Ultimate Steve

As would I if my engineering class didn't require me to use these really messed up excuses for units! Also I just got finished taking a test and it's really windy. The wind occasionally hits the window in the right way to make a squeaky sound, like a rubber ducky. The first time it happened, everyone thought the guy three seats behind me was passing gas.

There's a camera on board! At least one. They better not go all "BulgariaSat" on us, now. And we need to know the dummy's name! If it's Buster... "Mannequin Skywalker."

Picture of the landed capsule with the dummy inside: Those are some pretty big windows!

Yeah, I know, my goals are unrealistic. However, in my eyes, if I say it will never happen, then it will never happen. If I dream about it happening, and do my best to pursue it, then I have a nonzero chance of it happening. Nonzero may not be that bigger than zero numerically, but in terms of percentage, 0.0001 is still an infinite (well, undefined, but it approaches infinity) percentage larger than 0. Also, I'm going to Europe this summer and the trip is estimated to cost around $7000. Granted, I got lucky and didn't actually have to pay this, but I know a few people my age who paid most of that through work, etc. If the ticket price ends up in that area, it's "only" a few times more than that Europe trip. I'm not getting too excited yet, but just maybe... Also, is it just me, or did they update their webpage on New Shepherd?

Wikipedia says it can throttle from 490kn to 89kn, so it can throttle down to about 18%. That means the fuel and capsule must take up less than 82% of the mass, which is usually bad for rockets, but when you're going suborbital mass ratio doesn't have as big of an effect on Delta-V. We don't have info on ticket prices yet, though. The only info we have is a probably outdated tweet saying 10k refurb cost at the bare minimum. I've seen people estimate anywhere between 100k and 5k per seat... I'm really crossing my fingers here that it will be on the lower end of that range, although the odds are extremely slim. If the ticket price is in the vicinity of 10-15k (probably unlikely) I am actually going to try to save up for a ticket.

Yup!

I'm going to guess that the particles came from the piping on the new strongback, not an issue with the rocket itself.

Update, the gameplay for part two is done. Took me long enough... So now I need to do the video editing, which could easily take just as long as filming did (several hours of video I need to go through). So, to pass the time, I'm also going to be doing really short videos about the funny moments I've encountered during my endeavor. First one:

Ahh, it always kills me when space companies are so secretive like this. We know it (probably) launched due to the FAA, but can we at least get official acknowledgement?

I actually misspelled that, it's "Rankine." It's basically an offset version of the Fahrenheit scale by -459.67 degrees so that it starts at absolute zero. Like Kelvin, but for Fahrenheit instead of Celsius. At this point, why not just use Kelvin is my question...

Yeah, it's annoying when you have plenty of area contacting the surface of Eve only to have your 200 ton lander slide down the ever slow slight grade limiting your trip time to a few minutes on the surface.

I'm American and I sincerely wish we had been metric from the start. We've got the "Slug" as a unit of mass and we have "Degrees Fahrenheit" and "Degrees Rankin," not to mention the atrocities that are fractions of an inch, 12 inches in a foot, 3 feet in a yard, and 5280 feet in a mile... Don't even me get started about quarts, gallons, pints, and ounces (which are both mass and volume, GRR!).

Launch withdrawal is a real thing, I can confirm.

Stripes! And reused stuff! And CRS-13 on December 13 because that worked so well last time! And a launch time during school. And a school internet filter that blocks YouTube livestreams. Hooray...

@dundun92 Here I am! @dundun93 EDIT: Those darn ninjas...

And, launch abort at T-0.

Stream is live!

Delay, delay, delay, delay, delay, delay... Come on, guys! It's not rocket science!

I used to think the whole "It's snowing!" chain on this thread was annoying. BUT IT'S SNOWING HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ever wonder why Kerbal parts are so heavy compared to their IRL counterparts? Well, they all have permanent magnets installed as well as compartments full of nanocameras. Now, because of the magnets, which are really strong, KSP crafts have a magnetic field a few hundred meters in diameter. This was originally developed to prevent Kerbals from suffering from the radiation of space. However, one day an engineer noticed that if you took a nanocamera, nanomicrophone, and a small magnetic material, you could suspend them in the magnetic field. Chuck a few thousand in there, and you can have a pretty large range of imagery, cameras surrounding the craft at every angle imaginable.

And, scrubbed.

Ditto to most of what has been said already. If I could go back in time and tell my past self what I knew now, I would have gladly paid $300 for all of the enjoyment I have gotten out of this wonderful piece of software. EDIT: I'm not saying the game should cost $300, though. It should stay the same because who in their right mind would pay $300 for a game? I'm just saying that I've gotten several hundred dollars worth out of the game.

This is your final warning, Totallynotapun

TIL that on Apollo 17: They had trouble waking up one day They had trouble finding a pair of scissors one day One day they were exercising so hard that the heaters shut off, presumably because the capsule got too hot.

Did anyone order a 668 ton stack of solid rocket boosters?