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I don't doubt they could just hide the first attempts making them appear as normal rocket launches and only when they can do it announce they did it at first attempt just for that reason

Oh that was just an error, Saturn I one of the rockets I know the least about... could have covered the small ones with a white decal like I did with the main tank to make the black parts completely black and the one with "United states" completely white (I half hated the normal BDB Saturn 1 cluster, but damn with pure black tanks and pure white ones it's an amazing part) I think that was a Delta separator upside down actually, not sure

Pegasus I launch on the AS-103 mission (1965), launched on Saturn I block II

YES!

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand three more raptors (either yesterday or the day before three more had arrived as well)

aaaand GSE 5 is on the move too!

Ah, better do a Wall-e manoeuvre

It should do the Iron Man manoeuvre to dock

Honestly, NG is quite a fair bit useless by the time if flies. Less payload than a FH expending its core booster, made to make successful booster landings to day one even if it is impossible, and now according to Ars' sources it won't be profitable until they can make second stage reuse to work, which means more than 5 years from now (likely more). If it isn't much cheaper than the FH expending the core it can't compare with it, and all of this is ignoring the fact that Starship could have flown people to the Moon by then and completed the Starlink constellation

20th century most famous US astronauts: Alan Shepard, John Glenn, Neil Armstrong and Jarvis

This may have been asked before, but which different parts will it be split into? Like, a dish, the probe core, etc

Relevant DailyHopper

I'm not crying, you're crying

But NASA just doesn't have the money to do that, we knows it and BO knows it. The budget for second lander (not a different lander for LETS than spacex, a second lander) is at zero, not 4 billion dollars

Basically, BO offers to pay 1/3 of their own lander if NASA gives them a contract. Given it is known NASA didn't even have enough money for a single lander this seems like a PR stunt to me. Plus, the timing is extremely odd, it's possible the GAO protest (which is to have an answer no later than 4th august) failed Edit: Berger's tweet sums it up pretty well

Would it be possible to do that just in a high bay? It will certainly happen before the stacking, and the high bay has all the space needed for that

NOST's "Project Pilot/NOSTNIK", the possible-but-unconfirmed first air launched orbital satellite (on a F4D-1 Skyray) https://www.drewexmachina.com/2018/07/25/notsnik-the-first-air-launched-satellite-attempts/

There's a reason that pic comes from r/spacexmasterrace

The infamous Starship Heavy, of course For real, either to stack starship+superheavy prior to flight, to test extended starship/superheavy versions ala F9 block 5, or for the future 18 meters starship. I'd go for the second personally Edit: Thinking about it, he said larger, not taller: a much more likely option that the previous ones would be to assemble many more superheavies/starships at the same time

Was it planned to do more (so something else may have failed) or does it mean its trajectory is good?

SpaceX won the Europa Clipper launch contract with FH, beating SLS! https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-awards-launch-services-contract-for-the-europa-clipper-mission/ Edit: This award saved 2 billion dollars to NASA according to Berger

Oh absolutely, I was just quoting the title

Didn't see this posted here yet https://www.businessinsider.in/science/news/jeff-bezoss-guests-describe-a-short-crowded-spaceflight-experience-there-was-not-quite-enough-room/articleshow/84600925.cms "Jeff Bezos' guest [Wally Funk] describes a short, crowded spaceflight experience: 'There was not quite enough room'"