Space and Science BS Thread

Wish I had the money. Oh well, maybe when Bigelow launches some destinations, because a week in a dragon with 3 other people just doesn't sound like fun.

 

Couldn’t image esp around the bathroom specifics...

 

The SpaceX Dragon and the Boeing Starliner both have a toilet of sorts, basically a can with suction, and a curtain, beats sitting in a diaper on the Soyuz.

 

An upgrade from the point and go vacuum system of the Shuttle I would hope

 

And now, for something completely different.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-mWK_kcZMs&feature=youtu.be

 

And now, back to space:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP44EPBMb8A

 

He doesn't know where the idea came from? Prolly the first prison ever built...

 

Damn, I wish we had a Dyson Sphere.

 

Right? I want one to run my welder.

 

The earth may be flat, but gravity sucks
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...ies-homemade-rocket-launch-filmed-tv-n1141286

 

https://arstechnica.com/science/202...-fame-from-the-movie-hidden-figures-has-died/

 

SLS 1st flight delayed to at least 4/21

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2020/02/sls-debut-april-2021-ksc-teams-launch-sims/

 

Odds on Starship + Super Heavy flying first and meeting them in orbit.

 

Even. SLS flying first = astronomical odds

 

This is an interesting nugget from the Ars Technica Rocket Report sent today:


Questions raised about Starliner tests.According to a report in the Orlando Sentinel, NASA's Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel learned early this month that Boeing did not perform a full, end-to-end integrated test of Starliner in a Systems Integration Lab with ULA’s Atlas V rocket. The test typically shows how all the software systems during each component of the mission would have responded with each other through every maneuver—and it could potentially have caught the issues Boeing later experienced in the mission.

A surprising omission ... “It’s pretty exhaustive. You gotta do that,” said Christopher Saindon, a former member who ended his tenure on the panel in mid-February. “That was somewhat surprising to us on the panel. There were certainly gaps in the test protocol.” The report paints a picture of NASA and Boeing appearing to skip a few tests on the way to getting the Starliner spacecraft and Atlas V rocket into orbit in December. (submitted by JeffA)

And Boeing is the primary on SLS....With NASA allowing Starliner to skip tests, I think it’s another notch against SLS.

 

You’ll be sad to read:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/02/freeman-dyson-physicist-with-a-sci-fi-bent-has-died-at-96/

 

https://youtu.be/GenS0_BvGPU

Whups. Guess we're not going to space today.

 

Additional info
https://interestingengineering.com/spacexs-starship-super-rocket-destroyed-during-pressure-test

SN1. Looks like this one took flight?

 

From what I read this wasn't unexpected. Apparently they hadn't dialed in the welding process right.