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sifuyee t1_j610i4u wrote

Reply to comment by oalfonso in How come space probes generally take photos of moons or asteroids from several hundred (or thousands) of kilometers away from the object they orbit? by Different_Muscle_116

Mike Malin had proposed the Junocam instrument and been rejected. He will point out that JPL-run missions have a much higher than statistically expected predominance of JPL-developed payloads. However, Mike managed to convince enough folks to eventually get HQ to add Junocam to the payload suite anyway, partly by arguing that it would be a very effective way to engage the public in the mission.

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klystron t1_j60xkot wrote

Reply to comment by psychothumbs in Asteroid-Mining Startup Plans First Private Mission to Deep Space by psychothumbs

We live in a world that is increasingly dominated by science and technology, but journalists seem to think it is beneath them to learn anything concerning the subjects they are writing about.

I did some web searching on the author of this article, George Dvorsky, and couldn't find any scientific qualifications other than "bioethicist".

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Dont____Panic t1_j60wuyy wrote

Reply to comment by Merky600 in In 1971, three cosmonauts Dobrovolski, Volkov, and Patsayev passed away due to a valve malfunction in the Soyuz 11 capsule. They remain the only people who have passed away above the Kármán Line - the defining line of space. by sciencekenyon

Another cosmonaut tried to close the valve on a different capsule later and said it took him 53 seconds.

The crew probably had less than 15 seconds of useful consciousness.

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Dont____Panic t1_j60uzcx wrote

Reply to comment by akriti12_ in In 1971, three cosmonauts Dobrovolski, Volkov, and Patsayev passed away due to a valve malfunction in the Soyuz 11 capsule. They remain the only people who have passed away above the Kármán Line - the defining line of space. by sciencekenyon

One of them had a heart monitor on him.

The estimate was they had 13 seconds of useful consciousness and were dead within a minute.

Their bodies landed in the USSR 21 minutes later.

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windysideofcare t1_j60txcf wrote

Reply to Netflix Special Challenger The Final Flight - curious omission. by GhostRiders

I remember that day so vividly. I came home from school and my mom told me what had happened and I looked down into the basement and saw it replaying over and over again on the TV. We had just returned the day before from a trip to Orlando and Kennedy space Center and we were standing outside waiting to watch the shuttle take off on one of its delayed days. We had met some astronauts at Kennedy space Center and I didn't realize being a young kid that the man that I had met and gotten an autograph of was a different astronaut and not one that was on the Challenger. But that definitely was a wake-up call for me and changed my childhood to one that was not quite so innocent. God rest all their souls.

As for your post I wonder why they left him out? That is so bizarre.

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klystron t1_j60tmyp wrote

Reply to Asteroid-Mining Startup Plans First Private Mission to Deep Space by psychothumbs

>Space is the place, as Sun Ra famously said, and it most certainly has plenty to offer, including rare-earth metals like platinum, gold, iridium, palladium, and osmium, among other minerals.

According to the Wikipedia article on rare-earth elements, and this article in Tech Metals Research, none of those metals are rare-earth elements.

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