FRONT ALL RANDOM GADGETS SPORTS GAMING PICS WORLDNEWS VIDEOS ASKREDDIT AWW MUSIC FUNNMYORNEE W»S C O M M E N T S R E L AT E D WANT TO JOIN? LOG IN OR SIGN UP IN Week of August 23, 2015 'All Space SECONDS. ENGLISH Questions' Thread | Visit the /new queue and vote Discussion I am • Andreas Mogensen, European Space Agency astronaut from Denmark. In less than a week I leave Earth for the International Space Station, ten days later I will be back on terra firma. AMA! (self.space) submitted 33 minutes ago by AndreasMogensen search I am in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, tThiiss p poosts wta ws sausb msuittbemd oitnt e27d Aoung 2015 where I will be (90% upvoted) launched on 14 Soyuz spacecraft TMA-18M with https://redd.it/3ilxw0 Sergei Volkov and username password Aidyn Aimbetov. My mission, remember me reset password login called 'iriss', will last ten days and S U B M I T A N E W P O S T I will test new equipment and Unsubscribe 4,114,630 Intelligent Lifeforms operations for the About European Space Agency. Aidyn /r/space and I return in is dedicated to the insightful and thoughtful Soyuz TMA-16M discussion of outer space under commander Schedule Gennady Padalka, 27 Aug, we leave the GSLV Mk. 2 • GSAT 6 7:22am TMA-18M 27 Aug, spacecraft for Andreas Mogensen AMA on /r/Space 12pm Scott Kelly and 28 Aug, Mikael Proton • Inmarsat-5 F3 7:44am Korniyenko to use 30 Aug, when they return Supermoon 11:24am to Earth at the 31 Aug, end of their year- Atlas 5 • MUOS 4 6:07am long mission. Follow me via View Full Calendar http://andreasmo All times are in Eastern Time (GMT-4) gensen.esa.int. If you know of an event that should be here, Read more about message the moderators and let us know! the iriss mission: http://www.esa.int Allowed submissions /iriss Follow my Top-level source news and articles about outer mission live with space the iriss blog: Directly linked, quality images with a strong connection to Space/Astronomy/Cosmology http://blogs.esa.in (must use the original source of image) t/iriss Informative and thought provoking self-posts We will be Discussions about outer space launched 2 September at Disallowed submissions 04:34 GMT. I am now in quarantine Submissions with no direct connection to at the cosmonaut Space/Astronomy/Cosmology. This includes "circlejerky" submissions or space-related art, hotel preparing with the exception of art from space agencies and counting the or historically-significant art. days until I say Memes, image macros, comics, and other low- goodbye to Earth. quality/low-effort images Ask Me Anything! Editorialized, sensationalized, personalized, vague, misleading, generic, or pandering titles 27 comments share Re-hosted content, with the exception of GIF/WebMs with a link to the original source in All 27 Comments the comments DAE/TIL/ELI5/PSA/[SERIOUS]/CMV/[FIXED] styled titles Websites that utilize a paywall Petitions/surveys/crowdfunders [–] micke8516 [score hidden] 28 minutes ago Mobile links/link shorteners/facebook links Hello Andreas. What kind of medical Any form of spam/blogspam testing does an Astronaut have to go Enabling or linking to piracy through to be physically and mentally Reposts fit for duty? permalink Use KarmaDecay to check if your image has already been submitted. [–] A ndreasMogensen [S ] [score hidden] Hover over the link for details just now We have an annual medical Use reddit's search function to check if exam, which includes blood and your article/image has already been urine tests, hearing and eyesight submitted tests, and a VO2 max test on a Google "site:reddit.com/r/space search treadmill. terms" to check if your article/image has already been submitted The really big medical exam is performed during the astronaut Disallowed comments selection, which was back in 2009 for me. During the Low-effort comments or ones that do not selection, we spent a full week contribute to discussion going through every conceivable Comments consisting solely of an image medical test you can think of, MRI Memes, image macros, jokes, circlejerking, or scans, x-rays, ultrasound. spamming The most important thing for an Trolling, insults, or excessive hostility astronaut nowadays is to be Link shorteners or Facebook links healthy with minimal risk of Unmarked NSFW links developing a serious illness later Enabling or linking to piracy We reserve the right to moderate at our own discretion. in life. permalink parent [–] TampaRay [score hidden] 27 minutes ago Subreddits Hi Andreas, thanks for doing this AMA. /r/KerbalSpaceProgram /r/space_settlement My questions are: /r/SpaceLaunchSystem /r/SpaceVideos 1) You recently announced on twitter /r/nasa /r/astrophotography that your Soyuz rendezvous with the /r/SpaceWalls /r/esa ISS was switched from the typical 6 /r/spacex /r/backtothemoon hour docking, to an older two day rendezvous. How does this affect your This section is randomized every hour, from our duties at the ISS? Presumably your small space subreddits multireddit workload will be switched around a little to reflect your delayed arrival, Traffic Stats no? 2) How do you feel about having to be Want to see our traffic statistics? Click here for in the Soyuz for two days as opposed further information. to the originally planned 6 hours? Are you dreading it a little, disappointed IRC Channel that you'll have less time at the ISS, etc... Visit our irc channel to chat with fellow users on irc.snoonet.org/6667 at #space. Once again, thanks for doing this, and have fun in space! Messaging The Moderators permalink [–] A ndreasMogensen [S ] [score hidden] 5 minutes ago If you believe that your submission was caught by the spam filter or you have any You're welcome! questions/concerns, feel free to message us. 1) The Columbus Control Center (COL-CC) in Munich is working overtime at the moment, trying to a community for 7 years replan my activities on the ISS. I'll do my best to try to complete everything but most likely some activities will have to be cancelled, since my stay on board ISS has been shortened from 10 days to 8 days. 2) Something interesting happened. Before the switch to two-day rendezvous, Soyuz was a means of transportation, similar to a bus or an airplane. But now it will be our home, in a way, and unconsciously I have begun to discuss this ad on reddit think of it similar to a camping trip, or almost a little mini- Moderators message the moderators adventure before our arrival at the ISS. ManWithoutModem permalink parent relic2279 [–] dslsynth [score hidden] 24 minutes ago kjoneslol Hi Andreas! panickedthumb Just saw the robot remote control Chezzik experiment mentioned via ESA ggitaliano twitter. Here are some IT related Walter_Bishop_PhD questions regarding this experiment: Captainpatch ...and 12 more » 1) What is the round trip times between ISS and a ground based < > discussions in /r/space X internet connection with TCP/IP The Martian Teaser Trailer - internet protocols? Featuring Neil DeGrasse Tyson. 2) Any idea of how often the TCP Matt Damon, Ridley Scott Sci-Fi Movie protocol will have to retransmit and hence introduce delays once a connection is established? Thanks in advance and cheeers from goodie oldie Denmark, dslsynth permalink [–] A ndreasMogensen [S ] [score hidden] 3 minutes ago Wow, those are some specific engineering questions. I will have to defer that question to ESA and the engineers behind the Haptics/Interact and Meteron experiments. permalink parent [–] Tanok89 [score hidden] 27 minutes ago Hej Andreas! Seeing as your flight to ISS is now two days, I was wondering if you are going to eat the most delicious food yourself or if you are going to share it? Also, what is space rocks? You know, the stuff in your package of bonus food. Oh, and how will you pass time aboard the Soyuz? PS: Du er ret sej, jeg er stor fan! Held og lykke. permalink [–] freshpondindian16 [score hidden] 26 minutes ago Hi Andreas. Good luck, and thank you for doing the AMA. Seeing as many of the astronauts are from different countries, how does the equipment thing work. Are things like spacesuits and communications equipment the same across countries, or is it different but all works together? Thanks! permalink [–] micke8516 [score hidden] 21 minutes ago Do you bring a smartphone or a tablet with you ? permalink [–] collectSPA CE [score hidden] 21 minutes ago Andreas, ESA and LEGO recently announced you'll be sharing space on the station with 20 iriss-adorned LEGO minifigures. Can you describe the story behind them? What role will they play in your outreach activities? permalink [–] dslsynth [score hidden] 19 minutes ago Space weather and astronaut health: A) Could an intense solar storm delay your trip to space? B) Are you less protected in the Soyuz than in the most protected place inside ISS? permalink [–] 31337h4x0r [score hidden] 17 minutes ago Thanks for doing the AMA! How much Russian is required for an ISS mission and the training leading up to it, and when did you start learning it? permalink [–] SpaceSpheres108 [score hidden] 16 minutes ago Hi Andreas, what was it about you that caused the ESA to select you in 2009? I hope to follow in your footsteps someday; everything you do looks amazing, even the training! Also, what do you think we should be focusing on in terms of human spaceflight at the moment? permalink [–] micke8516 [score hidden] 15 minutes ago Is it possible to move about in the Soyuz capsule. Looks kind of crowded. permalink [–] vincentcqd [score hidden] 15 minutes ago Hi Andreas, Currently there are 6 crew members aboard the ISS.