Science: Space - the final frontier (Misc.)

[BamaNation]

Is it just me or is there no sound on the nasa stream?

 

[CrimsonNagus]

A leak wasn't detected until today. Maybe my wife was right when she sarcastically said that using engines from 1998 was a bad idea.

I got to be honest, I get more excited for SpaceX because of how slow NASA moves. Why will it take almost 2 years for NASA to be ready to go again after this first test and almost 4 years to land someone on the moon?

 

[AlistarWills]

A leak wasn't detected until today. Maybe my wife was right when she sarcastic said that using engines from 1998 was a bad idea.

I got to be honest, I get more excited for SpaceX because of how slow NASA moves. Why will it take almost 2 years for NASA to be ready to go again after this first test and almost 4 years to land someone on the moon?

I heard them say that the leak in question wasn’t something they would have seen without fully loading the fuel tanks. Since that wasn’t something they would do without prepping to launch, today was their first chance to see it.
There was also some temperature anomaly with one of the main engines.

 

[Bamaro]

A leak wasn't detected until today. Maybe my wife was right when she sarcastically said that using engines from 1998 was a bad idea.

I got to be honest, I get more excited for SpaceX because of how slow NASA moves. Why will it take almost 2 years for NASA to be ready to go again after this first test and almost 4 years to land someone on the moon?

Funding may have something to do with it.

 

[AlistarWills]

Looks like we’re on for Saturday afternoon.

 

[CrimsonNagus]

Hopefully they will "get it up" this time.

I crack myself up.

 

[OakMtn4Bama]

Hope the weather holds

 

[BamaNation]

Let's have a separate "game day" thread for actual launches instead of burying them in this thread. Y'all know how I HATE megathreads.

 

[crimsonaudio]

Pretty fascinating video of the difficulty of placing the Webb telescope:

 

[CrimsonNagus]

Another day, another leak, another scrub. Maybe using 40 year old shuttle tech wasn’t a great idea.

 

[Elefantman]

Those shuttle engines were developed when the Ford Pinto was on the road. Coincidence?

 

[Bamaro]

Those shuttle engines were developed when the Ford Pinto was on the road. Coincidence?

They were also very successful launching the shuttle.

 

[Bazza]

 

[crimsonaudio]

Bezos rocket crashes after liftoff, only experiments aboard

Jeff Bezos' rocket company has suffered its first launch failure. No one was aboard, only science experiments.

apnews.com

 

[Bazza]

Bezos rocket crashes after liftoff, only experiments aboard

Jeff Bezos' rocket company has suffered its first launch failure. No one was aboard, only science experiments.

apnews.com

The capsule recovery system was impressive though!

 

[BamaNation]

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Boeing is having a tough 4 years.

 

[crimsonaudio]

 

[Bazza]

Another Space X launch last night......shot from the front deck with my cheapie Canon Powershot....

 

[DzynKingRTR]

7pm eastern time tonight, NASA will land a rocket on an asteroid..

 

[Bamaro]

7pm eastern time tonight, NASA will land a rocket on an asteroid..

Crash into it is more like it.