What "weed need" is a space mission!

[xilman]

Flying on Titan

[only_human]

Busy times at the ISS
h/t Friends of Nasa

Russian Cargo Ship Launches to International Space Station
July 16, 2016: At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the unpiloted ISS Progress 64 cargo ship launched at 5:41 p.m. Eastern time July 16 (3:41 a.m. Baikonur time on July 17), carrying three tons of food, fuel and supplies for the residents of the International Space Station. Less than nine minutes after launch, the Progress arrived in its preliminary orbit to begin a two-day journey to the station, where it will automatically dock to the Pirs Docking Compartment on the Earth-facing side of the Russian segment of the outpost July 18, U.S. time. The new Progress will remain docked to the station until mid-January 2017.

YouTube link: https://youtu.be/NDtbfCt2Gcw

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The Elon Musk Fan Club - Public 46m ago
Elon Musk Retweeted
SpaceX ‏@SpaceX

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/754474468123156480

[only_human]

Apollo 11 Guidance Computer (AGC):
The code that took America to the moon was just published to GitHub, and it’s like a 1960s time capsule

And in the PINBALL_GAME_BUTTONS_AND_LIGHTS.s file, which is described as “the keyboard and display system program … exchanged between the AGC and the computer operator,” there’s a peculiar Shakespeare quote:

# THE FOLLOWING QUOTATION IS PROVIDED COURTESY OF THE AUTHORS
#
# "IT WILL BE PROVED TO THY FACE THAT THOU HAST MEN ABOUT THEE THAT
# USUALLY TALK OF A NOUN AND A VERB, AND SUCH ABOMINABLE AS
# NO CHRISTIAN EAR CAN ENDURE TO HEAR."
#                                                                                                  HENRY 6, ACT 2, SCENE 4

This is likely a reference to the AGC programming language itself, as one Reddit user pointed out. The language used predetermined “nouns” and “verbs” to execute operations. The verb 37, for example, means “Run program,” while the noun 33 means “Time to ignition.”

[jasong]

Have any of you ever wondered if Elon Musk smells good?

And do I ever have the urge to attack Sonny's singing partner? ;) :)

[only_human]

Just under an hour until SpaceX launch.

NASA TV is streaming now:
http://www.ustream.tv/nasahdtv

YouTube will be streaming about 20 minutes before launch
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ThIdCuSsJh8

[chalsall]

SpaceX to attempt another launch (and landing) in about an hours time!

I'll be staying up to watch in bed (with ear-phones; my SO doesn't seem to find such things nearly as interesting as I do...).

[Mark Rose]

Touchdown!!

[Uncwilly]

Did you catch the full launch location?

[firejuggler]

In only_human video, landing start @ around 24:30 . It is anoter success for SpaceX and Elon Musk.

[chalsall]

It must be pretty cool to budget USD $300,000,000....

[Xyzzy]

http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/...-counterparts/