Tyson Fury Fight

I watched the Tyson Fury Fight last night, he won on points. Both boxers managed to avoid a knockout loss. It was on netflix so I thought I would watch it after the flight 3054 documentary series. I think boxing at that level is very difficult because they have to move a lot to stop their brain being dislodged in their skull and they have to keep going even when they're tired. I thought it is Ironic that the one person that understands the most what they're  going through is the opponent. Maybe that is why they hug when the match is over. 

As for the flight 3054 documentary, they established the cause of the air crash so the series was all about how they figured out who was to blame. It was set up as a mystery with the truth that slowly emerged piece by piece. It was partly pilot error, partly airport infrastructure and partly the airlines fault. I didn't know that the reverse thruster controls work differently on different planes and there should have been an alarm to draw attention to one fruster in climb and one in brake mode. The runway was still being resurfaced and didn't have rain grooves installed yet so the runway itself was also too slippery. The blame was shared by many. Netflix has many true life mysteries like that and they're very interesting. The default language for the documentary is Portuguese because it was a Brazilian crisis. 

All this happened just after the splashdown when the four Artemis astronauts returned to earth after going around the far side of the moon. 

Interesting  times we live in. 

Artemis Easter

It was the Easter weekend and the Orion Spaceship performed an escape burn to slingshot itself towards the moon. It crossed the Lagrange point and entered the moons hillsphere ( an area around the moon where the moon's gravity pulls more than the Earth's). 

The four astronauts on the spaceship are going to pass around the far side of the moon and then return to Earth.  At the time of writing this post, they were very close to the moon, just some hours away from a flyby. They won't land on this mission, it's just to test out the new hardware and make sure they can reach the moon safely. The last thing I saw on the live feed was the crew asking flight control if they could tilt the spaceship to get a better view of the moon's surface. 

We are going to see a close up shot of the moon with modern cameras, that will be interesting. I was wondering if they're getting flashing in their eyes from deep space radiation? Have they found a way to deal with deep space radiation yet? I don't know. 

Interesting times.

Reaching Out

I learnt recently that the James Webb Space telescope has discovered a new moon going around the planet Uranus, it is about the size of an average sized city : 11km across, they haven't given it an official name yet. I was given the impression it is like seeing a 5p coin from 5 kilometres away, it is very small compared to the distance. Amid all the chaos going on in the world these days, there is a small parcel of peace and insight, an innocent search for discovery that is ongoing. 

There was a set back with NASA's new Orion Space Rocket, the most powerful vehicle on earth, they sent it back to the hanger to do repairs. They're reaching out to the moon again just like they did with the Apollo space missions but now the missions are called Artemis, the vehicle can lift more weight because it has 4 rs 25 thrusters and external boosters. It is like a hybrid of the space shuttle and Saturn 5. To me it is what a space ship would look like if those two rockets were merged together. You could say it has the best of both. B.O.B. 

I noticed gaming companies are reaching out to other companies to collaborate. Bethesda were working with zen studios to make themed tables for their iconic first person shooters, half life, doom and Skyrim. They are also collaborating with Blase entertainment to release a classic edition of doom for the evercade. 

I think there is a collaborate or die ethos in today's world. The commercial winners reach out and collaborate with separate companies when they can to get a burst of revenue. 

What an amazing world we live in. Reach out. 

Artemis and Armchair

I was reading through some of the NASA blogs and noticed that they had more or less finished building the most powerful vehicle ever made by mankind, the Orion Space Rocket. This spring will be the beginning of the Artemis Space missions. I was given the impression by the NASA blogs that the first mission will be a flyby, the astronauts will go around the far side of the moon and back to earth without landing; they are brave souls. They know how dangerous it is but they are going ahead with it. The radiation in deep space is unpredictable and very dangerous. They sit on a rocket that could malfunction and explode. I think the moon flyby will be on the first week of March. 

I need a new armchair and I think about it every time I see the word Artemis. My recliner is worn out, I've had it for 7 years and I do most of the reading and work on it. They sell reclining armchairs with all the trimmings, heating messages and electric extending foot rest on those budget sites. The trouble is you don't get to try it until you get it in the post. You just have to trust the customer ratings. If 300 people say the product is very comfortable then it probably is. 

Spring Time

It is Spring time now, you can tell, activists have started climbing up stuff and gluing themselves to things, "Yawn". It would be nice if they opened their minds a bit and  considered the other side of the story. Narrow minded people that only embrace one view. It will officially be spring after the 20th of march but I saw Daisy flowers sprouting out of the ground and the temperature rose above 10 degrees Celsius during the day. 

