#DTTFSA

Plus 1.

Slideshows certainly are dumb. If only they were illegal.

Correct. From orbit. I’m not confused about that in the slightest, and I have a hard time believing many are.

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Friendly reminder that hand-cranked AM radios are easily available and not expensive, no matter which way you fall on this issue.

If I owned a ship that had been sitting on the bottom, and for quite a while, that’s very much what I would also be claiming.

Less frontal area, without fenders, makes a real difference at top end speeds as well.

“Fared” so well.

Thank God she was only halfway there.

You had me at “Night Panel.”

If the American OEMs don’t disrupt themselves and stop depending on a premiumization strategy with high margins, then BYD or Tata or similar will be doing the disruption.

I just think it’s entirely reasonable for FAA to say “Wait a second, something unexpected happened and we don’t want something else unexpected that might be more dangerous to happen, so let’s talk about this a bit. Explain it so that we have reasonable confidence you won’t create a dangerous situation in the National…

It’s preferred to have the number of successful landings exactly equal the number of successful launches. And if you lost control of your vehicle then you’ve lost control of your vehicle, and that needs checking out. Nonetheless we’re at least a month away from the earliest possible launch of a SpaceX launch to the…

Way under-rated.

I did know that (but you’re much kinder at explaining things to us than I am!). I still don’t love it, it’s got a tiny bit of normalization of deviance feel in my book. But I suppose going forward we’re going to need to rely on high-fidelity simulation instead of physical rehearsals or we’re never going to do all the…

They’re both up there on total hours, so I don’t love not having rehearsed in the NBL, but these two could do it. I think if Suni gets 2 at ~7 hours she might be the female record holder.

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And they may get to EVA.