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Weight is always at a premium for a space craft. I imagine the RTGs were as large as they could manage.

It bothers me. Their thinking feels to me as if they are too accepting of failure, and not trying hard enough to succeed. Is it cheaper to build another Starship, and blow it up, rather than do more thorough testing and modeling?

Beginning with the previous flight I am beginning to lose a bit of patience and respect for the Starship team. Harmonic effects as a possible cause of the previous failure probably should have been modeled, and maybe they were, incorrectly. To turn right around and lose another Starship under...

This is a remarkable mission and I look forward to more discoveries from the upcoming close approach.

I really don't think they look much alike at all.

Are they required to land upright this time?

It looked as if a landing leg failed to deploy, or collapsed. Not sure what the FAA's concern is. The booster worked well until it was on the landing pad.

You should be there for their next news conference.

Explain how the chemical reactions are different in space. It is a simple hyperbolic system. Used for decades. And explain so I can understand "before is even lit, it is no longer a vacuum."

>>"SpaceX and Boeing are the two commercial crew providers for NASA<<" That statement certainly is not really true at this time. Three flights of Starliner and they still have not come to grips with their thruster system. 60 days ago I expected the crew would not leave the ISS on Starliner...

There have been serious safety issues everytime the hardware has flown. At this point I am more concerned about seal failing than overheated thrusters or helium leaks.

They have enough trouble without thinking about boosting the ISS.

Good news. Now, if we could just convince people to stop referring to LOX as propellant.

It would certainly be nice to have working thrusters for reentry, and a hatch that closes properly.

I love watching a state of the art spacecraft travel to the longest , continually inhabited real estate in human space.