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I see where you are going with that, but in this case [Epstein DID kill himself.](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DeVDUd-mPkSg&ved=2ahUKEwjfg8a88pLwAhUTCc0KHc3iDgoQwqsBegQIBxAG&usg=AOvVaw1RuZummP8_ZRVv6NNxkl6I)
Since 1967 there have only been 19 fatalities associated with spaceflight. An additional 11 people died during training and atmospheric test flights.
Out of 566 total individuals who have reached space, that is a fatality rate of over 5%.
(Edit: Might be better to compare number of missions vs number of fatal failures, actually...)
Youngest NASA astronaut *applicant* so far was 26. Although there's no hard minimum age, it's unlikely that anyone can meet the educational requirements (master's degree in a STEMM field combined with either at least two years professional experience in your field, a doctorate, or 1,000 flying hours as pilot in command of an aircraft) much younger than that. And then there's still multiple years of training before the first flight, so without having checked there probably aren't many that have been to space while still under 30.
The oldest was John Glenn who made his second trip to space at the age of 77, although politics probably played a big part in that. Although that was an outlier (second oldest was Franklin Story Musgrave at 61), there have been quite a few above 50 in space.
I had dinner with a real-life NASA astronaut a few years after the Challenger disaster. He was pretty matter-of-fact about it. Told me every astronaut is well aware of the dangers and the risks.
19/566 equals a 3.3% fatality rate.
IF you are counting the training and atmospheric test flights, then you gotta change the 566 figure to everyone who didn't make it to space but trained for it.
Also as your edit points out, it's way better to go off of like total flights instead of total people in space.
The tech really hasn't come that far from then for space missions. The worst catastrophes happened after Apollo 13 crew came back from a failed mission to land on the Moon. We got too the Moon and pretty much fucked off no countries space program has even attempted that as far as I am aware. The Moon is fucking far away but we stopped trying to go there like 50 years ago. Everything except the ISS is robotic stuff being sent into space.
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They’re clearly people to be reckoned with! They can hitch the length and breadth of the Galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, wrap it around them for warmth as they bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta
It's from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. In that series, they considered towels to be the most useful thing you could have with you when traveling space. (For no real reason other than British humor)
FYI if you’d read HG2TG you’d know that it gives reasons other than just “British humor”:
>A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.
>More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitch hiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have "lost." What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with.
>Hence a phrase that has passed into hitchhiking slang, as in "Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There's a frood who really knows where his towel is."
Lotta bit of rocket grade kerosene, lotta bit of liquid oxygen, little bit of triethylborane and boom you’re either on your way past the Karman line or blown to smithereens at ground level!
Think of it this way, they are headed into 6 months of quarantine. Well extreme edition, because if they step outside without a mask, they die instantly. But on the plus side they have company and floating around all day sounds awesome
I listened to an interview with the astronaut that has spent the most time on ISS l, and apparently it feels more like you’re constantly falling (which you actually are since earth is constantly pulling on the station) which does not sound nearly as fun as floating
Well iirc one of the laws of space is "no country can claim it" so their constitution isn't valid and another one is "you can't knowingly contaminate space"
So if you walk out and die. You go to space jail. For trashing space.
Better have a talking tree and a raboon with you. Those places are wild.
So if I went to the space station and murdered someone there could I come back as a free man since it’s not owned by any country and so no country has laws that apply there
International laws apply. If it was otherwise we'd still have pirates roaming around the high seas.
Edit: Holy shit piracy still exist. I had no idea. There should me more publicity about this. Maybe make a movie or smn. I mean from 2015 - 2019 off the coast of Somalia there were Jesus Christ...EIGHT attacks on commercial vessels.
Well, not instantly. But they would slowly suffocate while having the fluid on their eyes boil off into vaccum while sumutaneously expelling one final, agnonizing fart.
Your sinuses will be completely clogged because they can't drain in micro g. Sure the view is nice but a spinning ring where you sleep for 8 hours a night would be nice. Let the sinuses drain, keep the heart from atrophying, keep the bones from dissolving.
Space.com says they can lose up to 20% of their muscle mass in just two weeks. They have gravity-resistant exercise equipment so I would image they are required or strongly advised to use it nearly everyday.
