Not trying to be a sea lion. Nor any troll. And of course I will be civil, I am just a guest here, plus that is my general Internet behavior.
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The Perpetual MEGA Space Thread
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That's at least the third time this comic has been posted about the same person... while I routinely use the ignore function to remain focused, I do have to respect his commitment to character.
Neither are sea lions, the point is no one gives a shit.
Embrace your inner pinniped, shipmate. Just be yourself. We’ll cope.
While Boeing insists the astronauts could return at any time, I do wonder how true that really is at this point. NASA is working on a back-up plan with SpaceX to bring them back using a SpaceX Crew Dragon if required. I think while publicly Boeing says this isn't necessary, that privately they are afraid there are other issues with the Starliner that they've missed and thus are trying to go over every single nook and cranny with a fine toothed comb before bringing the astronauts back, because one can only imagine the titanic storm that will ensue if the craft was to burn up upon reentry and the astronauts with it.
Magnificent. The achievements of Mr. Musk are just remarkable - despite what you may think of him, he and his ideas are the most important developments in a century.
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Simply amazing.👍
One thing I haven’t been clear on - what’s the technical advantage of doing a recovery like this vs the tail-sitting booster fly backs they’ve been doing? There must be, given the difficulties/costs associated.
From what I understand, this type of recovery allows them to reduce the weight of the rocket because it won't need "landing gear" as it will instead land at this special docking facility. I believe this is the lower half of the rocket that will come back to Earth while the second half goes into space to do or go wherever.
They just basically had some big mechanical arms catch a 200 ton twenty story building.
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Is landing a booster that deploys legs at a precise location on a barge to keep it from falling over fundamentally different than landing a booster at a precise location where it engages a functionally equivalent mechanism to keep it from falling over? Definitely cool to watch, but I'm trying to understand exactly how groundbreaking this actually is, and I'm coming up short. Orgasmic fan bois notwithstanding, I'm not sure this is tantamount the the Moon landing.
I was wondering this too. I presume that putting landing legs on the Starship Booster comes at some performance cost.
