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Posted: Oct 14, 2024 - 9:07pm

Suck it China!
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Posted: Oct 14, 2024 - 6:28pm

Wild view!  16 20 story skinny office tower comes screaming out of the sky and performs a perfect parallel park.






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Posted: Oct 14, 2024 - 6:53am

 miamizsun wrote:
yes, musk and the spacex team have pulled off a remarkable task
some of the video is spectacular
kudos to them

I was not in the camp of believers thinking he would pull this off on the very first try. I figured an abort and land in the ocean, possibly even a crash and some destruction to stage 0, for the first attempt.  To pull this off on the very first try is a testament to just how much they've modelled their hardware.




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Posted: Oct 14, 2024 - 3:48am

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Absolutely in-fcsking-credible.


yes, musk and the spacex team have pulled off a remarkable task
some of the video is spectacular
kudos to them


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Posted: Oct 13, 2024 - 10:22pm

Making history

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Posted: Oct 13, 2024 - 5:36am

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Putting the booster back on the launch pad is an amazing bit of engineering.



Absolutely in-fcsking-credible.
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Posted: Oct 13, 2024 - 5:35am

Putting the booster back on the launch pad is an amazing bit of engineering.
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Posted: Oct 13, 2024 - 5:10am

IFT 5, yo.

Gonna try to catch a 16.65 story (233 ft) tall booster.

7:25am CT current liftoff time
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Posted: Oct 2, 2024 - 2:19pm

Voyager 2 shuts down science experiment as power stores dwindle
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Posted: Sep 26, 2024 - 2:59pm

           NASA crashes DART into asteroid

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Posted: Sep 22, 2024 - 3:06pm

Here's a fascinating program that is/was on PBS that includes Marc Buie (he was awarded the Order of the Lion by the Sengalese government). He's working with a local astronomer to do something incredibly controversial: tell the Muslim community what the right time is to pray. The clerics there have their times, but the planet shifts and those times are wrong. Now, science abuts religious practice. Wow.

Here's Marc explaining what the consequence would be if you don't get the right measurements at the right time in the right place (maybe because of weather or other logistics). Well, maybe you can get it later?


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Posted: Sep 20, 2024 - 8:11pm

 Steely_D wrote:

I was a freshman, 1976, at LSU, walking down the hallway of Hatcher dorm when I heard a 'boop' repeatedly coming from a room, that sounded exactly like the opening of Echoes. Aha! Another Floyd fan! Turns out it was something else, but I became friends with Marc Buie. We roomed together, played in a punk band together, won (!) a campus Trivia Bowl together, got put on disciplinary probation together, and have been friends ever since. 

He became a planetary scientist with a very very long and impressive résumé while I watched. His pictures of Pluto are in the Smithsonian. Recently, a decades-long project came to fruition where he discovered, then achieved a flyby, or the farthest known object in our solar system - Arrokoth. My wife and I (and Marc's friend, Brian May) were there for the flyby.

Now, a couple of years later, he's summarized a mind-blowing achievement.

 https://aasnova.org/2024/09/13...



thumbs up
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Posted: Sep 20, 2024 - 6:50pm

 Steely_D wrote:

I was a freshman, 1976, at LSU, walking down the hallway of Hatcher dorm when I heard a 'boop' repeatedly coming from a room, that sounded exactly like the opening of Echoes. Aha! Another Floyd fan! Turns out it was something else, but I became friends with Marc Buie. We roomed together, played in a punk band together, won (!) a campus Trivia Bowl together, got put on disciplinary probation together, and have been friends ever since. 

He became a planetary scientist with a very very long and impressive résumé while I watched. His pictures of Pluto are in the Smithsonian. Recently, a decades-long project came to fruition where he discovered, then achieved a flyby, or the farthest known object in our solar system - Arrokoth. My wife and I (and Marc's friend, Brian May) were there for the flyby.

Now, a couple of years later, he's summarized a mind-blowing achievement.

 https://aasnova.org/2024/09/13...



Very cool and Arrokoth would be a great band name
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Posted: Sep 20, 2024 - 6:25pm

I was a freshman, 1976, at LSU, walking down the hallway of Hatcher dorm when I heard a 'boop' repeatedly coming from a room, that sounded exactly like the opening of Echoes. Aha! Another Floyd fan! Turns out it was something else, but I became friends with Marc Buie. We roomed together, played in a punk band together, won (!) a campus Trivia Bowl together, got put on disciplinary probation together, and have been friends ever since. 

He became a planetary scientist with a very very long and impressive résumé while I watched. His pictures of Pluto are in the Smithsonian. Recently, a decades-long project came to fruition where he discovered, then achieved a flyby, or the farthest known object in our solar system - Arrokoth. My wife and I (and Marc's friend, Brian May) were there for the flyby.

Now, a couple of years later, he's summarized a mind-blowing achievement.

 https://aasnova.org/2024/09/13...

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Posted: Sep 10, 2024 - 9:23am

Educational Services Staff with a Spacemobile Vehicle

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Posted: Aug 27, 2024 - 9:06am

 Beaker wrote:

Great explainer by the dean of space reporting, Miles O'Brien.




Wait! That doesn’t look like the Miles O'Brien from DS-9.  
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Posted: Aug 26, 2024 - 6:54pm

Great explainer by the dean of space reporting, Miles O'Brien.


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Posted: Aug 24, 2024 - 6:02am

NASA will announce today whether its stranded astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, will come home on the problematic Starliner craft they arrived on, some time in September, or will be enjoying an even lengthier stay on ISS until returning home on a SpaceX Dragon with Crew 9 in February 2025.  Launched on June 5th, Butch and Suni's flight to ISS and stay was only supposed to last only eight days.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and leadership will hold an internal Agency Test Flight Readiness Review on Saturday, Aug. 24, for NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test. About an hour later, NASA will host a live news conference at 1 p.m. EDT from the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.

Link to this announcement of an upcoming ... announcement, now happening at 1pm EDT (11am MST)

Rumours are suggesting the nod will go to SpaceX Dragon.   If so, the Starliner program suffers a massive credibility hit - and may go back to development and testing, or get cancelled altogether.  Boeing is rumored to have already lost ~$1.6B on Starliner.


This is so embarrassing for Boeing and NASA, and the most insane advertising campaign imaginable for SpaceX.

Same but different, Butch and Suni's eight day cruise:

Meanwhile, SpaceX and Dragon are gearing up for the first commercial spacewalk, along with the highest orbit of Earth by a manned capsule since Apollo.


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Posted: Aug 8, 2024 - 2:31pm

The next flight test will be epic! The first attempt to catch the Starship booster in the 'chop sticks' will be attempted. Excitement guaranteed!

Will it work? Or will it be 'a farewell to arms'? :-)




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