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HLS announcement confirmed for 4pm EST on Crew-2 press conference stream!

It's Pol, not Puf. I'm pretty sure Puf is the eyeball planet.

They do them every other week, so we'll be waiting until next next Friday.

HLS downselect might be announced today: (I'm hoping for Dynetics and SpaceX)

The celestial bodies in KSP (ie, moons, planets and the Sun) are 'on rails' in terms of physics, meaning that no matter how long you push, you won't be able to shift them. Asteroids and comets are technically parts rather than celestial bodies to enable grabbing them and pushing them around, meaning that they have no gravity. And you don't really 'land' on something with no gravity, it's more like docking. Also, none of the asteroid or comet sizes are anywhere near Gilly's size.

This is a proper deep dive! I love reading about this sort of stuff - maybe I'm just a nerd, but then again, who here isn't?

As has already been established, this guy and his website are full of mulch, but if he wanted to appear a little more credible he could have at least used the metric system.

If they also added altitude/velocity sensors you would essentially be able to set up an autopilot, which would be awesome.

Good launch and landing.

Out of hold now, New Shepard high-altitude flight test in 10 mins

Didn't they disable chat? I'm not seeing it on my stream.

Wen hop I think I'm overusing this joke, help

It'll stay in the current stock scale.

(Quoting this here as it's offtopic for the other thread) So? That's good, it means that they're making progress. That's how rapid iterative testing works. (also, technically, SN5 and 6 didn't fail) They're an American company, and have several NASA contracts. Does them being a private company rather than a government organisation somehow make them not American? Setting aside the challenges it entails for now, colonising Mars is meant to benefit the entire human race, not just Americans. Aside from providing jobs and showing the United States' prowess in space, I don't see the Artemis program providing that great of a benefit compared to protecting human life by building a colony on another planet.

F1. You can find your screenshots in KSP/Screenshots. (You can also turn the UI off using F2 )

Great video by @ShadowZone on this topic:

At least the large majority are a common design, rather than there being literally thousands of unique tile shapes like Shuttle had.

IMO we won't see any reflights until at least SN20 - supposedly the first orbital vehicle - and probably longer, given that for these early prototypes are pretty much obsolete as soon as they fly due to changes made to the next one.

The bug was fixed in 1.11.2.

Yeah, they were only an approximation of the quantum-mechanical stuff that was really going on. Maybe here we've discovered that at least a part of our understanding of quantum mechanics are actually another approximation of something more complex.

Yay heatshield!

If I remember tomorrow I'll throw it on KerbalX

SES-2, good orbit! Also:

Woah, epic onboard landing shot out of nowhere!