Stephen Smith 🇺🇦
I am a long-time advocate of space exploration, settlement and commerce. Migrated from @WordsmithFL on Twitter.
Joined Nov 2022
It's gettin' real stormy ... From #CNN ... The defense lawyer didn't say "alleged" sex acts:
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#Trump attorney Susan Necheles is renewing the defense team's objection to Stormy Daniels testifying.
"We want to renew our objection to her testifying, particularly about any details of any sexual acts," she says ...
"The details of the accounts are important," prosecutor Susan Hoffinger argues, adding the team Is being careful to omit some details that are "too salacious."
@TheresaVermont There are two major providers here, Steward and Health First. The latter has broken ground on a major medical village complex. Steward can't pay their bills.
My GP is retiring this year, so maybe I'll just switch over to Health First. My cardiologist has already bailed on Steward to set up his own independent practice.
Steward is kinda like our local version of St. Elsewhere. Great doctors, decrepit buildings, no money.
@VictoriaLandis1 I used to have a USAF friend who was based at Pope AFB outside Fayetteville, so I've been around NC a few times.
@VictoriaLandis1 Oh well, Florida is now even less classier than I thought we were.
NC is a beautiful state. I'm not sure the politics are any better.
I have friends in Statesville, if you're anywere around there.
From #NASA Goddard ... What happens when you fall into a black hole.
(Spoilers ... It's like signing up for a mortgage but with better terms.)
Always a good start to the day when you find out your health provider just declared bankruptcy.
You might think that Shuttle (in that video) or any other crewed vehicle is going to try to catch up to #ISS, but that's not quite how it works.
ISS-bound vehicles typically launch to an altitude slightly higher than the station's orbit, then begin a dance slowly falling back to Earth to intercept the ISS orbit. It's easier than trying to chase the station.
Orbital mechanics can be mind-bending.
Warning, boring orbital mechanics screed ...
#ISS orbits Earth at 51° to the equator so it can pass over both #KSC and Baikonur.
If you attend a night launch, you'll see ISS pass over KSC just before so the crew vehicle is on the same trajectory.
ISS orbits Earth once every 90 minutes, 18 times a day. But Earth is rotating too, so the upshot is that ISS passes over KSC about once a day minus 22-23 minutes.
You can see ISS pass over KSC in this video at the 5:20 mark.
From #NASA: Now targeting no earlier than (NET) Friday May 10 for another #Boeing #Starliner Crewed Test Flight.
No time given in the blog post. For #ISS flights, they move up roughly 23 minutes each day due to orbital mechanics, so if last night was targeting 10:34 PM EDT, figure Friday will be around 9:00 PM EDT (a more civil hour).
#NASA and #Boeing have scrubbed tonight's #Starliner launch due to a problem with an oxygen relief valve on the second stage.
@MrGoat All test flights have gotchyas. Hopefully this one's gotchyas are minor.
If anything, I'm worried about landing. Parachutes are finicky, but Boeing is landing on land somewhere around White Sands NM. A big airbag has to deploy the cushion the landing. It's been tested umpteen times but one never knows.
@MrGoat There have already been two uncrewed test flights. The first one went poorly, so NASA made them do a second one which went better.
@MrGoat Ah, okay.
Both Boeing and SpaceX had NASA astronauts assigned to vehicle design. Boeing used crap components, unfortunately. But the two astros flying tonight were the ones who designed it in partnership with Boeing, and NASA has been all over this vehicle, so I'm confident it should go fairly well.
@Tacitus_Kilgore Elon has said for years that he wants to die on Mars, "just not on impact." Be patient and you may get your wish.
@MrGoat Not sure I understand your question. How many doors on the spacecraft? There's one hatch for crew egress on the side, but there's another hatch on the top for docking with the space station.
@th3j35t3r Just watched the convoy drive from Crew Quarters to LC-41. I've driven that road many times but never part of the convoy. We saw them rehearsing once in a while.
@MLClark Six months. How condescending.
Thanks, @th3j35t3r, for boosting the link.
@peterquirk The problem is easily solved. The Republicans don't want to solve it because they want to kill #SocialSecurity and #Medicare.
Stephen Smith 🇺🇦
I am a long-time advocate of space exploration, settlement and commerce. Migrated from @WordsmithFL on Twitter.
Joined Nov 2022