Bob

Probably the only person ever confused for both BKI and Sudoer

[Bob @BobKerman42]

@N214WN Spotted two flying over Pennsylvania this week, any idea where they're going?

[Bob @BobKerman42]

@Orbital_Perigee If Starliner manages to save an Atlas V for a museum at least it will have two good parts of its legacy.

[Bob @BobKerman42]

@ThePrimalDino Well for one, that stack has structure all up the insides of the boosters, the California one used the real mounting points on the aft skirt. So in order to fit the nozzles they’d have to have put a pit in the floor, probably not easy with earthquake mitigations too.

[perigeeaero.shop inc (STRAIGHT) @Orbital_Perigee]

It’s official: stoke has the Mandate of Heaven.

[Bob @BobKerman42]

Incredible things happening over on https://t.co/7rQyM1ZBzN

[Bob @BobKerman42]

@JamesR1887 @NASAUniverse @NASAWallops It’s not even a MD anything, it’s the last flying Lockheed L-1011.

[Bob @BobKerman42]

@SpaceKoala Common Pennsylvania W

[Bob @BobKerman42]

@fakecarlsagan @Truthful_ast Orbital, at least, with the usual New Shepard exception

[Bob @BobKerman42]

@SpaceKoala B-36 my beloved

[Bob @BobKerman42]

@ScaleChristian @smorescones @SpaceKoala I am also working on the same kit and the fuselage is also warped lol. Ended up having to heat it up with a hairdryer.

[Ken Kirtland IV @KenKirtland17]

Artemis 3 thoughts:

Overall in the expected range with some dissapointments.

- Blue Origin is expected to fly a demo Mk1.5 lander with a habitat that the astronauts will enter.

- SpaceX will fly a modified V3 (not HLS) that they will dock with but not enter.

- Pressure Vessel for Starship HLS is already built

This is my main point of confusion. How is it that Blue Origin will have a functional and enterable cabin to their new lander that didn't even ecist as a drawing a few months ago, yet SpaceX's Starship which was contracted first, is currently flying, and has a pressure vessel built, will not? I can only understand this as not willing to, or they believe pulling up an HLS vehicle would risk delaying Artemis IV. This is likely since HLS demo landing is early 2028 and Artemis 3 is likely late 2027. Either way I'm not happy about that. Not the end of the world though.

What makes this worse is we are far past the point of the public needing to see some damn thing about the Starship HLS lander. The bar is on the floor here just show a picture of the pressure vessel that is built for crying out loud, not even a new render? They've had an interior built out for years the public hasn't been show. That is inexcusable, mainly from a public funding standpoint but hell even from a company that is about to IPO like show your moon lander?? Most prestigious contract win in ~50 years, 6 years in and you can't give a damn enough to have a picture at a media event? What is going on? Inexcusable.

Blue Origin rendered there new lander tho so thank you!

This was the time that the public needed some kind of confidence boost from Starship HLS and that opportunity was more than missed, it was avoided like the plague.

[Bob @BobKerman42]

@_Testflight_ @megagoose11 (Not at all what you meant but heatsheild and engines make starship the first vehicle that could theoretically do “Around the World in 80 Minites”, I think.)

[Homosexual Ambitions @ARF_Takes]

Eat the rich, etc etc.

At least there's one mega rich person with a somewhat interesting choice of yacht out there, tho.

See if I had Bezos money I'd be rolling up to Monaco in my nuclear powered SS United States.

[Bob @BobKerman42]

@mesh3ndishi As far as American patriotism goes, I see it as the founders of this country were more progressive than their peers at the time and started us down our 250 year path to expanding that progression, and even though they had their many failings, that is still something to celebrate.

[Bob @BobKerman42]

@mesh3ndishi I meant more other than national patriotism. By the standard you laid out, is there anything in this world you can say is a thing you can support if you can find exploitation somewhere behind it?

[Bob @BobKerman42]

@mesh3ndishi @user10162002 @OrganizerMemes Genuinely what do you propose as an alternative? On that standard, what in this world can be celebrated or seen as a good thing? You can find some exploitation of someone somewhere in every aspect of society, and that will never be completely changed.

[Patrick Morrison @TurbulentSphere]

I'm not sure why, but I *love* upper stages in space. It is just something about them. You never really see them on their own, unless there is a separate camera. There is something surreal about it.

Very related, @NASAAdmin, do you know when the A2 ICPS pictures will be posted?

[Bob @BobKerman42]

@ScottLikedSLS @Truthful_ast I remember reading a forum post 7 or 8 years ago saying “no one will ever add FPS-munching cows”, and well here we are.

[Jess @Sundancing_]

what happened

[Bob @BobKerman42]

@ThePrimalDino An expendable-upper-stage-starship-launched Blue Moon Mk. 2 out of LC-37 might happen before two SLS launches within close proximity.