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There was this beautiful shot of that ring floating next to the first stage. And it looks like one of the fins did not work, maybe its connected, (or maybe not anymore, and that might be the problem)

Manequin Skywalker, dammit that is brilliant!

I want my name to be rocket Ron

I doubt P2P package delivery via BFR would be a thing. Most of our stuff comes from China and Xi Jinpin is investing billions into a new Silk road system to transport goods from China all over the world. I doubt China is going to utilize a transport system that undermines their multi dollar project.

It won't last that long. The stream will probably be up till the TMI. And then some. Till the batteries run out.

I doubt it missed the barge, loss of signal on the barges happened before. It is because the roar of the booster starts swinging the antenna so vividly it can't broadcast anymore. This means the booster has at least been above the barge.

And still in one piece !

Leme start : I am not a us citizen and do not know how a shutdown exactly works. Thats why I made this thread. Please no politics. Today I saw this tweet : https://twitter.com/gpallone13/status/955118574988865536 Apparently the static fire test is now indefinitely postponed since the government can't support SpaceX with their work. This got me thinking, how does NASA operate during a shutdown? From my understanding a shutdown means a whole lot of personnel can't get paid and therefore do not do their work. And since NASA is a body from the US government I think this also means their staff stays home. But who can;t do their jobs now? I understand that the critical tasks, like the guys in Houston monitoring the space station keep working. (And the us astronauts probably also). But are they operating full strength? Or just as a skeleton crew? And what about the less critical missions? Does Curiosity still drive around to perform science? Is hubble still being operated? How does such a shutdown mess with active missions?

I cannot believe this hasn't been posted

Sometimes you just need to leave the game be for a while. Havent played it myself for 2 months now. Still browse the forums though.

Don't forget that ingress into the capsule isn't just like getting into your car. It takes a team of people to help the astronauts to get into the vehicle. If something where to happen during ingress, the only fast way out is the zipline.

Woohoo! This is so cool! Just slap on a new coat of paint and she's ready to fly again!

Stream is starting.

Can't remember who'se quote it is but. Either we are all alone in the universe or we aren't. Both answers are equally scary. If there is alien life, would we ever find it and classify it as "living". Just look at Earth. There are so many differences between life on Earth. From humans to trees, from trees to bacteria. Suppose we find life on Europa for example, would we even recognize it as life?

If they based Tylo on Tycho Squad should place a easter egg in the form of a drunk moose / elk on the moon.

I like having a base with science lab around Minmus, since it's prety doable to land a Kerbal on EVA on Minmus and get back up to the station. Can get you quite a lot of science very fast.

To be fair, the Americans did re use a Gemini capsule. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_2 Another reason not to re use the capsule (or parts of it) was the fact that the Apollo program had a definitive end. The program only lasted for 20 missions, and not all of them landed. Why all the effort of refurbishing stuff when you only need maximum 20 of a component.

