Minmus Taster

Pft, sure, like NASA hasn't been gutted enough already. Elon has everything he needs for Mars, but come on, it's never been about what he needs per say

Day of the falling grain silos, was anyone hurt?

Interesting choice of words

One of NASA's biggest flaws is their need to do everything at once, even if they can hardly do one thing at a time. This feels like the ultimate culmination of that, the only reason this exists is to cross off a few check marks on the "spaceflight to-do list" and keep SLS relevant. Hope this monstrosity only flies in KSP

Here's hoping Elon will support NASA's moon plans, regardless of his own thoughts or motives. Not using the moon, let alone letting the Chinese get first dibs on it, is a tactical blunder which will keep coming back to haunt us.

Congrats on the release! Was looking forward to seeing this one!

I'll believe it when I see it you silly goose

This is a personal gripe but I'm becoming very worried (and frustrated) that our leading spaceflight related group is lead by... Y'know. The future we've been wanting seems increasingly dystopian the closer it gets. Frankly him and his entourages antics have really soured by enjoyment of spaceflight as a whole.

Ah yes Joe Biden, the much reviled CEO of Boeing I thought Butch and Sunny were coming down in feburary regardless, did i miss something?

Just keeps on getting better, this is going to be interesting..

Any news on if Starship is grounded? I'm hearing news groups talking of it but they don't back it up with any reports.

So no major consequences from what I can see, fine by me as long as the debris landed in the expected areas and no one was hurt. Still gives me the ick that a private company can be leading the investigation for the incident it caused.

Been pondering this to, but Starship's primary focus will probably end up being Earth orbit and quick turnarounds and reusing hardware are essential to dominate the market with such a large vehicle.

I think they mean a ship catch attempt This is actually quite frightening, this could have been ugly.

Yeah right, no way the FAA isn't clamping down after this, unless Elon's "friends" (lets keep this apolitical as possible) step in which I suppose is possible.