Spaaaaace (Part 1)

Hey, you know that old saying about airplanes. Any landing that you can walk swim away from is a good one, right? :wink:

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well, yeah;

but you want to be alive to do so, right? :grimacing:

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:face_with_symbols_over_mouth: WTF? Commander of the Boeing mission is a creationist???

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Better a creationist than a flat-earther I guess.

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Checking the timing of the radio bursts, the team found that they could be explained by an object that emitted bursts every 54 minutes, with bursts lasting from 10 seconds to just under a minute. Checking additional observations, however, showed that there were often instances where a 54-minute period would not end with a radio burst, suggesting the source sometimes skipped radio emissions entirely.

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The speech he gave before the aborted launch on Saturday seemed awfully bible-thumpy to me. I guess this explains why.

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im not saying ancient aliens GIF by Giffffr

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The fully reusable starship has entered it’s space shuttle phase


(Spiraling complexity and reduced capacity)

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Any landing for which you are dead, and walking away, you’ve probably got a whole lot of new, different problems about to unfold.

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just for the fun of it; the air-torching of the front fin til splashdown (2x speedup, ~4 min.)

01:10; camera protection glass cracks, 02:30; mostly burned away and the fin is visible again. 02:48; surprisingly, the fin is moving and again at 03:42. splashdown looks like its finaly breaking apart.

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Eight months later, the general is becoming increasingly mentally unbalanced, focusing on Sgt. Fodor’s loss as “God’s judgement”. On the Mars landing approach, he attempts to crash their spaceship, now convinced the mission violates the laws of God

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Ariane 6 ready to rocket, bringing heavy-lift capability back to Europe

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A tale of two missions: Starliner and Starship both achieve milestones

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Astroboffins order most advanced spectrograph ever to sniff out alien life

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What’s an O’Neill cylinder but a giant pee bottle?

– Paul the Pressure-Fed Astronaut

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