Astronaut loses toolbag in space OOPS!
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Stumble ThisAstronaut H.S. Piper loses her toolbag while trying to clean something outside of the space shuttle while in space
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some day I'd like to be hurtling through the vacuum of space and just full-on chuck something down at Earth.
I have a question for the physicists - what would happen to an object thrown perpendicular to your orbit down toward earth? Disregard atmospheric drag. After one orbit, would that object come back up towards you as fast as you chucked it?
I have a question for the physicists - what would happen to an object thrown perpendicular to your orbit down toward earth? Disregard atmospheric drag. After one orbit, would that object come back up towards you as fast as you chucked it?
Good question.
Assumption: you don't throw it far enough towards Earth for atmospheric drag to matter, and you are more massive than the object.
my answer: I don't think so, and it's not a simple matter. Lets say you were in a perfectly circular orbit. You throw the object down and now it's in an eccentric orbit (and so are you, for that matter). It no longer has the same orbital period as you, because it has a longer semi-major axis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-major_axis) which means it has a slower orbit (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_period)
I could be wrong, though.
that's what i would've done
Also, the robotic arm takes far too long to deploy as well, so in either case the bag was just too far away too soon.
Love the frantic arm-flapping! 'Oh man oh man!'
I bet she was saying something worse than that.
Apparantly it would have been a super big deal to go after that toolkit.
Mankind is still a child in space.
robotic armCanadarm thank you very much!http://www.google.ca/search?rlz=1C1GGLS_en-USCA298&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=canadarm
I'm fucken doing it: *CANADA! IN MOTHERFUCKEN SPACE! WOO!
It was her fault for not realizing it wasn't tethered. It was the engineers on the grounds fault that it wasn't tethered in the first place.
It currently costs about $10,000 per pound to get any payload into space. If a toolbag weighs 30 pounds, that's $300,000 invested in getting it up there.
We need a space elevator!!!