CatastrophicFailure

I didn’t wanna be the first one to use the C word. But this is all clearly a part of Elon Musk’s grand conspiracy to become Lord of Mars. First, he gets Constellation cancelled and rolled into SLS, which is forever mired in development hell. He establishes himself as the underdog fighting against Big Space, cuz who doesn’t like an underdog? Antares. He gets Starliner mired down with fuel leaks and stability issues. Then he slowly picks apart Roscosmos with a series of increasingly dramatic accidents with just enough danger to engage the media, entirely plausible due to the economic situation over there. He engages more public support with a dorky yet lovable rich guy to shoot artists around the moon in his megarocket. And to defeat Bezos himself, he goes after Bezos’ own target: the moon. Now he just needs to arrange another “accident” to ground Soyuz for the long term, then gets to revel in public appreciation as the hero when he’s the only one who can send people and cargo to the space station. The Lizard Men will be most pleased

This is, I think, a consequence of the stock SAS, if that’s what you’re usung. It holds a set pitch/heading relative to the universe, not the ground, so an aircraft (unless maybe on prograde hold) will gradually pitch higher and higher relative to the ground until it stalls and drops or, in your case, reaches equilibrium and just kinda gets stuck.

Today is the future, yo. Starlink is just around the corner.

Once is an anomaly. Twice is a coincidence. Thrice is a pattern...

I want to live where my neighbors are 2500+/- feet away...

Noice! I made an enormous trebuchet that can fling a dead cow over almost 2500 feet! and then broke the sim and it won’t work anymore “Here comes Bessie...” Now, to site my granary!

It... it wasn't the same guy who hammered the sensor in on the Proton, was it?

Cool. Now lemme see you land the boosters. On the launch pad. On the launch clamps.

You’re measuring the wrong metric here, clearly he just tripped his flux capacitor and is not changing velocity but warping spacetime around himself.

I want this to be true. But I’m 99% sure it’s not. Not enough “boring legal” uncool stuff to be true.

Passengers will get several hours of training beforehand, IIRC, I would imagine “get in the damn seat when Alexa says so!” will be drilled into them pretty hard. I would also imagine that anyone who fails to do so will suddenly no longer be covered by BO’s liability insurance, and may face other legal repercussions as well, all of which they will have previously agreed to whilst signing what will surely be mountains of waivers and other paperwork.

Now if only they could get that first tricky commercial launch off the pad...

I was gonna be snarky with this thing: But it orbited a lot higher than I thought. But it does go to show that even at 250 klicks, air still has a significant effect.

For reference: Well, they did say it would be a bit of a niche launcher that would only fly a couple times a year...

Gonna be a while, tho.

That bottom one confirms it, it does have wings! They should get Red Bull as a sponsor. Should be a dang impressive thing to see landing.

You’re missing the point, my friend. Which is, they won’t enter hatch first. That’s the one I was thinking of, thanks. Yes, as soon as the service module broke free, the entry capsule naturally righted itself.

It was the first couple of Vostoks, apparently, but similar concept. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying such a thing should intentionally be done, but it is designed to do so. There have been some... amusing ideas kicked around here, but during all this the Station has never been close to an emergency situation that would require anything so extreme. At least they didn't have to switch off the recorders cuz they were cussing too much.

The capsule is designed to be aerodynamically stable on reentry, even if it’s pointing the wrong way at first, it will swing around heat-shield first without any control at all. IIRC one or two of the early flights ended up tumbling until this straightened them out. Remember, that heat doesn’t kick on like a switch, and if you’ve used any of the new spherical capsules in KSP, you know they always tumble at first.

In addition to skipping the flight attendant, looks like they’re saving some mass by going with screens instead of windows. Might test passengers’ breath-holding ability but at least it won’t get stuffy inside on those hot Texas days.

Do they at least give you a free pass or something?

You live right next to a ski lift?

Yup, that’s a side-effect or flipping it. To fix it, you need to grab the root part or shift-click the whole thing and move it around In the VAB, which is often easier said than done. But... what’s holding it up? I don’t see any launch clamps...

Great, now when can I finally ditch Comcast?