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"Space was our office yesterday. #EVA51," said International Space Station astronaut Ricky Arnold on Friday, the day after his latest spacewalk during which he upgraded cameras on the orbital platform.
Arnold and Station Commander Drew Feustel completed the sixth spacewalk at the station this year, which lasted lasting 6 hours, 49 minutes. The two astronauts installed new high-definition cameras that will provide enhanced views during the final phase of approach and docking of the SpaceX Crew Dragon and Boeing Starliner commercial crew spacecraft that will soon begin launching from American soil.
Image credit: NASA
Force as an illusion
The GRIP, that insidious and all-encompassing force I once believed held me captive, is an illusion. It does not truly hold me; instead, it is a constant, relentless pressure, forcing me to confront and ultimately hold myself. I am both the meticulous builder, painstakingly constructing my reality, and the ruthless destroyer, dismantling it with equal fervour. The internal clamour of doubt, fear, and conflicting desires gradually fades, leaving in its wake a profound, almost sacred silence. And from that silence, a singular, powerful symphony begins to rise, a chorus of both creation and destruction, a testament to the intricate, terrifying, and beautiful balance I now embody.
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The Orchestrated Past
The corridor ruins stretch ahead, lined with ancient statues that resemble a watchful audience. I use the small lens to bring each figure into sharp focus. My ancestors, fertility idols, and, resting in my palm, is a mammoth. Golden light, filtering through cracks in the ceiling, illuminates the dust motes suspended in the air.
The weathered sculptures dictate my mood, a resonant, hallucinatory score. Each one is a surviving moral, and my augmented lens, acting as a conductor's baton, reveals the fine details: fractures, lichen, worn expressions as proof that they have survived erasure.
When I raise the lens, the mammoth in my palm seems to plant itself as a precious stone that will not be cast. My thinking shatters into ancient fragments of trance: ice, myth, and vanished ceremonies. The entire hall seems to hum, as if my shattering vibrates among the figures.
My goal is the glowing light at the corridor's end, and I try not to pause. These statues, once intentionally placed, now stand in a state of abandonment. My fingers flow as if choreographed by a hallucination that lingers in time. The history is carrying me forward through their silent, observant act.
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Says Mr. Robot, and immediately starts to browse through the book. «Look! Under the letter W, there’s a certain Who, Doctor… If he’s a doctor, maybe he can help us!»
(to be continued...)
P.S.: A friend of mine once wrote: «Seriously you could make Mr Robot read a phone book and it would super fun!!!» This is for you, Rob Damiano, thank you so much for your support and for being such a constant inspiration to me!
they're getting close, -- beware !
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In Explore September 22, 2008 #121
Look away
This experience feels like the precise opposite of growth; it is a forced devolution. My accumulated intellectual architecture is being made redundant, supplanted by this instantaneous, unearned 'knowledge.' The deep, satisfying process of intellectual assembly—hypothesis, experimentation, critique, synthesis—is being rendered moot.
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An excellent early morning twilight image showing the International Space Station (thick streak) with the SpaceX Dragon CRS-9 cargo vessel (thin streak) seen chasing it approximately 25 seconds later.
It was acquired on 20 July 2016 at 01:41 GMT (03:41 CEST), just a few hours before the planned berthing at 10:00 GMT (12:00 CEST).
The image was taken by Marco Langbroek from his home in Leiden, the Netherlands. It is a five-second exposure using a Canon EOS 60D + EF 2.0/35 mm lens, 800 ISO.
More details on Dragon berthing and live coverage on 20 July via: NASA.
Credit: M. Langbroek
"A 1969 station concept. The station was to rotate on its central axis to produce artificial gravity. The majority of early space station concepts created artificial gravity one way or another in order to simulate a more natural or familiar environment for the health of the astronauts. After returning from a micro-gravity environment, astronauts find their muscles weak because they have not been using them. Long-term exposure to micro-gravity could generate long-term health problems for astronauts who do not utilize their muscles. This is why there are exercise machines on space shuttles and on the International Space Station. It was to be assembled on-orbit from spent Apollo program stages."
Obviously, the above is a relatively contemporary ‘composition’ and surprisingly okay. I wonder what the original was though. Although this isn’t, some other original printings must’ve been captioned…maybe.
The approaching ferry? capsule looks like an Apollo Command Module with a Mercury Recovery Compartment ‘appendage’. The space station actually appears to have the same spacecraft docked at both ends. In fact, the one on the right looks to be undocked. And I’m guessing the ring of ‘lights’, near the base of each are windows/portholes. If so, they’re good-sized craft.
This has long been an oft-reproduced & iconic rotating space station concept. I’ve always loved it…other than those lame motion/movement lines.
