Description NASA has been busy planning for a new spacecraft, the Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV), to be able to rendezvous with the ISS and then to take a crew back to the moon in conjunction with the Lunar Surface Access Module (LSAM). A Crew Launch Vehicle, named Ares I, derived from the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster (SRB) will deliver the CEV to low Earth Orbit (LEO) while a larger rocket, Ares 5, will deliver ISS cargo of the LSAM to LEO. Once in LEO, the CEV and LSAM will dock and a J-2X Earth Departure Stage (EDS) will deliver the CEV/LSAM to Low Lunar Orbit (LLO) at 100 km. The EDS is discarded and CEV/LSAM temporarily decouple. The LSAM then performs the Lunar Orbit Insertion (LOI) to deliver the LSAM to the lunar surface will all 4 astronauts onboard. After some amount of time on the surface, an ascent stage from the LSAM boosts the crew back to LLO and the ascent stage docks with the unattended CEV. The ascent stage is discarded and the service module section of the CEV boosts the crew module (with crew) towards Earth reentry, and the service module is then discarded. The crew module reenters the upper atmosphere and an ablative heat shield slows the craft to a point where it is captured by the Earth. Parachutes then slow the crew module for a land (or sea in emergencies) landing. Whew, safe at last from solar storms! Ares V will be able to launch 130 metric tons LEO inclined at 28.5 degrees or it can deliver 55 metric tons to trans-lunar orbit. By comparison, the <b>...</b>NASA, CEV, CLV, calv, Ares, aresi, Ares1, aresv, Ares5, vision, lunar, moon, ISS, spacecraft, rocket, Ares1-x, 1-x, stage, LOX, LH2, EDS, nave, espacial, naves, espaciais, human, exploration, mars, space, international, station, earth, national, aeronautics, administration, crew, science, planetary, fuel, houston, cape, florida, obama, education, video, shuttle, booster, orbit, 40th, anniversary, landing, July, 20, 1969, augustine, commission, results, canceled, orion, project, aether, vasimr, ad, astraNASA's canceled spacecraft and rockets, Orion and Ares 1-Xhttp://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/9wXx3vMy_AQ2009-04-28T06:28:14.000Z2012-05-27T17:51:29.000ZTrackIR5 & ArmA2 Premiere (TrackIR 5, DayZ)Introductory video for the TrackIR5 from NaturalPoint, shown in conjunction with ArmA2 by Bohemia Interactive. trackir.dslyecxi.com Definitely watch this in HD. It shows pretty much everything you could want to know about TIR5, with lots of in-game footage as well as a look at the TIR software and hardware. Feel free to ask questions in the comments. I'll get them as I see them. Note that there are two comments that I will outright delete as of June 29th, due to having addressed them about 50 times already and having grown tired of it. The first is "this sucks you have to look away from the monitor". My response to this is that you have not watched the video if you think that's the case. Watch it again, or look through the comments and see where I have already addressed that question. The second response is "you can use ALT it's just as good". My response to that is simply that no, it isn't "just as good", it's actually quite different. ALT forces you to use your mouse to control your view - TIR allows you to control your view with your head and use your mouse to aim It's pretty clearly different, and nobody who has used a TIR would say that ALT is the same. Aside from those two types of comments, I'll approve pretty much anything. My system specs are: Quad core @ 2.66GHz Geforce 285 4GB DDR3 RAM WinXPDslyecxihttp://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/DslyecxiGamesIntroductory video for the TrackIR5 from NaturalPoint, shown in conjunction with ArmA2 by Bohemia Interactive. trackir.dslyecxi.com Definitely watch this in HD. It shows pretty much everything you could want to know about TIR5, with lots of in-game footage as well as a look at the TIR software and hardware. Feel free to ask questions in the comments. I'll get them as I see them. Note that there are two comments that I will outright delete as of June 29th, due to having addressed them about 50 times already and having grown tired of it. The first is "this sucks you have to look away from the monitor". My response to this is that you have not watched the video if you think that's the case. Watch it again, or look through the comments and see where I have already addressed that question. The second response is "you can use ALT it's just as good". My response to that is simply that no, it isn't "just as good", it's actually quite different. ALT forces you to use your mouse to control your view - TIR allows you to control your view with your head and use your mouse to aim It's pretty clearly different, and nobody who has used a TIR would say that ALT is the same. Aside from those two types of comments, I'll approve pretty much anything. My system specs are: Quad core @ 2.66GHz Geforce 285 4GB DDR3 RAM WinXP
