Space: The Final Frontier

[MMaRsu]

Is that alien worlds show on netflixnany good

[ringlow]

Yesterday was a bummer, I hope they figured out why the raptor aborted and they can fix and launch it again post haste

[Great Rumbler]

It blew up:

https://twitter.com/AmazingSpace2/status/1336806025354211331

[Cauliflower Of Love]

I came so much.

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1336809767574982658

Elon's got all the data he needs

thank you everybody

[Tasty]

*horrific explosion*

"Mission accomplished! 👍"

[Cauliflower Of Love]

They literally got 7 starships on deck

[Tasty]

They literally got 7 starships on deck

I literally don't care.

[Great Rumbler]

I just wanna see rocket go brrrrr

[Madrun Badrun]

I really hate that the US seems to be privatizing space exploration.  NASA is one of America's best achievements and it just feels wrong. 

[Cauliflower Of Love]

They should stop electing greedy assholes that just want decades long jobs programs for their states.

[ringlow]

I was so proud when i saw that water bucket flip and kick, holy shit

[Cauliflower Of Love]

 

[Pissy F Benny]

if what alex jones says is true and they're putting jelly fish genes in the pfizer as a vessel to transfer extra-terrestrial dna into human bodies, we'll all be aliens soon enough

[Raist]

 

Full res images available here:

https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/deploymentExplorer.html#43

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Starship Full Stack by Official SpaceX Photos, on Flickr

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Falcon Heavy on schedule to fly this saturday pending weather.

They are sounding the payload today.

[Tasty]

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/02/the-audacious-rescue-plan-that-might-have-saved-space-shuttle-columbia-2/

This is amazingly fascinating. Like Apollo 13 on steroids. There is definitely a film script here...

What could have been. RIP to the seven Columbia crew members.

[Tasty]

Update, nine years later: When this piece was originally published in 2014, the criticisms above were current and valid. However, in the almost-decade since, the world of space flight has been utterly transformed. Today in 2023, more than half of the Expedition 68 crew circling Earth on the International Space Station were delivered there by SpaceX spacecraft carried by SpaceX launch vehicles; the James Webb Space Telescope sits at the L2 point doing incredible science; and even the long-delayed SLS rocket has had its maiden flight, propelling an uncrewed Orion spacecraft into a multi-week circumlunar journey. Unlike the years spent adrift in the earlier part of this century, it feels like NASA has now turned a very important corner, and the future of human space feels bright and hopeful for the first time in a long time.

[Tasty]

The 2013 film Gravity features a Kessler syndrome catastrophe as the inciting incident of the story, when Russia shoots down an old satellite.[37]

The 39-year old Russian satellite was destroyed in an anti-satellite weapon test on 15 November 2021, resulting in space debris in orbits between 300 and 1,100 km (190 and 680 mi) above the Earth. The threat of potential collision with debris caused the crew of the International Space Station (ISS) to take shelter in their escape capsules for the first few passes of the debris cloud, and increased the future risk of a debris collision with the ISS or other satellites.

Did the Russkies see the fucking movie and say "Hey maybe that's a good idea"

Maybe they just hate George Clooney...

[Raist]

Update, nine years later: When this piece was originally published in 2014, the criticisms above were current and valid. However, in the almost-decade since, the world of space flight has been utterly transformed. Today in 2023, more than half of the Expedition 68 crew circling Earth on the International Space Station were delivered there by SpaceX spacecraft carried by SpaceX launch vehicles; the James Webb Space Telescope sits at the L2 point doing incredible science; and even the long-delayed SLS rocket has had its maiden flight, propelling an uncrewed Orion spacecraft into a multi-week circumlunar journey. Unlike the years spent adrift in the earlier part of this century, it feels like NASA has now turned a very important corner, and the future of human space feels bright and hopeful for the first time in a long time.

NASA?

Who expertly launched JWST, on Christmas day no less 

[MMaRsu]

Anyone see the green comet yet?

[Tasty]

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Statif fire.

This is like that precum to the cum when they finally sit all the way down.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

7AM on Monday Central time.

Let's do this!