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Sure it stays fixed in the sky, but the planet is still rotating and the atmosphere is whipping around it in the same direction as the rotation. I had to play around with this in my head a bit. But think of the side of the planet that's leading into the orbit as the morning side and the side...

Really cool timelapse! I'm quite excited for this and the future commercial landers! Regarding the flat-Earthers. No amount of proof will convince the most diehard conspiracy believers, so it's not worth even trying. Frustrating though when they preach that nonsense to impressionable youth...

I love this movie! I didn't catch it on the big screen but remember watching it on one of the earlier big screen tvs and getting that dizzying height feeling when they were free floating over to the Discovery and looking straight down at the surface of IO below. I'm hoping for a 4K remaster...

I personally think he could be awesome for NASA. Isaacman, like Bridenstine, is excited and passionate about space and spaceflight and not only America's, but Humanity's role in it. He may likely be a participant in a major shakeup / shakedown in the Human Spaceflight division, which isn't...

You'd be surprised at the genius engineers who work for NASA and especially at JPL. The general "public" would have little additional knowledge and experience to offer them. ;) Keep in mind this was an almost after-thought technology demonstration constrained by extreme monetary, time and...

Unfortunately the FAA has long been underfunded and understaffed and like anything, suddenly hiring more people isn't going to instantly fix it. Part 450 was indeed intended to streamline the launch regulation process but there were numerous complaints by rocket companies other than SpaceX (ie...

Avi Loeb has lost nearly all credibility in the scientific community with his crazy obsession with Aliens and claims of fact with zero evidence, so using him has a primary source for yet another one of Ms Pultarova's "The sky is falling / satellites are destroying the planet / stop SpaceX at all...

Oh to be a fly on the wall inside the Crew Dragon capsule to hear what Butch and Suni had to say about the state-of-the-art Dragon capsules compared to the 60's era Starliner. Of course they're all professional astronauts but they're people too and this kind of technology is their industry...

@Rob77, the color charts are for white balance / color calibration for the images. I love seeing these photos too! Living in Arizona *many* look like the deserts here, but many look more like they could be in places like Northern Africa, like the one in this article. I remember as a child I...

I myself just saw the headlines about Boeing looking for a buyer for it's fixed-cost contracts including Starliner but yep, excluding the SLS cash cow: (Reuters) -Boeing is exploring the sale of some parts of its space business, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar...

I skimmed the actual source and admittedly didn't read it all in-depth, but I don't think the authors are proposing the genesis of life off planet but rather can life survive off planet. So in our searching for life elsewhere, though it may have evolved on a planet, it could reside elsewhere...

This statement is incorrect: The first operational mission, Starliner-1, is supposed to go forward in 2025; that said, the timeline, and the three assigned astronauts, may change as Starliner's future becomes clearer. NASA had already said that while Starliner might fly in 2025 on some...

I've tried more than once to play this game but I just get a really bad headache and horrid motion sickness after about 30 minutes. She does this strange head bob/wobble/twising on the z axis that just breaks my brain and unlike most games you can't disable it. As others have noted she kinda...

OMG. Seriously, can we please stop these "the sky is falling" articles? Yes, Ms Pultarova, we KNOW you hate SpaceX, Elon Musk and especially Starlink. It's just one article after another from you critical of especially Starlink and how they're single-handedly destroying either all forms of...

I was lucky to catch it in the evening sky on Sunday the 13th, just after sunset. It's been dimming crazy fast each night since and the waxing moon isn't helping. I was amazed how long the tail is! Fun stuff!