It looks like NASA has been preparing to go back to the moon; back in the '70s it was all about the Apollo missions, I wasn't born then. Now it is about the Artemis missions. They're building space launch vehicles with similar power to the Saturn 5 but more modular. There are separate booster rockets and the main rocket parts are reusable. They don't need to rebuild a whole space ship every time they launch. The cost is everything these days. Everything needs a cheap solution. Those astronauts are very brave, travelling to space is very dangerous.  

Back to Deep Space

NASA has created the most power vehicle ever made to bring astronauts back to the moon. 

Recently NASA has been sending the most powerful vehicle ever made into space without a crew to test the reliability and safety of the space ship. 

To me, the Artemis Space rocket resembles the Space shuttle system, it even uses RS-25 thrusters. It also has two solid rocket boosters on either side to bring the total thrust pressure up to 4,000 metric tonnes, the most powerful vehicle ever made by mankind. 

The Artemis Space launch system looks like the space shuttle launcher but without the space shuttle attached to it and a large nose cone instead. It has one extra RS-25 thruster, 4 in total.

The space shuttle had 3 RS-25 thrusters, the Artemis launcher has 4 and they're modified to produce more thrust I believe. They work by burning liquid hydrogen with liquid oxygen. A computer system can change the flow of the fuel and angle that the thrusters point at to control the stability of the space ship. 

It is a shame they barely mention this in the news. The news keeps going on about heat waves and political scandal and repeating things we already know; "yawn". 

I think they mentioned on the NASA site that the Artemis rocket system will be used indirectly to take astronauts to the planet Mars. I'm not sure what they mean by that. Perhaps it will carry space ship parts to deep space or something like that. 

Back to the Moon

Very soon astronauts will be trying to revisit the moon. There is more than one reason why they didn't  go there for 50 years. It is very costly and there is a radiation problem. During the Apollo missions they didn't know that a solar flare from the sun would kill all the astronauts. I'm not sure how they will manage the dangers of deep space radiation. Perhaps the Artamis spaceships will have a giant water tank to shield the astronauts. NASA is now inviting private companies to bid for a contract to make the vehicles they will use to drive around on the moon surface. They will be different to the lunar rovers because they will continue to work on their own as a rover probes after the astronauts have returned to earth. I thought to myself, why don't they use bikes? Has anyone ever tried to ride a bike on the moon before? I don't know. 

The moon rotates very slowly, the day and the night both last for 2 weeks each, perhaps they will land on the night side of the moon. The moon has no tilt to its axis so the day and night on the moon are exactly 2 weeks throughout the year. The moon orbits the earth in 4 weeks so it always has one side of itself facing away from the earth. They call that the far side of the moon. We never see that side of the moon because the rotation of the moon is in sync with its orbit, I think they call that Tidal Locking. 

Perhaps they could get machines to build moon base and bury it in gravel from the moon. Perhaps that would shield them from deep space radiation and solar flares. 

Artemis Era

The Apollo moon missions ended about 10 years before I was born. Soon there is going to be a new family of moon missions called Artemis. 

According to the NASA.gov website they're auctioning bids for private companies to build their LTVs (Luner Terrain Vehicles). They think a private technology company will produce their moon vehicles more cheaply and efficiently than they ever could. The vehicles will allow the astronauts to cover a lot of ground. 

According to the article I read this morning, they intend for their moon vehicles to continue working as automatic moon probes after the astronauts have left; they would be like the Mars rovers. The LTVs would be hybrid machines, vehicles and probes. 

This is the article I read ⬇️

NASA : Luna Terrain Vehicle

I was wondering how they're going to fix the radiation problem. Solar flares from the sun hit the moon surface as often as it rains here in England. It would kill all the astronauts within a few hours. Perhaps they will land on a part of the moon facing away from the sun; one day on the moon lasts for 4 weeks. They would get about 10 to 14 days to finish their mission if that was the case. I think they didn't know about the problem in the '70s and they were lucky. 

Over the Moon

According to the news I heard on my smart speaker, NASA has prepared the most powerful rocket in the world to take astronauts back to the moon. I think the rocket is called Artemis 1. I'm guessing there will be a family of Artemis rockets. 

I wonder what they will do about the Radiation problem. The Appollo astronauts in the 70's narrowly avoided death because they went to the moon when it wasn't being hit by solar flares, they didn't know at the time that the radiation from a solar flare would kill the crew if they were on the moon. I think the moon and the Earth are hit by Solar Flares quite often but the Earth's magnetic field is very powerful and deflects the flares away; the moon doesn't have a magnetic field so the surface of the moon gets bombarded by radiation. 

I was also wondering why train drivers are paid more than bus drivers in England, I think it is more difficult to drive a bus than a train. Is it because they have a better trade union or something like that? I don't know. I always see RMT on the news organising strike action. 

Sometimes the world doesn't make sense.