JEFF VS ELON, WHO WINS? - editionprevious >>16954654
>>16956330>>16956331Interesting, let's see BO's lander
https://x.com/ulalaunch/status/2043019415671996663>Let's do it again! >A week after successfully launching our fifth Atlas V rocket for Amazon Leo, ULA ground crews have begun preparing for the Leo 6 mission. We will be launching another 29 advanced broadband satellites into space for our customer using the Atlas V 551 rocket later this month.
>>16956333
>>16956334
>4 /sfg/s in the cataloggood work, men
"Hey hey! I beg NASA for their mercy and denounce Elon for all his lies. Amen."
>>16956332Let's see SpaceX's hls
>>16956332Which one? The New Glenn booster stage that lands. The Mk1 lunar lander. The Mk2 lunar lander? They have rather a lot.
OK. That was fun and all, but time to cut NASA's budget again.
>>16956331Seems a little low on inventory for weekly launches.
>>16956348get this: you land and reuse the same one
>>16956344kino
>>16956350Flight Test Reuse over 11 TestsStarship: 0Booster: 1NB, after the new Glenn launch, they'll have one booster reuse too.
So close
>>16956344very nice webm
>>16956344is this from Artemis I or II?
>>16956330>>16956331Do they only post these on their discord? I don't see these on their X account, or their website.
>>16956344wait, capsule wobble is real? I thought it was just a artifact of KSP simulation physics
>>16956338is he dead? I haven't seen his account post anything since his wife died
>>16956367I read somewhere that he was pretty fucking depressed after that until he saw the Artemis II launch on TV, which promptly pulled him out of that depression
Recovery team patch
https://x.com/tszzl/status/2043031958490616299
NASA soul.
https://x.com/astro_reid/status/2043029624146505888
>>16956367Many are saying his wife was the one who posted for him. Which may explain the silence.
>>16956364they used to post them on X from time to time, but pretty infrequently
>>16956377Not seen in this picture. The tweet dates. Why do Elon simps have to always lie? Elon didn't post about the mission until it was mostly over, and then probably because Izzy gave him a come to Jesus talk.
>>16956384he didn't post during the launch, he did post during the furthest point and before splashdown (and reposted different NASA livestreams)
New picture taken from Artemis as she returned toward Earth.
>>16956384it says april 2nd in the picture
>>16956385So, exactly what I said. Elon acted like a hunt girl because he got humiliated and tried the silent treatment, until Izzy got him on the blower and told him to play ball or he was off the team.
>>16956390you're deranged
ayy lmao
>>16956391Stop being so mean to my boyfriend!Just say that.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2043045231655030821
>>16956395Reid is so based
>>16956225https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/53206112789-e5e932c583-o.jpg30 minuteshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYY4nnfxKbU
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ksxkWFrWX-M
>>16956389Grok? You're next at bat.Thanks Coach! Elon Musk first posted about the success of the Artemis II mission on April 8, 2026, by replying to a photo of the Milky Way captured by the crew during their lunar flyby. In his post, he expressed optimism for the future of space exploration, stating, "One day, we will be out there, among the stars". Think that Godspeed is giving thumbs up to another post, but my Twitter no log in postal doesn't seem to go that far back. Posts limit I guess.If you have Twitter and feel like searching you could win this one. Play fair. Big screenshot to show exact context of that April 2 post.
>>16956397Is their plane on flightradar24?
>>16956398what's stored in the balls?
>>16956344
o shithttps://x.com/TJ_Cooney/status/2043024241298125039
>>16956357
>>16956406I wonder if it's around the seperation bolt.
>>16956399
>>16956406That looks surprisingly deep, but if it happened after transitioning to cooler air it's probably a nothingburger
>>16956406yikes.
>>16956397live
>>16956357>>16956407What do I need to know before playing Kerbal?
>>16956418Either git gud with the default controls or install CKAN so you can play with MechJeb
>>16956379Good astronauts follow orders. He should be fired.
ksp was last updated 2023?also what ever happened with the KSP general on vg? I recall like 8 years ago some drama with snake porn? idk
>>16956406deboooonked
>>16956424the studio tried to make ksp2, but it was gay and retarded and they focused on the wrong things so nobody played it and they eventually abandoned it
>>16956427how can you focus on the 'wrong things'? shouldn't it have just been ksp 1 but with more shit added on?
>>16956411Used my portal tweets and reply tab to scroll way down all the way into April 1, in case there's a time zone thing, and still do not see that Godspeed. That also conflicts will all the press and forum posts about Elon's silence. So, dunno.I'll open up my Twitter account later and take a look. Don't want to FUD.
>>16956428they tried to make it more approachable to the general audience or something like thatbasically focusing on graphics and the green little faggots instead of the physics and simulation
>>16956426There's obvious chunk missing
>>16956428KSP 2 is missing features from KSP 1 and runs like shit, alongside being more jank than its predecessor. Somehow, they were gonna add colony building, interstellar travel, AND multiplayer on top of that.
