DDE

LBJ spammed other heads of state with the Earthrise photo (who wouldn't). One of the responses were... highly unlikely.

Angara launch from Vostochnyi has slid further to March https://t.me/roscosmos_gk/11932

For a total of 5-10 seconds before the thruster burns out and/or at a scale too small to house a cat, let alone a human.

Given how many rocket failure modes seem to come with pulsations of thrust, I hereby propose a new theory. Every rocket wishes it were the Orion Drive.

Didn't find a thread for it, so here goes. Does anyone still remember those alien corpses in the Peruvian parliament? Papier-mâché over animal bones. To no-one's surprise. https://apnews.com/article/peru-aliens-mexico-congress-extraterrestrials-2ab059d55d3d0352e41ad2a4c312d1ed

Spacecraft capable of high G for any significant amount of time are only marginally less impossible than G-force nullification. For near-future settings we could probably assume this won't be a problem, especially if the crew compartment is close to CoM.

https://spacenews.com/space-force-inks-deal-with-microsoft-for-mixed-reality-training/ AFAIK Microsoft was divesting from AR...

RKK Energia employee patents an external helmet faceguard (suspiciously resembling that of an American football helmet) intended to protect the glass in case of falls during Mars EVAs. Or facepalms, I guess. https://t.me/roscosmos_press/1784

In an unofficial NASA VK group. "Wait, the wheels of the rover on Peregrine can be spun while in flight? Can these be used for attitude control?" "Unfortunately the momentum on those won't be enough" https://vk.com/wall-22468706_163341?reply=163343

It's just a stealth-prequel to The Expanse.

On an unrelated note, the Spaniards (as I figure from what lettering I could make out) do not forgive.

Among the test subjects of Operation Plumbbob were four K-class airships. Steampunk fans, beware.

Apparently it's better than the earlier suspicion of complete upper stage RUD.

Interesting side note: the script is reportedly from 2020, so it's not inspired by recent events. You know Benioff and Weiss, the guys who did the last season of Game of Thrones? They're doing this. If there are any nighttime fight scenes, bring NVGs...

I think it's a Trophy launcher - you can see the radar "cheek" further to the right. And the mortar port is still there:

Speaking of car troubles, the old Ford didn't start at -25°C, most likely because the generator brushes froze up. Just another reminder to methodically vent moisture (when we had left it, temperature hovered around zero, so there were small pools on all the mats).

So, fun fact. See these? These, as you probably know, are smoke grenade launchers, ubiquitous on armored fighting vehicles. As you can probably notice, they're not exactly armored. And they're filled with highly flammable agents like phosphorus, and so when they get hit, they catch fire almost as well as if they were set off deliberately. This means that even a superficial hit can cause the target vehicle to disappear in a flash and a huge cloud of smoke, blinding it and leaving the other side proudly claiming a kill. Worse yet, it's been known to convince the vehicle's own crew that they've been badly hit and caused them to rout. To my understanding, it's one of the reasons why the Israelis use the otherwise antiquated style of semi-internal multi-purpose 52 or 60 mm mortar on all their vehicles instead of banks of external launchers.

Russian comet hunters (led by the other Borisov) report Peregrine's Centaur is tumbling. https://t.me/kiam_ison_network/184

Well, they definitely weren't alone. There was a certain thing that's not known for stability:

Ah, the fabled rocks that fall upwards.

IKR? My thought process was, everywhere we look, the deuterium ratio is greater than on Earth because high temperatures and lack of strong magnetic fields "bake out" the protium. Venus, cometary ice, et cetera... Oh, don't worry, the game merely buys into the standard marketing jazz of lunar He3.

From General Kamanin's diary, January 5, 1969. US USSR Total number of flights 18 10 Combined cosmonaut flight time, hours 3 215 629 Number of EVAs 9 1 Number of manned orbital rendezvous 12 2 Number of manned dockings 7 0 Number of flown maneuverable manned ships 12 1 "I've got a bad feeling about this Moon race" (quip mine)

I wasn't going to go for that, motsly because the people who've been saying that were the ones likely to have a political bias against the whole concept, and because my high-speed rail interests lie elsewhere (the 400 km/h Vostok promised for the completely rebuilt Moscow - Saint-Petersburg line).

Is/should lunar be deuterium-enriched? Basically I'm thinking how Anno 2205 doesn't make sense on so many levels. The plot is about achieving He3 fusion on the Moon to then beam power back to Earth. But, because it's a game about production chains, the Lunar ice only gets used for oxygen and water, and the deuterium can only be produced exclusively in the Arctic and is then shipped to the Moon (unless you waste considerable resources on a late-game, DLC-only tech).

To be fair, Hyperloop was inherently going to compete with high-speed rail whereever it happened. California was just the nearest and most plausible opportunity.