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1:18 AM

NASASpaceFlight.com: Soyuz MS-06 returning three ISS crew members to Earth

posted on February 27, 2018 by Chris Bergin

Expedition 54 Flight Engineers Mark Vande Hei and Joe Acaba of NASA and Commander Alexander…

geoffc

1:29 AM

Launches on the same day from Florida were somewhat common in the 1960s, and the last time two orbital flights lifted off from Cape Canaveral within a 24-hour span was in April 1978, when an Atlas-Agena D rocket launched with the Aquacade 4 military signals intelligence satellite, followed around 21 hours later by the takeoff of a Delta 2914 booster with the Japanese BSE, or Yuri 1, communications craft, according to a mission log maintained by Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who tracks global space activity.

PearsonArtPhoto

2:01 AM

Interesting.

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uhoh

8:25 AM

@geoffc "18 hour separation between Falcon 9 and Atlas V is possible thanks to AFTS,." Does this mean that if you pay for your launch with Automatic Funds Transfer Service they will do range-turnaround sooner? ;-)

Q: Why would autonomous auto-destruct ramp up launch tempo?

This thorough answer by @Hobbes links to the item Auto-destruct system seen as a key to ramping up launch tempos. I'd like to understand Why would autonomous auto-destruct ramp up launch tempo? I have tried to read through it, and I think the answer is in here, but I'm not familliar with even t...

Q: Has "Auto-Destruct" really ramped up launch tempo?

The excellent answer to the question Why would autonomous auto-destruct ramp up launch tempo? explains how it significantly reduces the extent of certain activities and responsibilities. In short: It turns out, that ground-based system was really manpower-intensive: But has this potential b...

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My all-time favorite image du jour, from space.stackexchange.com/a/8770/12102

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PearsonArtPhoto

1:11 PM

Someone wants to license the software from my site for an exhibition in Germany.

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XKCD

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Feeds

5:06 PM

Evaluating Options for Amazon’s HQ2 Using Stack Overflow Data

Julia Silge on February 28, 2018

Amazon is a technology behemoth, employing half a million people globally and hiring nearly 130,000 people in 2017. Amazon has been headquartered in Seattle since its early days in the 1990s, but in September 2017, the company announced a search for a secondary headquarters elsewhere in North America. Over 200 cities entered bids to be considered, and last month, Amazon announced a list of 20 finalists. What goes into this kind of choice? Amazon says it wants a city with more than one million residents, access to an airport, and decent commutes. Here at Stack Overflow, we can offer a different view on the question. …

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PearsonArtPhoto

8:07 PM

/r/space never did get back to me if they would allow me to do an AMA there...

PearsonArtPhoto

8:35 PM

I am going to do an AMA on Reddit at 4:30 EST at reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/80zbrm/…

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