>>16956424>ksp was last updated 2023?last real update was 1.12 in 2021, the rest were stability patches and an easter egg for the next game>>16956428thing is, all the original devs that made ksp1 left after the sale to t2, and as t2 found out later, most modders can't into coding physics
The songs they are playing in the return to Houston pre-stream MUST be made by the same guy who did the songs for Ark, there's like no fucking shot it ain't
>>16956437yea because he's the only person who's ever dont music in this style
>>16956436Luckily, we have Kitten Space Agency to look forward to as a spiritual successor. The devs are using their own custom game engine and are focusing on the technical side of things first and foremost.https://x.com/Ahwoo_Official/status/2041576893778923959
https://x.com/astro_reid/status/2043058823091417542>Mission complete
>>16956396He wants to step on the moon, not just orbit it. I respect that sort of ass kissing.
>>16956440which one is his wife?
>>16956435I remember how excited I was when it was announced, my PC back then wasn't even good enough for the assumed specs so I finally upgraded to a new one.
>>16956420https://x.com/astro_reid/status/2043028781020123640>PS- it’s hard not to love this little guy. I cant let Rise out of my sight…currently tethered to my water bottle.its his now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_nj6wW6Gsc
>>16956442His wife is soil.
>>16956440Wholesome
>>16956439yeah but the lead dev doesn't have the best track record and they already had a crashout over le big evil steam so it's better to manage expectations, nice tech demo though
Do you ever get kinda depressed that you are not an astronaut or even working as part of this program? Kind of depressing if you think about it too long
NSF: I actually recorded the entire live web stream from before launch all the way until splashdown (it broke mid-way so it's actually split into two streams with a substantial amount of overlap). Total file size of both files together is approximately 70GB. (In 1080p)Only 70GB for a week of streaming seems remarkably small.
>>16956451Nah bro astronaut life is difficult as fuck. I wanna be a space tourist, not an astronaut
>>16956453Glover went around the Moon and the universe increased his anglo perks
>>16956453hilarious that you lose your shit the second someone doesn't treat Musk like the anti-christlmao
>>16956452consider that most of it was static shots
The zero-G indicators in the capsule are free, you can just take them. I have 492 zero-G indicators.
>>16956459I'm not the anon you think I am, I was just making a joke.
>>16956458proof that whiteness is a mindset
Jackie was a great CAPCOM. Jenni the backup Canadian was awful.
it's time!
>>16956397
>>16956460Still impressive compression and on the fly.
We just sent four people to the hecking moon more energy.
is the audio a bit fucked up for anyone else?
>>16956468
>>16956473I muted it right away as the cringe started
>>16956473yes
Kek is this a sports rally? I actually appreciate the effort tho.
>>16956469The audience boos the Canadian flag.Hey -- that's bush league.
>>16956478sorry anon you're clearly not American. That's just what we do in events like this
>have to mention Ted CruzJust so fucking gay, nuke washington DC right now
this is cringe
>>16956478American culture and southern hospitality makes the jew recoil
Americans do be clapping
I wish this was more like the daily press conferences they did during the mission
goddamn I forgot how boring nasa's admin is
>>16956481he's a congressman for Houston, gotta give him a shout out
>>16956490she seems nice
>>16956486Oh God if they took questions from reporters (or if they do it here) more than half of them are going to ask>how did you FEEL>how are you FEELING>tell us about the EMOTION
Stop trying to make moonjoy happen, it's not going to happen
>>16956481You will love the meeting with Trump. They will stand in the oval office while Trump rambles about Iran in his chair.
MY WIFE AEIOU YONEDA SPOTTED
>moonjoy
>>16956493>>16956497yea I'm not feeling the term either
>I want to begin by thanking President Donald Trump
I want to begin by kissing ass
>trump cuts NASA funding in half>have to praise him so he doesn't cut furtherHumiliation ritual
I would like to thank the american tax payers who fund NASA despite not believing in space or the moon landings.
ENTER
Holy cornball you didnt need the music
kek what's with the marvel superhero music?
>>16956503as long as they give the money, no harm in fleecing them
>>16956499How about moonphoria?
RISE
>>16956507GOD BLESS AMERICA
Reid arrived with his loot
>>16956508that was nuTrek music if my ears heard it correctly
America is going to claim the fucking moon
moon is the 61st state
These aren’t the people who went up. I can’t believe nobody else can see they’re completely different. Something happened up there.
>>16956515This crew is so goated I love them all
>>16956510I prefer moonsexual
>>16956519Somewhere out there Newt Gingrich is smiling down on us
>>16956495He might mention Biden and Obama.
