AWildDragon
AWildDragon t1_jamlalr wrote
Reply to comment by AdminsFuckedMeAgain in After flying four astronauts into orbit, SpaceX makes its 101st straight landing — ‘I just feel so lucky that I get to fly on this amazing machine.’ by marketrent
It’s got the longest current success streak of any currently operational rocket.
Older Soyuz may have beater it but that’s the only thing that could. Recent Soyuz qc is a mess and they don’t have the flight rate anymore.
AWildDragon t1_ja7wepm wrote
Reply to comment by Blue_Lotus_Agave in *Live* ~ NASA & SpaceX Crew 6 - launch to the International Space Station. by Blue_Lotus_Agave
Weather tomorrow is a no go. Now targeting 3/2.
AWildDragon t1_ja5iv8y wrote
Reply to comment by pp_in_a_pitcher in Space station crew welcomes replacement Soyuz amid Crew Dragon launch preps in Florida by _Analystica
Russia doesn’t have the money to put a new station
US will have axiom station up before the ISS retires. And of course lunar gateway.
AWildDragon t1_ja45m63 wrote
Reply to comment by Delicious-Day-3332 in Space station crew welcomes replacement Soyuz amid Crew Dragon launch preps in Florida by _Analystica
Dragon will have its 6th operational crewed mission on Monday and Starliner will be operational early next year.
AWildDragon t1_j7teowv wrote
Reply to comment by H-K_47 in SpaceX president/COO Gwynne Shotwell says they're attempting Starship's 33-engine static fire test tomorrow, Feb 9. by spsheridan
A successful static fire needs all pre burners and turbines working. A spin prime is just a test of those components. No real need to wait it out if you are confident with your engine start parameters. They’ve done the spin prime and static fire quite a few times both on vehicle and at mcgregor. Now it’s time to light the candle.
AWildDragon OP t1_j6lewvh wrote
> Vice President Kamala Harris will award former NASA astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken the Congressional Space Medal of Honor at 4:15 p.m. EST on Tuesday, Jan. 31. Hurley and Behnken will receive the award for bravery in NASA’s SpaceX Demonstration Mission-2 (Demo-2) to the International Space Station in 2020.
Always good to see these awards going to living astronauts.
AWildDragon t1_j20uwmr wrote
Reply to comment by HolyGig in NASA mulls SpaceX backup plan for crew of Russia’s leaky Soyuz ship by jivatman
I’m sure NASA will offer the Russians a ride home. It will be on Roscosmos to decline it.
AWildDragon t1_j1dwa0g wrote
Reply to comment by IWasGregInTokyo in NASA astronauts unfurl 4th solar array outside space station by IslandChillin
That and degradation of the old ones due to space exposure.
AWildDragon t1_ix0a64k wrote
Reply to comment by morbihann in Andromeda Contains the Remnants of a Recent "Feeding Event" by The_Weekend_Baker
Recent in astronomical timescales.
AWildDragon t1_iwhiowz wrote
Reply to comment by IsraelZulu in How many different companies now have built a rocket and used it to deliver anything or people to space (besides government organizations like NASA and the Russian equivalent)? by Courcy6185
Check out the annual Balls rocket launch event. Out in the middle of nowhere and you can get a waiver for pretty much any altitude you want.
Or spaceport America cup if you are a student.
AWildDragon t1_is8s62y wrote
Reply to comment by LilyoftheRally in The Promise and Peril of Space Tourism by speckz
Murder on the Orient Orbital Express.
AWildDragon t1_iqz75w5 wrote
Reply to comment by jcmidmo in After DART: Using the first full-scale test of a kinetic impactor to inform a future planetary defense mission by EricFromOuterSpace
That treaty would go out if the window if it was determined that nuking an asteroid would stop it from impacting a populated area.
AWildDragon OP t1_jbopuwt wrote
Reply to Soyuz MS-23 may share design flaw with MS-22 and Progress MS-21. Soyuz MS-24 may launch earlier than planned. by AWildDragon
A bit of an editorialized title but I don’t think that many here will read the Russian text in the linked article.
So much for it being a micro meteorite.