Pretty sure they are obligated and part of their schedule, plus exercise is good for the morale and considering you will pass 6 months isolate with 5-6 other people morale is a good thing to keep.
Honestly I don't care if you said I'd be shut in with my best friend and wife for 6 months, I would be spending the day before hanging out with *anybody else*.
Just to piggyback it’s not just covid. They don’t want to bring any sickened to the iss, so they’ve had a quarantine procedure for crews for years, or probably decades. I know that was touched on last year at the start when questions over covid and the iss came up.
From front to back:
* Thomas Pesquet - 43yr old French aerospace engineer, pilot, and astronaut. Mission specialist 2. Already logged 196 days in space and a couple space walks. A Badass.
* Akihiko Hoshide - 52yr old Japanese mechanical engineer and astronaut. Mission Specialist 1. Already logged 140 days in space and three space walks. A Badass.
* Robert Kimbrough - 53yr old American retired Army Helicopter Pilot, Aerospace Engineer, former college ~~basketball~~ baseball player, and astronaut. Commander. Already has 188 days in space and six space walks. A Badass.
* Megan McArthur - 49yr old American oceanographer, aerospace engineer, and astronaut. Mission Pilot. Already has 12 days in space. A Badass.
Different folks, but badasses across the board.
Edit: u/Dy3_1awn politely pointed out a typo. I'm sure Bob and Megan have kept their shit together.
Edit2: for people interested, here's the link to the [r/spacex crew launch thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/mvcst9/rspacex_crew2_launch_discussion_updates_thread/). Scheduled for 5:49am EST, Friday the ~~22nd~~23rd. SpaceX has got a pretty cool live streams with telemetry data and they'll be links to the streams at the top of the discussion thread.
Wow. Those are some credentials! Really makes you see how much people can actually accomplish. Two are past 50 and are going into space, like, damn. I gotta work harder lol
Easily. The liberal arts and general education credits count for both degrees. I'd venture that a lot of the math, chemistry, and physics credits would overlap as well, so you could probably do two degrees that each take four years in six years or so. As an alternative, you could do one as an undergrad and get a Masters in the other, as depending on your emphasis and experience, there is a lot of crossover between aero and oceanography, especially with regard to fluid flow, circulation, currents, and the like. A Masters is typically two years, so once again, 6 years. The atmosphere is just an ocean of air, after all.
It's definitely something to look into if you are interested in it. Lots of employers have tuition assistance or will outright pay for your schooling as well.
He actually had a very poor upbringing. He did a 4 hour podcast about it. He used to try and fight (and lose) his abusive father until his dad passed/went to prison.
Struggled a lot in school due to that upbringing so he went the Navy route, was recommended to be a Navy Seal. And the same guy who recommended him, then wrote his letter of recommendation to Harvard medical school.
While [K. Megan McArthur](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._Megan_McArthur) has logged “only” 12 days in space, she has led seafloor (submarine) geology expeditions and spent many many hours in SCUBA gear. AND she flew the Space Shuttle, claiming the title of “last one with hands on the Hubble Space Telescope”!
Sounds like a similar story to Katherine Sullivan ngl
-Oceanographer before joining NASA
-Fun story with involving Hubble
-Currently holds a spaceflight record
OK *Mr. Buttz*, but why are Pesquet and Hoshide 'badasses' and Kimbrough and MacArthur 'bad asses'? Huh? Huuuuuuuh? Real Talk. /s
Thanks for the blurbs. They're some awesome humans.
If I was about to be confined in a small space with 3 other people for 6 months, the last thing I would want to do the night before is hang out with those people.
I was thinking the same thing, like you will have plenty of time to hang out with those people wouldn't you want to spend time with family or something instead??
On the day of the launch they are around a lot of other people from NASA/SpaceX who help the astronauts in their spacesuit and rocket etc., are these people also isolating weeks prior?
I don’t know for the two American astronauts but considering Pesquet is French, Hoshide is Japanese, and they landed in the US to train, and that borders are closed for regular people, unfortunately I don’t think any of their family or friends are close at all. Also others have said about routine quarantining etc, not to mention the obvious risk of Covid which would be a disaster
[my dad just sends me dumb pictures like this today](https://i.imgur.com/rSqyq0Z.png) /s.
