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Genesis 2, an inflatable module laden with cameras, personal items and a Space Bingo game, rocketed spaceward atop a Dnepr booster from a silo at Yasny Launch Base, an active Russian strategic missile base in the country's Orenburg region. Liftoff occurred at 11:02 a.m. EDT (1502 GMT) though it was near evening at the Russian launch site.
Genesis 2 is a near-twin of Bigelow Aerospace's Genesis 1 module, which launched in July 2006 and remains operational today, but carries a series of enhancements and additional cargo, the Las Vegas, Nevada-based spaceflight firm has said. Both spacecraft are prototypes for future commercial orbital complexes that Bigelow Aerospace, and its founder and president Robert Bigelow, hope to offer for use by private firms and national space agencies.
Genesis 2 is the first Bigelow Aerospace module to carry a clutch of personal items under the firm's "Fly Your Stuff" campaign, which allowed paying customers to load photographs and other possessions to ride into orbit and be captured by onboard cameras.
Also tucked aboard Genesis 2 are a Space Bingo game and Biobox filled with ant farms, scorpions and Madagascar hissing cockroaches.
SOURCE:
Space.com
Originally posted by sostyles
great post, just so im clear why a space bingo game??? are there people aboard this capsule?
Also tucked aboard Genesis 2 are a Space Bingo game and Biobox filled with ant farms, scorpions and Madagascar hissing cockroaches.
Originally posted by bokinsmowl
just great, now we can dull the minds and ruin the ecosystem of the whole solar system. as humans we're just not very bright in the whole scheme of things.
Originally posted by iori_komei
I agree that there are other ecosystems in the galaxy and the Universe at large,
but I'm just saying that in our solar system, Earth is the only planet that has one,
in the sense that it's more than a few pockets of microbes.
Originally posted by iori_komei
You could'nt land on Jupiter, since it's essentially a gig ball of gas with a molten/liquid
metal or hydrogen core.
The Moon is a barren wasteland with temperature extremes on each side and exposed to massive amounts of radiation, not to mention that while it may/does have frozen ice,
they are frozen solid in -333 Fº craters.