Ultimate Steve

My goodness, what a coincidence! I watched the stream and later read that it was a failure. Then just now I was scrolling reddit and saw this: And then I read the comment below that: I'm both dismayed at the failure and impressed that the 2nd stage continued on "alone". (Emphasis mine) And at that moment, the song "Alone" by Alan Walker which was playing in the background reached the vocal section where it said "I know I'm not alone" so yay!

It will be gone after about nine months, though. And this isn't the first time stuff like this has been done, I think giant reflector experiments were done on Mir a few times. There's also the possibility that this might have been an extra mass simulator for this mission. If you're going to have a mass simulator, why not make it something not as boring like a chunk of concrete or a bunch of copper rods? Why not make it a piece of shiny bling or a car or something?

That moment when the school web filter blocks it for no reason

27 small spacefarts all at once!

It says that the website and tracker are coming soon. I so want to see this, hopefully it will fly over Iowa sometime soon. I wonder just how visible it will be, definitely not as much as the ISS, but hopefully still distinguishable.

Part of me thinks that if they really wanted to, Moon Express could still win if stuff lined up right.

Hilarious!

Even though we're complaining about not going back by 2020, it could be worse. In one of my books I read, one guy took a poll of a few hundred people in 1949. The poll had three questions. 1. Will we have a cure to cancer by 2000? 2. Will we have all nuclear powered trains and airplanes by 2000? 3. Will we have landed man on the moon by 2000? To question 1, 88% said yes. To question 2, 63% said yes. But to the last question, only 15% said yes. Technology has progressed, but most often we are unable to foretell which direction it progresses in.

When I was seven or so and just getting into space stuff, I got this book about space which said "NASA plans to have fully operational moon base by 2020 at the latest..." RIP childhood hopes and dreams

It's not impossible, though. This has been able to get 16 Kerbals off of Eve during testing with plenty of fuel to spare. It's en route to Eve. However, it's in a save I haven't touched in months.

The link is at /r/SpaceX on the front page somewhere. I can't access it right now because I'm at school. The new COPV's would be made of Inconel and be significantly heavier. IIRC SpaceX was already rejiggering their COPV's following Amos-6 and they should be safer. However, NASA, being somewhat unnecessarily risk averse, asked them to redesign again, and this might delay Crew Dragon a few more months... If they end up using them, I think Boeing might get there first...

I ship it! So this post isn't 100% joke, I heard that NASA told SpaceX to try and completely redesign the COPV's again.

I joined the KSP Minecraft server today! I found a cool mountain overlooking the rocket garden and started a house. However it's a bit bare at the moment... The bridge I built was decent, though.

I'm transitioning from early to mid career right now and I'm starting to design things to either stay in one spot indefinitely or be reused. However, I'm actually reusing spaceplanes, at least. I don't hit recover, I bring out a separate refueling rover.

So it was today, then it was Monday, and now it's Tuesday... FH Static fire is always 6 days away.

Ja. @tater

Yep, and jettisoning some of them would lead to more Delta-V. I'm 80% sure, I don't know where I read it but I read it somewhere.

Dead batteries.

WOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The cookie was given passing in the hall, IIRC. In a small bag, the only one in there. As far as the model goes, pretty much everyone knows me as the school's resident space geek, so it wouldn't have been hard for her to know. And giving her something... Hmm... She likes books. A lot. She's said half of her house is basically chock full of them (but if I try to get her a book there's the danger that she's already read it). I usually find this to be true. A fellow space geek would make a great friend, not necessarily a great partner (sometimes, though. Never rule anything out).

How the flarp did it get that close? I would agree. I would love to have a piece of an Electron.

One minute! *HYPE INTENSIFIES*

Stream is live!

4 minutes.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA ^Excited but nervous screaming^ My crush gave me one of these things yesterday (it's a model you have to cut out the pieces to and assemble, very time consuming, and tiny, infuriating to build, but that's besides the point)...! Earlier in the week she also gave me a cookie with some jam/jelly in the middle that looked like it had been made in whatever the school calls cooking class now. Upon closer examination, you could see that the spot of jam looked like a heart... Not sure if that was intentional or not. However, responding to this and maybe asking her out isn't my strong area by a long shot. I need to do something, but I just don't know how to do it... And also the semester changed so I only have one class with her, and that's lunch on Fridays...