** The Official Space Flight Thread - The Space Station and Beyond **
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I'll be more than ok if these interviews replace the starship update presentations. 
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Looks to me like they’re getting ready to stack it today
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Yeah, currently have the live stream going on another screen. Interesting times.
Those two 'tiny' blokes right on the nosecone really show the scale of this thing.
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Bugger.
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Looks like they've used the delay to complete the fixture of the TPS tiles to Starship.
Just watched the mating of the two stages and hadn't even noticed that.
What an impressive sight.
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They are stacked!
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Yeah I don't think they have test fired the boosters 29 engines have they? Have they even cryo tested the tanks?
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Not sure on the tanks, I'm fairly sure the engines haven't been test fired. The way I see it all is a rehearsal for when they get approval for the flight, may as well stack everything now when they can't launch, gain some data on how it went, anything to work on. Then closer to the time they get the flight approval, test the engines, test the tanks etc. then at least they know how to stack at that point as they might have worked out any issues.
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Its going to be amazing when they light all the engines on that rocket and it lifts off. I'm too young to remember a Saturn 5 launch but this should be even more spectacular.
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Second part uploaded.
Thanks for the heads up! The amount of detail shared is incredible.
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Just finished the second half of 'Cosmonauts: How Russia won the space race' which was on BBC4 last night. Might be an old documentary & old news for all I know, so apologies if it is. But I found it completely fascinating. Thought I knew a bit about the last 50+ years of spaceflight and I was right... I knew a tiny bit!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04lcxms
Edit: oh, yes, very old documentary. New to me though.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04lcxms
Edit: oh, yes, very old documentary. New to me though.
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Antares launch to supply the ISS in the next hour.
I see Blue Origin's HLS hissy fit is still going. They're like a dog with a bone at the moment.
I've gone from very much being on board with 'team space' as more companies getting into orbit the better the outcome. But I'm at the point now where I wish they'd just shut up, go to the moon with their own funding, or just close shop.
I've gone from very much being on board with 'team space' as more companies getting into orbit the better the outcome. But I'm at the point now where I wish they'd just shut up, go to the moon with their own funding, or just close shop.
Caporegime
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Quite an interesting video from Derek, a bit light on details sadly but I suspect they don't want to give away too many trade secrets.