It's been over a month. It seems like they should have come back by now. I don't really see much coverage of it, though. The part of this article that mentions their "change of clothes" seems funny to me. Is this going to end up being a Ron Howard movie? https://www.npr.org/2024/07/27/nx-s...rough-travel-story-try-52-days-stuck-in-space
What do you guys think of the upcoming Polaris Dawn stuff? I get why Isaacman is up for it. Kind of cool. Nett, you were a flier, would something like space draw you?
It looks very cool... but I can't say that I'd be wanting to do a space walk. The trip and the technology would be a hell of a fun experience, I think, for sure.
Tell me things are not actually OK without saying things are not OK. https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/n...rliner-spacecraft-back-to-earth-without-crew/ Sounds like the issues with Starliner are bigger than they were letting on.
I know that Elon Musk putting his support behind Trump weirds some people out, and I know that SpaceX being a for profit company is odd to others. I get that. But, if you really have any interest in this part of the space program, dig into it a little. It's crazy how many launches happen regularly, and the general public barely knows about it. https://www.spacex.com/launches/ The advancement and what that means is kind of beyond what I can get my head around. It was only 66 years from first flight (Orville & Wilbur in 1903) to man on the Moon (giant leaps for Armstrong and Aldrin in 1969), and now it will be over 50 years before man is on the moon again.
It's very, very cool. Seeing the actual earth from that actual vantage point on a spacewalk like that has to just be mind blowing.
Elon had nothing to do with this shit besides likely holding it back from having happened sooner by being a petulant whiny little shit. The engineers and people working at Space X who keep the moron distracted are the real heroes who made that shit happen.
This is a neat article, if you like Jupiter and space stuff: https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/11/science/jupiter-great-red-spot-movements/index.html But, why do they abbreviate the Great Red Spot as GRS when they speak? It's not shorter to say. It's not as bad as www versus world wide web, but still.
Elon a fucking twit, but holy shit is SpaceX nailing it. They just caught the Super Heavy booster with chopsticks. Amazing.
Did anybody else see the video of The Claw catching the SpaceX rocket return? I'm not sure why they did it, or what advancement that brings, but it was pretty cool. https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-flight-5-launch-super-heavy-booster-catch-success-video ETA: lol, beat me to it
My understanding was that the concept of landing it on it's tail was too much of a problem because the booster is so heavy and tall that the landing structure is non-trivial. Just having a couple of pins at the top that it can hang from is a hell of a lot easier and lighter.
I also just learned (Thanks Everyday Astronaut!) that it's also to decrease the re-usability timeline. If it lands on a barge in the water it takes longer to get it back and do maintenance on it to get it back into rotation. This way they are landing it on a potential structure that can just roll it back to the hangar/shop for maintenance to prep it for the next run.
This is a great feed that I've posted about before. If it wasn't thanksgiving dinner day and I wasn't crazy busy prepping and cooking dinner I would have watched it more, but for now I'll wait for the edited recap version he'll put out in a couple of days.