And here's 1001 things not to do with the kids and Liquid Nitrogen: http://www.physik.uni-augsburg.de/~ubws/nitrogen.html
But most of them are safer than trying to start a barbecue with Liquid Oxygen:
http://www.ambrosiasw.com/Ambrosia_Time ... HowTo.html
Search found 113 matches
- Mon Jul 02, 2007 2:20 pm
- Forum: von Braun's World
- Topic: Informal space science education thread
- Replies: 56
- Views: 65285
- Mon Jul 02, 2007 11:35 am
- Forum: The Hab
- Topic: Space Camp and the end of the Shuttle Era
- Replies: 9
- Views: 8537
Space Camp and the end of the Shuttle Era
What should Space Camp be doing to plan for the post Shuttle era? Building simulators for Orion, the Lunar and Mars Landers? How will they handle the smaller crew sizes and still get enough "throughput?" Create their own "next generation" crewed spacecraft? If they did that, woul...
- Mon Jul 02, 2007 7:51 am
- Forum: von Braun's World
- Topic: Informal space science education thread
- Replies: 56
- Views: 65285
- Mon Jul 02, 2007 7:49 am
- Forum: von Braun's World
- Topic: Informal space science education thread
- Replies: 56
- Views: 65285
I was at Home Depot over the weekend looking for (and not finding) an o-ring to repair my outdoor hose connector (they said they don't stock them because they fail too often--honestly that's what they said--I don't know how they expect me to water my front lawn without one!) and found another idea f...
- Sat Jun 30, 2007 1:21 pm
- Forum: von Braun's World
- Topic: Informal space science education thread
- Replies: 56
- Views: 65285
Depending on the size of the bolts, you could superglue some velcro to one side of the nut and to the board to hold them. Another idea for the same basic task - threaded PVC pipe and fasteners. I bet the fasteners would be made neutrally buoyant with a little foam. The advantage would be everything ...
- Sat Jun 30, 2007 8:46 am
- Forum: von Braun's World
- Topic: Informal space science education thread
- Replies: 56
- Views: 65285
Des, You pretty much have what I'm thinking. Take a wrench, make it just float using some kind of foam and then use very small weights (and duct tape) until it's neutral. Don't wait for me to do this. I probably will some time this summer (my mom has a pool), but no guarantees of when. One thing abo...
- Fri Jun 29, 2007 6:53 am
- Forum: von Braun's World
- Topic: Informal space science education thread
- Replies: 56
- Views: 65285
- Thu Jun 28, 2007 3:02 pm
- Forum: The Hab
- Topic: Space Station Experiments and Such
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2390
Space Station Experiments and Such
We were talking over on the team size thread and the question of making the space station shift, particularly during long sims, more rewarding came up. When I was planning the Adult Level II pilot in 1990 I proposed having the teams design their experiments during the week and implement them during ...
- Thu Jun 28, 2007 2:54 pm
- Forum: The Hab
- Topic: Team size?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6711
Re: Team Size
I think that these positions have been less popular because not enough time and effort was put into developing them in the simulations. Agreed. Looking back at my planning documents from 1990, one of the things I had the MSs doing (our teams were two pilots and three MSs, five teams of five) was de...
- Thu Jun 28, 2007 1:39 pm
- Forum: SpaceCamp (The Movie)
- Topic: Live Free or Die Hard
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5742
- Thu Jun 28, 2007 9:29 am
- Forum: The Hab
- Topic: Wackiest Anomalies
- Replies: 36
- Views: 28741
- Thu Jun 28, 2007 9:18 am
- Forum: The Hab
- Topic: Team size?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6711
Team size?
What do you think makes up a good size for a team at Space Camp? Clarification: By a team I mean a crew that "flies" together, so a typical session with 16 people, 8 pilots and 8 MS would consist of four teams of four. In the past that was four teams of six, or five teams of five At one ti...
- Wed Jun 27, 2007 4:55 pm
- Forum: The Hab
- Topic: advanced academy endurance mission space madness
- Replies: 19
- Views: 14767
- Wed Jun 27, 2007 9:54 am
- Forum: The Hab
- Topic: advanced academy endurance mission space madness
- Replies: 19
- Views: 14767
Orbiter electrical schematics, binders full of shuttle information, and official NASA flight manuals were flying about MOCR; Exactly. We trained from NASA 2012 astronaut training manuals, had an indexed version of the Shuttle Press Guide, wrote software to compute Hohmann transfer and prox ops burn...
- Wed Jun 27, 2007 8:53 am
- Forum: von Braun's World
- Topic: Save Skylab
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7456
Save Skylab
From http://www.saveskylab.org She's Just Rotting Away June 27, 2007 The USSRC Skylab Restoration Effort is still on hold. Nothing has been done in 7 months to save her. This bit of US space history just keeps rotting away. The USSRC wants $2,000,000 dollars for a new building before work to save Sk...
- Wed Jun 27, 2007 8:05 am
- Forum: The Hab
- Topic: Wackiest Anomalies
- Replies: 36
- Views: 28741
Although there was a time I would have loved as many days as possible, 8 days is about all that is practical for me now. A week off of work (Saturday to Saturday) is possible once you're in the workforce. More than that is tough. That being said, if they aren't making money on 12 day, raise the pric...
- Wed Jun 27, 2007 7:18 am
- Forum: The Hab
- Topic: advanced academy endurance mission space madness
- Replies: 19
- Views: 14767
yeah i'd have to say that it takes a very strong individual not just physically but also mentally to cope with space travel. i can definitely see some sort of a space psychosis occurring. Well, it hasn't. It's a cheap trick for councilors who aren't willing to do the research to come up with real t...
- Tue Jun 26, 2007 1:02 pm
- Forum: The Hab
- Topic: Wackiest Anomalies
- Replies: 36
- Views: 28741
http://enterpriseteam.org/patches/t_etptch90.gif Not the wackiest, but the one which was the biggest challenge was the one we did for the 8 day pilot in 1990, where the PAM blew up right after it had cleared the orbiter, leading to lots of orbiter damage (loss of the control lines to the aft RCS an...