I’m a career space guy and I’m always encouraged to see nations and private citizens advancing space exploration, but sometimes technology doesn’t cooperate, so you have to be ready with a Plan B. Or at least the Chinese think so. They probably just launched three astronauts.
With a burst of flame and smoke, a Chinese rocket blasted off into orbit yesterday. But it was the state news agency that moved faster than the speed of light, publishing the transcript of an “in-space” conversation between the astronauts before they had even left Earth.
The Xinhua news agency posted an article on its website breathlessly describing the Shenzhou VII spacecraft in orbit and quoting exchanges between the crew, possibly during the most important part of the mission: China’s first spacewalk. The only problem was that the crew were still on terra firma.
The story had disappeared by the end of the day and its appearance was described as a technical error.
Gotta love those ‘technical errors’. Somebody just earned themselves a 9mm aneurysm and an early retirement.
(ORA: Capricorn One)
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As a long-time space geek, I have always been amazed by the beauty and majesty of the heavens. The Hubble Space Telescope and other space media sources pour forth incredible image after incredible image. But that’s not the only thing that pours forth. Psalm 19 says this:
“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they display knowledge. There is no speech or language where their voice is not heard. Their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens he has pitched a tent for the sun.” ( Psalm 19:1-4a, NIV )
Everything that is seen and unseen reveals the hand of God. All you have to do is look up. Then again, even if you want to put your head in the sand, you’ll find Him there, too.
With that in mind, I’ve added a page dedicated to the hand of God as revealed in space imagery.
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There’s a great series of images at PicDit showing shuttle processing, from arrival and integration of major components to transportation to the launch site to the launch itself.
Here’s a bit of trivia: the transporter/crawler that delivers the shuttle to the pad travels the 3.5 mile distance in a little over 8 hours. I think I was driving behind it on Academy Boulevard today. It had its blinker on the whole way.
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