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Hello all, I haven't been doing much with Orbiter because of the press of various life events this year, including my daughter's wedding in June and the acquisition of my company in October. The latter event has taken much more of my time! Crazy amount of work on top of an already busy job (but...

I recorded a podcast for the 365 Days of Astronomy podcast series for the International Year of Astronomy. My podcast is called "Exploring Space with Your Computer" and is featured today (April 14). Since it's audio only, I made it into a sort of "radio play" about Orbiter, with sound effects...

Greg, I do apologize for that last remark, which was not intended to apply to you but to be a rather flip coda to the comments on the "secret Muslim" smear campaign proponents, which you surely are not. But since the post was initially a response to one of your comments, you could easily assume...

What are some of those things an honest, objective biographer would look at to determine what a person's religious beliefs are? Childhood experiences? Membership records in churches (or mosques)? Eyewitness statements of people who saw him believing in something? Can you actually see someone...

Everyone has a reptilian brain along with the other parts. That's where we get our fight-or-flight response and other basic instincts. I was not intending to say McCain supporters are stupid, only that the comments I hear from many people here and elsewhere suggest that they have not learned...

Yes, great post, sentimental and philosophical, but in a good way. Reminds me of the one time I went to Oktoberfest in Munich and drank (astonishingly) FOUR LITERS OF BEER in just a few hours with a group of people from the company where I was teaching a software seminar (unfortunately on a...

This whole thread is depressing on too many levels. It's interesting but not surprising that some of those best informed about what is going on in the USA are in Europe and Canada. They apparently have taken some time to learn about what Obama and McCain stand for before spouting streams of...

Amen indeed. It's amazing what is available on the web for people interested in space (and anything else), and Orbiter is more amazing than most things out there. When I do educational outreach presentations, I always include a couple of "live" Orbiter demos, and kids especially love this. Even...

Yes, I did have that checked, so I was surprised that RGB was my only choice. I didn't have the time or the need to investigate further. It was an XP machine in a classroom that was driving something called a "SmartBoard" - there was only one login available and I don't know whether it had Admin...

It is a good thing, but as I found out last night when I tested the classroom PC as a possible backup, you still need a decent PC and graphics card. The PC was a 3.0 GHz something, but on Orbiter's video tab, all it could find was "RGB" and a test scenario was 1 fps! Maybe it was an integrated...

Many people may already know this, but for those who don't... The fact that Orbiter is not "installed" like a typical Windows program with registry entries etc. is really a nice feature - it makes it very portable, easy to have multiple installations, easy to back up or delete. One cool thing...

NASAimages.org is a new NASA image site hosted not by NASA but by the Internet Archive. It already has many thousands of pictures and videos and great browse, search, and media features.

Thanks! I'll give that a try.

I know it's a few months away, but has anyone done anything yet with the shuttle fleet for STS-125, the final Hubble service mission? I'm mainly looking for the launch parameters to edit into an older Atlantis launch scn file, but if anyone has anything else in work (like the payload bay...

Thanks - I sent you a PM with some more info.

At the 2007 ISDC in Dallas, I gave a talk (1.1 MB PDF) about using Orbiter in education, and I handed out some flyers and a few CDR's of Orbiter materials. I just got the following email. Is there anyone on the forum in or near Dallas who might be able to help with this? I could help out with...

I had a deja vu experience thinking I'd posted in this thread before but maybe that was in M6 - it all blends together after 54 years or so... I'm an optical engineer working as the international distribution manager for a software company (optical design and simulation software), which is why...

This is really cool - Baxter's book was great, and the screenies look really cool. There was a previous add-on for this by Rich Wall, circa fall 2004. I can't get to Orbit Hangar now and I don't have the zip on this PC, but I found a text file called Apollo_Saturn2Mars_v0.98.txt which may have...

I haven't found it - it was on NASA TV today at 3 pm EDT so maybe the video will be archived here soon: http://www.space-multimedia.nl.eu.org/ Hawking also has some lectures on his web site, but not today's: http://www.hawking.org.uk/text/public/public.html And there is more extensive coverage...

This looks pretty interesting since it would seem to provide access within Orbiter to the most up to date JPL data for the planets and moons, along with a new Orbiter module that can propagate the state vectors for those objects (at least the ones for which you provide new cfg files) as Orbiter...