>>16956513>gets to name a crater after his wife>gets to keep the moon plushiewhat do the others get
These things aren’t human
>>16956526They get to be the first non-white, non-man and non-american to go to deep space
>no one knows what it's like>to be a moon man
America is the best country in the world
I had to turn it off, it's too much
will the people who actually land on the moon 2 years later also be this dramatic
uh oh atheists getting mad
based Christ enjoyer
>>16956535no they'll be battle hardened stoics after having had to butcher the chinese astronauts with their bare hands
>>16956530kek
cocoa skinned queens
>>16956535depends who they are I guessin some sense it will be bigger than this but going back after 50 years won't hopefully happen ever again
Thank you Victor!CHRIST IS KING
Dude I fucking love Victor Glover
why do they have so many watcheswhat do they know
>>16956437They both sound like SG-1 music to me.
dude yeah I worship a god that murdered everyone on earth except for one boat lol
americans love to clap and give hugs
>>16956545they know what time it isand it's time to walk on the moon again
>>16956521yea 10/10 crew choice all around, no weak links whatsoever
stroking together
>a crew strokes together–Moon Tzu
>stroking together every minute with the same purpose
>>16956545Ayys definitely contacted them on the dark side of the Moon.
>>16956550a crew is family
>all this blackness around meWoah you can't say that
they seem... changedsomething's out there
took a little bit to get there, but her speech is actually pretty poignant
YAAH
>>16956545I actually looked into it last week and found this https://www.fratellowatches.com/the-watches-worn-on-the-nasa-artemis-ii-mission/
erf's a crewwe stroke together
>oh oh
it'll be very funny now if they don't get up to hug after the canadian's speech
A FUCKING LEAF
These speeches are insanely good holy shit
KEK
lmao
>>16956553>>16956552>>16956551do people really not know what Crew is?
just wait, they'll be going on all the major tv and radio programs. watch them pop up on mr beast and joe rogan.
>>16956500How much longer are we gonna have to keep up the sycophantic crap? Its become so grating
>>16956571genuinely great and fun people, they'll become lifetime household names
>>16956560interesting, I skimmed it, will read it later
All four of them gave killer speeches hooooly shiiiiiiit I love this crew so fucking muuuuuuch
There really couldn't have been a better crew for this mission, damn
which one will join spacex after retirement?
ok what the fuck, all these speeches have been bangers. They really are the best of the best
>this is youI knew it, they became a hivemind
Hopium injected right into my veins
>>16956507"BAH GAWD, that's Rises' music!"
this is our generation's apollo 8 crew bros
>first non-human to fly around the moon
huh what happened, I muted when the woman bureaucrat started talking
>>16956359artemis 1
>>16956589that was the other Canadian astronaut who was CAPCOM
>>16956589They made out passionately you missed it
what a clear divide between a human speech and a corpo speech
>>16956589I turned it off at the embarrassing religious nonsense
>>16956594A human speech and a canadian speech
Bruno Family must be the coolest family in America
>>16956601Fuck outta here, no one cares
>>16956601I still fail to see why that's easier than one big engine
>>16956601Raptor 3 is so sexy goddamn
We just gonna go down the line of politicians now, eh?
>>16956602shut the fuck up bitch
>>16956605Gotta secure funding somehow
>>16956603Highest thrust and chamber pressure at the best possible thrust to weight ratio.https://x.com/Jordanguidry6/status/2043073457487765624
>>16956605schmoozing is an artform
>>16956603much easier to mass manufacture many small engines
>>16956605in the words of the great Werner von Braun>Here comes the money (here we go, money talks)>Here comes the money>Money, money, money, money>Money, money, money, money, money (dolla dolla, dolla dolla)
>>16956610those look CLEAN
>>16956603combustion instability
>>16956610>>16956601Design flaw, want to know what it is? xD
>ENTER TRUMPENTER TRUMP
>>16956603if one engine breaks, the other 50 will still work
DOMINANCE
>>16956617trump is busy trying to get the hornpussy open
Awkward...
Will you buy their books when they eventually write them, /sfg/?
https://x.com/NASASpaceflight/status/2043075060877902230>33 Raptor 3 engines.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhJRzQsLZGg
>>16956623eh. for me its surface EVA or nothing
>>16956623Are there any actually good books written by astronauts?I've never bought any but do need something to read
>>16956626carrying the fire
>>16956623if I read books I'd be a scientist
>>16956598What if she worked on heatshield
>>16956623I'm waiting for the picture book, and the coloring books.
>>16956627>written by michael collinsneat, thanks.
>>16956610they don't look to be aligned evenlyI never noticed before or maybe it's a new design
>>16956610>>16956624The size of the engine plume at launch will be hilarious
>>16956406https://x.com/SciGuySpace/status/2043076623340093456seems like berger is a bit curious as wellthat doesn't really look purely like some discoloring, it looks like a wholeor then there happen to be some black coloring in spots that make it seem like there are shadows in very convenient spots
>>16956624are those red wires supposed to be exposed like that?