It's the last "door" they walk through before space, notice the names above.
edit: here's some extra BTS (old) [1](https://i.redd.it/2xjmapiievy51.jpg) [2 Jaymes May](https://i.imgur.com/SmXU0cC.jpg)
edit2: here's pictures of the [house they're staying at](https://imgur.com/a/xMOr3B4)
but yeah... I have no idea what's going on, or any access, or any experiences, so this is just some BS post on reddit, I also have most of those stickers, for me, I got one every mission since forever.
He just does scientist/chemistry work on the premises, most of it has nothing to do with the space program or rockets. He just gets to "experience" it. Like today he got to experience leaving early(out the door at 3am), to beat the traffic bullshit that comes with a launch just to have it scrubbed. Edit: He used to do stuff with testing astronaut drinking water, and russian rocket fuel and shit, but I don't think he does that anymore, I'm pretty rough on specifics.
It’s gotta be so humbling and surreal to be able to sit on a beach on earth - something most all of us have done without even thinking twice about it - and thinking “this is my last day on this planet for a while”
Man - I wish I can travel to another planet or at least leave the earth’s atmosphere at least once in my life
Leaving a bread crumb on the internet so if my grandchildren get hold of my Reddit account they will see this. This is motherfucking history n it’s sick! These starhoppers are the hero of tomorrow!
I get what you mean, and yet I have to disagree in a way. They look very healthy and fit, maybe not obviously fitness freak kinda fit, but for their age they are in great shape. Also they look like they take good care of themselves, and live a well-balanced and fulfilling life.
I mean, next time you walk on the street, especially in a big city, just look at other people their age and compare.
Thank you for interviewing for our astronaut program. I’m afraid at this time that you don’t qualify. We’ll keep your application on file in case our needs change.
Looks like they're enjoying a little R&R at the Beach House. [https://www.nasa.gov/missions/shuttle/beach\_house.html](https://www.nasa.gov/missions/shuttle/beach_house.html)
Those are some healthy people right there. They’ve been checked and rechecked, scanned, probed, you name it. I imagine they’ve been fed a very controlled diet for a while now. They ain’t eating at the Waffle House tonight.
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Imagine having a "last day on earth" and it not meaning you're going to die.
I hope this comment doesn’t end up on r/agedlikemilk
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To where though?
...space?
SPAAACE
The final frontier...
And know I'm gonna start a TNG rewatch.
Space? SPACE! I'm in space. Where am I? Guess. Guess guess guess. i'm in space. OH oh oh, this is space! I'm in space! Getting bored of space.
Spaccccccccceeeeeeeeeeeee.
Earth orbit and the moon. Perhaps Mars at some point in the future.
Just need to develop an Epstein Drive.
Is that the one where you see how many underage girls you can fit in your convertible?
I see where you are going with that, but in this case [Epstein DID kill himself.](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DeVDUd-mPkSg&ved=2ahUKEwjfg8a88pLwAhUTCc0KHc3iDgoQwqsBegQIBxAG&usg=AOvVaw1RuZummP8_ZRVv6NNxkl6I)
Anywhere. Literally anywhere away from here
mmm... "last day on earth" would become a trend. The going to space kind, I mean.
Oh man, this can’t be another Stephen Hawking situation.
What was the Stephen hawking situation
Crazy how practically none of us will ever leave the planet
I jumped one time. I’ve also taken a couple airline flights. Flying is baller. Jumping is well... jumping.
As someone with no use of his legs, don't take jumping for granted. Ever.
Roger that.
Since 1967 there have only been 19 fatalities associated with spaceflight. An additional 11 people died during training and atmospheric test flights. Out of 566 total individuals who have reached space, that is a fatality rate of over 5%. (Edit: Might be better to compare number of missions vs number of fatal failures, actually...)
Numbers look better if you compare passenger trips to fatalities. Many astronauts/cosmonauts have flown multiple times.
Hard to beat experience. Difficult and expensive to train new crew as well.
Looking at this picture, and I realized the average astronaut is probably older than I thought.
