Yeah but it’s obviously very different from a commercial drone and they seem to have very good control of it. Maybe the small anomaly they had that is making them decide it’s not worth the risk.

I know they did the rover selfie with the robotic arm, but I’m a little bummed they didn’t do a short hop simply to take a better picture of Percy, and all we’ve gotten are these ones from far away. I get that you don’t want to fly ‘over’ the rover, but you could at least get somewhat close.

Which is why perfecting the Level 2 systems are important, and we can’t just jump straight to level 4 or 5 like the author wants.

What’s so hard about just staying in the seat?

I agree as well - but then the writers don’t write about that because it’s more interesting to write an article about how people are “defeating the system”. I guess articles about how they named the system poorly don’t get the clicks.

I think they mean irrelevant to Boeing. SpaceX has already beaten them so it’s pointless for them to try to compete at this point

With a fixed-price contract, is Boeing basically going “Hey, this is what you get for trying to cheap out and not going cost-plus?”

still further than SLS has gotten so far. SLS will hopefully get past that milestone.

N1 got further than SLS is at currently, even Block 1.

For sure that is the current nomenclature, but they still seem to only be using that when combined with the numbering which I agree will probably go away at some point as it did with falcon 9 (each of the boosters has a number which also changes depending on how many times it’s launched) but we still all generally…

The Super Heavy is designed to land on six legs,

That’s fair. I too would like to have more info about what caused the malfunction, but I think we will know that eventually. I guess it makes sense to me that the next priority would be to assess the damage rather than the cause of the misfiring thrusters. Obviously the first priority was to stop the thrusters and the…

I was talking about this story with my wife and demonstrated to her how Cuomo grabs people’s chins. I didn’t squeeze, but just like cupped her chin like he does. I immediately felt weird and pulled away moments before she tried to swat my hand away. It’s just such a weird way to touch ANY person, much less one you…

Also - yes this article relied mostly on quotes from Roscosmos, but the other one also had quotes from NASA - all which were met with skepticism by the author.

That’s true - but the two are completely linked when it comes to the ISS. The data coming from the station goes to both countries. If Russia was trying to misrepresent what happened, NASA could call BS very quickly.

Linked up yes - but it’s a completely different propulsion system from the one that malfunctioned. Nakua has three. ISS only linking to one of them.

Pretty obvious now from the tone of the last two articles George doesn’t trust NASA’s word at all. So much ridiculous speculation in this article. The author seem convinced that there is something broken that NASA has either not found or is hiding, even though the rotation rate is “well within the design limits of the…

This would be an extremely dumb way to sabotage the station. The Russians may have had some setbacks lately but they aren’t idiots.

They literally just rolled the station 180 degrees to dock Nakua a few days before that.

Not really. It wasn’t good, but the station was not ever in danger.