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SpaceX and other space stuff

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LMAO! Nothing like dumping out of your live stream "event" without knowing for sure if your lander is sitting upright! Somewhere a code monkey is scrolling furiously through his laptop, thinking, "Did I forget to tell the lander to tell US when it was down??!!" 💻🫢 :roflmao:

Press conference at 3:00 PM, they say. Maybe they'll figure it out by then. :whistle:
 
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Intergalactic techno has begun! 😎


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Looks like they might try again for Crew 10 tonight. From Ars:

Back on track ... NASA confirmed Thursday SpaceX ground teams completed inspections of the hydraulics system used for the clamp arm supporting the Falcon 9 rocket and successfully flushed a suspected pocket of trapped air in the system, clearing the way for another launch attempt Friday evening. This mission, known as Crew-10, will ferry two NASA astronauts, a Japanese mission specialist, and a Russian cosmonaut to the space station. They will replace a four-person crew currently at the ISS, including Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who have been in orbit since last June after flying to space on Boeing's Starliner capsule. Starliner returned to Earth without its crew due to a problem with overheating thrusters, leaving Wilmore and Williams behind to wait for a ride home with SpaceX.

arstechnica.com

Rocket Report: ULA confirms cause of booster anomaly; Crew-10 launch on tap

The head of Poland's space agency was fired over a bungled response to SpaceX debris falling over Polish territory.
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Winslow said:
Looks like they might try again for Crew 10 tonight. From Ars:

Back on track ... NASA confirmed Thursday SpaceX ground teams completed inspections of the hydraulics system used for the clamp arm supporting the Falcon 9 rocket and successfully flushed a suspected pocket of trapped air in the system, clearing the way for another launch attempt Friday evening. This mission, known as Crew-10, will ferry two NASA astronauts, a Japanese mission specialist, and a Russian cosmonaut to the space station. They will replace a four-person crew currently at the ISS, including Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who have been in orbit since last June after flying to space on Boeing's Starliner capsule. Starliner returned to Earth without its crew due to a problem with overheating thrusters, leaving Wilmore and Williams behind to wait for a ride home with SpaceX.

arstechnica.com

Rocket Report: ULA confirms cause of booster anomaly; Crew-10 launch on tap

The head of Poland's space agency was fired over a bungled response to SpaceX debris falling over Polish territory.
arstechnica.com arstechnica.com
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Godspeed Crew10!
 
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Winslow said:
…with the curvature of the Earth…
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i was with you until ^this^…
Please understand, I’ve always been a believer in science and mankind’s thirst for knowledge, but recent events have convinced me that many things I relied on to be true are in fact myth. I always assumed we were a nation composed of curious dreamers who could see over the horizon in their minds eye, but I’ve since learned that not only are we by and large content to be spoon fed mounds of absolute bovine excrement, but we are also apparently capable of being content with myths as truth rather that evidence based truth as basis for decisions with far reaching and terrible consequences. After much reading on the interwebs, I’ve decided it will be simpler to just accept certain things I always believed to be utter horse hockey as I pour a fresh glass of imitation orangeade flavored liquid Truth.
As my introduction to this paradigm shift in my perceived reality, I’ve decided to switch sides in the endless debate over, earth, flat or round. I’ve become a card carrying flat earther, heck I even bought a new T shirt that proclaims “flat earthers do it deeper”; I can only assume that pertains to how deep one can drill until your boring bar punches through the underside of our disclet…or is it planisk? Either way, that’s something I’ll be asking my shamim when I get them to throw the bones and inform me of when I’ll be boarding that giant elevator to VanHalenha. I hope it is up high enough I can see the giant ice ring before I arrive. ;)
 
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