Mir Uncontrolled Spin

[Shuttheheckup735]

"OH MY GOD WE ARE SPINNING AT ABOUT 2 RPM!!!!! AHHHHHHHHH"

then it just explodes :P

[WCGwkf]

@Shuttheheckup735 btw, people were in that station

[Shuttheheckup735]

@WCGwkf

... You think I didn't know that? What use would a space station have if no one could go in it?

[BandP136]

If pro is the opposite of con, then what is the opposite of progress

[dasdfasdfasdfasfasdf]

@BandP136 regress

[BjornPalmen]

@QuantumQuacks Atitude is here completely correct, it means the orientation of the space station:

Attitude may refer to: * Attitude (geometry) as orientation of a geometric figure, such as a line, plane or rigid body.

[hoplite46]

The USA hated the idea that the Russians built a space station before them

[assman12354]

the usa built the first space station, it was called skylab

[hoplite46]

@assman12354 yes I remember skylab

[kosiak10851]

@assman12354 you probably don't remember Salyut program

[assman12354]

@kosiak10851 no, i've never heard of that, what is it?

[Kenshiroit]

@assman12354 the first space base in human history...

[assman12354]

I wouldn't really call mir the first, in my opinion it was either the russion spy thing that was really small, or it was skylab, i mean mir was great, but sklab was cheap, and roomy, plus it was way before mir, the little russian thing i'm not sure you can really call a space lab,

[Kenshiroit]

@assman12354 no not Mir maybe I misspelled. Salyut was the first spacebase launched in 1971. Way before skylab (1973). Salyut ended in 1991. Soviet had Saliut 1-9 spacebase, and Almaz and Kosmos military out post...even equiped with cannons (deorbited in 1992) Mir was just the latest of a serie of sovjetic space bases. Now the tecnology of all the previous bases and Mir are incorporated in the succesfull ISS (with the exceptions of spaceweapons)

[assman12354]

thats really cool, how many people could it hold? how long could it keep the cosmonauts in space? what did the canons do?

[Kenshiroit]

@assman12354 aaah easy, I dont remember lol. The salyut's series progressed, from the spy thingy becoming more advanced, base after base. They were first generations space bases, kinda small and not upgradable and usually monotask (Mir is second generation, upgradable and able to do some multitasking). Almaz wad a military outpost, the last one deorbited in 92. It was equiped with a 23mm Nudemann selflubrificating auto gun. Used one time only in test, remote controlled. It disableb a old -cont

[Kenshiroit]

@Kenshiroit russian satelite used for fire testing. The other, never build almaz base, was suppose to have some kind of railgun. But the project was cancelled. Obiusly the soviets were afraid of the attack from a evil spaceshuttle trasporting space marines. ;-) Today we have the ISS who is upgradable and able to multitask from a scientific point of view. The future lays in the private market, like Bigalow or the russian equivalent. China also are preparing a space station.

[BjornPalmen]

@assman12354 Skylab was in orbit from 1973 to 1979, Mir was in orbit from 1986 to 1988.

[assman12354]

i'm not really sure what your refering to?

[Kenshiroit]

@BjornPalmen Mir was deorbited in '99

[M1ddleF1nger]

@BjornPalmen @Kenshiroit "Mir" was de-orbited 23 March 2001

[Kenshiroit]

@M1ddleF1nger your right! but I was sure it was in the '99. Thank you.

[BjornPalmen]

@Kenshiroit Wikipedia says:

The privately funded Soyuz TM-30 mission by MirCorp, launched on 4 April 2000, carried two crew members, Sergei Zalyotin and Alexandr Kaleri, to the station for two months to do repair work with the hope of proving that the station could be made safe. But this was to be the last manned mission to Mir. While Russia was optimistic about Mir's future, its commitments to the International Space Station project left no funding to support the ageing station.

[assman12354]

@kosiak10851 was that the wierd russian thing that held like 3 people for a month at a time that they used for spying?

[kosiak10851]

@assman12354 You make no sense. Whats So bad with spying, if CIA and FBI illegaly spy after whoever they want even today? Why don't you like space program of The Union of Soviet Socialistic Republics?

[assman12354]

@kosiak10851 I love the soviet space association,they allow the public to pay to go into space, and there rockets have a incredable realliability history, plus mir was one of the greatest achievements of man, i wasn't saying the thing I thought you were talking about was bad for spying, my very limited understanding of that is that it was basedsolely(or mostly) for spying, which is not a bad thing, I don't understand something though and i know i could look this up but what is unionsocialistrep?

[teslaglobal]

CARTOON SIMULTION.

[legion3721]

Commander Zarkonov was shooting dope again and nodded out too much hence he lost control of MIR. He has since got on methadone at the V.A. Hosp. but is grounded however.

[GameNinja13]

Why is it that I was dissapointed when I read the description and watched the movie and saw that they controlled it, I was hoping for an uncontrolled spin through the atmosphere and into the earth...

[jmr1068204]

Ironic that "Progress" caused it, eh?

[gavinovz]

Must of been a wild ride.

[radonhus]

hehe... good description of soviet space program!

[gavinovz]

HAHA. It lest the Soviet space program had some action. Are space program just seems to sit there..

[radonhus]

when they sent Fuglesang (first swede in space) to ISS, they had to delay due to bad weather, and there were space-flight old-boys saying that the russians would've launched anyway... =)

[tampatek]

wonderful grammer

[gavinovz]

Haha! Yeah I know! Darn dyslexia. XD

[chulk607]

@tampatek

"Grammer"? Oh dear.

[firefly4tori]

Fascinating blog with your video! Thanks for the post.

[starlionblue]

How ironic: an ancient method of navigation used in the space age. Do astronauts ever use sextants in space?

[youvebeenthunderstru]

They do.