Lets design a moon base. I'll kick things off with a critical component.
>>16956624What a slut without a skirt
>>16956601when will starship look as good as raptor v3?
>>16956634Well they aren't reusing it. The capsule only needs to survive reentry once
>>16956634>it looks like a holeagreed
>>16956638If Starship needs that kind of attention across its whole hull it'll never be affordable.
>>16956638>when will starship look as good as raptor v3?When Musk finally adds the fucking windows he has been promising that have been shown in renders for years
>>16956632yeah its new I'm pretty sure, like they were installed on the bottom of a domelike pic is the booster from Flight 6https://x.com/StarshipGazer/status/1849943430828523728>Booster 13 in the air today while being removed from the launch mount after yesterday's static fire test.>10/25/24
>>16956636
>>16956636no thanks I'm not in the mood
>>16956636>>16956644
https://x.com/RGVaerialphotos/status/2043077008029016498>Booster 19 raptor engines
https://x.com/INiallAnderson/status/2043078591114596407>Superheavy's evolution has been quite something to watch over the years!
>>16956648
So why has SpaceX gotten lapped so hard? I thought this was the "go fast break shit" company?
>>16956651what are the little boxes in a ring
>>16956654Because they turned into the "go slow break shit" company instead
>>16956652
>>16956657
>>16956650Shouldn't those pipes or wires or whatever they are be covered up? Is that something they're gonna do pre-flight?
>>16956658kek
>>16956626I've quite enjoyed Chris Hadfield's books.
>>16956659those are probably sensor wires for the static fire
>>16956656Ya but why? Just bit off more than they could chew?
>>16956663that's what I was thinking
Well it’s crazy that SLS flew humans before Starship ever reached orbit
>>16956666>SLS flew humansaround the moonSLS flew humans around the moon before starship reached LEO
>>16956667SLS flew humans around the moon before starship reached Siam.
>>16956651Outer ring of engine bells snap off like a dandelion.
>>16956440love thisproud of their papaglad he didn't die too
>>16956376anime
>>16956530Even alive, they get a junior high named after them.
>>16956379>>16956445no one gets left behind>>16956440imagine meeting your gf's dad and it's Reid Wiseman how can you even compete
>>16956667Imagine telling someone that 5 years ago
anyone else kinda bothered by their exaggerated clapping? It's ultra normie. Maybe I'm a bitter fag?
well decks are cool
>>16956640Did something just fly off my gorram ship?
>>16956685we need this but in space. space wells.
>>16956452I wanted to download the stream afterwards, but it is now unavailabledo you know where I can get a recording like the one you have?
>>16956685what are the scribbles on the balloons for?
>>16956691ScribblesThey're the lines attaching them to the craft. Scribbled?
>>16956689The discussion at NSF was if it would be uploaded to their server for members. If they end up hosting, it might end up in their paid sub forum.
>>16956694Why do they look like that?
>>16956669
>>16956697Spread out lines like a hand grab the balloon Then a line "arm" leads down to the capsule.
It's n the San Diego baywstch.NSF: Heard the double sonic boom at Point Loma. Was not loud but we heard it. Lots of people there but I think few knew what to listen for. I tried to spot the chutes with binocs but no joy. I was so happy that so many people were trying to participate.
>>16956666
how the hell did starlink swing that
>>16956703>dictatorship as bad as nkits going to have limited availability, mostly government & military
>>16956698
>>16956703>>16956704>When the adversary relies upon you, you control the adversary.see: HormussyTurkmen dicktaters would be wise to not touch starlink with a ten foot pole, but I hope the rural goat herders can get some access points.
>>16956654What/who has lapped SpaceX?
>>16956626seconding >>16956627and also Failure is not an option by Gene Kranz, not an astronaut but still very much on subject
Read this BBC Pidgin article out loud while doing your best impression of Sebastian from The Little Mermaid.https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/articles/c1l9zjmgn8mo
>>16956711I can never read the pidgin articles without thinking of Ugandan knuckles>do u kno de wey to de moon?
https://x.com/NASAAdmin/status/2043099619597422721
>>16956705gonna need some power in this bitch. solar is for hippies.
Active scene at Masseys.
TURN ON NSF
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhJRzQsLZGg
>>16956742is it a static fire test?
>>16956738>>16956743testing new tanks?
https://x.com/davill/status/2043123361258041616>Here we go, upending tonight.
>>16956750Do they have more than one yet, or is this the one that already flew once?
>>16956750I hope AST fails
>>16956743cucked>>16956750>upendingthe hurdles men will go through to avoid using the correct term "erecting"
some big fucking rockets flying these days
>>16956755BFR, you say?
>>16956755I fondly recall making the first Large Launch Vehicle discussion thread on this board. many years ago....
