Van Rijn
Order of Kilopi

As I mentioned earlier, I would go up to $10,000 for that type of short suborbital hop. Mind you, I doubt they could make money with the SS2 on...

Yes, cost aside, before I’d be willing to fly in one, I would want to see a good number of successful flights without any worrying anomalies. I’m...

Sorry, but if I *had* a ticket, I wouldn’t give it away. But I am not interested in spending $250,000 or whatever they’re saying now for one.

I have to say that I now have almost no interest in them. When they started up I was interested since it was a rare example of commercial space...

Yes, I was thinking the same thing. I’d be happy to see another Newspace innovative competitor to SpaceX, but I’ll wait and see if they can actually...

Your post 16 links to this NASA page which has a short comment on the Moon’s rotation: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4709 Which says: An...

If Scott Manley is right, there was more than one microphone and the one that was supposed to capture sound on descent failed. (That’s from his...

Actually, I’m curious how much aircraft pilot experience carries over and if it really is that important? Most of the flight would be handled by...

It is just so great seeing commercial orbital flights about to begin. I wonder who will start offering real space flight lotteries? I never put...

Low 70s here, bright sun and quite windy today. I would have the windows open more but for the wind. The grass has really started growing and I’ve...

Who ever said magic isn’t real? Well, we’re getting into Clarke’s third law territory here. I never dreamed I would be someday watching robots...

Looks like we lucked out on the COVID-19 vaccines. Early on there was a lot of question about whether a reasonably effective vaccine could be...

The question might get more notice in the S&T Boeing thread. I’m not sure if it is fire or just really hot metal, but I would expect it would be due...

Even from Earth, you can watch the sun move across the lunar surface, which clearly indicates the moon rotates with respect to the sun. Anditopens,...

I was reading a CNN article on how passengers reacted to the problems with the engine in that recent Boeing flight and came across this (emphasis...

Yep. I was familiar with reviews so only watched it when I didn’t have to pay for it (well, beyond my standard cable fee). If I had watched it cold...

I never knew anything about the Texas power grid until now. I laughed when I heard that “ERCOT” stands for “Electric Reliability Council of Texas” -...

Those earthquakes are huge, but not large enough to explain the change in earth's rotation. But, the rotation has changed a lot, that's the activity...

And has been in Mars orbit for just under 15 years. Another impressive NASA spacecraft. I’m very happy about this. I was concerned about the...

Yes, in the long run. Pretty much the reason for leap seconds--the defining of the day as of a length from a century before meant that we would...

Me too, but like I said, it would work in this case: A lithobrake event would lithobreak the rover. It was intentional, meant as a small...

The way you wrote that, I was afraid it was today, but it is tomorrow, about 12:55pm PST. I am making a point of not checking on it until after...

Yes, I think of my mother, long before the dementia kicked in - she was completely hopeless with computers, even on-screen TV or other AV hardware...

‘Fraid not. Orange’s name is a bit of a clue to her fur color (orange tabby).

This has gone viral, so you might have seen it, but here’s a fellow in a Zoom meeting for a court hearing that unknowingly had a filter running. ...

Five years? I’d guess it might be a little later in the 20s for people (robots are easier). But this is the first time since the original Apollo...

My cat, Orange, sometimes sleeps on my lap when I’m sitting, but usually wants to sleep on my left side between my arm and body, with her head on my...

Below -20c “only” four times during the winter. Right. I have lived in Anchorage, Alaska and Nebraska, so I have a pretty good idea of what real...

Albany sure is a popular name. There are something like 18 Albanys in the US, the one in New York is probably the best known. I’m not sure if there...

I’m wondering if the “bellyflop” is really much different from previous work with lifting bodies. NASA has done a lot of work testing various...