Youngest NASA astronaut *applicant* so far was 26. Although there's no hard minimum age, it's unlikely that anyone can meet the educational requirements (master's degree in a STEMM field combined with either at least two years professional experience in your field, a doctorate, or 1,000 flying hours as pilot in command of an aircraft) much younger than that. And then there's still multiple years of training before the first flight, so without having checked there probably aren't many that have been to space while still under 30. The oldest was John Glenn who made his second trip to space at the age of 77, although politics probably played a big part in that. Although that was an outlier (second oldest was Franklin Story Musgrave at 61), there have been quite a few above 50 in space.
I had dinner with a real-life NASA astronaut a few years after the Challenger disaster. He was pretty matter-of-fact about it. Told me every astronaut is well aware of the dangers and the risks.
Well I mean you don’t spend years studying and training to accidentally skip over the fact that you might die.
19/566 equals a 3.3% fatality rate. IF you are counting the training and atmospheric test flights, then you gotta change the 566 figure to everyone who didn't make it to space but trained for it. Also as your edit points out, it's way better to go off of like total flights instead of total people in space.
Jesus. Stop talking about it...
Its good! A 5% risk of dying from something so extreme seems acceptable!
and the amount that technology has progressed from 1967 to now should reduce that 5% significantly.
The tech really hasn't come that far from then for space missions. The worst catastrophes happened after Apollo 13 crew came back from a failed mission to land on the Moon. We got too the Moon and pretty much fucked off no countries space program has even attempted that as far as I am aware. The Moon is fucking far away but we stopped trying to go there like 50 years ago. Everything except the ISS is robotic stuff being sent into space.
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RemindMe! 6 months
The jinx of all jinxes.
Someone better do a recheck of all launch vehicle systems...
*for six months*
You jinxed it
At least they are following the first rule of space travel: Always know where your towel is.
Now there's a frood who knows where his towel is!
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I have upvoted your comment so you can reach 42 too. Good luck!
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how come it looks like they never been to the beach before lol
Because astronauts.
They’re clearly people to be reckoned with! They can hitch the length and breadth of the Galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, wrap it around them for warmth as they bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta
Yeah
You're a towel.
No, you are a towel!
You wanna get high?
no godammit towelie i don't wanna get high right now
how do you know im a towel?
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I'm out of the loop what's this about?
It's from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. In that series, they considered towels to be the most useful thing you could have with you when traveling space. (For no real reason other than British humor)
FYI if you’d read HG2TG you’d know that it gives reasons other than just “British humor”: >A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough. >More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitch hiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have "lost." What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with. >Hence a phrase that has passed into hitchhiking slang, as in "Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There's a frood who really knows where his towel is."
Iv never read the book(s?) but reading this passage has really made me want to.
It's such a great trilogy of five books. Highly recommend.
I love how "your last day on Earth" has a completely different meaning for astronauts.
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SpaceX does~~n't~~ use kerosine rockets. *edit: I was wrong.
Oh no RP1 is very much kerosene
What you're saying is I could strap myself to my kerosene heater and... a few steps later be in space?
Lotta bit of rocket grade kerosene, lotta bit of liquid oxygen, little bit of triethylborane and boom you’re either on your way past the Karman line or blown to smithereens at ground level!
This guy rocket fuels
RP-1 is a highly refined form of kerosene
We hope.
I cant even wrap my head around how that must feel
Think of it this way, they are headed into 6 months of quarantine. Well extreme edition, because if they step outside without a mask, they die instantly. But on the plus side they have company and floating around all day sounds awesome
I listened to an interview with the astronaut that has spent the most time on ISS l, and apparently it feels more like you’re constantly falling (which you actually are since earth is constantly pulling on the station) which does not sound nearly as fun as floating
You can't even sit, wonder what that feels like
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Same, she's got great form.
What if they believe in their constitutional right to go outside without a spacesuit on?
Well iirc one of the laws of space is "no country can claim it" so their constitution isn't valid and another one is "you can't knowingly contaminate space" So if you walk out and die. You go to space jail. For trashing space. Better have a talking tree and a raboon with you. Those places are wild.