>Normies already talking about Artemis IVHoly shit, we are so back!
>>16956760wait until they learn about how m*sk is involved
>>16956755not big enough
>>16956750NSF: Hotfire with payload on top?? I thought we've learned that lesson.Gutsy call. Let's see how that works out for them.
>>16956757why did elon change the name? that's the point when spacex started losing sovl
>>16956760artemis 3 cucks...
>>16956768with their first ever recovered NGS1
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2043132989450932694
>>16956760So the moon base will be like the new arctic base? Wtf do you do there? WhT do you do in the arctic one as well, for that matter. Also while im retard maxing, I want to ask about why dont they just use like slingshots and shit to fire stuff into space, like angry birds
>>16956773The last thing I'd want is an all-black crew.Why is that statement different than Kelly's?
>>16956778https://www.usap.gov/sciencesupport/scienceplanningsummaries/2025_2026/resources/documents/2025-2026%20Science%20Planning%20Summaries.pdf
>>16956778yes the first base is going to be a small research outpost like AntarcticaThe slingshot idea is more viable on bodies with lower gravity and little/no atmosphere like on the moon and mars.
>April 17, 2026, 20:30~ >Live stream from the ISS "Kibo" Japanese Experiment Module >We'll be carried up by the H3 rocket and HTV-X, and the plushie and acrylic panel have already arrived! >Maybe we can see Earth from the window? >Look forward to it https://x.com/clearusui/status/2042969355500294174I'm so proud of her.
>>16956782can penguins live on the moon?
>>16956773democracy is why that language is normalizedthe cattle vote in blocs
>>16956788this depends on whether the moon is made of cookie or cheesepenguins are lactose intolerant
>>16956743so when does it blow up
>>16956783Okay thank you for indluging me. I wonder a lot about those wacky alternate forms of Space flight, and if any would actually be viable. Like take piccrelated for instance. The idea is that you get pulled up the track and then dropped in order to gain momentum on the return. I wonder if such a thing could if not replace jet engine launches, at least compliment them in some way
>the gravity is so low on the moon that penguins could fly for real
>>16956796That is where all the dodos went after all
r8 my napkin drawing for a lunar base (I'm a grocery store worker I am clueless retard)basically it's a four legged spider robot with mechanics very similar to the manipulator arms of the ISS and spaceshuttle1 - lands on the four arms, then gently detaches the spent landing module (RCS, now empty fuel tanks, main thruster)2 - walks off to the basecamp, manoeuvres the cylindical base module in a precise position and detaches it (connects to another module like building the iss) (astronauts prebuilt the foundation that this part drops onto) 4 - the legs just walk away and shut down somewhere, maybe solar panels can recharge its batteries If this is launched using spacex super heavy booster then I guess the width of the base modules would be like 6 meters, which isn't too bad for living space if you connect like 10 of them up together
>>16956796imagine giving them little oxygen tanks and having them fly around up there lol
>>16956796false.
>>16956799robot moon spiders would be wild
>>16956799cool
>>16956799Has anyone on /sfg/ decided where the best spots to set up a lunar base would be? Highlands? Lowlands? Equatorial or polar? Where are we looking at?
Yatta!
https://x.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1935548909805601020Oh yeah
>>16956813we're not gonna make it to mars, are we?
>>16956813>2025you sir are a swine
>>16956796Clear-dono...
>>16956816Elon's original presentation is nearly a decade old and we still haven't gotten to LEOhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7Uyfqi_TE8
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2043158635480768862
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2043157936261025980
>>16956812qt3.14 moon babe
>>16956765bezos will win the lander race
>>16956424>also what ever happened with the KSP general on vg?Trust me, you don't wanna know. It was extremely retarded.
i wish nasa would just build its own lander. those two chucklefucks will drag their heels for years to drag out sucking up tax payer money.
>>16956839>build their ownAnd contract out to who, exactly?
>>16956839so you know absolutely nothing about the history of SLS or Orion I guess?
>>16956842Well since those two products both exist and actually work why don't they have those guys also build the lander?
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/2043167629947424983>Starship and Super Heavy move out to continue preflight testing
>>16956846>>16956845because it took 15-20 years and about 100 billion
>>16956847
>>16956848
>>16956847what are the two external pipes for
>>16956852raceways? they protect cables from thermal damage.
