@NASASpaceflight A setback. But the BO NG is never going to be able to compete in the long run with Starship in terms of $kg to orbit and scalability. NG is a badly suboptimal architecture. Just license Starship.
@actuspacex@LabPadre I know these guys are consummate professionals, and totally focused, but they missed the opportunity to go down in memo history if they had only brought a large can of WD-40 along for show.
@IterIntellectus There is an interesting experiment that has never been tried: Randomly assign half the states to only allow women to vote, hold office, and own property.
@BuzzPatterson V97.33A.851606
This is the real ICD-10-CM external cause code for "Sucked into jet engine" (under air and space transport accidents). It's a genuine, billable code in the systemโfamous among medical coders and meme-worthy for how oddly specific it is.
@stevenmarkryan I would suggest the bottom of Chandor Chasma for the first city. Huge beds of Kieserite for water and magnesium, and Sorel cement. Steep walls for radiation protection. Depth for increased atmospheric density.
@martinth3rd@herbertong@SpaceX A one way ticket for a chance to establish a Mars Colony are you kidding me? They will have no problem filling 10 million seats
"The full vision will happen..." The Starship architecture is close to the theoretical best of cost and cadence that can be done with chemical rocket technology and physics. SpaceX WILL succeed with this. Forget Starlink. It is an amazing money-printer, but pales in comparison to the opportunity convergence of low-cost-to-orbit and distributed AI in space.
These puppies need your support. No living creature should be tossed aside. https://t.co/Opopd1oVnS is worthy, and I've adopted from them. https://t.co/OJJzv6NDwd