I feel the temptation for sure, but naah. I can’t deal with the ever-expanding shelf space requirements of physical collecting. I need those shelves for comic books graphic novels instead, and also now, Lego sets. (I have just one so far actually, but plan on getting more eventually...)

“Radically redesigned” using the same suppliers and principles as the space shuttle, because of gov’t pork barrel politics. Fuel tank of SLS is variation of shuttle fuel tank, SLS solid rocket boosters are variants of shuttle boosters. And so on.

What private aerospace company would exist without government money?

“We won in 2016. We had a rigged election in 2020 but got more votes than any sitting president.” Meta accepted thousands of dollars for those ads, and then delivered them to over 400,000 people, most over the age of 65. Promoting ads like this is a political statement: some lies are so bad you shouldn’t hear them,…

Yes I know (and I did), but what I referred to was that SpaceX’s own feed was only available on Xitter.

Weell yeah, because you know, physics, and inertia. That’s the thing that crushes up cars like they’re beer cans, and kills people.

Smaller apps selling out to large corps essentially means death to that app. The corps don’t understand what it is they’ve bought, oftentimes don’t even understand WHY they bought it, so they start mistreating the app and letting it languish and drive away customers, until it is in such a sad state they can just kill…

Ok, well I’m as big an Ivanova fanboy as they come, but why not post the actual explosion? :D

What do you mean, fake? The rocket existed, it stood there on the launch stand for months, and they launched it. It took off, people saw it taking off, there’s video of the launch from dozens of different angles, and the rocket flew for about eight minutes total. We even have radar imagery of the debris clouds after…

So what’s the likelyhood this “five eyes secret agent” is actually a Russki intelligence operative (who may have posed as a “five eyes secret agent”), and this “highly secret unit” cop is actually a useful idiot who was being  duped and/or bribed and pumped for information?

Kotaku has featured A Content since its founding, so nothing new here. :P

Yeah. Seems some engines were kept running as the booster was swinging around, and one died almost immediately after separation.

Remind me of the price tag of Artemis.

Scott Manley postulated in his recent launch analysis video that it could be gas ingestion into the engines (which could over-rev or otherwise blow up the turbopumps) or fluid hammer effect wrecking piping that did the booster in. Apparently, you can see various engines winking out in the telemetry in time with…

With the tremendous amounts of time, money and effort spent on SLS, it would have been catastrophic for the program had the rocket blown up on launch. Even as it is they’ve hit plenty of setbacks and delays.

I believe Von Braun claimed he wasn’t an actual nazi, but rather “was forced” to join the party to further his research and development (IE: he chose to, nobody held a gun to his head to my knowledge...)

He was present in the SpaceX control room... I saw his smug mug in some brief video clipped into the NSF live feed. :/

Going boom twice (or more!) is not unusual when flying a brand new rocket, btw. The Saturn V and Space Shuttle were essentially anomalies when they flew successfully on the very first launch attempt.

Only Tesla. He actually founded the others.

It’s an “improvement” in the sense his reach is even far, far greater than Ford’s was...