cubinator

The iconic SpaceX countdown is at the bottom of the screen as we've passed T-1 hour! LES arming shortly!

Expected weather clearing at 18:30 (I assume UTC)

I'd argue that that is the goal of almost anyone working on human spaceflight. But you're right, not an official directive.

"Reasonable opportunity" for launch regarding weather. Again, they will check again before prop loading. Well, that is the goal, even if it takes a long time to get there.

They might have mentioned that the old cargo Dragon was berthed to the station by the robot arm, while the crew Dragon docks under its own power.

I think so too, any KSP expert will practically already know the control scheme. The capsule docks to IDA. It will dock to the forward port on the station.

I'd prefer to see a proper delay than watch them get to T-20:00 and climb out of the rocket again...

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I agree. Rockets are hard to make (I've learned this firsthand), and rockets are cool, so in my view anyone who's making a rocket that can fly at all is doing something pretty cool. New Shepard is pretty cool and would be pretty neat to fly on if the price comes down at least twentyfold from what it's likely to be initially. New Glenn is also cool, and reusable like Falcon 9! And it can do moon stuff!

Interesting. Perhaps it was the largest one at the time.

I was just thinking earlier that SpaceX may just top the N1 for most powerful non-nuclear explosion if a full stack Starship ever explodes.

Hmmm...I think I'd just go however far it takes to play Half Life 3. Other than that, I'm not really interested. Maybe I'd try to get a coronavirus vaccine on my way out, and whatever else they've got for immunizations that's good.

The dish is a little less than 1 meter wide on the long axis, I think. I may substitute it for a circular dish of similar caliber - Just look at your neighbors' roofs for satellite TV antennas; that's exactly what I'm using. However, I would be happy to use a bigger dish (or construct one? ) if one were available. @Shpaget I have a bin full of all kinds of stepper motors in the basement, so there won't be any issue finding something that will work. I've been toying with the motor shield today trying to get it to work. I haven't had any success yet, but I'm very happy to have this puzzle on my hands. I did find out that only two of the four batteries in my robotic arm are actually part of the power circuit, so it was running on 3V instead of 6V the entire time I've had it. How strange. I'll have to make my own battery circuit!

There were probably venomous dinosaurs.

I have a robot arm that I used with a DC motor shield for Arduino to program its movement many years ago. I don't remember how any of it works and I can't find the code I wrote that moves the joints in a sequence, so it looks like I'll be relearning it from scratch. The motors in the arm are probably too weak to haul the big metal dish around anyway (though I would like to test them, and a lot of the weight seems to be in the rusty old mount that I'd already have removed if it wasn't such a nice handhold ) but I will use them to get some practice before either modifying this robot arm even further, constructing a new platform and digging up some bigger motors, or some combination of both. In any case, I'll be able to turn this motor control scheme into a way to scan areas of the sky with the dish.

It's sort of like the dream we've all had where we're getting ready to launch in a rocket ship and wake up before actually getting to go to space.

Well I don't know if it's even HAM. I did a test the other day measuring voltage across some bits in the signal meter. I'm thinking the next step will be removing the piezo buzzer and replacing it with a pair of wires that plug into Arduino analog input pins. Then, of course, the telescope is no use if it doesn't have a robotic scanning mount. It's kind of heavy, so I'll need some time to construct that. Here's some more information:

3:22 EDT.

They are within 30 minutes of launch. They will make a decision on weather in about 15 minutes, it seems. Update in 6 minutes about the lightning hazard.

I think that also meant people in MC...but yes. And weather is improving!

Crew arm is retracting!!!

Astronauts are go! T-1 hour!

The cell over Orlando that was looking troublesome "is eroding".

Astronauts at the top of the tower! I can't wait for this to become normal!