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In awe at the size of this thing. Absolute unit.

Thanks to stainless steel, Elon time doesn't apply anymore. At least with Starhopper. Starship Time?

Having Starship wouldn't have a big advantage for a tourism station, it would have an immense advantage. A wet workshop Starship can give you around 2000m^3 in a single launch. That is more than enough to house 100 tourist comfortably at a time for a week stay, perhaps even 200 people. Heck, even as a bonus if Super Heavy is capable of doing SSTO flights, and we would do a wet workshop mission on the empty booster (with not much payload) in orbit, that will give us around 4000m^3 of volume to mess around with, then also turn the Starship used to send cargo to the empty Super Heavy vehicle and turn that into a wet workshop as well. Double Bonus. 6000m^3, enough for 300-600 tourists. (maybe just launching seperate more conventional modules will turn out to be more cost effective, however, but we will see i geuss) All we have to do now is add power, air conditioning, radiators, and all that kind of stuff that will make you go ''oh its still going to be extremely expensive and complex'' and there you go boom. An important thing about space hotels is cost. In order to make space tourism in orbit affordable for the common public, you need tens of thousands of tourists costumers coming to a cheap tin can space station every year. Its sort of like the ''Cost per KG'' thing, the best way to lower the cost is to make stuff bigger and dumber, although ''dumb'' might not go that well with manned spaceflight.

I havent posted in a while, here are some things i made: By the way, here is a tip, if you want to make full on, clean looking drawings with a pen or non-erasable drawing tool of any kind, you can draw a fine messy sketch with a pencil, make the rest of the drawing with pen or whatever, and later erase the pencil layer to reveal line-art that isn't that messy. You can also use a blue/red pencil for the sketch if you want to remove it digitaly, or if you are going completely digital, just use layers. I used it in these drawings. (yes, the differnce in proportions in the drawings is bothering me too.) Here is it in action: The ugly messy sketch. The lineart (i didn't quite remove the sketch).

No, cowboys.

Crew Dragon undocked when i left home for school and splashed down when i arrived back home. Pretty cool. I followed and watched nearly major every event of the DM1 live. Everything was right in time for me to be awake and aware when it was happending.

Just after Crew Dragon landed and the party is pretty much over, some 'activities' are happending in Boca Chica. Perfect timing.

Its going to deorbit in about 40 minutes and should splash down around 90 minutes from now

Im going to depart from my home to school at nearly the same time Dragon 2 will depart from the ISS, so i can't watch it.

Oh boy the ISS crew must be pretty lonely up there The Zero-G indicator is doing well in the ISS it seems!

*correction, Soyuz TM-16 Soyuz with an APAS docking system looks weird though. Never thought of it.

The first spacecraft with a beautiful, sleek, spacious and smooth design arriving at the ISS? Lame, they could've done that in 60s, meh.

I watched the docking and hatch opening with my dad via NASA TV. I especially love the parts where you could see the RCS thrusters fire, i hope when the Dragon comes back we will get the audio from Ripley's mic during docking, i'd love to know how it sounds. The hatch opening was awesome too, its amazing to see them enter a sports car in zero-g!

Is the welcoming ceremony taking place on 15:35 UTC going to take place inside the Dragon? That would be cool!

Another movie about Apollo 11? Cool!

I wonder what Oleg Kononenko is doing right now...

Not only do you need blueprints, but also skilled workers who know how to build the parts. This was before fancy computer designs and fancy industrial robotics, everything had to built by hand, and everyone built the parts in their own way. Alot of the people who built the Apollo/Saturn parts have either passed away or are too old to teach people how to build the things.

SpaceX radio is playing on NASA TV. Epic crossover.

10:55 UTC

Like what? Mystery Goo?

I hope we there are going to be cameras with microphones inside the capsule, so we can feel what the launch and maybe even re-entry is like. Sort of like the "riding the booster" videos of the space shuttle, and the blue origin video with the mannequin. For me the launch is at 8:48 am in the morning. Thats about the time i arrive at school on weekdays, so im good.

I took images of some familiar spots last summer of places i have been tohroughout my life from the air (via plane). It is really weird seeing the places you have seen on the surface from the sky. Here is Tata Steel, they produce(?) steel here, many people in my region have worked here, you can see the giant ovens from really far away. Im going to visit this area today, so i might upload more pictures of this soon. (from the surface)

I was confused because it looked stationary untill i saw the tracks. Would love to ride it

"Bory Truno"

Maybe, but they could also have a 24/7 stream of the spaceport up, with a countdown to whatever launch is coming up next. Would look very cool. Speaking of LES... They could also have some sort of 'glider' attached to Starship as an LES. Just a crazy little thought though.