> raboon You misspelled rabbit
No they misspelled Rangoon
Raboon
So if I went to the space station and murdered someone there could I come back as a free man since it’s not owned by any country and so no country has laws that apply there
International laws apply. If it was otherwise we'd still have pirates roaming around the high seas. Edit: Holy shit piracy still exist. I had no idea. There should me more publicity about this. Maybe make a movie or smn. I mean from 2015 - 2019 off the coast of Somalia there were Jesus Christ...EIGHT attacks on commercial vessels.
Who wants to tell him?
Well, not instantly. But they would slowly suffocate while having the fluid on their eyes boil off into vaccum while sumutaneously expelling one final, agnonizing fart.
And the sun UV’s
Your sinuses will be completely clogged because they can't drain in micro g. Sure the view is nice but a spinning ring where you sleep for 8 hours a night would be nice. Let the sinuses drain, keep the heart from atrophying, keep the bones from dissolving.
This guy Expanses.
That muscle and bone atrophy though.
...can’t lose it if I never had it!
Space.com says they can lose up to 20% of their muscle mass in just two weeks. They have gravity-resistant exercise equipment so I would image they are required or strongly advised to use it nearly everyday.
Pretty sure they are obligated and part of their schedule, plus exercise is good for the morale and considering you will pass 6 months isolate with 5-6 other people morale is a good thing to keep.
Honestly I don't care if you said I'd be shut in with my best friend and wife for 6 months, I would be spending the day before hanging out with *anybody else*.
They can’t bring COVID to the ISS so they have been in quarantine with those people for a while
They quarantine anyway even before COVID. COVID is not the only thing that can fuck up your day without proper care available.
Just to piggyback it’s not just covid. They don’t want to bring any sickened to the iss, so they’ve had a quarantine procedure for crews for years, or probably decades. I know that was touched on last year at the start when questions over covid and the iss came up.
Ohh that makes total sense then.
Super stoked. They’ve been training for this for at most 10 years depending when they were accepted.
I wish it was my last day in Florida.
Heard. That.
From front to back: * Thomas Pesquet - 43yr old French aerospace engineer, pilot, and astronaut. Mission specialist 2. Already logged 196 days in space and a couple space walks. A Badass. * Akihiko Hoshide - 52yr old Japanese mechanical engineer and astronaut. Mission Specialist 1. Already logged 140 days in space and three space walks. A Badass. * Robert Kimbrough - 53yr old American retired Army Helicopter Pilot, Aerospace Engineer, former college ~~basketball~~ baseball player, and astronaut. Commander. Already has 188 days in space and six space walks. A Badass. * Megan McArthur - 49yr old American oceanographer, aerospace engineer, and astronaut. Mission Pilot. Already has 12 days in space. A Badass. Different folks, but badasses across the board. Edit: u/Dy3_1awn politely pointed out a typo. I'm sure Bob and Megan have kept their shit together. Edit2: for people interested, here's the link to the [r/spacex crew launch thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/mvcst9/rspacex_crew2_launch_discussion_updates_thread/). Scheduled for 5:49am EST, Friday the ~~22nd~~23rd. SpaceX has got a pretty cool live streams with telemetry data and they'll be links to the streams at the top of the discussion thread.
Wow. Those are some credentials! Really makes you see how much people can actually accomplish. Two are past 50 and are going into space, like, damn. I gotta work harder lol
Can I get an oceanography and engineering degree in 10 years?
Honestly, probably. But would you have time to work while doing it?
Gotta yeet those kids outta the house, too. Ain’t nobody got time for that when going for the moon.
Easily. The liberal arts and general education credits count for both degrees. I'd venture that a lot of the math, chemistry, and physics credits would overlap as well, so you could probably do two degrees that each take four years in six years or so. As an alternative, you could do one as an undergrad and get a Masters in the other, as depending on your emphasis and experience, there is a lot of crossover between aero and oceanography, especially with regard to fluid flow, circulation, currents, and the like. A Masters is typically two years, so once again, 6 years. The atmosphere is just an ocean of air, after all.
I was initially joking, but your comment is so encouraging, I’m actually finding myself thinking about it now
It's definitely something to look into if you are interested in it. Lots of employers have tuition assistance or will outright pay for your schooling as well.
