Secret payload crashes back on earth. Isn’t this how Ice Station Zebra starts?

Sounds like Gemini 9A all over again. “It’s a simple job, we’ll do it outselves from this instruction pamph— funny, there’s a page missing...”

Seems like they’re failing to address the gravity of the situation.

ENGINEER 1: Commencing satellite separation in 3...2...(taps screen).

Wow, that cleared a few heads.

You jest about reusing explosive bolts, but actually SpaceX makes a point of having no pyrotechnics in its staging systems. Everything’s hydraulically actuated. It was a an early design decision intended to speed up turnaround once they got to the point of re-flying old rockets.

Jason you need to include SpaceX’s press release from this morning

“The following statement is from Gwynne Shotwell, President and COO of SpaceX:

Were they reused second stage explosive bolts?

So it would seem that to stray away from head gasket issues, remove any engine component with “EJ” in its part#.

At least his wipers won’t stick to the windshield. #silverlining

FYI, this build (engine and chassis) was actually done in his garage. Nth Moto is just tuning it. Not a big deal but it’d be nice to impress on readers just how awesome Don is.

Read about this yesterday; this guy is a metal fab god. Here’s what it’s going into. Never enough props for somebody with this kind of skill.

When we complain avout trucks and SUVs being too big, we’re not talking about our inability to drive them...we’re complaining about your inability to drive them and our inability to see around your unnecessarily giant commuter vehicle.

It most certainly does not. Once it clicks off you have to re-trigger the pump by releasing and then pushing it in again. This is either a fabricated story or a malfunctioning pump.

I’m with this guy. This is an unprecedented business opportunity.

My thoughts on this are that if you don’t have enough gas to make it clear through NJ without stopping, you done fucked up.

Ok, you’re up, NJ. Please go ahead and fix it, so I can stop waiting in line at a gas station with 16 pumps but one attendant on duty.