Jumping in to say that this is old hat. Gemini and Apollo flights that performed spacewalks and moonwalks, did so with with no airlock. The entire spacecraft was depressurized, and the entire crew put on suits designed for full vacuum. We didn’t really get an airlock until Skylab.

Even with a pressurized rover, they would likely have a walk-back based range. In other words, you can only go as far as you can walk back to base without running out of consumables in a space suit. The Apollo LRV was capable of going a good deal farther away from the lander than they traveled because of this walk…

Endeavor was not “on it’s side.” It was displayed gear down, as it would be after landing, while being towed, or in the orbit processing facilities.

It should have had a tether. My guess is that they had the tether undone to move it to a new location , and then fumbled it.

For people they have SAFER:

Makes me think of this:

That’s the intention based on what I’ve read.

Because some digital artist chose to go that direction. Which, if I’m honest, I prefer to sterile 3d model renderings.

I was very confused as to when the Irish Republican Army became a green-tech investment firm...

Yes there is.

That’s a new one. Care to cite your source for that, I’d be interested in reading it.

Alan Shepard went to almost 117 miles altitude and Grissom went over 118. Well past the Karman line, so I think they count just fine.

Eh, it’s often less like MREs and more like all the vacuum dehydrated camping foods. Though there are some that are like MREs and just regular off the grocery store shelf stuff.

Given that SN-11 is already rolled out to the pad, I’d say they at least figured there was a high probability it wasn’t going to come back in one piece.

I disagree. These are research vehicles that serve the purpose of eventually producing a human-rated, reusable vehicle. If nothing else, the rate at which they have manufactured and deployed them says that SpaceX knows there are going to be lots of kabooms. And I’m not saying the end goal of these R&D vehicles is to…

Quibble: These aren’t reusable vehicles. These are R&D test platforms and are expected to experience catastrophic failures. Great if it doesn’t, but it’s part of the game at this stage and they know it. They’ll learn more from the explosion than if it had stayed intact. So in that sense, it was a successful as they…

Hi all, former curator of the museum that supports Space Camp (the U. S. Space & Rocket Center).

This render gives me..... feelings.

Maybe before the Marriott was there it could have been done...