Only really Frank Oconnor, the Halo team designers and artists stayed at Bungie.

Yes, these rockets were built and assembled by (at the time) Orbital Sciences who was the one who bought the parts that failed on those missions.  However they did find that other faulty aluminum had made its way into other NASA projects over the years, though with much less catastrophic results.

Time to remember the first Falcon 1 launch- after being warned by engineers “we used aluminum for some engine components but switched to stainless steel after early Atlases failed., the first Falcon 1 failed... because they used aluminum engine fasteners which failed under the heat load. Then they switched to…

In the source article, it mentions that this is the last resort for many of them- double dating each other.

They don’t own it, but they do distribute it. If a company does testing on their own, that information remains a corporate secret and is protected IP. If NASA does it, the info gets released either publicly or in public papers, and the company does not own the IP.

Don’t forget if Musk does it, the data doesn’t get to be public. So we might as well just enjoy the pictures of an endeavor like that.

Wrong-o, got the budget to fly block 1 more than once, all while doing block 1B. Even got manifested more flights. And for perspective, its still delayed less from its original date than Falcon Heavy was (FH original date was 2013, SLS was 2016).

“Deplatforming means nothing”

And this is why we loose. “WAH! The minority party can’t hold the republican’s feet to the fire! SUCH BETRAYAL! How could anyone vote for the democrats ever!?” [loses another election] “WHY ARE THEY SO USELESS!?”

Ironically, Orbital-ATK had been the original replacement with their Pegasus 2 rocket. Solid first stage but LH2 upper stage, but they couldn’t make the business case close and dropped out. After the Stratolaunch being rocket-less for a while, they got the proposal to launch the original Pegasus mostly because it…

Probably the price tag.

Yeah, it sounds like way too much risk for something so expensive- almost like a full time job to learn and put it all together. I didn’t build my car from parts, I’m not going to do it for a PC.

Weird, sounds like every fear I’ve had about wasting time and money on building it myself brought to life. The last thing I want to deal with is accidentally breaking expensive computer hardware, and I’m totally willing to pay someone to avoid dealing with that crap myself heh.

FGB-2 became the Russian Science Lab called “Nauka” (MLM). Originally stated to be launched in 2007, its now 10 years late and had to have all its plumbing rebuilt a few years ago. Then they found additional debris inside the tanks and had to devise an elaborate mechanism to remove it without taking apart the tanks…

In fact its likely that no one will go through quite the paint mixer that STS astronauts did... the shaking was made more apparent by being inside the side-mounted Shuttle. Plus there was a big 3hz vibration that lasted for the first minute or so that was a result of the “twang” from the shuttle stack dissipating. …

Heck, or even assuming you live in a place that has that climate AND has things like a hose available for use. Sorry apartment renters!

Stabilized video showing this effect more clearly.

Issue with $70 is it amplifies the existing situation where people become more reluctant to pay up front with only a trailer or some youtube videos to go on. For a $14 movie ticket thats pretty reasonable- if you don’t like it you can leave and only be out $14 or you could finish it and be out 90 minutes of your…

Rocket manufactures had been discussing reusability into the 1990s and early 2000s, trying to learn from the Shuttle’s mistakes. The small launch market made any effort not make financial sense, but a lot of their concepts were originally developed in the 1990s and just resurrected. And yes, the space shuttle was…

The issue is the prices are not yet low enough to grow the market. SpaceX has stated that they are not lowering their reused prices any lower due to the need to recoup their investment. But in order to grow the market, you need to get about every rocket launch provider doing that cost-reduction, since launch…