It’s nailbiting at this point, anytime something goes wrong with one of the Voyagers.  It’s going to be hard when one of them goes.  It was hard enough losing Pioneers 10 and 11, and they didn’t last nearly as long.

It’s probably out of warranty by now. ;-)

Aw, ruining a perfectly good conspiracy theory with reality... ;-)

Spoken like a professional test pilot. I read that as he wishes he could have kept working on Starliner until the situation was well enough understood and they could come home on it, finishing the job he’d set out to do, but the bosses said there was no more time. That has to be frustrating, especially after seeing…

What’s more, Pineda has since discovered that the footage captured by her car in Sentry Mode has reportedly been wiped from the car’s memory, meaning that no footage of her and Ortega attempting to open the car to rescue the child remains.

You’re getting into av geek pedantics

This makes me want to watch “2001" again and think about where we once thought we’d be by now.  :-)  Sort of puts our aspirations into perspective.

And the fact that he won’t comment says a lot more about him than any statement he could make about the incident.

I agree about the runway thing — a lot of people do confuse taxiways and runways, and this occurred on a taxiway. The CRJ was holding short of a runway, and the Airbus was on a taxiway.

Some of them for sure (e.g. the kids with Grimes), but apparently at minimum, his kids with his first wife were conceived in the normal manner. I think it’s a weird efficiency thing for him.

Plus, he has no intention whatsoever of actually going there until the plebes have finished their work of making it suitably livable first.  And that’s not me speculating cynically; he’s actually said that’s his plan.

Bingo.  It’s a variation on the “this woman just needs to bedded in order to become reasonable” line, only with his reproduction fetish thrown on top.

The weird part is he’s not an incel.  He’s fathered a large number of children, some with wives, some with girlfriends, some with subordinates.  And yet in spite of that, he STILL gives off some of the strongest incel vibes I’ve ever seen.

Low-speed is relative; if this was cars, it’d absolutely still be classed as a crash. The Airbus was likely traveling around 20 MPH. That’s a lot slower than its top speed, of course, but it’s still fast enough to do significant damage even in a Toyota Corolla.

The horizontal stabilizer and the vertical stabilizer have swapped functions......  Yikes!

Because it responded to ATC and belatedly began its turn, demonstrating it was just an idiot pilot who forgot he was supposed to follow the Potomac and not a terrorist. “Shoot first” is not actually the first choice, especially when this would result in a huge ball of flaming wreckage falling on our nation’s capitol…

Supposedly, any airline (including charter) filing plans to go into DCA has to provide evidence the pilots who’ll be operating the flight have done the official training for flying out of DCA. It’s apparently an online course. (I am not remotely a pilot, but this is what I’ve read in comment threads elsewhere from…

Well, it could be reassuring that the original problem didn’t happen again. It could be that this is a byproduct of whatver their workaround is. Seems more likely to me that it’s unrelated. Of course, failures can happen on any mission, and that’s why extra margin is always provided. If that was the only thing that…

Well, the ports aren’t proprietary; quite the opposite. It’s just that the IDAs are the only ones the crewed vehicles can use. Dragon originally used the CBMs. Today, only one visiting spacecraft can use the CBMs. (Well, two, if Japan ever flies another HTV.) The biggest drawback to the CBMs is that you cannot dock to…

Not exactly. Dragon 1.0 is a substantially different vehicle from the current Dragon vehicle. It has the same name and a similar shape, but SpaceX made huge changes for the Commercial Crew program. In the interest of saving cost, they decided to abandon the original cargo Dragon, and now are basically flying the cargo…