Whenever I read something that has a character and it's like "He was 6'2, Broad Shouldered and Heavily Muscled" and then they later have the character running sustained for whatever reason I always laugh a little because of how difficult that is to do when built like that lmao.
Elon Musk has already started plans to launch a million satellites.
Yes. A MILLION.
This is a colossally bad idea, and it's not too late to make your voice heard. I explain everything:
www.scientificamerican.com/article/ramp...
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I have never feared the release of an episode of a show I like more in my life
It's amazing watching people cheer for the destruction of NASA. They've asking for this for years and it might actually happen.
I honestly thought the clusterfuck that has been HLS would have some people questioning the commercial bros, but I guess we have to learn the hard way with every program.
A screenshot of lightroom showing a folder with multiple photo albums in it for ULA launches.
Honestly at a certain point the best system is no system. I have things sorted by mission/event in lightroom but within those I just leave it sorted by date and time. Usually I only end up actually using 4-5 photos at most. If I'm doing something like portraits then I use the 5 star function to sort
Also fun fact. All of these are only on two year terms.
WTF is this and why didn't they want all the top talent they've been firing from NASA centers for the last couple of years www.nasa.gov/news-release...
That is an incredibly impressive shot to have pulled off with a wider Lens! Well done! And felt. Getting home after a busy photography event and seeing 2-3,000 photos to go through can be daunting to say the least
I honestly might just be fully done with spaceflight if this happens. I want to love it, I want to love so so much of it, I want to do so much in this world, but so many people use the claim of love to tear it down purely to enrich their own.
I am unbelievably angry. I watched a near identical scenario to this unfold when I was 8 years old and saw the decimation of NASA and its lunar program and now we're here again because some billionaires just want to make more money.
Spent some time today calling senators but man... I don't know.
Also very notable that most of the delays to EUS have been because NASA asked them to slow down...
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Oh he might find himself being grilled by congress in the near future, but waiting as long as possible to unveil this before the Authorization (which determines NASA's future) gives people as little chance as possible to call out how stupid of an idea this is.
Blown away by the cowardice of Jared Isaacman.
Instead of fully announcing this cancellation in a press conference where it was more or less already announced it is tucked away in a footnote of a press release at 5PM the day before the NASA Authorization Markup to avoid questions.
This is notably directly against the current active NASA Authorization which requires the Exploration Upper Stage to be used on Artemis IV.
Public Law 117-167
This not only flies in the face of the goal to actually get to regular cadence with Artemis, but also any chance of landing on the Moon this decade.
It also goes against Isaacman's sworn testimony that he would follow the will of Congress while leading NASA.
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has unilaterally decided to cancel the Exploration Upper Stage and Mobile Launcher 2, both of which are nearing completion and congressionally mandated for use by Artemis IV.
www.nasa.gov/directorates...
If the SLS were a Falcon 9, then Jared Isaacman's "fantastic" plan would look like this. I could agree with the LEO A3 mission (well, SpaceX aren't ready anyway), but the ‘Standard SLS’ is nothing more than sabotaging NASA’s own SHLV capability.
In an update today regarding the ICPS Helium Blockage, NASA confirmed that the issue was with a seal on the ICPS Umbilical arm. Teams have replaced and reassembled the system. They are also currently refreshing a number of limited life items on the vehicle.
www.nasa.gov/blogs/missio...
You are braver than me 😅
Sleep first, edit later for me!
For Isaacman. Not a single person on the Artemis program had any idea this was coming and every single person I have spoken to who works on it has called the idea some form of idiotic.
It’s funny because some of these people were starting to warm up to him and then he goes and does this.
They posted in support of an increased cadence but I have yet to see any major member of a NASA committee comment anything specific about the plan.
The cadence increase idea had been somewhat discussed within agency but Block 1 Common has quickly become a laughingstock.
Soooooo… it’s starting to look like there may not have actually been any change to the programs at all and that Isaacman just announced a plan he had to try and force it…
While the change to Artemis III's mission to be a joint test of HLS in Earth Orbit was expected and welcomed, the decision to develop an entire new variant of the SLS rocket in less than two years has sparked sharp criticism across the industry.
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derek.space/2026/02/28/a...
At that points that's just an entirely new stage that happens to also use RL10s.
It's actually not using a Delta derived stage as the tooling for that is no longer around.
No contractor was informed of this before hand so the stage for Artemis IV and V is a nebulous ????
The EUS STA LOX tank being moved at Michoud
The EUS STA Mid Body assembly in its work stand at the Michoud Assembly Facility
And not just that. EUS is literally already in production as well.
There is a *ton* of work needed to retrofit Centaur V to work in this capacity. The ICPS was a similar case of retrofitting a DCSS to work with the SLS core and even within designing the SLS core to work with it from the start it still took YEARS to do.
The announcement of the new upper stage for SLS seems to have blindsided the people actually building the rocket.
No work whatsoever has been done on actually designing and integrating this stage with the SLS rocket, not even a basic feasibility study.
Story coming later today but I need to get my head on straight first.
