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FAA Operations Plan Advisory for Feb. 26 includes a SpaceX Starship launch, https://www.fly.faa.gov/adv/adv_spt.jsp

I think I predicted back last spring that before this was over, most people would personally know someone who died, and we'd all certainly know...

Virgin Galactic says it is delaying the next test flight of its SpaceShipTwo suborbital vehicle by more than two months to address technical issues,...

I wouldn't even know how to begin :( Although I have disc brakes now, maybe that allows a bit more leeway.

Static fire 2. With good data they may fly SN-10 this week. https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1365073626588999695

Right now I have to do a background check to work for the census and hoping there is no letter s needed.

Don't think we will know for sure till we send a probe to investigate. We have only seen it from a satellite. http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/posts/202

Oh dear, who could possibly have foreseen this. What a shock. The "re-baselined" excuse is particularly odd and unconvincing though, especially...

They've never publicly released anything more than the name and general idea of a larger successor. I don't see how they could be "not serious" about...

The Holocene extinction (AKA Anthropocene extinction or Sixth Mass extinction) is an on-going event and it will just continue to get worse, and it is...

SN-10 static fire #2: pad clear

From the collection at 11'8"(+8) it is clear that rental trucks are significantly overrepresented among low-clearance collisions.

I dunno, this could go in any of several threads, but this one will do. There's a quote attributed to Mark Twain (among others) that was modified...

2021, and the really bad news continues.

Is there any evidence of a cave/lava tube at the bottom of this pit (Marius Hills pit)?

I've been watching some videos on Youtube made by this fellow C.W. Lemoine. He is a retired fighter pilot (both Air Force reserve and Navy reserve)....

The Sun sets over Jezero crater as seen by the Mars rover Perseverance on Sol 4, the fifth Martian day after it landed (landing day is Sol 0; Sol 4...

Blue Origin is pushing back the first launch of its New Glenn rocket to late 2022, saying it “re-baselined” the development of the launch vehicle...

Got my COVID-19 vaccination today, about 2 hours ago. Had to drive 100+ miles round trip, but got it done. Have to do it again in 2-3 weeks. Feel...

Yes, the relevant Horizons issues for the Collier's "Man Will Conquer Space Soon!" series are July/August 2012 to September/October 2013. They're all...

I just watched the 2018 documentary Chesley Bonestell: A Brush With The Future. As the name says, it's about Chesley Bonestell the artist whose...

With over 28 million cases and over half a million deaths in the US, we have to have reached the point where pretty much everyone knows people who...

There's a whole YouTube channel of trucks and RV's hitting a particular bridge somewhere. Even after they raised it some. Eleven-foot-eight or some...

Another truck drove into our trestle the other day. This one has a listed height of seven inches taller than the clearance on all the signs with the...

A friend looks about to lose both his parents; his nieces and nephews have also lost their mom.

On Monday (March 1st) NBC has a new series called "Debris" (10pm EST). Apparently an alien spacecraft breaks and scatters it's parts around the world...