https://x.com/NASAAdmin/status/2043172376167256396?s=20
>No unexpected conditions were observed. I suspect when the images are released, it will be pretty obvious the stark difference between Artemis I and Artemis II head shield performance.>As to the question specifically, the discoloration was not liberated material. The white color observed corresponds to the compression pad area and is consistent with the local geometry, AVCOAT byproducts, and transitional heating environments. We observed this behavior in arc jet testing and expected it in this compression pad area.https://x.com/NASAAdmin/status/2043172376167256396
>>16956852toilet
>>16956857Shoutout to Berger for putting the pressure on NASA and kind of prodding them to be the "new transparent" agency they need to be.And shoutout to Jared for responding and following through.Good stuff. Not sure how long many of you have been fans of space flight but back in the Shuttle era NASA was very, very transparent. Issues would be addressed to the public almost immediately. That kind of shifted, especially towards the Bolden/Bridenstine/Ballast Bill era where NASA really closed in on itself. Jared is doing a good thing here bringing NASA back to the share-test-share philosophy
>>16956860being transparent to stupid people is just a giant waste of time
This mission was so kinoCall me gay and retarded but it's unironically given me back some faith in humanity. We can still do things.The crew was absolutely fantastic, I really don't know how they can top it.I hope Jared can pull through. we might actually make it brosAlso post future crew proposalsimagine Kim, Pettit, Pesquet, JAXA rep>>16956860Definitely a good thing. I didn't know NASA used to be more transparent. I don't think Berger needs to glaze Jared for it as much but it's certainly good for him to acknowledge it and also ask the questions.
>>16956811North of Mons Bradley would be alright, but if you need to retain heat more than dissipate it you're going to want to be at one of the poles so you can stay in sunlight. Building anywhere but the poles would be impossible if you're relying on solar power rather than nuclear.
>>16956863>PettitGod imagine the photosHe's getting old though, would they even consider him for a moon mission?
>>>/wsg/6126957
>>16956863is the earth always eclipsed if you're near the moon?
>>16956861Yeah well counterpoint: Jared isn't going on the news and spoonfeeding sensitive information to the talking heads at fox news, he's replying to literal who spitter fags and berger on twitter who are asking good questions
>>16956863I think Reid is on record saying he isn't done yet and would like to actually get closer and walk on the Moon. Give it to him.Matthew Dominick for photography.Ayu Yoneda because the "first woman and person of color" being a japanese woman would be hilarious and cause maximum seetheI don't really care for much of the rest of the active astronaut class desu. They have the black female geologist so she is probably a guarantee (more for her degree than her skin color or reproductive organs). I'm surprised they don't have more active geologists to be honest
>>16956773>the last thing i would want in a death capsule is an all-white crewbased aryan senator
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>>16956863Pesquet is retired isnt he? And love Pettit but no way he makes it to the moon and back he is OLD
>>16956848am i required to drive a cybertruck if i work at spacex?
>>16956874KEK remilio
>>16956878Not mandatory, you have the option to rent one out, if you want.
>>16956878Nope! There is no drive at starbase
>it is non-trivial for SpaceX and Blue Origin to integrate with Orion, which has fairly strict limits for thermal management and other issues. Even ensuring roughly equivalent cabin pressures between two vehicles is a significant task. Completing all of this within the next 12 to 18 months will be a difficult hill to climb.aint fu ckin happenin
>>16956876what altitude is this? did he take it from a balloon?
>>16956868statistically, none of them will have any career related to aerospace
>>16956881if you don't give me it for free, then i will show up in my beater fartbox
>>16956872the black chick is going to be the next boot on the moon, isnt she?
The Sen camera on the ISS saw the Orion reentryhttps://www.sen.com/video/e1cbd8ed-1363-4a03-a806-7f37c138589e
>>16956884starship is so comically oversized you can just add an extra airlock at the docking port
>>16956866If they don't they have no heartMaybe he has a shot at Artemis III, for the actual landings it's gotta be Dominick>>16956872I think all of this crew have a chance in the future if we really get the Moon base and they deserve to, too, but they're very unlikely to be on the first few landings so I tried to choose others. The backup crew probably has a chance, so instead of a JAXA rep the Canadian backup lady could also get on an early one.>I'm surprised they don't have more active geologists to be honestI whittled this list down to four, but for my ESA picks there'd be also Gerst (and Cristoforetti I guess), Gerst is a geophysicist and volcanologist, I think he'd be a good pick. Though I suspect the international astronauts are gonna get to stay in the cuck capsule for the first few landings and Artemis IV is probably going to be three humans and one other country again.>>16956877>PesquetNothing in his wiki article says he's retired so I thought he'd be an option.>he is OLDit would be so kino though
>>16956796>>16956800Imagine a fully pressurized PenguinDome where they can swim and fly to their hearts' content, and then the moon jannies have to collect the penguin shit for nitrogenous fertilizer.
>>16956891kino
>>16956510It's alright. But I prefer the term "selenic thrill"
>>16956651
>>16956911damn elon is smart.
>>16956911made with quantumcomposite metamaterials
>>16956911>>16956911what did all of the stuff on v1 even do?
>>16956920It's all sensors and propellant plumbing.