Thanks to James Vaughan’s posting (linked to below), this is a GAEC design/proposal, which helped to confirm that it’s the work of Craig Kavafes. A WIN!!! 👍👍👍
This, the following linked designs & my other linked Flickr photo below - based on the photo identification number - look to have been part of the same family/series of contractor concepts, proposals, etc., solicited/entertained by NASA ca. 1969:
www.aerospaceprojectsreview.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2...
www.aerospaceprojectsreview.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2...
Both above credit: the excellent Aerospace Projects Review website
In fact and in confirmation of such; in January - February 1969, NASA Administrator Thomas O. Paine oversaw the creation of a Space Station Task Force, a Space Station Steering Group, and an independent Space Station Review Group. These bodies prepared a Phase B Space Station Study Statement of Work (SOW), which NASA released to industry on 19 April 1969. So, I'm pretty sure these works are some of the responses/submittals to that SOW.
"The SOW solicited proposals to study a 12-man Space Station, the design of which would eventually serve as a building block for a 100-man Earth-orbital Space Base. The 12-man Station was to reach orbit on a Saturn V rocket in 1975 and to remain in operation for 10 years...
Grumman, North American Rockwell (NAR), and McDonnell Douglas Aerospace Company (MDAC) submitted proposals in response to the SOW."
The above is a combination of paraphrasing & cut/paste from David S. F. Portree's superlative (as always) article at his wonderful "No Shortage of Dreams" blog. The entire informative content at:
spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/2015/03/outpost-in-leo-mc...
An incoming call wakes Benny up just in the middle of the (galactic) night. Still sleeping, he someway makes for the communication screen, wondering who's disturbing now... hopefully not one of those annoying Cassiopeian telephone salesmen!!
A new series of Benny's adventures has just begun...
Since I'm not sure if I'll be able to upload anything in the next few days, I wish now you all (and your families, of course) a very Happy Easter!
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This is my entry to RebelLUG's contest Vignweek2025 Day 2. The prompt was "Monochromatic". This one was built in about 8h. It is inspired from a sci-fi space station concept art that I had save many years ago. It was quite fun to come up with all the greeblings while keeping it relatively clean.
Hope you'll enjoy it!
To find a solution to his food problem, Benny decides to search on the biggest e-commerce site of the Andromeda Galaxy…
If this reminds you of something, you’re right!
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As I wrote at the time, it was a big spoiler… ;-)
Cryo Unit: The Threat of Failure is Terrifying
The 'stop and revive' protocol had been a calculated risk, a desperate measure against the debilitating toll of the journey. We had acquired the cryo unit with the understanding that only one could fit at a time, a solitary refuge against the ravages of deep space. Now, the automated systems inside my metallic glass cocoon diligently delivered the de-radiation, de-adenosine, and prolactin/melatonin boost, a biochemical symphony designed to reset and restore. Yet, a disquieting sense of unease, a low thrum against the rising tide of artificial serenity, persisted.
Outside the reinforced unit, the light swirled, no longer a mere chaotic symphony but an unfolding narrative. Golden filaments, alive with an almost organic glow, intertwined and stretched, promising an impossible beauty. Fading crimson hues bled into this nascent tapestry, hints of an encroaching darkness. It was as if a Pre-Raphaelite dream, all ethereal beauty and romantic ideal, was transfiguring before my eyes into a dystopian reality, a horrifyingly beautiful landscape of cosmic decay. The revival, it seemed, was not to be a gentle awakening into a familiar world, but a re-entry into a realm that defied all logical expectation. My gut, that irrational oracle, tightened. The stop had offered no true reprieve; the revive, no true restoration. Only this terrifying, exquisite transformation.
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'Finally a full service station. A shame I don't have an oil level to check or bugs on my wind screen...'
An amazing role-play SIM with something for everyone. Beloved long-lasting space in my heart for this place, this time this wonderful journey into space of the imagination....yes Savy a wonderful walk down memory lane!
New Triscalia (Planet Tatu)
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Triscalia I
The sun in the Agonian system has gone nova. Forcing the people on Argonia to find a new home.
They did just that. Now settling on the planet Tatu the former Argonians are now Tatuines. As they build and acclamate to a new surrounding, Star Fleet business revs up again. The Academy on Tatu has opened and the space station is fully functional. New adventures await this recoursful lott.
But what awaits them is the question.
The Situation - A Tempest’s Reflection
JB, a spaceship pilot, has been placed into a cryo cocoon to revive and transform his life essence. Inside the cocoon, he experiences his mind as a "relentless tempest of clashing thoughts, swirling and churning, mirroring the furious chaos outside of the machine." JB also sees his older self trapped in the same transitory state.
