If you are interested in this kind of stuff this is called Macro photography and it can be very complicated or confusing when you start but it’s very rewarding and after you get the basics it’s not hard. For some truly mind blowing photos I suggest you check out Alison Pollack on Instagram she has placed in several world wide macro photo Competitions and she specializes in fungi.
If I’m ever in space I’m going to be extra wary of any behavior that makes someone as not a team player. Preferably we would have no eccentricities and we would just go up and come right back without learning anything.
What am I saying. I don’t know shit. I just would never put myself in that situation.
It’s common for scientists to prefer a decimal point in their measurements because they are inherently limited precision, but “1 mm” leaves some ambiguity as to whether you meant 1.0 mm or 0.1 cm. It’s a matter of significant digits, since leading zeros are ignored.
The article was in depth, but absolutely fit the bill of “interesting as fuck”.
“Payload specialists” were essentially passengers. They had basic training but were not professional astronauts. Their main job was to perform experiments, not operate the spacecraft.
After Wang nearly lost his shit commanders on the next few missions locked the hatch. After the complicated Apollo hatch led to … problems NASA started making hatches that were easy to open, perhaps too easy. One astronaut described it as flipping a switch, turning a wheel once, and letting all the air out. Those commanders didn’t want someone going apeshit and killing everyone. Ironically the payload specialists weren’t the biggest threat.
They don’t make it super clear in the article but astronauts at the time we’re getting basically every drug and medicine that wouldn’t impair their work to test their effects in microgravity. On a later mission a professional astronaut had a bad reaction to one of the drugs he’d been given and had to be restrained by his crew mates from taking “drastic action”.
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