No konečně se NASA ozývá:
Head of NASA: Congress, Stop Paying Russia to Send Americans to Space
http://gizmodo.com/head-of-nasa-congress-stop-paying-russia-to-send-amer-1727293604

http://www.wired.com/...5/08/congress-dont-make-us-hitch-rides-russia-love-nasa/?mbid=social_twitter

The letter, published at Wired, doesn’t waste a moment getting to the point. “Congress, Don’t Make Us Hitch Rides with Russia. Love, NASA”
is the title. It details a big grievance that’s emerged since America stopped launching spacecraft over four years ago: Currently, we pay
Russia a crap ton of money to send Americans to the International Space Station. Bolden says that NASA had to recently pay the Russian
Federal Space Agency $490 million to send Americans to space aboard Russian spacecraft.

XCHAOS: těch 19 ("Objem") je objem s atmosférou, ale obyvatelných je z toho jen 8.95 m³ (na obrázku v bublině)

Ve 13:44 našeho času startuje z Bajkonuru Proton-M. Náklad je družice Inmarsat 5F3.
Jde o první start Protonu po květnové havárce. Přenos z Bajkonuru níže.

Center for Operation of Space Ground-Based Infrastructure - Source #2
http://www.tsenki.com/en/broadcast/broadcast/live2.php

RLSO: protože jsem si to špatně přečetl, Orion (8.95 m³) má obyvatelnej objem srovnatelnej s Dragonem (10.00 m³)

THERIDANE:
RLSO: Moje pointa je v tom, ze pokud se ten konicky tvar priblizi napr. dragonovi tak se objem samozrejme zvetsi - takze je mozne i zvysit hmotnost.

Takze si myslim, ze ten zvoleny tvar bude asi zaviset na vztahu hmotnosti lodi a kapacity nosice???

THERIDANE: neviem... ad "objem je asi blbost" - preco (sorry, rano som lenivy na matematiku)?

podla mna sa velky objem celkom hodi, ked sa ma potencialne letiet dalej ako LEO - ak som to spravne pochopil, Dragon sa ma vyuzivt na "nedaleke" cesty, zatial co Orion na pripadne lety k asteroidom/(Mars) - tam mi ten priestor pride celkom potrebny vzhladom na dlzku trvania letu... len taka uvaha - kludne ma opravte ako som uplne mimo

THERIDANE: i když ten objem je asi blbost :) jen ta hmotnost je 2x větší

JAKKILLER: Orion je proti Dragonovi 2x těžší a má 2x větší užitečnej objem, tak tu větší brzdící plochu asi potřebuje

XCHAOS:

v souvislosti s timhle obrazkem, jaka je vyhoda vetsiho prumeru zakladny Orionu v pomeru ke skoro stejne vysce jako u ostatnich lodi?

Prijde mi ze to maximalne zvysuje prumer nosice a tim i aerodynamicky odpor, nevyplatilo by se to zdragonovatet napr.?

v knize Planetary Systems and the Origins of Life je diskusi hypotezy o biologickym puvodu skvrn venovana cela velmi zajimava kapitola. viz strana 261 v pdf:

Life in the dark dune spots of Mars: a testable hypothesis - ResearchGate
http://www.researchgate.net/...n/252158441_Life_in_the_dark_dune_spots_of_Mars_a_testable_hypothesis

ABSTRACT: This chapter presents one of the very rare exobiological hypotheses. The main thesis is that there could be life in the dark dune spots (DDSs) of the southern polar region of Mars, at latitudes between –60° and –80°. The spots have a characteristic annual morphological cycle and it is suspected that liquid water forms in them every year. We propose that a consortium of simple organisms (similar to bacteria) comes to life each year, driven by sunlight absorbed by the photosynthetic members of the consortium. A crucial feature of the proposed habitat is that life processes take place only under the cover of water ice/frost/snow. By the time this frost disappears from the dunes, the putative microbes, named Mars surface organisms (MSOs) must revert to a dormant state. The hypothesis has been worked out in considerable detail, it has not been convincingly refuted so far, and it is certainly testable by available scientific methods. We survey some of the history of, the logic behind, the testable predictions of, and the main challenges to the DDS-MSO hypothesis.

RLSO: vlastne nevim, jestli se nejaka takova mise planuje ani jaka jsou rizika. ale nasel jsem tenhle text:

Landing Site Proposals for Next Mars Landers: Possibility to Explore Astrobiology Relevant Locations in the Souther Polar Region of Mars - 45th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2014)
http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2014/pdf/2416.pdf

Eearlier the Hungarian Mars Astrobiology Group proposed the MSO-DDS hypothesis which supposed that living organisms may couse the darkening of frost cover at Polar Regions of Mars. Regardless the possible hypothetic living organisms, these sites are still interesting because of the conditions annually favorably for the ephemeral occurrence of microscopic liquid water. Several exciting landing sites at Southern Polar Region frosted fields, like the Pityusa Patera, the Inca City, and other craters in the subpolar belt are discussed below. The main goal is these sites are suitable for the ephemeral appearance of microscopic liquid water, and in theory even for hypotheticallyorganisms too, 1-3 mm below the soil surface (tens of centimeters below the frost) are there existing or not.