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Quand quelqu’un ou quelque chose part et emmène un peu de nous avec lui (au sens propre 💧), on immortalise toujours la scène pour s’en rappeler : quelques photos prises lors du départ du #CargoDragon CRS-22 de SpaceX. Pas facile à photographier, la Station n’a aucun hublot qui pointe dans la bonne direction. Le prochain vaisseau qui devrait (si tout se passe selon le plan de vol) s’amarrer à cet endroit, c’est notre propre Crew Dragon. On doit en effet libérer la place de parking de premier choix qu’il occupe actuellement à l’avant de l’ISS pour amarrer les prochains vaisseaux qui arrivent :) Le chassé-croisé des vacances a déjà commencé sur l’ISS 😉
When something or someone leaves for a while, what better than take pictures to remember the moment: here are some shots of SpaceX Cargo Dragon CRS-22 departing yesterday, and taking a part of us with it to Earth (literally ). The scene was difficult to capture as no window was pointing in the right direction! The next vehicle to dock to this docking port should be… our very own Crew Dragon. We are set to relocate and free up the best parking spot on the Space Station for upcoming vehicles, if everything goes well. Lots of traffic these days! blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2021/07/07/dragon-undocking-p...
Credits: ESA/NASA–T. Pesquet
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"What's a Warlord to do if there's no War to be waged? Heh, did you really think they would stop at Mars? Fools, the lot of you... Mars was merely the beginning, and on the first sights of stability, they are already eying other places. Sure, the other Clans aren't showing up, but you know why? They are true Martians, born and raised, they loathe artificial gravity, but then you got the Demons, and that's all you need to spell chaos here. First the gangs getting ballsy and now these guys returning, I just heard they are harboring some guy who escaped from hospital, insane guy, was running and screaming with nothing but a hospital gown on, you wanna tell me that's got nothing to do with the return of these guys? Careful, because that Tea House over there ain't what it seems, you may get more than what you bargained for"
Like most of my shots, spur of the moment kind of thing! New head who dis?
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Before I get you on the way, I need to know where you are from and how you ended up here.
We wanted to see dragons. No idea how we ended up in some freaking metal house with no connection the the ground.
Oh, so you actually got it right. This is The Dragon, a space station in orbit around Sol 3.
The ones you're thinking about are mythical creatures that never existed.
But... but we have seen pictures of them!
Never trust a picture!
Picture Project Day 3750
“Demonstration satellite solar power station – the materials for which would be carried into low earth orbit by Space Shuttle – is 1000 feet square and 25 feet thick. An operational station would be placed in geosynchronous orbit (about 22,000 miles out in space), from where it would beam a continuous stream of microwave energy to earth.”
Above per the Rockwell International lithograph of this gorgeous work, the originator of this proposal.
Beautifully rendered by Ted Brown, at:
www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/rockwell-international-s...
Credit: “SECRET PROJECTS: UNBUILT PROJECTS, MILITARY AND AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGY” website
Additionally, per the excellent Astronautix website:
“Rockwell Station '76
Rockwell Space Station Concept, 1976
American manned space station. Study 1975. North American Rockwell's 'Austere Modular Space Station' was in contrast to more grandiose schemes in the mid-1970's.
Status: Study 1975.
The most important application in those days was constructing large space structures, e.g., extremely large communications satellites, giant 20-kilometer-wide solar power satellites or even giant orbiting space colonies for millions of people. Contemporary space station studies such as Rockwell's and Boeing's were closely tied to this objective. NASA's Outlook for Space report from 1975 recommended a number of possible goals, including development of a 12-man space station in low Earth orbit by 1988 and a similar station in lunar orbit by 1994.
Article by Marcus Lindroos”
At:
www.astronautix.com/a/amss-austerrspacestation.html
www.astronautix.com/graphics/s/ssri76n.jpg
What appears to be the original ‘Austere Modular Space Station’ posting.
I’m sure also by Ted Brown:
www.friends-partners.org/mwade/craft/amsation.htm
An excellent one-two info combo from two disparate sources. Don’cha just love it when a ‘plan’ comes together?
However, while that’s all fine & dandy, what’s truly important, interesting & notable here is:
1.) That it’s by Ted Brown.
2.) That it’s part of an interwoven evolution, sequence & stream of variants and derivatives of similar & related works by Mr. Brown. I don’t recall identifying/recognizing anything like this pertaining to other artist’s works.
3.) Furthermore, within the following wonderful tribute video by Mr. Brown’s amazing & gracious daughter, Angela Carole Brown:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-w4MHqTx5A
Commencing at the 2:54 mark, an extremely similar variant is shown.
