Minmus Taster

TLDR: I honestly feel bad for Nate and the other lead developers, never at any point during this project did I truly feel there were bad intentions behind their choices,. Their sincerity about their struggles during the few moments they were able to speak were probably the reason this community held onto hope as long as we did. I hope all of the affected developers are doing well and that they'll learn and go on to better things. Stay at your stations crew, we will continue to establish contact with the spacecraft but based on the last telemetry sent it seems that the mission has come to an end.

What even is that? It's giving me War of the Worlds vibes.

Congratulations to everyone selected, and thank you for the inclusion and to everyone who continues to post on the MSR thread!

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/viper/mission-manager-update-viper-rover-approved-to-move-into-environmental-testing/ I don't know about this, Astrobotics didn't even make it to the moon on their other flight and they have a whole new lander for this rover? What do you reckon their odds are?

https://www.timesnownews.com/technology-science/mangalyaan-2-mission-isro-mars-mission-includes-helicopter-sky-crane-rover-and-more-article-110115541/amp

Found this on the discord:

I was reviewing the flight 3 footage and thought the interior of the ship looked kind of like a hollowed out zeppelin:

I was struck by that too, though I don't see it as a good or bad thing, more so that there's at least more to say than "Everything is perfectly fine but don't expect that colonies update anytime soon, not that anything is wrong with our impressive two person development team".

Worth listening to, interestingly Matt reached out to Nate to ask if he could say anything and he more or less just said what the others have been saying; "Can't talk now, maybe later".

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/05/nasa-wants-a-cheaper-mars-sample-return-boeing-proposes-most-expensive-rocket/ Yeah I don't know about this, this doesn't reduce the cost by much (the SLS costs more than half the original plan lmao) it just wraps it up into a neater and Boeing manufactured bow. Would still be interesting to see unfold though.

Hopefully not too exciting given how Boeing's been lately.

Can't get much bigger than this. Still, you do have a point. Mostly in how much they want to bother keeping a sense of normalcy or if they really have just left us all high and dry.

Aww

Regardless of what will come of this I think the community needs to come together and show support for this series, it's probably our last shot to at least be heard.

Uhm... you may want to check the general chat. Maybe get a tub of ice cream first

KSP 1 modders right now:

Does anyone know any KSP alternatives other than Juno? I never enjoyed it.