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"On board were International Space Station Expedition 56-57 crew members [i]Sergey Prokopyev[/i]...." Didn't he write the music, [i]Peter and the Rocket[/i]?

A little planet for The Little Prince.

[quote=Ann post_id=283357 time=1529044440 user_id=129702]

That's a very big rocket to overcome the puny gravity of that little boulder of a planet.

But perhaps the planet isn't a planet, but a white dwarf? Or a neutron star? Sorry, proud rocket.
I don't know what kind of engines you'd need to take off from a neutron star, but in any case, you wouldn't stand so tall![/quote]
If the Earth were crushed to a diameter of ~80 m (almost white dwarf density)
it would have an escape velocity of ~0.015 c.

[quote="Jim Leff" post_id=283368 time=1529076598 user_id=130924]

Why did it take two days to reach ISS? And why does the caption say "just" two days?[/quote]

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/structure/elements/soyuz/timeline_orbit.html

It would be nice if we could get back to ASTRONOMY pictures on ASTRONOMY Picture Of the Day ! I'm tired of weather (cloudbow) pictures and heavily photoshopped rockets (today). There are billions of actual astronomical objects of which to post pictures.

Why did it take two days to reach ISS? And why does the caption say "just" two days?

If it were a neutron star, intense gravity would crush the metal in a thin layer over the surface

This APOD reminds me of a song that was on Disney, perhaps the Mickey Mouse Club, that went something like; "It's a small world after all, it's a small, small world."

Le petit prince!

That's a very big rocket to overcome the puny gravity of that little boulder of a planet.

But perhaps the planet isn't a planet, but a white dwarf? Or a neutron star? Sorry, proud rocket. I don't know what kind of engines you'd need to take off from a neutron star, but in any case, you wouldn't stand so tall!

(But I can see what looks like grass and bushes growing on the little planet... I didn't think that kind of stuff would grow on a neutron star...)

Ann

[url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap180615.html] [img]https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_180615.jpg[/img] [size=150]Little Planet Soyuz[/size][/url]

[b] Explanation: [/b] [url=https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/astronauts-safely-in-orbit-following-launch-to-international-space-station] Engines blazing[/url], a large rocket bids farewell to this little planet. Of course, the little planet is really planet Earth and the large rocket is a [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz-FG]Soyuz-FG[/url] rocket. Launched from the [url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap161117.html]Baikonur Cosmodrome[/url] in Kazakhstan on June 6 it carried a Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft into orbit. On board were [url=https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html] International Space Station[/url] Expedition 56-57 crew members Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos, Serena Aunon-Chancellor of NASA and Alexander Gerst of ESA. Their spacecraft successfully docked with humanity's orbiting outpost just two days later. The little planet projection is the [url=https://www.360cities.net/image/soyuz-ms-09-launch-baikonur]digitally warped and stitched[/url] mosaic of images covering 360 by 180 degrees, captured during the 2018 [url=https://www.360cities.net/sets/image_sets/star-trek-car-expedition/]Star Trek car expedition[/url].


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