Record-Setting Astronaut Retires from NASA (space.com) 40
Record-setting NASA astronaut Scott Kelly retired from NASA on Friday, after spending more than 520 days in outer space, spread across four space missions -- two space shuttle flights and two recent missions on the orbiting International Space Station. The 52-year-old astronaut's last visit to the space station lasted more than a year, "a profound challenge for all involved," Kelly says, "and it gave me a unique perspective and a lot of time to reflect on what my next step should be on our continued journey to help further our capabilities in space and on Earth." Kelly's time in space started with a 1999 mission on the space shuttle to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, and he's since spent more time in space than any other American. According to Space.com, NASA and Kelly have both said that his long-duration visits are the first baby steps towards a manned missions to Mars.
There are bigger problems than that here. (Score:1, Insightful)
The lack of Unicode support is a good thing. Look at other sites that support Unicode. All it means is spam in Chinese and Russian, plus a bunch of stupid Japanese-style kaomoji and emoji. Slashdot doesn't need stupidity like that. Anything worth expressing here can be done using the ISO-8859-1 characters.
There are much bigger problems to deal with first. One is how Slashdot still makes causes HTTP requests to be made to "Taboola" and "ScoreCoard Research" and "Janrain" and "ntv.io". I don't know what any o
340 days is not more than a year (Score:3, Informative)
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Exactly. I was going to post on this, you just beat me to it. No wonder Mars missions fail. Jeez, I'd hate to have these guys do my taxes or something really important!
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I just hope their PR people aren't helping design the crewed spacecraft they're never going to build again.
A joke? (Score:2)
April 1, 2016 07:20pm ET. :/
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http://www.nasa.gov/content/on... [nasa.gov]
Why do you think they were talking about earth years? :)
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It's bad enough that NASA keeps calling it one year in space (see second article in the summary).
Meh (Score:5, Informative)
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Nice try America
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Not only that, but Kelly's last two space flights were only possible because Russia took him to the ISS. The US has no more ability to launch humans into space, so if it wants astronauts, it must beg Russia and/or China for a ride.
Nonsense. There is no need to beg taxi drivers.
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Good astronauts never die, they just go DNIF.
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While the article asserts "The 52-year-old astronaut's last visit to the space station lasted more than a year, " in fact, it was more than three weeks shy. The NASA International Space Station Mission Summary at https://www.nasa.gov/content/o... [nasa.gov] shows launch on 27 March 2015 and landing on 1 March 2016, 340 days.
WhenI saw that headline my first thought was that the "editor" deliberately said "lasted more than a year" in order to intentionally rile up the locals and generate more interest in the story. IE Making it more "click bait-y" without looking like you are making it "click bait-y".
So we can put a man in space... (Score:1)
across four space missions â"
...but we can't get Unicode support working on Slashdot.
Thank you for your service, Astronaut!! (Score:2)
He is respectful of the Russians he has trained and served with, and the lesson of the dissolution of tribal prejudices could be more important than any scientific discovery made during his time in space.
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He is respectful of the Russians he has trained and served with, and the lesson of the dissolution of tribal prejudices could be more important than any scientific discovery made during his time in space.
That's commie-talk, son!
Is he going to campaign for Hillery (Score:1)
with his twin brother Mark (also retired astronaut) and Mark's wife Gabby Gifford
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...He the hell did this guy break any records himself? It could have just as well been a monkey up there.
Just like the moon landings. Been there, done that.
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...I heard a dog took a crap in Houston the other day. Why isn't that on slashdot?
If the dog had crapped in outer space for almost more than a year, it would have been.