Fram2 Crew Returns To Earth After Polar Orbit Mission (cnn.com) 23
SpaceX's Fram2 mission returned safely after becoming the first crewed spaceflight to orbit directly over Earth's poles. From a report: Led by cryptocurrency billionaire Chun Wang, who is the financier of this mission, the Fram2 crew has been free-flying through orbit since Monday. The group splashed down at 9:19 a.m. PT, or 12:19 p.m. ET, off the coast of California -- the first West Coast landing in SpaceX's five-year history of human spaceflight missions. The company livestreamed the splashdown and recovery of the capsule on its website.
During the journey, the Fram2 crew members were slated to carry out various research projects, including capturing images of auroras from space and documenting their experiences with motion sickness. [...] This trip is privately funded, and such missions allow for SpaceX's customers to spend their time in space as they see fit. For Fram2, the crew traveled to orbit prepared to carry out 22 research and science experiments, some of which were designed and overseen by SpaceX. Most of the research involves evaluating crew health.
During the journey, the Fram2 crew members were slated to carry out various research projects, including capturing images of auroras from space and documenting their experiences with motion sickness. [...] This trip is privately funded, and such missions allow for SpaceX's customers to spend their time in space as they see fit. For Fram2, the crew traveled to orbit prepared to carry out 22 research and science experiments, some of which were designed and overseen by SpaceX. Most of the research involves evaluating crew health.
Fram2? (Score:2, Funny)
Did they do some experimenting with oil filters?
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A very apropos name for the first mission to visit both polar regions on the moon, I'd say.
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Too bad they didn't go to the moon. It was an Earth orbit.
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Apparently, moving your head rapidly with your eyes closed in zero-gee induces instantaneous motion sickness in most people, a sensation neither associated with, nor conducive to pleasure
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On a historical note, I remember an episode of Mythbusters in which they tried some things that cause dizziness and nausea. One thing they did was to have a person sit in a slowly-turning chair, while tilting their head front, then back, then left, then right once a second with eyes closed. As I recall it was really effective at causing vomiting.
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Everybody Chun Wang tonight!
Very scientific (Score:3, Insightful)
various research projects, including capturing images of auroras from space and documenting their experiences with motion sickness.
They took pictures and got motion sick.
Tourists do this every day on boats, but this was on a space ship so it's SCIENCE!
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tbf we have very little experience or knowledge of how non-trained tourists react in zero-G for any significant period of time. Most space missions involve people who have trained years for it.
Documenting observations is a form of science. Documenting observations under different conditions is still necessary science. We extensively studied how people get motion sick on boats in the past too.
While this is just a bunch of tourists, don't be so quick to dismiss.
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Humanity has been flying in space for over six decades. In that time, lots of people went to space without training on how to cope with weightlessness. Lots of experience has been gathered on that front. I don't see how sending "tourists" will reveal anything new.
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Indeed, calling it a "mission" is laughable. A mission has a purpose, a goal, success and failure criteria. These were just billionaires on a joyride.
It's nothing new of course. Many "discoveries" were just rich people gallivanting around the world for their own amusement, in centuries past. I use quotes because of course most of those places were discovered long before they got there, they were just new to Europeans.
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As long as there is no spreading santorum involved, [wikipedia.org] NASA should okay it.
No ancient hack actor (Score:1)
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No one cared
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No one cared
Correction:
True adventurers, scientists, and engineers cared.
Partisan ones are too busy tagging Teslas and Jewish businesses with swasticas.
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Lol, OK.
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Actually, we do care under normal circumstances. Unfortunately, that week was the epitome of "non normal" circumstances. So this event, which I normally would have most enthusiastically followed, got interrupted by the greatest two day drop in Stock Market History and the gnawing knowledge that we have a madman in charge of our country who is giving power to another madman (Musk).
I used to defend Musk and his eccentricities. No more. I cannot support him and any of his companies now, even though I am a huge