Help! I cannot undock my vessels anymore. A while ago I docked a unshielded 1.25M docking port to a shielded docking port. Did a couple of EVA's and wanted to return the crew home. But I could not undock. I pressed the undock option on one of the docking ports. The option disappeared but the vessel remains docked. I tried editing the save file but I still can't undock the vessels. I do not want to delete the vessel since I've spend quite a while on the orbiting station. Here I got the save file excerpts from the 2 docking ports : Shielded port on crew transport vessel : PART { name = dockingPort1 cid = 4293538438 uid = 1628668193 mid = 2728356412 launchID = 15 parent = 5 position = -0.000441193580627441,-8.34658908843994,3.93390655517578E-06 rotation = 0.0004590763,0.7070953,-0.0005075785,0.707118 mirror = 1,1,1 symMethod = Radial istg = 0 dstg = 0 sqor = -1 sepI = 2 sidx = -1 attm = 0 srfN = srfAttach, 75 attN = bottom, 75 mass = 0.1 temp = 278.707014779893 tempExt = 273.579767810387 tempExtUnexp = 4 expt = 0.5 state = 1 connected = True attached = True flag = Squad/Flags/default rTrf = dockingPort1 modCost = 0 EVENTS { } ACTIONS { } PARTDATA { } MODULE { name = ModuleDockingNode isEnabled = True crossfeed = False stagingEnabled = False state = Docked (dockee) dockUId = uid = 1301555407 dockNodeIdx = 0 EVENTS { Undock { active = False guiActive = True guiActiveUncommand = False guiIcon = Undock guiName = Undock category = Undock guiActiveUnfocused = True unfocusedRange = 2 externalToEVAOnly = True } UndockSameVessel { active = False guiActive = True guiActiveUncommand = True guiIcon = Undock guiName = Undock category = Undock guiActiveUnfocused = True unfocusedRange = 2 externalToEVAOnly = True } Decouple { active = False guiActive = True guiActiveUncommand = False guiIcon = Decouple Node guiName = Decouple Node category = Decouple Node guiActiveUnfocused = True unfocusedRange = 2 externalToEVAOnly = True } SetAsTarget { active = True guiActive = False guiActiveUncommand = False guiIcon = Set as Target guiName = Set as Target category = Set as Target guiActiveUnfocused = True unfocusedRange = 200 externalToEVAOnly = False } UnsetTarget { active = False guiActive = False guiActiveUncommand = False guiIcon = Unset Target guiName = Unset Target category = Unset Target guiActiveUnfocused = True unfocusedRange = 200 externalToEVAOnly = False } EnableXFeed { active = True guiActive = True guiActiveEditor = True guiActiveUncommand = False guiIcon = Enable Crossfeed guiName = Enable Crossfeed category = Enable Crossfeed guiActiveUnfocused = False unfocusedRange = 2 externalToEVAOnly = True } DisableXFeed { active = False guiActive = True guiActiveEditor = True guiActiveUncommand = False guiIcon = Disable Crossfeed guiName = Disable Crossfeed category = Disable Crossfeed guiActiveUnfocused = False unfocusedRange = 2 externalToEVAOnly = True } MakeReferenceTransform { active = True guiActive = True guiActiveUncommand = False guiIcon = Control from Here guiName = Control from Here category = Control from Here guiActiveUnfocused = False unfocusedRange = 2 externalToEVAOnly = True } ToggleStaging { active = True guiActive = False guiActiveUncommand = False guiIcon = Disable Staging guiName = Port: Enable Staging category = Disable Staging guiActiveUnfocused = False unfocusedRange = 2 externalToEVAOnly = True } } ACTIONS { UndockAction { actionGroup = None } DecoupleAction { actionGroup = None } EnableXFeedAction { actionGroup = None } DisableXFeedAction { actionGroup = None } ToggleXFeedAction { actionGroup = None } } DOCKEDVESSEL { vesselName = Crew quarters vesselType = 3 rootUId = 3382957609 } } MODULE { name = ModuleAnimateGeneric isEnabled = True aniState = LOCKED animSwitch = False animTime = 1 animSpeed = 1 deployPercent = 100 animationIsDisabled = False stagingEnabled = True deployPercent_UIFlight { controlEnabled = True minValue = 0 maxValue = 100 stepIncrement = 1 } EVENTS { Toggle { active = True guiActive = True guiActiveEditor = True guiActiveUncommand = False guiIcon = Toggle guiName = Close Shield category = Toggle guiActiveUnfocused = True unfocusedRange = 5 externalToEVAOnly = True } ToggleStaging { active = True guiActive = False guiActiveUncommand = False guiIcon = Disable Staging guiName = Disable Staging category = Disable Staging guiActiveUnfocused = False unfocusedRange = 2 externalToEVAOnly = True } } ACTIONS { ToggleAction { actionGroup = None } } } MODULE { name = ModuleDockingNodeNamed isEnabled = True portName = taurus initialized = True controlTransformName = stagingEnabled = True EVENTS { renameDockingPort { active = True guiActive = True guiActiveEditor = True guiActiveUncommand = False guiIcon = Rename Port guiName = Rename Port category = Rename Port guiActiveUnfocused = True unfocusedRange = 2000 externalToEVAOnly = False } ToggleStaging { active = True guiActive = False guiActiveUncommand = False guiIcon = Disable Staging guiName = Disable Staging category = Disable Staging guiActiveUnfocused = False unfocusedRange = 2 externalToEVAOnly = True } } ACTIONS { } } } Unshielded docking port on orbital station : PART { name = dockingPort2 cid = 4293933134 uid = 1301555407 mid = 2842429246 launchID = 2 parent = 4 position = 0,-7.73098945617676,0 rotation = 0.7071068,0,0.7071068,0 mirror = 1,1,1 symMethod = Radial istg = 0 dstg = 0 sqor = -1 sepI = 1 sidx = -1 attm = 0 srfN = srfAttach, -1 attN = top, -1 attN = bottom, 4 mass = 0.05 temp = 205.221251737256 tempExt = 213.995940280198 tempExtUnexp = 4 expt = 0.5 state = 1 connected = True attached = True flag = Squad/Flags/default rTrf = dockingPort2 modCost = 0 EVENTS { } ACTIONS { } PARTDATA { } MODULE { name = ModuleDockingNode isEnabled = True crossfeed = False stagingEnabled = False state = Docked (docker) dockUId = 1628668193 dockNodeIdx = 0 EVENTS { Undock { active = False guiActive = True guiActiveUncommand = False guiIcon = Undock guiName = Undock category = Undock guiActiveUnfocused = True unfocusedRange = 2 externalToEVAOnly = True } UndockSameVessel { active = False guiActive = True guiActiveUncommand = True guiIcon = Undock guiName = Undock category = Undock guiActiveUnfocused = True unfocusedRange = 2 externalToEVAOnly = True } Decouple { active = False guiActive = True guiActiveUncommand = False guiIcon = Decouple Node guiName = Decouple Node category = Decouple Node guiActiveUnfocused = True unfocusedRange = 2 externalToEVAOnly = True } SetAsTarget { active = True guiActive = False guiActiveUncommand = False guiIcon = Set as Target guiName = Set as Target category = Set as Target guiActiveUnfocused = True unfocusedRange = 200 externalToEVAOnly = False } UnsetTarget { active = False guiActive = False guiActiveUncommand = False guiIcon = Unset Target guiName = Unset Target category = Unset Target guiActiveUnfocused = True unfocusedRange = 200 externalToEVAOnly = False } EnableXFeed { active = True guiActive = True guiActiveEditor = True guiActiveUncommand = False guiIcon = Enable Crossfeed guiName = Enable Crossfeed category = Enable Crossfeed guiActiveUnfocused = False unfocusedRange = 2 externalToEVAOnly = True } DisableXFeed { active = False guiActive = True guiActiveEditor = True guiActiveUncommand = False guiIcon = Disable Crossfeed guiName = Disable Crossfeed category = Disable Crossfeed guiActiveUnfocused = False unfocusedRange = 2 externalToEVAOnly = True } MakeReferenceTransform { active = True guiActive = True guiActiveUncommand = False guiIcon = Control from Here guiName = Control from Here category = Control from Here guiActiveUnfocused = False unfocusedRange = 2 externalToEVAOnly = True } ToggleStaging { active = True guiActive = False guiActiveEditor = True guiActiveUncommand = False guiIcon = Disable Staging guiName = Port: Enable Staging category = Disable Staging guiActiveUnfocused = False unfocusedRange = 2 externalToEVAOnly = True } } ACTIONS { UndockAction { actionGroup = None } DecoupleAction { actionGroup = None } EnableXFeedAction { actionGroup = None } DisableXFeedAction { actionGroup = None } ToggleXFeedAction { actionGroup = None } } DOCKEDVESSEL { vesselName = Taurus vesselType = 3 rootUId = 3382957609 } } MODULE { name = ModuleDockingNodeNamed isEnabled = True portName = crewquart initialized = True controlTransformName = stagingEnabled = True EVENTS { renameDockingPort { active = True guiActive = True guiActiveEditor = True guiActiveUncommand = False guiIcon = Rename Port guiName = Rename Port category = Rename Port guiActiveUnfocused = True unfocusedRange = 2000 externalToEVAOnly = False } ToggleStaging { active = True guiActive = False guiActiveUncommand = False guiIcon = Disable Staging guiName = Disable Staging category = Disable Staging guiActiveUnfocused = False unfocusedRange = 2 externalToEVAOnly = True } } ACTIONS { } } } What am I doing wrong??

Landing a plane is way softer than landing in a capsule. even with the parachutes and the braking rockets a soyuz landing is most commonly described as a controlled car crash. And that's just for a capsule with 3 persons inside it. A winged vehicle can haul a whole lot of fragile down payload from space to Earth.

Signal from TGO, she's in orbit !

Do not believe everything that is on the internet ~Abraham Lincoln Make a man a fire and he's warm for the night. set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.

A while ago I found acontract pack that made more use of space stations. You had to rotate crews and repair stuff by EVA'ing and stuff, in stead of the "build station, destroy and build a new one" in stock. Does anyone know where I can find this pack? I cannot find it .

Lol @ the cart hitting the camera and falling over.

You mean like this?

How long till launch? I need to know cause I'm also watching formula 1 and don't want to choose.