Brutal picture quality

hoarp001 said:
Slightly concerned that this guy dosnt appear to be attached to the space craft, other than holding onto something...

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if you look, you can barely see the line in the bottom of the pic.
 
NASA had a whole bunch of Nikon D2Xs modified for use in space, I believe all of these pictures were taken with them - zero atmospheric distortion helps makes the shots uber-sharp.
 
Oh well, couldn't find them.

If I had the actual file names of the photo's or the original NASA link he got them from, I could do a search for them through the image banks, and find out nearly everything about them and the settings used. Right now, I don't know if the images are taken from the HD cameras on Dextre, the Canada arm, or from an astronaut holding a specialized HD camera (could be all three, and another couple of options as well).

Off-the-shelf cameras used while doing EVA are difficult for the astronauts to handle and use, because they have a hard time operating tiny buttons with their gloves (and of course, they can't feel them), and they can't effectively look through a camera's eye-piece - plus, the HD sensors degrade badly unless it's shielded to prevent it - and the LCD display has to have some engineering done to it as well when in adverse temperatures. So, I'm assuming its a mounted HD camera either on one of the station components or the robot arms, since these don't look like pictures taken through a shuttle or station window.

I just don't know which one.

Does your friend have a link to where he/she got them from?
 
Man, talk about acrophobia: I'm getting dizzy looking at these pics and I'm not even at ground level....I'm in a basement!
 
Batutta said:
Postmaster said:
Conspiracy mode on:

...and for that favour he has to shoot the fake moon landing.

Conspiracy mode off.
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FrankExcept Barry Lyndon was made in 1974.
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They obviously shot the fakery in 1974, then used salvaged Roswell alien flying-saucer technology to time-travel back to 1969 and release it then.
Anhar Miah said:
Your Local Swimming pool should suffice to emulate an approximate feeling of weightless-ness.
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Free-fall, actually, for which skydiving is much better. Although you don't get the effect for as long.
 
Sad Max said:
Free-fall, actually, for which skydiving is much better. Although you don't get the effect for as long.
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eh there's too much wind force and control. being in a pool is much closer I would imagine. considering they do training in a pool and not in a vertical wind tunnel I would imagine NASA agrees.
 
jdajda said:
eh there's too much wind force and control.
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I find that -aside from the noise - I don't notice wind, so much. After a few jumps the air-force became less noticeable to me, than the water when I'm in a pool. It just becomes the medium in which you're at.

YMMV.

jdajda said:
being in a pool is much closer I would imagine.
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Not in my experience. Which is only my experience.


jdajda said:
considering they do training in a pool and not in a vertical wind tunnel I would imagine NASA agrees.
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NASA needs to be able to train people for more than about a minutes' maximum, at a time.

Not to mention the undoubted horror, of skydiving wrapped up in the bulk of a space suit...
 
Sad Max said:
I find that -aside from the noise - I don't notice wind, so much. After a few jumps the air-force became less noticeable to me, than the water when I'm in a pool. It just becomes the medium in which you're at.

YMMV.


Not in my experience. Which is only my experience.


NASA needs to be able to train people for more than about a minutes' maximum, at a time.

Not to mention the undoubted horror, of skydiving wrapped up in the bulk of a space suit...
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Well then our mileage varies. In my last 224 jumps I was anything but floating and working my body the entire time to maneuver as I wanted. None of which would work in space.

As for training you can be in the tunnel as long as you please without any lines to tangle. The space suit would be interesting, but I'm sure NASA could figure out a way around the aerodynamic and durability of it.

I'm cool with agreeing to disagree. Neither of us has been in space so its hard to say. If you end up in space let me know, and if I end up in space, I'll let you know :)

Where/when did you jump? (Not questioning, just curious as I've got a few friends that jumped in the air force way back when)
 
We're strictly sport parachutists (Class A).

We started jumping at California City, while we were dating in the 90s. You meet a lot of military/ex-military people, there - seems almost every ride up, someone pulls out their coin, and suddenly half the divers are rummaging in their pockets...

Hopefully spacewalks-for-consumers will be reality, before we're too old and decrepit to take advantage. No way I'm joining the astronaut program, at this point.
 
Haha I love watching when the coin comes out! Always somebody that cant seem to find theirs... Our videographer even went to the trouble of getting a little extra pocket sewn in to all of his jumpsuits so he always has one on him. We're just a baby DZ with a 182 so theres not alot of coin pulling out (or moving at all) on the climb up. Just checked out the California City site, looks like a cool dropzone. I had heard of it, but didnt realize it was so big. Twin Otter and a 206 isnt bad at all. My only jumping outisde of Skiatook has been at Perris a few years ago. Talk about two extremes... Need to get back out there. Need to be jumping more in general... So are you currently jumping?
 
Ugh...I've done free-fall out of 172s/182s. Just awful. What feels like hours just to labor our way to 12-15,000 AGL, jammed into a totally stripped-for-weight aircraft (yes, I *know* it's held together with pop rivets; I just don't want to be able to count them on the ride up) followed by a nasty forward roll to exit.

Gimme a Twin Otter or a Super Connie, any day of the week. Preferably a Twin Otter; I don't really enjoy that swatted-shuttlecock feeling you get on high-speed exits...

A couple years ago I was on a show called "E-Ring," with an exec prod who was (or claimed to be) a retired Special Forces operator. His first gift to everyone on the crew was a coin with the show logo and motto on it...I haven't yet worked up the guts to lay that one down on a real soldier...

We haven't jumped in a while; long enough, in fact, that I am pretty sure we'd have to re-qualify on A3F if we wanted to solo free-fall again.
 
Yeah I've been jumping less and less. I need to get current as well. Ice storms and work have kept me on the ground. And the do I really want to spend an entire day to get 2 or 3 jumps and be crammed in a 182 like that. I'm a smaller guy so I tend to get the - hey kneel here for 30 minutes position. Too many tandems making for long lines as well.

I had to actually go look up a Super Constellation to see what it looked like. Thats a big ol plane. A friend made it out to Perris and jumped the DC-9 last summer and said he could do without the high exit speed jumps anymore. Definitely an experience, but not something he really enjoyed. I jumped the twin otter at Perris and enjoyed it thoroughly. Comfortable seating, fast climb, gentle exits... Really wanted to jump the skyvan but it was back during the women's world record ( I was there to volunteer and run errands) and it was in constant use by them. Was great to be able to make 5 loads in an afternoon even with a packed house. There's something special about cramming a 4 way onto the step of a 182 though :)

we arent all that good at holdin on to each other though - this used to be a 3 way, soon to be a solo (me in the red)
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That's a great picture.

The only picture I have is of my first static jump over Cal City. It's a lousy picture of me displaying lousy form. But at least I had fun.
 
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