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Huh. A thought: Because Falcon Heavy basically is Falcon 9 x 3, this rocket fell victim of its own success! What a revolting development.

LEGO Falcon go! Has it really been three years since last FH flight? Are there really no payloads for this HLS? Even after Delta IV demise? That's sad.

First crewed flight in 2026? Ambitious! It will make me incredibly happy if SS will reach that goal successfully.

Love the name. If only those crafts were not one-use-only...

How did they solved joint stiffening issue if suit is only "slightly bulkier"?

It made me laugh out loud. The face says it all: What I'm supposed to do with that thing? Talk about pipe spaghetti.

Lovely blue flame and Mach diamonds. I wish them best of luck with their plans.

We have enough farmland. Problems lie in transport and distribution of products. In effect, huge amounts of food are wasted in First World, because transporting it to starving people in Africa and Asia costs more than throwing it in the trashcans. In Europe, farmers are paid to produce less, because market is saturated and export is uneconomical. We have enough food to end world hunger, it's just nobody wants to pay for delivery.

Fingers crossed, everything will go smoothly and without raising any tension.

Cool concept. Hopefully it will be built. Even more hopefully, in less than 25 years.

Obligatory Scott Manley video about the incident:

Yeah, lack of the crew onboard is a huge saving grace. Considering how rough that abort looked, with capsule tumbling and hitting the ground hard, an usual crew NS carries would have a really bad time.

Ah, fuzzbuckets. I've seen announcement on YT, but decided to go work in the garden instead of watching "just another boring hop". Of course it turned out to be a fireball time. Good thing safety system worked as it should - though I've seen comments saying retro thrusters either didn't fire at all, or fired at the last possible moment resulting in a hard touchdown.

"Meteor shower" usually means "1 grain of sand and two grains of dust in every 100 cubed kilometers of otherwise empty space." You would have to be very unlucky to encounter anything. But if you did, there are two most likely outcomes: You spaceship was ripped open like a can of tuna. Everyone die. There is a small hole leaking air. Slap a piece of duct tape on it to stop the leak. Then gather supplies for permanent fix.

Structural integrity of entire stack? Fueling, defueling, rolling entire rocket and the crawler into and out of VAB... Are they concerned it will start cracking?

The lesson of the week is: Do not mix real science with space opera. If you want hard sci-fi story, write something akin to "The Martian.", where everything is more or less accurate and understandable to a moderately educated reader. No space magic trying to pass itself as science - because someone will notice it and laugh at it. But if you want to write engaging space opera full of adventure, flashy explosions and cool looking beams, use handwavium wrapped in unobtanium and powered by mesoprotons-X. "Sufficiently advanced technology" is a thing exactly for that reason - to bridge the gap between our current level of technology, and demands of the Plot.

Naw, man - give the land back to bisons. They will take better care of it than we do.

Clearly, we need syntho-steaks. No skin, bones, sinews, guts - just slabs of clean muscle tissue and fat growing in vast, underground vats.

You sir, just won the Internet.

Well, you are right. I missed Moon landings due to not being born yet. Now I have a chance to watch the reenactment live. Yaay.

Late, overpriced and somehow still less capable than venerable, 50 years old Saturn V. Thanks, but I will pass on the ticket for this hype train. I will catch the one with actual human crew, if it ever arrives.

400 times the energy thrown out by Sun's CME's! Too bad nobody managed to catch that super-flare. That person would be thoroughly freaked-out, thinking that Betelgeuse is going supernova right before their eyes.

So you want to use (magical) gravity suspension generators... and chemical maneuvering rockets? Sorry, but to me it looks like someone wanting to put oars on a nuclear aircraft carrier. Plus yet another fusion pulse (but not really) engine. Why are you so overcomplicating things? If you want to write hard sci-fi story, don't dabble in clarktech. If you want to write space opera, go full ham on unobtanium. Or just flat out state that the setting is post-apocalyptical one. Survivors have to piece together fragments of surviving technologies, while barely understanding how it all works. Make use of frankentech necessity, because characters don't have access to anything else - just bits and pieces that barely fit together.

Meh. Nothing new, nothing revolutionary. Just another (questionably) pretty and artificially uplifting promotional video. "Look at our pretty animation and send us money." I will believe when I'll see some real hardware.

"Complex fraud" you say? Well, nowadays everything in stores is "nano" or "quantum". Who knows if couple of years from now "hydrogen" knives won't be all the rage?