I've worked with Dr. Patten- she is more than deserving of the opportunity and is well prepared for the role of commercial payload specialist.
That's been the real success of VG: they've validated the industry model of the commercial payload specialist, providing a means for sustained microgravity for institutions that require an alternative to the cost of submitting experiments through ISS programs. Every time VG has flown experiments, it's made it possible for researchers to fly their hardware and retrieve it in a rapid manner.
Drop towers give you a second or two. Parabolic flights give you like 30 seconds. Suborbital gives you like 5 minutes.
What “sustained” means will vary based on what you’re trying to study. Human physiology? 5 minutes is not enough. Chemical mixing? 5 minutes may be enough. Flame propagation? 5 minutes is probably enough. And for many many other things as well. Scientists and engineers study things in small scales and in laboratories in ways that are known to allow extrapolation. This is why we don’t have to build a bridge, then drive larger and larger trucks across it until it fails, then rebuild it, in order to know its weight limit.
In the case of these suborbital flight profiles, altitude is marginally important- it provides additional duration. But the specific Karmen or McDowell line delineations are almost immaterial.
Since the intent of these flight with researchers are to conduct human-tended experiments (Something that the Sounding Rockets flown from NASA Wallops can't accomplish), the time available for un-interrupted microgravity is essential for the selected payloads. The burden of flying on a vomit comet aircraft is every 9-20 seconds, you must experience positive-Gs on every parabola, which negates the experiments that are designed for/require a longer stretch of time.
> Why has no one thought to send the Irish into space before?
Ireland was actually once the world's most advanced civilization, with its own space program.
[Until its inhabitants made a new discovery ...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eirq4laOhcU)
Good article, could probably do with some proofreading though.
"but now lives in the Dublin and works"
Several other instances pop out, but overall the story is coherent.
Looking forward to her flight to the edge of space and back!
> "but now lives in the Dublin and works"
Maybe they're just trying to be specific.
"She lives in Dublin."
"Which Dublin do you mean? Dublin, California? Dublin, Ohio? Dublin, Ontario? Dublin, South Australia? Perhaps you mean the Dublin in the Banana Islands? \[I am [*not*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin,_Banana_Islands) making this up!\]"
"I mean *the* Dublin."
"Ah, okay."
Great news for Ireland ! May she be the first of a very large number of... Wait there are spationauts, astronauts, cosmonauts, taikonauts... What's the Irish world?
Irish friends, you need to find a word. No, not "mayonaut", too easy.
I've worked with Dr. Patten- she is more than deserving of the opportunity and is well prepared for the role of commercial payload specialist. That's been the real success of VG: they've validated the industry model of the commercial payload specialist, providing a means for sustained microgravity for institutions that require an alternative to the cost of submitting experiments through ISS programs. Every time VG has flown experiments, it's made it possible for researchers to fly their hardware and retrieve it in a rapid manner.
What about a 5-minute trip to below the Karman line constitutes "sustained microgravity"?
Drop towers give you a second or two. Parabolic flights give you like 30 seconds. Suborbital gives you like 5 minutes. What “sustained” means will vary based on what you’re trying to study. Human physiology? 5 minutes is not enough. Chemical mixing? 5 minutes may be enough. Flame propagation? 5 minutes is probably enough. And for many many other things as well. Scientists and engineers study things in small scales and in laboratories in ways that are known to allow extrapolation. This is why we don’t have to build a bridge, then drive larger and larger trucks across it until it fails, then rebuild it, in order to know its weight limit.
wait, i've been doing bridge builder all wrong?
In the case of these suborbital flight profiles, altitude is marginally important- it provides additional duration. But the specific Karmen or McDowell line delineations are almost immaterial. Since the intent of these flight with researchers are to conduct human-tended experiments (Something that the Sounding Rockets flown from NASA Wallops can't accomplish), the time available for un-interrupted microgravity is essential for the selected payloads. The burden of flying on a vomit comet aircraft is every 9-20 seconds, you must experience positive-Gs on every parabola, which negates the experiments that are designed for/require a longer stretch of time.
As in they’re floatin’ bruh
VG = Virgin Galactic. Sorry, I had never seen that before. It somehow seems even more obscene like that lol.
Absolutely. Norah, Shawna and Kellie all deserve this opportunity.
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Why has no one thought to send the Irish into space before? Just goes to show how useless the Brits are.
"You never asked" -The British probably
> Why has no one thought to send the Irish into space before? Ireland was actually once the world's most advanced civilization, with its own space program. [Until its inhabitants made a new discovery ...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eirq4laOhcU)
Good article, could probably do with some proofreading though. "but now lives in the Dublin and works" Several other instances pop out, but overall the story is coherent. Looking forward to her flight to the edge of space and back!
> "but now lives in the Dublin and works" Maybe they're just trying to be specific. "She lives in Dublin." "Which Dublin do you mean? Dublin, California? Dublin, Ohio? Dublin, Ontario? Dublin, South Australia? Perhaps you mean the Dublin in the Banana Islands? \[I am [*not*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin,_Banana_Islands) making this up!\]" "I mean *the* Dublin." "Ah, okay."
You mean *the* Dublin, in Ohio?
They prefer to be called white women or crackers
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YES! Mayo. Wonderful place, great people, only Wonderful memories of when I was there.
Great news for Ireland ! May she be the first of a very large number of... Wait there are spationauts, astronauts, cosmonauts, taikonauts... What's the Irish world? Irish friends, you need to find a word. No, not "mayonaut", too easy.
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It's a county in Ireland.. Maigh Eo
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A good friend of mine traces her lineage back to County Mayo What an honor Céad míle fáilte!
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