CatastrophicFailure

Possibly old news, but a nod that we might have another FH flight in a few months.

Your pie is premature, therefore, this thread should be locked.

Right, but all the info since the 23rd has been from outside sources, nothing "official" from them since that stand-down.

Is it just me or does SpaceX seem unusually mum about this particular flight?

I believe this feeling you’re describing is technically known as Oh, crap.

Also, paging @Just Jim... you have got to introduce a certain brain-in-a-jar to this one.

Ok! Well, I’m not sleeping tonight. Think I’ll go turn all the lights on then go find a quiet corner to curl up and hug myself and mumble for a while.

By Lenin’s pointy beard, it’s like some great aeronautical matryoshka doll!

You see, Ivan, when engineer too dumb to change flat, change whole wheel/motor assembly instead!

But seriously, your game takes on a whole new life when you can dynamically reconfigure vessels in-situ. Easier to fit stuff in fairings, too.

Really, Forum? Really? This is when I run out of likes for the day? Well, back in the heyday of Apollo they did have plans for like 4 or 5 Saturn pads (the two that currently exist would have been the southern most), you can still see on satellite where the crawlerway would have gone farther north.

[incomprehensible inane ranting]

Nooooooo, you can’t let that one die! Install KIS/KAS and get a repair crew en-route, STAT!

vs Maybe charge admission, proceeds go to charity.

[expletive]

Besides, if it were all black someone might mistake it for an Electron.

Tonight's planned update has experienced a delay. Meanwhile, here's a sneak peek of one of our long-term projects. Show the people, Jencine. We're working on something....

Nope, totally normal. I have multiple game folders filled with more folders like these going back to like 0.19...

Shrinkwrapped Dragon 2 doing recovery tests off the cape.

Things that currently go via express airfreight and such. Also, things too big and heavy to fly, that right now have to go by ship (30 days min). Example my lovely wife just gave me is a CT machine. (She does traffic analysis in the industry). Too bulky to fit on a plane, plus it’s got big magnets and such that don’t play well with airplane instruments (presumably a radiation-hardened spacecraft could tolerate such). Also, airplane parts themselves. If an airline needs a new engine from across the ocean, those 10 or 12 hours of air cargo travel time are extra lost revenue. Not a huge market perhaps, at the moment, but it’s there. How big depends on the price.

I was quoting @tater...

You're forgetting cargo. I think that's where P2P is first going to be adopted. There's no shortage of demand out there when some things absolutely positively have to be there yesterday (literally, if shipping from Sydney to LA), no matter the cost. If the cost is also competitive, well... I think here is where the reliability will be able to be demonstrated before moving to passenger travel well down the road.

I believe this may be modled on the new (old?) version we’ll see in the upcoming Solo film, when Han was yet young and the Falcon already old but with a much better paint job.

I just fly there with the jetpack and use the cheat menu if nescessary. I’m impatient.

Indeed, in fact there’s already a very nice, very long runway right nearby. What could possibly have such picky needs about launch direcrion? Maybe they’ve just played a bit too much KSP and are trying to emulate the other KSC.