CatastrophicFailure

If it’s any consolation, they stacked AND unstacked it all while I was sleeping.

@YNMMaybe it’s time for a VPN? I usually have half a dozen or more forum tabs open and have never had an issue, if it is your IP that’s the root cause, a VPN might let you get around that.

No more galling, I reckon, than putting together SN16 and find out it's not going to do anything interesting. Compensation is, they get to watch this sucker take off, in the flesh. Best seats in the house, I'll bet. And then they get to do it again.

Not to be.

D'awwww, idin't that little SLS sooooo cute?

Watching that gonna be like…

Yeah but… that’s usually exactly what you don’t want during separation… didn’t a Falcon 1 fail for exactly that reason? And what about the performance hit from re-orienting the Starship? This ain’t Kerbal after all… I mean, I’m sure they’ve considered all this and what not but still, mind kinda blown right now… Gonna be one interesting launch, that’s for dang sure… and of course the headlines will read, “massive SpaceX rocket nearly spins out of control!”

Wait, what?!

I remember reading somewhere that Falcon 9 actually has a "glide ratio" of around 1:1, not bad for a long metal tube.

This. And not a complete waste, either, they'd still get tons of useful data on the minutiae of stacking operations/part clearance, all for relatively little risk. I would expect either way to see multiple stackings/unstackings before launch day just to get the flows down.

Ninja'd by @Spaceception.

This. Certainly seems to be alot of them. I thought the whole point of the hexagon tiles was to avoid seams and the straight pathways for hot reentry gas they create?

So, all of us fudging it with AIRBRAKES this whole time were actually ahead of the curve.

Oh come on, we ALL know Elon plays KSP, such an arrangement isn’t even lightly hexed.

Aaaand just in time for a poke in the eye...

The face when watching Nauka dock...

That's the incredible thing about it, even if it falls short in multiple aspects, it's still an absolute paradigm changer.

D'oh! I've been geoblocked!

Sounds more like hammer time. Yeesh. Anyone get the feeling Nauka doesn’t want to be there? What’s Russian for “cursed?”

A proper Space Viking funeral for Pirs. This is the way. Also @DDE what is this, and why aren’t we funding it??

This thing happened: Isn't it just the cutest? This lil guy took off like a shot when I was out mowing with the tractor and probably saved his litter mates from an awful fate. One more pass and… Of course, it couldn’t go perfectly. These two bolted for the underbrush once we found the nest to return the first guy. Checked back a couple hours later and he was still there, but the other two hadn’t come back. Hopefully momma bunny gets them all sorted out soon.

*GASP* Maybe what we’re seeing here isn’t for standard Starship, it’s a pathfinder for lunar Starship. The shape of the door makes much more sense then, if there’s a (planned) crew compartment above.