Re: record 19 people in space right now

On 9/13/2024 11:22 PM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:

On 9/13/24 20:33, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:

In article <vc2msh$1425l$2@dont-email.me>,
Cryptoengineer  <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:

On 9/13/2024 4:42 PM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:

In article <vc2601$115s1$1@dont-email.me>,
Lynn McGuire  <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

  From one of my buddies:
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“If I'm counting correctly, there are a record 19 people in space right
now.  There is the normal 7 person ISS crew, the two astronauts that
flew to ISS on the Boeing Starliner test flight, the three who just
arrived on ISS via the Russian Soyuz for a standard crew rotation, the
four commercial astronauts on the Polaris Dawn Dragon mission, and the
three crew on the Chinese space station.  That's 7 + 2 + 3 + 4 +3 = 19.”
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Amazing.  Maybe we will hit 100 in the next ten years.
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That we know of!

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Here's a thought experiment. Would it be possible to launch a manned
rocket into orbit secretly?
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I don't think it could be done without Russia and the US noticing,
due to their missile tracking radars.
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The actual launch might be hidden, by launching from a ship in the
empty part of the South Pacific, but once in orbit it would be
picked up. Rocket launches are visible literally hundreds of miles
away at night, maybe less so in the day. Clouds would help.
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Perhaps if it wasn't launched to orbit, but directly to planetary
space?
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pt

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Are you counting alien abductees, crusaders & Roman Legionaires?

      Don't forget the CroMagnons taken by aliens to learn about
the potenial of the new species. The abducted Atlanteans as well,
rescued as the volcano they built on exploded.
 As for a launch into interplanetary space so far we are showing np
sign of such marveleous progress.  Rich amateurs have been sitting
in the Van Allen Belt which is a bad place to stick around.  So
they are up about 800 miles which is much futher out than ISS.
 Van Allen Belt are extensive but consist most of energised
electrons so rather easy to insulate against but maybe a ship
or real Space Station as visualized back in the 1950s, a slender
donut shaper rotating to stimulate Gravity might also
want to generate its own magnetic fields to shunt these
radiations aside.  Such protective fields could be generated
through by electricity generated by mirror focused sunlight
as is done in the California desert.
      bliss

You forgot the teleporters bouncing in and out of orbit driving Space Command nuts.  For more info see "Exo: A Jumper Novel" by Steven Gould.
    https://www.amazon.com/Exo-Jumper-Novel-Steven-2015-08-04/dp/B01HCADPDY/
Lynn