Aerofan

Ad Astra, Per Aspera | 17 | Scottish Space School | Mathematician | Hopeful AeroMech Student

[Aerofan @aerospaceFanboy]

@eccorca wher

[Goose @megagoose11]

I kinda just don’t care about cars🫤

[Aerofan @aerospaceFanboy]

@eccorca In a field in the middle of Fife (Scotland) desperately trying to catch a signal

[Aerofan @aerospaceFanboy]

@forward_flaps Atmospheric flow during mid-late re-entry

[Aerofan @aerospaceFanboy]

This. I always loved space but for some reason I dipped out when I was in year 1-3 of miserable Scottish high school, brought it back for flight 3

[Mookafish @Mookafish]

I'll never forgive myself for not following the Starship program sooner. I was always interested in space and technology but I somehow never really heard much about the Starship program, I don't think it got the attention it deserved from most media outlets until the full stack flights. I think I actually first heard about Starship through Matt Lowne's "This Week in Space" series which I watched each week during the Covid pandemic.

It was only after I saw that beautiful re-entry footage from flight 3 (and me reaching the end of the mandatory depressed, pubescent teenager years) that I got properly interested in the program, causing me to discover Marcus House, WAI, Astrum, and NSF on YouTube. This re-ignited my passion for space, causing me to Start playing KSP, KSP 2 (RIP😔) and No Man's Sky again. I also started practicing with Blender again because I wanted to model Starship and make a short animated documentary about space (which I never completed because I couldn't make a good sounding voiceover lol).
I eventually joined Space Twitter around Flight 6.

Flight 4 was the first flight I watched live, and, random fact, it was during that flight that I actually managed to build a working SSTO in KSP for the first time. I wasn't as invested at the time so I was just playing KSP with the launch on my second monitor lol. Though, I do remember freaking out about "the little flap that could". Good times, man. But honestly things are even better now 😎.

[Aerofan @aerospaceFanboy]

@Truthful_ast Current ISS is a piece of work though, they could certainly learn lessons but of course they never will

[Aerofan @aerospaceFanboy]

@Truthful_ast I do think it’s nice to have an international station, it feels very futurist and noble. But I don’t understand why they don’t realise that we can have both. It’s not like as soon as private entities enter space, the government owned space stations will stop coming.

[Aerofan @aerospaceFanboy]

@otherside_X42 I know it’s so ugly, and none of the renders have them doing it either so they know full well how daft it is

[JackJack @LRjackjack8730]

@exxzie044 I’m jealous

[Aerofan @aerospaceFanboy]

@megagoose11 I assume they sent at least some equipment out there

[Aerofan @aerospaceFanboy]

@megagoose11 They’ve had about an hour of certainty so I wouldn’t be surprised if there was at least a drone

[Aerofan @aerospaceFanboy]

@antosh_1 I thought this was going to happen to me but I remembered a few days ago that today is a public holiday in Scotland

[Ship 41 @starship_41]

I’M GOING TO HAWAII AND NOT FUCKASS CHILE

[Aerofan @aerospaceFanboy]

@otherside_X42 I think it’s just cold feet caution

[Aerofan @aerospaceFanboy]

@Mookafish Peak song choice, I wanted to make a space oddity edit for flight 14

[Aerofan @aerospaceFanboy]

@Miss1onControl I lept out of my chair and just started shaking my arms and legs 😭

[Aerofan @aerospaceFanboy]

WE ARE HERE

[Mookafish @Mookafish]

WE ARE GOING TO ORBITTTTTT!!!!!!!

[Aerofan @aerospaceFanboy]

YESSSSSSSSSSSS I TAKE BACK EVERYTHING

[Aerofan @aerospaceFanboy]

I literally can’t with this