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likely to eat into the launch window

Two technicians and a safety lead are going to the pad.

I'm curious when I will get to go.

I hope the safety factor is better than 1.01

Formatting Hm, my subscript doesn't work on mobile right now.

I didn't click last time.

I mean...the public has visible and infrared cameras trained on the rocket and factory at basically all times, do you want the chamber pressure .csv's to go with that?

A response?

An 18 year old went on a New Shepard flight a while back. I think teenagers can be strong and healthy enough to handle it, especially with training.

Particles. Lots of them.

That is called power armor.

The charges cancel so you don't get hurt when reading it.

I think this is the winner for "most visually dramatic launch profile" so far.

now THAT's a view.

Wow, 14th flight of this booster.

Looks like it's the presence of those larger rocks that causes the lighter debris to be pushed into streamers of higher density.

Where is my glowing bioluminescent fruit?

Falcon Heavy counts for three, right?

The asteroid system is traveling west-east through the sky, and the spacecraft came at it from the left in this image. So the plume mostly went back towards the direction the spacecraft came from.

But the system is near periapsis of a more elliptical orbit, so it could still be going faster than Earth.

Seems to be tracking Didymos, yes. I think the debris plume mostly travels out in the opposite direction of the spacecraft's approach. Edit: Unless the asteroid is moving faster than Earth, which I think it probably is. And the spacecraft might be coming in from ahead. I don't know anymore. I'd have to make some vectors.

A little to the right and they'd be taking photos of Perseverance.

It sure hit it!

Solid metal is indeed the composition of perhaps my favorite asteroid, 16 Psyche, which is targeted by an orbiter mission in the near future.

Well there seems to be various levels of that. The asteroid is made of rocks that ARE solid and formed somehow. But usually the rocks are just piled together in a big group unless they somehow get hot enough to melt together. Even big, cratery asteroids like Phobos can be rubble piles too, just too big to see the boulders on from full view.