#orbiter 9

[astronotmovie]

Stepping out on the front porch. Astronaut David Scott opens the hatch to check out the view during Apollo 9, March 1969. In this pic taken by fellow astronaut Rusty Schweickart, ‘Gumdrop’, the Command Service Module is docked with ‘Spider’, the Lunar Module. A9 was the 1st flight incorporating all Apollo spacecraft components. The 10 day mission was the 2nd launched by a Saturn V rocket.

[lonestarflight]

Space Shuttle Enterprise mated to 747 SCA #905 prior to her second manned-captive flight.

Date: June 23, 1977

Cliff Steenhoff's collection

NASA ID: EC77-7553

[supurman]

oh no if only there was someone with large hands to hold his small waist and big fat a

[mars-paws]

I feel off idk man

[yumemiruuuu]

Some wips including Bi(n)gypoop

[blueiscoool]

SpaceX

Liftoff! Science, supplies & snacks are flying to the Space Station.

SpaceX Falcon 9 launch of Dragon’s 27th commercial resupply mission is carrying blueberries, apples, cherry tomatoes, and four kinds of cheese.

[arsenicflame]

the way i play with Izzyverse is with every Izzy forming from a branching timeline- that they were all the same at some point, only one thing sent them off on the path to be "someones". some are obvious; Sam, Ed, Jack & Hornigold branch from the mutiny- a split second decision on who to go with, a miss timed hit leaving him in Hornigolds grasp- but the others are less so. how would he become Jackie's, or Ned's, or Anne and Mary's? what happens to make an Izzy Stede's? how do they even meet?

[pasta-is-magnificent]

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!

I have literally never been less patriotic or even enthused about this stupid country than I am now, and I expect that if you have been looking at what's going on you shouldn't be either!

[antiparticular]

i know the founders' homeworld is technically a rogue planet, but I headcanon it to be a crystallised white dwarf. it's a white dwarf that has cooled to habitable temperatures and solidified. that explains what exactly it's doing with no star (it IS a star), and also it would be incredibly dense so the high gravity would suit the great link being just a giant pool of goop. also I just think it's so cool to imagine what life could be like on a cooled white dwarf

[mobiused]

Hey, I remember a while back you posted about how JJs entire business strategy with loona was sabotaging them, and I do remember hearing somewhere that he sabotaged them on purpose... Do you remember where he said that? It just seems especially relevant what with these teasers coming out

JJ has never on paper talked about wanting to specifically keep LOONA underground - it was a common belief that orbits held that turned into "it came out of jaden's mouth directly" and people just assumed he said it somewhere amidst the hundreds of blogposts hes made. So that was espoused as fact, and then the JJ dicksuckers said it was a complete lie made up by orbits to make him look bad because there was no direct quote. But thats a whole other thing. Originally, the idea was that JJ intentionally restricted their promotion because the promotions were so small, and there was one blog post that *alluded* to him liking the notion of a mystery group;

"I was going to make a mystery filled girl group. In the age of information excess. In age of knowing too much too easily and information overflowing, I realised I wanted to make the greatest group that couldn't be known." <- this was back in 2012, arguably about lovelyz but vague enough to be about his general attitude to girl groups. To be honest it doesn't fit in well with the work he did with Lovelyz but does fit way more with LOONA & his ambitions of making unknowable lore, so shrug.

[nat-seal-well]

Questions I have for vampires:

Is it our Sun specifically that would kill you, or would any star in the middle of a solar system be deadly? What if the planet was further away? Is it like a distance thing? Because you can go out at night and everything and that’s when you see stars.

If you were floating in space would you die like humans would? Or would you just be stuck floating around forever?

If you went to the bottom of the ocean would the pressure crush you, or could you like, walk around in the Mariana Trench?

[night-vale-presents-described]

Introducing Night Vale Presents described!

[Plain Text: Introducing Night Vale Presents described!]

Howdy! This is a blog inspired by @rq-described, dedicated to adding descriptions and transcripts to all fanworks of shows by Night Vale Presents. This includes Welcome to Night Vale, Random Number Generator Horror Podcast No. 9, Alice Isn’t Dead, Within the Wires, Good Morning Night Vale, I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats, Dreamboy, Unlicensed, Start with This, Our Plague Year, and The Orbiting Human Circus.

