Larry Niven reference.
Via @HeartbreakRidge.
Tag: space
Blue Origin Launch (hopefully) at 1 AM.
Neat: “Blue Origin plans to launch the debut mission of its powerful New Glenn rocket no earlier than early Monday (Jan. 13) after a delay, and you can watch the action live.” Feed below:
SpaceX is very cool but we need more companies putting meaningful amounts of stuff into orbit on their own. Plenty of work for everybody…
Via Instapundit.
Well, [NONE of] the stranded astronauts are back safely.
Via Facebook. As you can see, they’re readapting to regular gravity. Which is a problem that we will need to fix in the long term, so at least we’ve gotten some observational data out of the whole sorry mess.
[UPDATE: I am reminded that the stranded astronauts are coming back down next year. This is just regular service on the ISS. We still need to work out a long-term solution, though.]
Moe Lane
PS: I love what SpaceX is doing, but the company really needs about three or four competent competitors.
Tweet of the Day, This Is A Thing That Can Happen Now edition.
Good morning.
I have no words… interplanetary civilization here we come. pic.twitter.com/2TF5UYYCYO
— Beff – e/acc (@BasedBeffJezos) October 13, 2024
Via @presjpolk.
Violin performances… INNNNN SPAAAAAAAAAACE!
Saw this on Facebook originally, only I can’t find it now because Facebook has these very strange ideas about why people use Facebook. But this is cool. Mildly put together, but still extremely cool. And they did it just to say that they could*.
*And to sell Starlink subscriptions, obviously. To which I say: God Bless America, and All that the traffic will bear.
SpaceX testing for metahuman genes via historic space mission later this month.
Dear Lord. This is absolutely correct: the article reads like a superhero team’s origin story. Or villain teams’.
Continue reading SpaceX testing for metahuman genes via historic space mission later this month.When billionaire Jared Isaacman self-funded a mission to orbit Earth in 2021, the project was billed as a childhood cancer fundraiser — and made for an eye-popping entrance into the private space tourism world. The four-person crew of people from various backgrounds with no prior spaceflight experience spent three days orbiting Earth together in a 13-foot-wide SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule.
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On Monday, Isaacman and three crewmates — including his close friend and former Air Force pilot, Scott “Kidd” Poteet, as well as two SpaceX engineers, Anna Menon and Sarah Gillis — will arrive at Kennedy Space Center in Florida to prepare for the launch of a far grander, more dangerous, and experimental trip to space.
Crud, I missed the SpaceX launch.
Which might have been a reverse jinx, because it looks like it went fine.
NASA revives Voyager-1.
Very cool: “For the first time in five months, NASA engineers have received decipherable data from Voyager 1 after crafting a creative solution to fix a communication problem aboard humanity’s most distant spacecraft in the cosmos.” Read the article for details, but the gist is that they were able to troubleshoot a bum chip, then work around it. From what I can tell from the article, ’twas very cleverly done. The programming seems extra-cool somehow when you’re dealing with a significant light speed delay…
Via Facebook.
Starship makes it to space!
SpaceX lost footage (and presumably the ship) after this, but this… this is something new to see.
Farther along with every test. And once we can put all that mass in orbit… well. We can reassess what might be done, up there.