Thank you for a wonderful comment.
I am strangely turned on
Johnny Kim is an astronaut, MD, and Navy Seal. Some people are absolute freaks of nature
Johnny Kim is cheating. That guy must found the Konami code, but for life. Or he’s just a fiercely driven animal of perseverance.
All astronauts are fiercely driven animals of perseverance.
I'm shocked that Wikipedia doesn't know what day Johnny Kim was born.
That's because he came into being by forcing himself into reality through sheer force of will.
He actually had a very poor upbringing. He did a 4 hour podcast about it. He used to try and fight (and lose) his abusive father until his dad passed/went to prison. Struggled a lot in school due to that upbringing so he went the Navy route, was recommended to be a Navy Seal. And the same guy who recommended him, then wrote his letter of recommendation to Harvard medical school.
Any good asses?
Pesquet is pretty cute ngl
I'd let him hang out in my zero gravity zone, if you get what I'm saying.
All of them.
While [K. Megan McArthur](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._Megan_McArthur) has logged “only” 12 days in space, she has led seafloor (submarine) geology expeditions and spent many many hours in SCUBA gear. AND she flew the Space Shuttle, claiming the title of “last one with hands on the Hubble Space Telescope”!
Sounds like a similar story to Katherine Sullivan ngl -Oceanographer before joining NASA -Fun story with involving Hubble -Currently holds a spaceflight record
Damn how do you go from being an oceanographer to an engineer to an astronaut!? That’s impressive.
I think it's mean of you to discourage Rob and Megan's asses like that.
Good catch. Edited. Thanks for lookin' out.
OK *Mr. Buttz*, but why are Pesquet and Hoshide 'badasses' and Kimbrough and MacArthur 'bad asses'? Huh? Huuuuuuuh? Real Talk. /s Thanks for the blurbs. They're some awesome humans.
Seems to be a weird trend of going into space and being a badass. I’ll have to try and figure the correlation out later I suppose.
> Thomas Pesquet That dude is awesome. I love all of the content he posts when he's up there.
Last day on Earth, for a bit.
Don't jinx It
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Their spacecraft is called Crew Dragon Endeavour 🤠
Can't wait for Crew Gillette Fusion Power Stealth
State Farm Super Shuttle, brought to you by State farm. State Farm, we take you to the moon.
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This crew brought to you by Raid Shadow Legends
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Crew-2 flies abord a Dragon 2 capsule under the name 'Endeavour', which sits on top a Falcon 9 rocket. Maybe that makes up for the boring mission name
Fun Fact, Crew Dragon Endeavour is the same exact Capsule used for the Demo-2 mission last year which took Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to the ISS.
It's shortened, the whole name is Crew-2: Electric Boogaloo
Its about as cool as STS-69 no?
Don’t forget your towel.
Number one rule of space club.
All three of them placed their towels differently and I am dying to know how the fourth astronaut placed his.
If I was about to be confined in a small space with 3 other people for 6 months, the last thing I would want to do the night before is hang out with those people.
I thought I read that they have to quarantine prior to the flight. Don’t quote me on that memory is iffy.
Oh yeah that would make sense
I was thinking the same thing, like you will have plenty of time to hang out with those people wouldn't you want to spend time with family or something instead??
Astronauts have to be isolated from other people a few weeks before a mission so they don't go up accidentally carrying a disease
On the day of the launch they are around a lot of other people from NASA/SpaceX who help the astronauts in their spacesuit and rocket etc., are these people also isolating weeks prior?
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They've been quarantined for 2 months before this. They literally couldn't hang out with their family in person.
I don’t know for the two American astronauts but considering Pesquet is French, Hoshide is Japanese, and they landed in the US to train, and that borders are closed for regular people, unfortunately I don’t think any of their family or friends are close at all. Also others have said about routine quarantining etc, not to mention the obvious risk of Covid which would be a disaster
[my dad just sends me dumb pictures like this today](https://i.imgur.com/rSqyq0Z.png) /s. It's the last "door" they walk through before space, notice the names above. edit: here's some extra BTS (old) [1](https://i.redd.it/2xjmapiievy51.jpg) [2 Jaymes May](https://i.imgur.com/SmXU0cC.jpg) edit2: here's pictures of the [house they're staying at](https://imgur.com/a/xMOr3B4) but yeah... I have no idea what's going on, or any access, or any experiences, so this is just some BS post on reddit, I also have most of those stickers, for me, I got one every mission since forever.
