The Pod Bay

Tomorrow, I will be touring the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Space Flight Operations Facility. If anyone has questions for people at Mission Control, I'd be happy to ask them for you.

@TildalWave Dangit! I never got around to commiting to that!

If you want to wish Winchell well, go to this Google Doc - docs.google.com/document/d/…

So for a while I've noticed that I can recognize a question as one of Vikki's from the first paragraph; today I learned that I can spot an uhoh question from the title alone even on other SEs besides space.

Apparently they installed 22 Raptors in 14 hours! Wild! ANd it connected to the piping I showed above a few posts back. This is really crazy rocket science!

^The Space Show on Mon on Moonwards, guest me :)

yes most selfies are awfully vain and pointless, but if you're doing something as awesome as spacewalk all is forgiven :D

Looks like I'm in the cool kids club now though.

> (pitch, roll and yawn)

Great line in Reddit - if a rocket lands on a barge and no one is around, does it make a sonic boom?

We don't drink tea. We drink bacon!

@uhoh Don't forget theta and omicron radiation.

Happy aphelion day everybody!

Who cares about Orbcomm now. They were an excuse to land it!

seen on YT comment feed: "why isn't Roger replying?"

It was far more fanciful. I find it very intriguing that the design in article is so conservative. It makes me feel like it was indeed a little more that just PR.

That they did not coordinate with Disney and paint it like R2D2 boggles my mind! At this point, they should for the first actual hop of some distance.

Well that is interesting. 1.8 billion for Stack Overflow... How long till they kill Stack Exchange do you think?

10^4 questions now.

@uhoh I resemble that commment.

119th launch of a Falcon 9 rocket since 2010
127th launch of Falcon rocket family since 2006
2nd launch of Falcon 9 booster B1063
106th SpaceX launch from Florida's Space Coast
71st Falcon 9 launch from pad 40
126th launch overall from pad 40
29th launch dedicated to SpaceX's Starlink network
16th Falcon 9 launch of 2021
16th launch by SpaceX in 2021
16th orbital launch based out of Cape Canaveral in 2021

funny thing is, if it's being faked, wouldn't they've matched the landscape :'D

I love to laugh at our predecessors. It is kind of a preemptive revenge against our descendents who will laugh at us.

@peterh Control issue. You solve that by trying and practicing and learning. SN15 must fly again! And again! And again!! :) SN16 is getting ready to move to the pad, so now we are back to limited pad space.

Trivent! 10 min or so to launch!

HAAAATS IIIIN SPAAAAACE

Chuck Berry's song "Johnny B. Goode" was chosen as the representative example of Rock 'n Roll on the gold records sent into space.

@kimholder And be a bit of a jackass.

Merry Christmas from Space.SE!

Hey man, its a new era here. Plant, people, who are YOU to define them. If my plant thinks it is a person, isn't it? and shouldn't national healthcare pay for the surgery to make it into a person? Species reassignment surgery should be funded!

So we finally qualify for generalist badge!

Static fire now set for Tuesday. All three Raptors installed. SN54 was taken offsite, then returned. Speculation is something related to the new design (SN54 is the first of the new design) and the new Thrust puck that matches was not quite correct and was easier to fix back in the production site.

@HappyKoala I like that simulation. But it really cranked up the temperature on my phone...

Nice work on planetary-science! We asked 9 questions, putting it on the first page. This week's Topic of the Week is juno, until October 12th. Next week's topic is medical.

Porcine colonization. Piiiiiiiigs....iiiiiiin......Spaaaaaaaaaaaace.

:D

Good rundown of the CRS-16 water landing from Scott Manley - youtube.com/watch?v=EH1nyPIvLjI&t=10s

Ahh a mod, everyone flee ;) Quick! Look busy!

@uhoh the rover isn't interested :D

Looks like SLS succeeded at the 8 min hot fire today! Good for SLS! Only took 10 years?