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I have a friend who worked on the Shuttle Main Engine. I think I can get him hooked on the site if I hand him a question or two that he could answer from personal experience. But there aren't a lot of space-shuttle questions and none about the main engines. Do you have any burning questions on that system?

John Glenn has died.

We've got Mathjax :)

Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft, and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor. - Werner von Braun

Apparent Failed de-orbit. Not to be pedantic, but isn't this like HHGG definition of learning to fly? "Jump at the ground, and miss". If you are in orbit, how do you fail to deorbit? Accelerate out of orbit I guess, but eventually, air resistance is gonna win.

really im just a glorified spammer :P

This is great!

Second booster to fly for the eight-th time.

What do you think, will it ever fly again?

Ah, you will always be Mr Grumpy to me!

The review queue interface has changed, not sure if I like it...

@Feeds Typical SO crap. In the case of the company, I would not enforce this blog SO thing so strongly. The incompetence and stupidity radiates from the bloggers.

Ok, that is a pretty good XKCD.

@uhoh yes :)

Two new nations to Mars!

A joke on Reddit that I saw: Congratulations to the winner of last night's presidential debate: The Voyager probes, headed away from the Earth at 62000 km/hr

T-2:40 from SpaceX stream

FAA license may be available tomorrow.

I think this is my favourite rocket launch streaming moment: youtube.com/watch?v=rgNRINLfNrs&t=45

Speaking of landing babies...

Philae is found!

oh, but surely beings inhabiting a 10g planet can handle 30 g's. That is just obvious :D

@SirCumference Planets beyond the Kuiper belt are obviously called "observation errors".

So I see Cygnus just departed ISS. There was Soyuz, Dragon Crew, Dragon Cargo, Cygnus, and almost certainly one or two Progress vehicles on station. That is pretty diverse! :) 5 different vehicles? Too bad the last HTV was not still there. Would be nice to have gotten a picture of the US side to see how 3 of the 4 ports were in use.

@uhoh Yes.

I agree. There is a difference between a joke and carefully engineered spiritual rocket science.

Thought of the day: if they don't change the naming convention, the name of the next in the Delta family of rockets will be causing a lot of confusion in the space community...

@geoffc "hats-off" to such an enthusiastic and (need I say) mad hatter!

I think if you get three stars on a chat there is also a hat!

Nice! They announced that LIGO detected another gravitational wave event.

Looks like they broke the landing pad!!

For anyone who hasn't already, I highly recommend taking a look at SE's drafted Code of Conduct on MSE. Now is the time to provide feedback on it, and it will potentially have a big effect on moderation.

In response to community feedback, Kerbal Space Program (KSP) removed the RedShell spyware. chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/45276435#45276435

Congratulations to former astronaut Mark Kelly sworn in as senator...!

@undefined if it's even bigger you could put it outdoors and let the astronauts on the ISS enjoy it! :-)

joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html

Arecibo collapsed, or so I've heard.

Hey I just got my FOIA request for the EMU Hardware Data Book, everything you ever wanted to know about the EMU and much more, I posted a link here: space.stackexchange.com/questions/23658

Never have so few been moderated by so many

Lol, or they'll have a capsule that will burst on impact in the shape of an X

@uhoh I cheated. I saw the answer soemwheere else in my day to day reading, remembered there was such a queston and answered it. So an official "Nyah, nyah" to you sir.