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Get nervous in 10 days, they won't need a heat shield until reentry.
by dguest 6mo ago
Get nervous in 10 days, they won't need a heat shield until reentry.
- ge96 6mo ago10 days? Hope they brought snacks Seriously though I hope they're able to get up and walk around I don't know if I could handle that 10 days in that small room
- vibe42 6mo agoThey can move around after they switch from launch to spaceflight config. Apparently they also have some exercise gear for the journey.
- ge96 6mo agoIt is just the capsule though? There's no stage under them/another cylinder? Module Trying to imagine how big the thing is like 10x10 feet room
- NetMageSCW 6mo agoJust the capsule - there is a module but it can’t be reached and is for more engines that they will leave behind.
- NetMageSCW 6mo agoABC News says 330 habitable cubic feet or about the interior space of two minivans.
- JumpCrisscross 6mo ago> ABC News says 330 habitable cubic feet or about the interior space of two minivans I did lockdown in a ~450 sq. ft. Habitable under 400. Partner. Cat. Me. The astronauts will be fine.
- ls65536 6mo ago~450 square feet, with how many feet in the third dimension? You probably had an order of magnitude more volume than 330 cubic feet there.
- JumpCrisscross 6mo ago> You probably had an order of magnitude more volume than 330 cubic feet there I’m 6’, so that’s the usable volume. (I’m not claustrophobic heighwise.) I honestly don’t see an issue spending a couple days with folks I respect and admire in close quarters for ten days.
- fgfarben 6mo agoYou don't get it. Your 400sqft apartment needs to be shrunk by a factor of 6 to have the same area as the Orion. Try living in an 8x8 foot square for a couple weeks.
- JumpCrisscross 6mo ago> You don't get it Have you ever been on a boat?
- ge96 6mo agoThe boat you can step outside of, have a sky
- JumpCrisscross 6mo ago> boat you can step outside of, have a sky Not in a storm you can't! Granted I didn't do ten days. But I was with two other people for close to a week and it was...fine. We're old friends. There were moments it got annoying. But it was never boring or restrictive. We just played games, drank, looked out of the portholes, cursed hangovers and talked the one person who occasionally wanted to call it.
- TobTobXX 6mo ago330 cubic feet =~ 9.3m²
- jerjerjer 6mo agoA cube with an edge of 2.1 meters.
- robotnikman 6mo agoSeems like its at least bigger than the Apollo Lunar Module from the 70's And with modern forms of entertainment to make the trip less boring.
- PaulDavisThe1st 6mo ago> And with modern forms of entertainment "We're sorry, your Prime subscription appears to have cancelled. Would you like to renew it? We can send you a text message to get this started ..."
- XorNot 6mo agoI wonder if Starlink works if the dish is above the satellites. Technically GPS can work from the moon.
- pitched 6mo agoStarlink uses phased arrays pointed at the ground but lasers between satellites. So it wouldn’t be impossible to spin one around and have it bounce traffic to earth through the swarm pointing down. But these satellites are very close to earth compared to the moon. It wouldn’t only save 0.3% transmit power vs just sending right to the surface. It’s very unlikely the consumer antennas could manage hitting an earth satellite from the moon.
- krallja 6mo ago> Technically GPS can work from the moon. Well, one side of it.
- dotancohen 6mo agoActually, it's all dark.
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- physicles 6mo agoAstronauts are made of different stuff. Truly the best of the best.
- smnplk 6mo agoI hope they will be able to stretch their legs on the moon.
- krapp 6mo ago... it's an orbital mission. They're orbiting the moon, not landing.
- d0gsg0w00f 6mo agoThey're not getting off at the moon, it's just a fly by.
- MarsIronPI 6mo agoI've heard it feels a lot bigger once you're in freefall. Imagine if you could use all of your room's surfaces as floor space. I would think your room would feel a lot bigger.
- the_af 6mo agoForget about the snacks, I wonder about the toilet in 10 days in such cramped living conditions.
- pseudohadamard 6mo agoToilet fan has already jammed. Not sure if this means the shit has, or hasn't, hit the fan.
- Tempest1981 6mo agoThey fixed it, fortunately: https://www.space.com/space-exploration/artemis/theres-a-bit-of-toilet-trouble-on-nasas-artemis-2-mission-to-the-moon https://www.space.com/space-exploration/artemis/theres-a-bit...