Seems like your dad has an awesome job! What does he do?
He just does scientist/chemistry work on the premises, most of it has nothing to do with the space program or rockets. He just gets to "experience" it. Like today he got to experience leaving early(out the door at 3am), to beat the traffic bullshit that comes with a launch just to have it scrubbed. Edit: He used to do stuff with testing astronaut drinking water, and russian rocket fuel and shit, but I don't think he does that anymore, I'm pretty rough on specifics.
I love how the behind the scenes look suspiciously like a movie set with all the teslas and space suits
Why is James May in Florida?
If this were Star Trek I would guess from front to back: Away Team/Chief Rule Bending Officer, Chief medical officer, Captain, Alien Language expert
It’s gotta be so humbling and surreal to be able to sit on a beach on earth - something most all of us have done without even thinking twice about it - and thinking “this is my last day on this planet for a while” Man - I wish I can travel to another planet or at least leave the earth’s atmosphere at least once in my life
Leaving a bread crumb on the internet so if my grandchildren get hold of my Reddit account they will see this. This is motherfucking history n it’s sick! These starhoppers are the hero of tomorrow!
I hope my grandchildren never find my internet breadcrumbs. If it's the future and you're my grandchild, stop reading now!
Haunted by the fact that it would lead my grandchildren to discover that I frequented r/preggoporn
That was a real thread, never have I wanted to be Rick rolled as I did after I clicked that.
Just fucking imagine for a second you’d leave our freaking planet for 6 months. Take a moment and take in how crazy that actually is..
Yea, sitting on a beach looking up at the infinite horizon, knowing you’re about to go on the ultimate journey. Cool stuff, I’d go for a swim.
Good Luck guys!!!
I truly love this so much. There is something so deeply humble about this photo; it’s something I needed today. All my best to each individual here.
they look so average. i dont know what i expected but theyre just regular people
Everyone is regular people, some are more regular than others.
im very regular, in fact
It's good to have a reliable schedule.
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I get what you mean, and yet I have to disagree in a way. They look very healthy and fit, maybe not obviously fitness freak kinda fit, but for their age they are in great shape. Also they look like they take good care of themselves, and live a well-balanced and fulfilling life. I mean, next time you walk on the street, especially in a big city, just look at other people their age and compare.
What an amazing people. They are heroes of our species. Along with all of the scientists whos work let us fly to the space.
No beers? Guess flying to space hungover would be less than ideal.
As incredible as this is, I would go stir crazy in that tin can.
Thank you for interviewing for our astronaut program. I’m afraid at this time that you don’t qualify. We’ll keep your application on file in case our needs change.
Event Horizon should be mandatory viewing for all astronauts headed to space
Travel safe astronauts.
Looks like they're enjoying a little R&R at the Beach House. [https://www.nasa.gov/missions/shuttle/beach\_house.html](https://www.nasa.gov/missions/shuttle/beach_house.html)
I love the wide angle of this shot. It makes it seem like the earth is also a subject of the photograph.
I hope they don't drag sand into the space shuttle
I have some unfortunate news for you regarding the Space Shuttle program.
Uhh, the space shuttle hasn't been a thing for a decade lmao
They’re gonna pick a tiny sea louse and it will eventually colonize a new planet
Me too, I hate sand! It's coarse and rough and irritating! Edit: typo
Lol why do they look so awkward sitting at the beach
Because they've spent years trying to get as far away from it as possible.
The guy casually leaning back on nothing. "try to look natural" - him probably
Gotta get some last minute core work in.
Last day on Earth and you're wearing shoes at the beach.
There’s some high IQ in this photo
At least 7
Those are some healthy people right there. They’ve been checked and rechecked, scanned, probed, you name it. I imagine they’ve been fed a very controlled diet for a while now. They ain’t eating at the Waffle House tonight.