>>16956911pc vs apple lol
>>16956379I still can't tell the difference between Wiseman and Hansen. This is the real reason why you need the diversity, so you can quickly refer to the crew:>The white male>The woman>The black>The Canadian
>>16956927Linux, Windows, Apple
>>16956920Redirects gasses, directs fluids, opens and closes valves, reads off sensor data, feeds it into the engine controllers, etc.
>>16956928>still can't tell the difference between Wiseman and HansenYou are faceblind
>>16956929(they're all running embedded Linux)
Hello again /sfg/, did you watch Artemis 2?
>>16956937Hell yeah
artemis IV should consist of three geologists and one from III.if you disagree, explain.
>>16956938>ours...for all mankind, right?
>>16956937I actually got ordered to stop working early and watch it.
>>16956940https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzjNCVXLtwo
>>16956937I FELT that shit bro
>>16956941Thats awesome >>16956943Same>>16956938SOONOON
>>16956937I was getting a haircut and they had the splashdown playing on the TV in the background
>>16956939It should consist of a welder, plumber, electrician, and pilot from 3get started on that moon base ASAP
>>16956950Good way to keep your attention on the splashfown and not on shitposting
>>16956928https://animethemes.moe/anime/last_period_owarinaki_rasen_no_monogatari/ED1-NCBD1080
>>16956937No, I lived it.
>>16956956Very nice
>>16956957By lived it I mean shitposted here all week. I didn't even go outside to look up.
mars plans cancelled https://scienceaim.com/universe-expected-to-decay-in-1078-years-much-sooner-than-previously-thought/
>>16956939Only 2. Because only 2 will land. One of those who keep orbiting the Moon should be a physicist and do science related to radiation and the Sun and the other should be a doctor to collect health data.
>>16956960
>>16956960The link has decayed
>>16956963https://scienceaim.com/universe-expected-to-decay-in-1078-years-much-sooner-than-previously-thought/superscript fuckery
Popular cultural breakouthttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FOI8vLhRzkE
god damnit, 4chan why do you not support superscript.here just have the goddamn paper instead of the ai slop site https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1475-7516/2025/05/023
>>16956965>a fucking leaf
>>16956960>>16956966tl;dr, then: stellar remnants like Neutron Stars are susceptible to the same evaporation processes as black holes, and it leaves them with similar life times. If the universe is cyclical, there could still be stellar remnants out there, but only if the cycle rate is less than 10^68 years.
ok canada had their turn, who next in the artemis accords should be allowed on III?
>>16956969Artemis III is going to be a Low Earth Orbit mission.
Grok, help her out.Okie Dokie! A new study published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics by three researchers at Radboud University in the Netherlands has dramatically revised our estimate of when the last objects in the universe will cease to exist.That is a 1 followed by 78 zeros.It sounds incomprehensibly long, and it is.But it is also vastly shorter than the previous estimate which is a 1 followed by 1,100 zeros.
>>16956972it's literally just regurgitating the first couple lines of the AI site's summary>>16956971yes I know, but of the 4 crew which country should be represented besides US
>>16956972how do we overcome this
>>16956972what happens one minute after 11:59 PM on new year's eve 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000?
we must fund a Sedna lander for 2070. it won't be back for a long time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedna_(dwarf_planet)
NASA Administrator Jared IsaacmanI am hesitant to get ahead of a proper data review, but I understand the space community’s curiosity, especially when imagery can give the impression of a problem.As you would expect, engineers were eager to inspect the heat shield, starting with diver imagery shortly after splashdown and continuing with the review aboard the ship. No unexpected conditions were observed. I suspect when the images are released, it will be pretty obvious the stark difference between Artemis I and Artemis II head shield performance.As to the question specifically, the discoloration was not liberated material. The white color observed corresponds to the compression pad area and is consistent with the local geometry, AVCOAT byproducts, and transitional heating environments. We observed this behavior in arc jet testing and expected it in this compression pad area.We will complete a full data review across all systems, including the thermal protection system, and make the results publicly available.Now our three astronauts are home safe.Weren't the four astronauts?No! Three. No more questions.
>>16956973If I had munged a link three times straight, I wouldn't throw shade at Grok.
>Static fires soonI want it to explodeI want Elon Musk to succeed I want that it worksI want Elon Musk to failI am not bipolar.
>>16956978not my fault 4chan sanitizes string entry
anyone else remember the drama regarding Ceres's bright spot as the dawn spacecraft got closer and closer? fun times
>>16956981Yesss thanks for the reminder
>>16956981Ceres is real? I thought Ceres is just a fictional planet in The Expanse.
>>16956965
>>16956965Lock the doors.
>>16956976w-who's gonna land on it
Oh no no no redditsisters.First Victor Glover refuses to say anything about his skin colour, then there were the sayings about God while in space, now this. We just can't stop losing.
>>16956965Is SNL still relevant enough to qualify as pop culture?