And then, at the 3:24 mark, the close-up of Mr. Brown and an assistant would appear to be of them working on the details of the Manned Remote Workstation (that possibly being Grumman proprietary terminology) depicted in his 1980 “Space Products” mural, to which I’ve provided multiple links in the “Comment” section below.
Fascinating, at least to me.
Finally:
dh.howard.edu/newdirections/vol11/iss4/
Credit: Howard University website
Vast unending loneliness
The anomaly's shifting, hallucinatory colours are no longer confined to the viewport; they seep into the dialogue itself. A logical assessment of the capsule’s trajectory begins—Vector calculation indicates…—but a deep, resonant purple, a feeling of vast, unending loneliness swallows this thought. I attempt to regain control. Focus, stay calm. This command, my own mental voice, should be a sharp, definitive anchor. Instead, the words dissolve into a blinding wash of orange, a raw, non-verbal wave of pure, unanalysable urgency that screams move without direction or reason.
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An early morning Jupiter imaging session was well timed today, and managed to also catch the ISS almost crashing my CCD imaging (I will check back to see if it actually did)
A stunning morning after days and days of terrible weather.. So I figured I should make the most of it!
6 x 30sec shots layered in Photoshop :)
The Anomaly is suffocating and liberating
I can't escape the sense that this struggle isn't just mine, but a shared human experience, reflected in our collective consciousness. I'm not alone in this, and yet, this grip feels isolating. The outside world fades, leaving only this moment, a confrontation with my own shadows. In this space, I realise my mind is its own anomaly, a labyrinth of fears and hopes, grips and releases, an exploration that feels both suffocating and liberating.
Something else was forming within me, a shimmering, indistinct form, a powerful, almost terrifying presence that seemed to pulse with an ancient light. It felt like a beautiful angel, yes, but not one of comfort. This was an angel of confrontation, its wings beating silently within the confines of my skull, stirring up a storm of everything I’d carefully suppressed. My mind, usually a fortress of nothingness, had become a battleground, a bewildering labyrinth where every thought led to another unsettling truth about myself.
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Wow, blink and you will definitely miss it!!
After a day of rain, thunder and fog, the weather cleared late in the evening and presented a near perfect opportunity to capture a close flyby of the ISS crossing in shadow over Brisbane and silhouetted as it crossed the July Moon.
Transit time less than half a second!!
International Space Station
7 July 2017 - 23h01m08.93s.
Crosses the disk of the waxing gibbous Moon (97.4%)
Mount Nebo, Queensland, Australia
Transit duration: 0.49s (in shadow of Earth)
Visibility Path Width: 5.5km
Diameter of ISS: Angular size: 65.9″
Size=109.0m x 73.0m x 27.5m
Satellite at Azimuth=321.2° NW Altitude=79.7°
Distance=419.7km Angular Velocity=60.4'/s
Ground Speed=7.411km/s (27,600 km/h)
'Admit it, you have no idea what we are building here!'
'Not sure, we are not building according to the original plans...'
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Set 60227, the space-station set, came with a central hub for connecting space station modules that I both liked and did not like. It makes great use of the connector panels, but it has only connectors at 4 sides.
I prefer connectors on all 6 sides. Granted, less sturdy and a bit more fiddly, but I think I will be able to get a space station that can grow in all directions. And I wanted more than one hub...
The hard part with alterations like this is that I keep getting new ideas after ordering parts. I ordered extra connector panels and installed them on the top and bottom plate. Only after building that I realised I could actually build them open on all sides too. Back to bricklink... And I wanted perhaps a few more solar panels as my station was getting a bit bigger... Third round bricklink... This is taking forever!
There are some more alterations of the space station set in the works, and my little peeps are working hard at it, even if they are not sure where it's going...
"Let's have a look at your communication system, Benny. I bet it's the damn transducer. We had problems with the '78 DMG transducers everywhere recently." says Kelly. She's so professional when she's at work. Benny is speechless! He has never met a scientist like her...
(The light comes from a Brickstuff Pico LED I managed to put between a round tile and a lightsaber hilt, to simulate a flashlight. Then I erased the wires in Photoshop.)
'It's getting quiet out there...Do you think BuildingBot is done?'
'I don't know, but the status panel suggest we have several pressurised area's we did not have before...'
'Best we both suit up before opening any hatches...
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Urged by a message from diwong I decided to get a picture from my space station 'as is'. Over the last few weeks, it had been changing almost daily because I gave myself too many options.
Starting with the space station from set 60227, I added a second node for connection modules, and modified both nodes to accept modules on 49699 panels in all directions.
These are the 3 modules from set 60227, and a capsule pinched from set 60350 (front node, downward).
I bricklinked a few more solar panels to keep the space station in power and added them to a new boom. The boom with solar panels can also be connected to any 49699 panel...