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I suspect that it is funnier if you're not an American... Sure, some of it was cringe inducingly dumb, but it was also quite funny at times.

Like @Shpaget said, kreuger flaps increase camber which increases lift at a given angle of attack. They also increase the chord length slightly when they extend forward of the wing's leading edge. They are used on the inboard wing sections of many of the more modern Boeing aircraft, in part because they have the side effect that they help ensure that the inboard wing will stall before the outboard wing. This helps improve stability because the aircraft's nose will tend to pitch down when the wing root stalls first, allowing for stall recognition and recovery before the outer wing sections reach the stall.

Raining here. I'm content to sit on my couch and re-watch the 2019 documentary "Apollo 11". (Edit: 0:23:00 - I could watch that again and again... Now that was a rocket!)

As of this writing, the ground track display on the live feed shows Dragon to be just over 500km behind the ISS. It seems to be gaining on the ISS at a rate of about 100km per orbit at the moment. So (very) roughly 60 km/h closure rate.

Canadians of a certain vintage will inevitably think of these guys every time "Bob and Doug" are mentioned:

I found it on satflare.com. I had to fight with it a bit but was eventually able to get it to show both the ISS and Endeavor.

They must be reading the forums... I see the map view on the live stream now.

Does anyone know if there's a site somewhere with a live map view?

I've been tuned in for the past 3 days. I keep having to remind myself that this occurred 50 years ago. LOI burn complete is "now" complete... So much better than reading a transcript! It felt like I was riding in the jump seat.

For anyone who's interested, today's total solar eclipse is about to start. If you're not lucky enough to be in the path of totality, you can still watch via a couple of live streams online: and https://www.exploratorium.edu/eclipse

No, not Woodstock's friend. Apollo 10's lunar module. https://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/astronomers-might-have-found-apollo-10-snoopy-module/

Favorites of anything are by definition subjective, so I am not even going to try and convince anyone to agree with me. Heck, even my own feelings about any one film tends to change with my mood. But I love any movie that stays in my thoughts for a few days (or weeks, or years) afterwards. Some that have done that for me that I can think of as I write this are: The Princess Bride (Inconceivable! ...But always a reliable pop culture reference...) Slow West Ex Machina Hell or High Water Mount St. Elias Apollo 11 The Little Prince In The Shadow of the Moon Stand by Me I look forward to introducing that last one to my son when he's old enough.

The Apollo 10 LM did its landing "dress rehearsal" low pass 50 years ago today. "Snoopy" undocked from "Charlie Brown" in about 45 minutes, a half century ago, as of this writing. The LM's rapid roll anomaly happened about 4.5 hours later at about 23:33 UTC. https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4029/Apollo_10i_Timeline.htm

Apollo 10 launched 50 years ago today. They were at about T-90 minutes, a half century ago, as of this writing. https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4029/Apollo_10i_Timeline.htm

Canaveral is always at 23 odd degrees north, no matter how much the Earth rotates (unless something terrible has happened) and CatastrophicFailure already constrained out "heading north". Edit: Launch windows to GTO have been discussed here before. The thread includes a link that suggests thermal considerations during transfer are a major factor determining launch window timing.

Meg Schwamb, Mike Brown and David Rabinowitz co-discovered 2007 OR10 twelve years ago, but it still doesn't have a name. You can vote for a name on their website: https://2007or10.name Sadly, "Planety McPlanetface" is not one of the options...

I'd say that it is almost that good... I just saw it. Snuck out to watch the late showing after the kids were asleep, because I had to see it on the big screen. Brilliant!

Seems Airbus will soon cease production of the 747's DUFF: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/feb/14/a380-airbus-to-end-production-of-superjumbo

This might strike a chord for some here: (It was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Animated Short category)

Mission timeline is here: https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4029/Apollo_08i_Timeline.htm TLI burn happened at 15:41 UTC (about 25 minutes from now, as of this writing)

We've had this discussion before, so I am pretty confident that you're thinking of movies like Gravity when you say this. But bear in mind that many people consider movies like Gravity or Interstellar to be cringe inducingly bad, not for their science mistakes but for their plots. Maybe those people's reactions to what they feel are garbage plots is spilling over into rage against other aspects of those films?