Kryten

That mass budget could be used for a real instrument...

Source? All of these threads of yours aren't very useful if we can't see if the source or the translation is any good.

No, they'd burn up. If they somehow didn't (through whatever magical force caused the ISS to deorbit, perhaps) they'd still die on impact because, well, that's what happens when a person hits the earth's surface at or above normal terminal velocity. It's not like those things have parachutes.

As a quick note, do not expect anything special on the day of the flyby. Probably for a few days after that, too. Bandwidth available at that distance is very low; the plan is for NH to store all data from the flyby on internal storage, then send it down over a period of a year or more.

To somebody with dark-adapted eyes seeing relatively bright satellite flares, that's how it would appear.

There are a lot of UFO reports that involve black triangles, usually defined only by white lights at each corner. Compare to this.

It'd move MSR well up priority lists, but crewed landing would still be far too expensive.

Just had one lasting from about midnight GMT until at least half past 12. In UK.

Redstone had jet vanes in the exhaust and small control fins, same as the V-2. The whole rocket was pretty much a scaled-up V-2.

Only direct human input would be the director turning the launch key, at least if nothing anomalous turned up.

Komar class missile boat. May not look like much, but far more historically important than anything on the last couple of pages. First ship to sink another with missiles.

Ooor, maybe there's more than one space agency on the planet, and the method is less useful than the Isp suggests because of the limited range of air density and speed in which it applies. Particularly as the developer of the most advanced such project was the Soviet military.

It could be an attempt to reuse the entire thrust structure from the shuttle rather than just the engines. The SSMEs and SRBs probably have enough control authority between them to keep that stable-but I don't inside the cosine losses would be small.

-5 months. LBJ publicly announced the programme after being accused of letting the US fall behind technologically in the 1964 presidential campaign.

That may be true, but the three most lethal incidents in 2013 killed 50, 49, and 33 people. For this year, assuming, as is unfortunately probably the case, that there aren't survivors from this flight, the same figures are 283, 239, and 162. We've had two airliner incidents this year that alone killed more people than all airliner incidents last year put together.

For people having the issue with fairings having gaps, try deleting and reinstalling the mod. It worked for me.

Given a complete lack of criteria for what 'better' is in this context, I'm going to say Mercury was better because it was pointy.

That's not how evolution works. At all.

There's already a design for a Delta IV first stage combined with a shortened Centaur, though. It's called 'Delta IV'.

To be clear, my post was about AC:U, not gaming laptops. It's poorly programmed in the first place, horribly ported and optimised, and won't run smoothly no matter how much computing power you throw at it.

You're going to need a lot more than a flashy laptop to get AC:U to run smoothly.

It would be difficult to detect for the nation doing the test, rendering it almost useless for actual testing. Given neither superpower made any real effort to actually hide nuclear tests, and underground testing remains allowed under international treaties to this day, such a plan would be pointless.

2, possibly 3. It's a good bit bigger than Voskhod, and that managed 3.

That capability was demonstrated by Gemini. That would be both a violation of the outer space treaty and pointless. Putting enough hardware on the far side of the moon to have a useful nuclear test would be impossible to hide.

For a person in orbit-and all the equipment needed to keep them there are bring them back again-you're going to be looking at about a ton. Smallest rocket I've seen to put a ton into orbit is Minotaur-C/Taurus-II; 73 metric tonnes. In theory you cpuld do a lot better with more efficient fuel combinations such as kerolox and hydrolox, but in practice there's not enough of a market at that size to justify the expenses of liquid rocket development and infrastructure.