True! Old hat for NASA, still good stuff though. BTW, I work at Space Camp, actually the USSRC museum. Glad to see it left a lasting impression! We just recently started up bus tours of Marshall Space Center. They had shut them down after the 9/11 attacks, so no one was able to see the "Flat Floor" or other stuff for…

My mother is a first generation US native. My Abuela (Grandmother), my great uncle (her brother) and two of my uncles (husbands to my mother's sisters) are all Cuban born and naturalized US citizens. My grandmother and her brother left when Castro started to rattle his sword, one uncle was a Marielito and the other…

Yep. You win.

To be fair, the LK lander didn't contribute to the programs failure, but the the N1 was definitely a problem. 30 engines, each one paired to the one on the opposite side of the circle, so one one engine failed, the other would shut down> This balanced thrust well, but doubled your engine out rate! Of course, the real…

Trust me, that's what we would LIKE to be doing... but Congress and Presidents have different ideas. And they're the ones that approve the budget.