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On the precipice of humanity achieving even more than ever before, is it not fitting we all just agree humans are awesome, just for a few seconds, we can go back to war afterwards.
 
I'm really happy to mankind reaching for the stars again after so long, even if it's a bunch of niggers and women so some woke politicians can feel good.

For the Kiwi who wanted to know/see how they sleep


yah it's a Canadian but still
 
I can't believe no one has mentioned this yet. Microslop does it again.
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mindlessobserver said:
Interestingly, the manual controls are all analogue it looks like. Twist knobs and switches.
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NASA has a hard on for astronauts actually flying the vehicle. The Shuttle orbiter ended up with tons of manual equipment on board even though the Buran managed unmanned flight. SpaceX Dragon shows how stupid manual controls are even if they had to include them in the touch screen for the boomers.

Unrelated to your comment but I'm sooooo happy that Gateway is getting reproposed into something useful.
 
WEEKEND said:
The Shuttle orbiter ended up with tons of manual equipment on board even though the Buran managed unmanned flight.
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Orbiter could also fly unmanned. The only part of the ship that required manual intervention was the landing gear, but even that came with a way to connect it to a remote control. It never flew unmanned because the capability was never required, after the military declined to adopt the shuttle for use in their own operations (despite forcing a bunch of compromises on the design for military use) and switched to developing a dedicated alternative.
 
WEEKEND said:
NASA has a hard on for astronauts actually flying the vehicle. The Shuttle orbiter ended up with tons of manual equipment on board even though the Buran managed unmanned flight. SpaceX Dragon shows how stupid manual controls are even if they had to include them in the touch screen for the boomers.

Unrelated to your comment but I'm sooooo happy that Gateway is getting reproposed into something useful.
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Ohhh yes the one time we need manual is not necessary, let some jeet AI understand what we need. NO THANK YOU!
 
teriyakiburns said:
Orbiter could also fly unmanned. The only part of the ship that required manual intervention was the landing gear, but even that came with a way to connect it to a remote control. It never flew unmanned because the capability was never required, after the military declined to adopt the shuttle for use in their own operations (despite forcing a bunch of compromises on the design for military use) and switched to developing a dedicated alternative.
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I always thought the Shuttle couldn't fly unmanned. I stand corrected then.
 
Deep Nozzle Throat said:
Well the good news is Starship is never flying crew.

Hell, it can't even fly payloads that aren't Starlink. They froze development of a proper cargo bay door a few months ago and are only developing the Starlink mail slot further.

Starship is a really fascinating case study of project management and systems engineering (the lack thereof) going wrong. Somewhere in there are the bones of a competent program and good engineering, but it's completely masked by retarded decisions and requirements. The contrast between Starship going into its 12th test flight with a vague road ahead to technological readiness and SLS sending crew to the Moon on its second test flight is mind boggling.

They've flown Saarship with straight up turds in the propellant tanks. No, I don't know how, either.
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Dude oh yn God I want you to write me an 10,000+ word post about the SlaceX fuck UPs
 
I can't be bothered to clip it right now, but apparently there's some kind of water valve issue that was noticed yesterday. Mission control had the crew fill "urine contingency bags" :lol: with water in case something goes wrong with the water system.
 
85CentSoda said:
I can't be bothered to clip it right now, but apparently there's some kind of water valve issue that was noticed yesterday. Mission control had the crew fill "urine contingency bags" :lol: with water in case something goes wrong with the water system.
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Saw that too, apparently a valve was sticky but water is flowing properly at the moment. Now they have to fill drink bags with water, then syringe it out and spray up to 20 liters into the contingency bags. That's going to take forever unless they have decent syringes lol
 
85CentSoda said:
I can't be bothered to clip it right now, but apparently there's some kind of water valve issue that was noticed yesterday. Mission control had the crew fill "urine contingency bags" :lol: with water in case something goes wrong with the water system.
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I hope the astronauts got their Bear Grylls survival training.
Falcos_Commisar said:
Dude oh yn God I want you to write me an 10,000+ word post about the SlaceX fuck UPs
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Sounds like that goober Thunderf00t on YouTube might be up your alley.
 
For those wondering, we are two hours way from the pre-game for the Lunar Injection burn where the Integrity will attempt to leave earth orbit, and intercept the Moon.
 
I'm just wondering if they're gonna be able to see the bunny girl on the moon that the Apollo 11 crew was briefed about in 1969.

095:17:28 Evans: Among the large headlines concerning Apollo this morning is one asking that you watch for a lovely girl with a big rabbit. An ancient legend says a beautiful Chinese girl called Chang'o has been living there for 4,000 years. It seems she was banished to the Moon because she stole the pill of immortality from her husband. You might also look for her companion, a large Chinese rabbit, who is easy to spot since he is always standing on his hind feet in the shade of a cinnamon tree. The name of the rabbit is not reported.

095:18:15 Collins: Okay. We'll keep a close eye out for the bunny girl.

095:18:19 Evans: Roger.
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