ELECTRIC FREAKING ROADWAYS!

Probably because it wasn’t really a prototype of the MOL. It was a boilerplate mock-up approximating physical dimension and mass to test the launch configuration of the Titan IIIC loaded with a MOL and a Gemini B on top.

They’re already delivering supplies to the ISS, and are preparing to deliver people. The same is likely to happen for Bigelow. Why spend money in a market where they can make it?

Also fun fact - One Gemini capsule was flown unmanned with a mock-up MOL, and re-entered safely.

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“We Just Reached Peak Urban Outfitters..”

Charging your phone with a potion?

Here’s one weld. It’s just a simple circle, right? All those clamps had to be designed and machined. See the numbers on them? That’s because a team of engineers calculated the torque values on each and the order in which the needed to be applied to stress the materials properly - after another team determined what the…

I’m not so sure there’s a right way and a wrong way.

It already happened. This is the second one. The first one flew in 2014.

It’s not the weld so much that takes the time. It’s all the ancillary tooling and developing all the procedures for its use, then training and testing technicians inthose procedures, then having them set up and do one portion of the weld.

Then it would have to land on a smaller target. They gained stability by changing to wider target criteria. What damage did they have in their landings that a tube would solve?

“ I don’t think Blue origin is even thinking about this yet, but it’s there.”

“First to build a reusable rocket and first to reuse it.”

“they wait a few more years for their own to finish.”

“Uh, Bezos’ company is making the BE-4. And it’s trusted by Boeing and Lockheed, who are depending on it to replace their Atlas V.”

Orbital height is like Blue Origin, only higher.

“Blue Origin the first company to build a reusable rocket and the first one to reuse that rocket.”

“My personal calendar has an entire colour devoted entirely to launches”