What is 6x7?

[MetalDog]

42, of course!  The newly ascending crew of the International Space Station will be the 42nd such group.  And they have embraced the number, and it's sci-fi connection, by enjoining us, "Don't Panic."  It makes me happy to see people who, "get it," and have fun with popular culture and literature.  There's even a movie poster and patches made in the, "Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy," spirit.


http://news.yahoo.com/space-stations-42-crew-links-expedition-hitchhikers-guide-165422139.html

[Staggerwing]

I love it!

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

Any fish involved?

[GDS_Starfury]

this is whats on my phones screen:

[bob48]

Make mine a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, if you please!

[BanzaiCat]

It's very difficult to get excited about anything space-related thanks to the current administration's gutting of NASA.

The Constellation program was going to be ten kinds of awesome. Asshats.

[GDS_Starfury]

progress isnt totally dead.



PACIFIC OCEAN (Sept. 15, 2014) Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit (EODMU) 11, Mobile Dive and Salvage Company 11-7 navy divers and the amphibious transport dock ship USS Anchorage (LPD 23) work together to retrieve the test module during the fourth underway recovery test (URT-4) for the NASA Orion Program. URT-4 is the fourth at-sea testing for the Orion crew module using a well deck and craning recovery method. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Gary Keen/Released)

[GDS_Starfury]

SpaceX's Falcon 9 lifts off early on September 21, 2014, from the US launch complex at Cape Canaveral, carrying the Dragon CRS4 to the International Space Station (ISS) (AFP Photo/Bruce Weaver)

[GDS_Starfury]

and despite all the Ukrainian stupidity:



Russia's Soyuz-FG booster rocket with the space capsule Soyuz TMA-14M that will carry a new crew to the International Space Station (ISS) is transported from hangar to the launch pad at the Russian leased Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014. U.S. astronaut Barry Wilmore, and Russian cosmonauts Alexander Samokutyaev and Elena Serova are the next crew scheduled to travel to the International Space Station on September 26. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

[BanzaiCat]

Huh. I thought Orion was dead, too.

I've run into three different instructional developers that used to work with contracting firms that did training for NASA. Every one of them were laid off back when the cuts took place. I thought Orion was a dead program, too. That's good to know, even if a manned mission won't take place for at least another six years.

[Martok]

42, of course!  The newly ascending crew of the International Space Station will be the 42nd such group.  And they have embraced the number, and it's sci-fi connection, by enjoining us, "Don't Panic."  It makes me happy to see people who, "get it," and have fun with popular culture and literature.  There's even a movie poster and patches made in the, "Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy," spirit.


http://news.yahoo.com/space-stations-42-crew-links-expedition-hitchhikers-guide-165422139.html

Awesome!  I love that astro/cosmonauts embrace the geekery.