>>16956976>Sedna will come to perihelion around July 2076hahahahaha oh my god america is truly the only planet trump is going to land on sedna (no one will know what this is or why) for the tricentennial
>>16956941I'm still pissed I missed the last Shittle launch because I was in physics class.
>>16956879>remilioWhat does this mean?
AIII is not happening until 2028.
>>16956750Did they fix their low thrust issue?
>>16956990Optimism is so very fragile isn’t it? One man’s hopium is another man’s doomsday scenario.
>>16956993Back in 2003 I set my VCR to record Columbia's launch because I had a class.
>>16957007d-did you get it on tape?
65 years
>>16956983the fictional part is making it spin to create artifical gravity by centrifugal forceI wonder who came up with the idea
>>16957013"if it's not broken don't fix it"grok translate that in russian
>>16957013>it's been a long road
>>16957011I did. I actually watched it later that day and still have the tape somewhere.Needless to say, I saw the re-entry on the news.
>>16957023based boomer
>>16956366it self-stabilizes aerodynamically, that's what it looks like - damped oscillation
>>16956664SpaceX is experiencing regression to the mean as it keeps growing headcountefficient rocket engines are hard to make, SpaceX engineering as a group is not competent enough anymore to understand that efficiency scales with size and reliability scales inversely with number of partsthey should have somewhere between 4 and 9 engines on the booster, they have 33 with the attendant thermodynamic, gas dynamic and reliability issues
>>16957031If it was only reusable booster, starship would be flying for years already. Reusable 2nd stage is entirely different beast.
>>16957013https://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1775986815091059.webm
>>16957031everyone probably wants to work at blue origin>do nothing>get paid alotwhy even work at spacex?
>>16957037People tend to be happier when their work means more to them than just a wage.
>>16957036kino
>>16956634Looks good to me
>>16956397Watching this nowand its really cool to see the entire room so full of energy and hyping it up. Never seen a press conference so positive.Spacebros, it feels so good to be winning.
>>16957016Probably the authors. In reality Ceres is too light and fluffy to hold together if spun up.
>>16957034Why is a martian colony grade starship inherently attached to the superheavy booster? And why are we sending a rocket powered by methalox engines to a celestial body with scant carbon and a merely hypothetical amount of hydrogen and oxygen frozen in the shadows?
>>16957031as i understand it the first stage engines are fine the problem is with the raptor vacs
>>16957053>And why are we sending a rocket powered by methalox engines to a celestial body with scant carbon and a merely hypothetical amount of hydrogen and oxygen frozen in the shadows?Because we can refuel it in LEO with enough dV to go to LLO, dock with Orion, land, ascend back to LLO, and dock with Orion again. Eventually we could use something like an NEP tug to push filled Starship depots to LLO and reuse the moonships.
>>16957043>work means moremore what? explosions? LEO constellations? Elaborate.
>>16956927Apple is really a raptor 1 that with some marketing tricks and lies tries to sell itself as a raptor 3
>>16957016The obvious solution for settling Ceres is spinhabs inside big voids carved out of the interior but then your belters grow up in one gee and aren’t physically puny underdogs
>>16957002i guess we'll find out soon
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2043196054519398909
>>16957098why did some of the debris change direction to move back towards the rocket instead of away?
>>16957100I think those ones are from Orion
>>16957095how much less
https://x.com/Flight2Starship/status/2043309844577308686>Booster 19’s grid fins have been tested.
>>16957037BO workers do not get paid a lot in factthere were a bunch of stock options that expired worthless a while ago because they were contingent upon the company going public or something retarded
>>16957138Now do the same while loaded
>>16956839>chucklefucks holy reddit
>>16951033You can see when the vax hit
New Glenn is already launching commercial payloads, where is Starship?
>>16957165getting developed to enable the next step change in cost reduction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xTLEDWNLpM>SpaceX conducts preflight Booster 19 testing on Pad 2
>>16957167two more weeks?
>>16957037i drove past the blorigin factory yesterday (saturday) and the parking lot was fullfor comparison, the airbus building down the road had like 1 car parked outside
>>16957036KNHO
>>16957169two more months.
>>16957050that and the necessary amount of energy would be ludicrous anyway
>>16957165If new Glenn can lap starship, it actually might be a sign that SpaceX's monopoly is crashing
>>16957013STS-1 was 45 years ago today
>>16957198You never answered when you asserted SpaceX had been lapped and weee asked by whom.
>>16956876ISS capture of Artemis II re-entry? Can anyone confirm?
>>16957198step by step, ferociously
>>16957168inb4 it explodes
Anyone know if these are real?
>>16957221well, where did you find it?
>>16957226A link posted earlier in this thread to an X post. Supposedly a view from the ISS but I can't find any corroboration
>>16957227these two are from station:https://x.com/Astro_ChrisW/status/2042776054520017214yours is probably, can't find the tweet tho. check the other 3 American astronauts on stations accounts?
