet?src=SOC&dom=tw UPDATE -...

You're going to learn so much about astrophysics from the genius types here (I'm not one of them, my experience of Caltech is strictly from hanging out with them in the student bars a long time ago) Have fun and make the most of the O-F community.

Welcome young one, hope you enjoy being among the Orbiter Community I feel the force is strong in you (and meson800 too) BTW Caltech is fantastic - apart from the super education there's a fantastic student culture there. Wishing you the best

The US engineers said it wasn't GPS hacking because the drone uses primary INS guidance. They said that a GPS hack would have been overridden by the INS program.

Any idea what went wrong with the CIA's RQ170 in Iran in 2011?

Just did a little checking and of course this is nothing like the first automated landing on an aircraft carrier. This occurred in 1963 on the CV Midway, using a modified F4 Phantom. http://thanlont.blogspot.com.es/2011/07/look-no-hands.html I wonder how much the 1963 system cost in...

Gosh I sure hope they actually know where the terrorist camps are, because occasionally they make mistakes and send the killer robots to blow up a school.

Depends what you mean by wisely.

I, for one, welcome our new robotic overlords

Dan, I'm really sorry to hear about your problems, and that you also feel underappreciated. It's certainly true that we are not as appreciative as we could be, but if there has been a lack of comments expressing gratitude, think of the number of skins and scenarios based around your work. Many...

Glad to hear you're getting better. Get well soon.

Aaaaaah! So that's what that was. Thanks for the tip.

Curse you Matt, beat me to it! :thumbup: RIP Doug Englehardt. Today I fondle your creation with sadness.

Both down for me July 4th 1pm GMT I downloaded loads of stuff from both sites two weeks ago - both fine then for a week with no problems (June 7 - 14)

Background from Phil Plait

If I understand the thread correctly, they've lost 6 Glonass satellites in a year. Does this significantly affect the Glonass system? I read somewhere that it was 100% operational and just as good as GPS. But will it start failing as units go out of action with no replacement? PS Thanks...

That's the way I do it, except I tend to do course corrections and retro burns by eye. I enjoy "seat of your pants" style. All the previous about LaunchMFD giving you a best launch window with minimum Rinc, that's good advice too.

I'm too stupid to understand TransX so I always use IMFD. The rendezvous is very good with this, good enough for me to switch to manual on approach and dock without any other maneuver. So IMFD works fine for me. Can't really compare.