Ol’ Musky Boi

The big bogey get's a makeover at last!

This is reassuring, thanks Nate.

Built this over 3 days. Has fully stock (no DLC) working S-Foils, flies fairly well, and only has 321 parts! KerbalX link: https://kerbalx.com/OlMuskiBoi/T-65-X-Wing Doesn't come with a targeting computer because Jeb kept switching it off anyway

Cheers mate!

KerbalX link: https://kerbalx.com/OlMuskiBoi/Rally-Mini Based off "The Italian Job" movie.

Yea I am aware of the forum etiquette thanks. There are images and craft details available on the KerbalX page

KerbalX link: https://kerbalx.com/OlMuskiBoi/KB-5-Turbo I don't usually dabble much with automobiles in KSP, but they're good fun!

A Bell X-1 replica, sans B-29 launch vehicle. KerbalX link: https://kerbalx.com/OlMuskiBoi/Bell-X-1

Not done a ring station before so figured it was about time. KerbalX link: https://kerbalx.com/OlMuskiBoi/Tenacity-Space-Station

KerbalX link: https://kerbalx.com/OlMuskiBoi/Stock-Dreamchaser Not perfect but I'm happy with how it turned out. Launch vehicle isn't anything special, feel free to throw it out for a proper Atlas / Vulcan replica if you want

The testing from 3 weeks ago didn't go quite as planned (high pitched language warning): What happened here was probably something I should've anticipated, the lump of hot glue used to stick the ignitor in place came loose upon ignition, clogged the nozzle, and the engine then burnt through. Despite that, for a fraction of a second it was actually working, and there were visible mach diamonds, so I'm pretty happy with that part of the test. Obviously, there are several things that need improvement. First and foremost are my safety procedures, currently testing is done behind some g

That's quite a difficult thing to judge, considering that even Astronauts don't spend half their time having fun in microgravity or looking at the view, and even then the ISS doesn't have quite the same amount as open space as perhaps a Starship or a large space station would have (those windows in most of the Starship renderings are massive, I imagine that view would be pretty phenomenal compared to the Cupola). Until someone tries it of course we won't know, but I'd wager that people wouldn't get sick of it so easily. What seems most likely to me is that some may spend short ~1 week sorties

I don't necessarily think there'd be a lack of entertainment if you stayed in space for a month, some people like to go on cruises for similar lengths of time, but I do think you're right that the limiting factor may be zero g exposure, so perhaps for an up and down Starship space trip a week would just about do the trick. Although once we start talking artificial gravity stations, where you might only spend a few hours a day in microgravity, longer stays do start to look more attractive. It's interesting to imagine what a Lunar cruise may be like, perhaps a 3 day journey there to spend 2

I agree, I say as much in my post, I think a month is about the max any tourist would want to spend in orbit, since the majority of the cost will be that of launch (even with full reusability), the longer you stay in space and the more passengers there are the cheaper the tickets, somewhere in there there's a balance that people would want to pay for. Though when the ISS is eventually decommissioned sometime in the mid 2020s there will be a need for a new interim orbital research lab for operation and recovery of microgravity experiments. Starship fills this role pretty well, it has more press

Since so much Starship development has been happening lately, I think it's a good time to discuss it's capabilities in the realm of space tourism, and wether or not this could be a source of good income for SpaceX. I am no economist or business expert, but I've done my best to estimate a couple of ways this might work. LEO Tourism, How Might It Work? Musk recently said that Starship could cost as little as $2 million per launch. Which for a 150 tonne payload capability means an incredible $13/kg price tag, about 1000 times cheaper than a Delta IV Heavy, which still boggles my