Total Members Voted: 1
Voting closed: 05/02/2020 10:35 pm
For Lar; Why NASA sent 3 defenseless Legos to die on Jupiterhttp://www.presstelegram.com/science/20160611/why-nasa-sent-3-defenseless-legos-to-die-on-jupiterLar, those Legos Lego Elements on that probe are surely exceedingly valuable, and would make an excellent addition to your collection. You should go and save them - and the good news is, you've got 3 years to do it in.
If it was still the 1970's it would be Rapid Unplanned Disco! Let's get this party started!
elonmusk: Turns out the landing was not as fast we thought, but still hard enough to destroy the primary airframe and accordion the engineshttps://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/743602229307805696
Steve Jurvetson11 hrs ·and the cool new flown display in the board room
QuoteSteve Jurvetson11 hrs ·and the cool new flown display in the board room
Quote from: cartman on 06/17/2016 03:30 pmQuoteSteve Jurvetson11 hrs ·and the cool new flown display in the board roomAre these the actual chairs from Dr. Evil's secret mountain lair?
Guys! I have figured out how SpaceX plans on generating tons and tons of methane on Mars to refuel their boosters for the Mars-to-Earth leg of the MCT architecture.The evidence has literally been under our noses for quite a while, now. SpaceX has even released a number of pictures (without the explanatory text, of course, that would tell us their plans). I even found one to attach here.Below is a picture illustrating a test of the deployment of the Mars methane ISRU system. Note how SpaceX is cleverly using several parts of their architecture here -- amazing how they can use rocket engine technology to aid in the deployment phase.
Watch the fourth flight of the same New Shepard hardware this Sunday. Liftoff is planned for approximately 10:15 am ET and the live webcast starts half an hour earlier at 9:45 am ET at www.blueorigin.com. On this flight, we’ll intentionally fail one string of parachutes on the capsule. There are three strings of chutes and two of the three should still deploy nominally and, along with our retrothrust system, safely land the capsule. Works on paper, and this test is designed to validate that. We’ll also use this flight to continue pushing the envelope on the booster. As always, this is a development test flight and anything can happen. Watching a rocket launch (and rocket landing!) might add a little extra fun with the kids on Father’s Day -- enjoy. Gradatim Ferociter! Jeff Bezos
No, I'm pretty sure that the actual hardware behind him. Although it might not be the real board room.
Quote from: cscott on 06/17/2016 05:52 pmNo, I'm pretty sure that the actual hardware behind him. Although it might not be the real board room.Either Jurvetson is a giant, or it's a photo. It's way too small.
Its a wallpaper, look at the top edge of the stage, it has the same background as the photo, the white dots.So, that was a false alert, sorry everybody. I thought it was real and i even compared it with the same Flickr photo in order to confirm it was the OG2 stage