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Our fishing chimps are busy with catching your dinner. Have a New Tronic Fusion instead. A glass of sodium soda, please.

Oh, yeah! I recall the several months old story with Tselina-D. ~450 t of random scrap in random orbits are a thing! a lot of things! Is he still paying for the parking place?

The gateway allows to split the lander and the cruiser to use a rocket twice lighter.

Some parts of the ISS are mid-80s technology. Siblings of Mir.

Banned for preferring the modern remake of V for Visitors.

Granted. You are an elf. I wish magic artifacts could be 3d-printed.

N/A New moderators are spawned on thread growth. When there are forum moderators, where are the forum pushers and forum tampers?

Back in my days a "card reader" was a dresser-sized metal thing reading punch cards. Another similar thing was a "card writer". Memory cards, though were very light, flat, and flexible.

So-called "ponies" look like bald weasels.

Floor 3013: A developed console shaped as a hole in budget.

Making a cleaner for vacuum is a cheating.

More tin plates for desert huts. *** The Mysterious Island will grow at the Nemo point. An aluminium underwater mountain sticking out of water. With strange defense turrets on top, like in that 1973 series. *** Unlikely something can affect the ISS lifespan, as it will probably get out of order before Artemis finishes selecting the systems design, while the Russian segment will physically separate even sooner.

The nozzle is strong. A nuke explodes inside, but it doesn't even melt. A lot of good knives can be forged out of this nozzle if capture the ship. Though, a trouble: how to melt the nozzle to forge them. Irl. Heat radiation evaporates the rocket together wirh nozzle and turns everything into a fireball. The hypothetical pulse engines either burn the fusion pellets at low rate, or explode the nuke far away from the ship (Orion) and receive the energy as a prolonged plasma jet. And the magnetic nozzle is anyway just a metal truss. Unless it's an aneutronic fusion, the radiation can easily exceed the nuclear (i.e. fission) one, due to much greater amount of neutrons activating the ground. Just one. But immediately.

Floor 3011: The cubiculum of the chief servus of the forum.

I mean, what if both Orion and Starship are equally inappropriate for wide usage, so the design competition makes no sense. As from time to time the reentry process will probably go wrong, and any vehicle will be ballistically aerobraking with its bottom forward, and the crew will be withstanding 30+ g for half-hour, this will possibly result into same consequences as the Soviet tortoises had, when one of them got its eye popped out, and who knows what happened to their intellect (if it was). We'll never know the further tortoises probable fate, as they were killed together with a dozen of others from the tortoise space team, quickly after the flight, to compare their inner world. As this can't be prevented or weakened by the RV shape, maybe it just means that any direct return from the Moon is appropriate only in the epoch of expendable crew heroes, while any lunar exploration necessary needs a return to LEO, and then landing at 8 km/s initial speed? And this needs so much delta-V that chemical rockets are just not an option at all?

4. If the re-entry vehicle had bounced from the atmosphere to drop the speed from ~11 to ~8 km/s, will it perform the secondary re-entry with partially spent heatshield and random trajectory angle?

1. Is the (trans)lunar Starship supposed to be refueled in high-eccentricity elliptic orbit on its way to home? 2. Is the (trans)lunar Starship supposed to enter the atmosphere, aerobrake, and land, rather than be a long-living orbital tug? Or Orion will be the only aerobraking thing? 3. What if the crewed aerobraking vehicle had lost the safe re-entry corridor, and its descent from controlled (at 7..12 g) became ballistic (20..35 g) ?

Yes, P-500 Hill

Back in my days, there were resident programs hanged on interruptions instead of background processes.

Using vehicles heavier than air to fly is a cheating.

Banned for calling the V-2 remake Bumper.

Granted. This is a scripted cutscene. I wish to script irl cutscenes.

They. What's "bom"?

Be brief. A634h!