I am away this week for my Birthday so I am pre-posting this a few days before the proposed plan to send Artemis 2 on its 4 day trip to the Moon where it will circle it for 2 days and then make the 4 day trip back today.
The delayed mission which will send four astronauts on a 10-day journey around the moon and back is pencilled in for countdown between April 1 and April 6 but NASA have yet to confirm the date as the weather on the day could scupper any plans but NASA have said that today is the preferred date with liftoff scheduled between 22:24 and 00:24
Artemis 2 is a test run for Artemis 3 which will see humans return to the moon and establish a long-term presence there and further afield but that's where it gets messy, and i mean literally messy because at some point building a sustainable human presence in space or other Planets such as Mars will require not just solving engineering problems, but also understanding how reduced gravity will affect sex and reproduction.
As yet, no one has had sex in space (as far as I am aware) but it will have to be considered the actual logistics of performing this docking maneuver in microgravity where weightless objects that come into contact repel one another so i can forsee weights or very strong Velcro but that's for the future scientists and astronauts to worry about.
Hopefully today we will see the first steps to rekindling our Space Exploration story, weather and me being able to find a TV and being sober enough to turn it on at 22:24 tonight permitting.
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one of my bosses, who was on the MIR, shared some information with me about the MIR.
ReplyDeleteit seems that the MIR was engineered for 2 people. so, when there were 3+ on board, the coolest they could get the atmosphere in the MIR was 89F and 99% humidity. My boss said it was miserable and that if they lowered the temp to 88F or cooler everything got wet and that was bad for electronics... so, 89F or hotter was just how it was.
As a result, when they were not on camera , all they wore was a speedo...
Now the interesting part...
uh, there was a french astronaut on the MIR circa 1992, Claudie Haigneré. i saw photos and she was quite attractive.
when off camera, it seems that she dressed like the men. nothing but a speedo. i asked my boss about that. he said, "i really missed my wife on that mission."
he is a man of high moral character. still. an attractive, topless, french, female astronaut might have been a bit too much to deal with...
just saying
it was 1996, and she did "physiology" experiments... which is one way to classify physical activity...
ReplyDeleteThey must have learnt because i was seeing today that the Astronauts were asking Mission Control to turn up the heating as they were uncomfortably cold in the Capsule.
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