Launch, Land, and Relaunch Party Thread

[ClayJar]

As noted in a poll (https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=60665.0) ULA tweeted images with "3", "2" and "1" at 10 am Eastern Time on April 2, 3, and 4 (twitter link). The images also include "ULA" and "#VulcanRocket". ULA is presumably planning an important announcement with some connection to Vulcan tomorrow (Friday). The time of the tweets suggest that the announcement may be at 10 am Eastern Time.

I'm mentioning this here in case there are people interested in ULA who don't follow the polls section of the forum.

The big announcement was just a lame comic…
😐

BESURETODRINK
YOUROVALTINE

[FutureSpaceTourist]

I was today years old when I realised this …

https://twitter.com/launchpins/status/1777139736827593074

Oh, so is this how they get the rockets displayed in the rocket garden? @ExploreSpaceKSC #Bandwagon1

[zubenelgenubi]

My next TSR article should be online later today. It is about this subject: [Farah Fawcett's famous poster]

Response option 1: You have my attention.
Response option 2: Men of culture; we meet again.

Edit/add:

[matthewkantar]

[Tomness]

https://twitter.com/SciGuySpace/status/1781111620493520998

Eric Berger
@SciGuySpace
Boeing is cutting its SLS workforce, the company confirmed to me.

"If it keeps on raining, levee's going to break
If it keeps on raining, the levee's going to break
When the levee breaks, we'll have no place to stay"

[seb21051]

Can't wait to find out the name [of the 4th ASDS]. Will it continue with the Gravitas gag?

"The following ships have not appeared in any books, however they were named by Iain M Banks in an interview with The Guardian.[4] These ships obtained their names as a result of another (unnamed) Involved civilisation criticizing Culture ship naming policy, claiming that such powerful ships ought to have names with a little more gravitas."

Stood Far Back When The Gravitas Was Handed Out
Gravitas, What Gravitas?
Gravitas... Gravitas... No, Don't Help Me, I'll Get It In A Moment...
Gravitas Free Zone
Low Gravitas Warning Signal
Absolutely No You-Know-What

Or perhaps:

Gravitas Ferociter?

[wannamoonbase]

Or perhaps:

Gravitas Ferociter?

Ouch!

[AmigaClone]

It would be interesting to see if SpaceX's fifth droneship receives a name that alludes to Starship development being somewhat slower than previously announced.

[alugobi]

Well, there is Arrested Development.

[darkenfast]

I Blame the Parents has a nice ring to it.

[Lar]

I think I'm supposed to point out that talking about names might be a wee bit off topic but I'm laughing too hard.

[Lar]

One more theory: The announcer is a NSF member and wanted to see how long the thread will get before it gets locked.

^ This. There's the *real* tin foil hat...     

NSF are everywhere. Claiming it's a tin foil hat thing? that's just plausible deniability.

[litton4]

I think I'm supposed to point out that talking about names might be a wee bit off topic but I'm laughing too hard.

Reported to moderator..........oh wait.....

[seb21051]

I think I'm supposed to point out that talking about names might be a wee bit off topic but I'm laughing too hard.

Reported to moderator..........oh wait.....

No Need, I'll show myself out.

Wow.

That in itself might be The One!

[zubenelgenubi]

Moderator powers activate!
Split/merge off-topic, but amusing discussion, to the party thread! 🥳 🎉 🤪 😎 😜 🙌



(I am tempted to change my avatar from the cute baby gryphon to Gleek.)

[zubenelgenubi]

Behind the veil, a member commented:
"Cadence is so high..."

My first thought: "Was she partying hard in Canterlot before she married Shining Armor?"

But (generally), her name is spelled Cadance.

Art by holivi

[zubenelgenubi]

If you have to choose to have one machine be broken—either the Food Texturizer or the Food Shape-ifier—pick the Shape-ifier every time! 

No dinosaur nuggies for you, mister.

How about the dino nuggies AND the lady?


(Reference parody Snoot Game and the pterodactyl anthro, Fang)

(Dinosaur Train was my gateway dr*g.)

Art by brokenmojo

[Tomness]

The crew is running behind making last minute cargo adjustments directed by SpaceX but the ground says they have margin.  Node 2 overhead hatch will not be closed due to the imminent crew Dragon relocation.

Dang it Ted! You were suppose to put our underwear that we were going to keep to be sent down on this Dragon. I am still peaved you put my favorite shirt in Cygnus.... now it's a shooting star over the Pacific.

[StraumliBlight]

Yesterday Tory posted photos of all the Vulcans under construction.

[CorvusCorax]

I just realized - if I wanted to finally go and watch a rocket launch in person, I'd just need to book a flight to the cape at literally any day of the year and stay for at least 3 days - I'd be almost guaranteed to watch a launch. -- more so, I could just do that the next time I'm in the US anyway for whatever reason.

This is incredible - watching ANY launches just a few years ago was as hard to plan as watching a Starship launch from Texas is now.