/sci/ - Science & Math

>>12524422
They were expecting to boost it with Shittle, but took too long to get that up, and a solar flare also made Skylab deorbit sooner than was expected.

>>11216527
Or maybe if it was a big enough steak, or a whole side of beef?

>>10848079
In free-fall you can go for ~5 days without pooping. One of the Apollo astronauts actually went the entire ride without pooping, and he really had to go bad by the time he was on the recovery ship. For the ride to ISS and back it's probably not as important for #2, but it should get a lot of use for #1.
>>10848082
Yeah, just think... if Skylab had engines and fuel for orbital insertion AND landing. At least it wouldn't have fallen on Australia.

reminder that Tiangong 2 space station is going to fall back to Earth TODAY!
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2210536-chinese-space-station-tiangong-2-is-about-to-fall-from-space/

40 years ago

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>>10617578
The rockets point the wrong way and have to turn around to go up.

>>10617583
And the horror of the Skylab incident. Nevar forget.

>>9638983
>>The chinese space agency said said "devices" were destroyed
>What?
Probably translation error crap.

>>This is b.s. - when it really lands, theres an egg hunt to grab it
>Why? There's nothing valuable there.
Anything that falls from space is valuable just for collectible value. Collecting meteors is a big business. You can say that you have something FROM SPACE and it survived re-entry!

>>9493233
F

;_;

>>8792012
Not economical, might as well just go home and go to sleep.

>new captcha
>select hamsters
>two hamsters, a guinea pig, and a squirrel