A Russian Soyuz TM-32 rocket was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazahkstan at 3:37 a.m. EDT (0737 GMT) carrying American tourist Dennis Tito, along with cosmonauts Talgat Musabayev and Yuri Baturin, on a mission to the ISS. Russian Mission Control has confirmed that the spacecraft reached orbit and all systems are functioning normally.
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I had scheduled two of my own launches for 6:30 AM from my launch site on Navarre Beach. (Those of you who don't know, i'm into model rocketry in a esoteric way) Thanks to, I guess inept reporting from Weather.com, I had to scrub my launches AGAIN due to high winds at the launch site. Somebody remind me again why I got back into model rocketry, please...
*SIGH!* (Deeply discouraged)
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Didn't know that. A gay minature-rocket maker that likes sci-fi *shudder*
Sorry, joking
Good luck with the rockets - are they in any way "guided" or are you just testing for altitude and flight stability?
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But seriously. I'm testing right now for flight stability and altitude. Right now, my launchers carry a dummy payload in the payload canister. Next year or whenever the hell flight testing gets done, they'll carry real payloads.
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I've always wondered what people get out of model rockets. They fly up. Then what? Does the nosecone eject? Does the rocket explode beautifully? Does it record telemetry?
Now, if someone were to fire a rocket and then land it with small thrusters � la TinTin, like in "Lunar Lander", that would be impressive.
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Well, I dunno about others but for me it's a extension of my space activism. I have a fleet of payload carrying rockets that can launch a payload about 2500 feet into the air. Some of the payloads I fly can do a varity of experiments from air sampling to photo taking to communications stuff.
For others, it's just the thrill of building big rockets, just seeing how high and far they can go and so forth. But for me, it's a lot deeper than that.
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Like we don't all know you're practicing to build your own nuclear ICBMs... :-)
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Quatre's bumpersticker; "You can take my Stinger...from my dead cold hand!"
Now, photos, that sounds sweet. Being able to take your own photos in the sky is cool. Maybe blind an unsuspecting gull or two, cook the gull, make hats out of gull, wear a full gull-suit whilst igniting the next rocket. Mmmm... Oh, sorry, I seem to be woolgathering.
Do you upload the photos on computer or is it standard film?
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I thought the Honest John was a battlefield tactical missile? 0_0
------------------ At that point, McDonald fired his gun three times in the air to emphasize his point. The crowd, estimated at 350,000, loudly cheered the new candidate.
"Let me make this clear: I am the law! I am your ruler! And you will have fries with that, motherf*cker!"
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TIN-TIN! God, I haven't read any of those cartoons in years ...
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Nimrod: Actually, my bumpersticker says "My other car is a GUNDAM!" *L*
As for photos, they're regular film which I have to take to a photolab to be developed. Once that's done, I take em' home, scan em' and then put them on line or send to friends.
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And what does your license place say? SNDROC? Seriously, do you really have that bumper sticker? *L* I love it!
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