As part of this blog, we’ll be compiling all already described fanworks. If you’re a blog that makes descriptions or transcriptions, then feel free to reach out to us.

We’ll be trying to describe and transcribe things we find on our own, compile described and transcribed fanworks, and describe and transcribe stuff submitted to us. You can submit links with asks or submissions, and tag us in posts you want us to describe or transcribe.

All descriptions and transcriptions are allowed and encouraged to be added to original posts.

On another note, saying “we” in this introduction was perhaps dishonest, because I am but one person. [Plain text: “On another not, saying “we” in this introduction was perhaps dishonest, because I am but one person.” crossed out.]

As of 17 July 2023, we are three people! If anyone wants to be a mod, then feel free to fill in this form to apply.

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4 July 2023: Second mod added.

7 July 2023: Tagging us in posts to transcribe is encouraged, descriptions and transcriptions are encouraged to be added to original posts, edit log added.

17 July 2023: Third mod (sort of) added.

27 July 2023: Third mod actually added.

[lonestarflight]

"The NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) lifts off the runway at Edwards AFB, California carrying the Space Shuttle Enterprise on its back."

Date: June 18, 1977

NARA: DF-ST-99-05367

[snowshinobi]

"you're in my mind all of the time/I know it's not enough" is such a gut punch bc thinking of someone always sure sounds like a lot to me, why's that not enough? what is enough? what are we measuring?

so I looked up U2's comments on the song, "Electrical Storm," released in 2002: the tense, uneasy weather mirrors the tense, uneasy relationship between the singer and their lover. nice, love an extended metaphor. U2 also connected this uneasiness to how a lot of Americans felt after 9/11 attack the year prior, reflecting that the song wasn't intended to be political but those swirling feelings wove their way in anyway.

back to the question: what does "enough" mean and why isn't being "in my mind all of the time" it?

Straightforward Reading: "enough" is a measure of long-term compatibility. Thought is sweet but it isn't action. This person you think about all the time—do you come through for them? Do they come through for you? Or is mutual attraction the only thread holding you together? Alternatively, this partnership you've both put in the love and time to build—does it work? Or do you just wish it did? There are differences no amount of love can overcome.

Hear Me Out Reading: "enough" is a measure of stability and security. What did America do following the 9/11 attacks? Beefed up its national and international security. What did that achieve? The amplification of systemic racism via blatantly targeted ""random searches"" of nonwhite travelers. Further erosion of individual privacy, as if social media empires and other corporations weren't doing enough damage on their own. In its attempt to eradicate terrorism, the US gov't divided and scrutinized the people it claimed it was protecting. Through heightened surveillance, the American people are in their government's "mind" (cough, extensive collections of personal data, cough), all of the time, and it's not enough. This won't guarantee the safety of anyone. All it does is, ironically, terrorize the people who are already marginalized and strengthen the power of the already rich and powerful.

I don't think U2 subconsciously wanted to encourage listeners to critically analyze America's response to 9/11, nor the increasingly hellish targeted advertising-filled nightmare that is our current internet. I just think it's cool that "you're in my mind all of the time/I know it's not enough" feels bigger than one storm, bigger than one relationship. Because it can be. It is.

[maeamian]

God, if it weren't real tidal locking would seem like such scifi bullshit. Regularly, turning with respect to the planet they're orbiting is just too much work for moons so instead they just stay pointed the same way all the time. See? It sounds convoluted and made up, not the dominant mechanism for moon orbits.

[blueiscoool]

SpaceX Falcon 9 Delivers 5-Ton Communications Satellite to Orbit

The company continues to launch rockets at a breakneck pace, with 16 flights of Falcon 9 in the past nine weeks alone.

A Falcon 9 lit up the Florida skies Monday night in what is now a very familiar scene. The rocket successfully deployed Hispasat’s Amazonas Nexus communications satellite into a trajectory that will take it to a geostationary orbit, from where it will expand the Spanish company’s coverage across the Americas, the Atlantic Ocean, and Greenland.

The rocket took flight at 8:32 p.m. ET from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Some eight minutes later, the main stage booster, B1073-6, performed a successful vertical landing atop the Just Read the Instructions droneship stationed in the Atlantic Ocean. This was the booster’s sixth flight, having previously delivered the SES-22 satellite, ispace’s HAKUTO-R lunar lander, and three batches of the company’s Starlink satellites.