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Plus because of the moon's graviational lopsidedness most things don't really like to stay in orbit for long as they keep getting dragged into lower and lower orbits.

Seems the projected 2024 landing date is becoming more and more a pipe dream

Can't wait for all the Elon fanboys to demand all Artemis funding be given to Starship.

Just a hairline crack in the foam, nothing to worry about

I made the exact same joke before the JWST was launched, it's an obvious sarcastic comment about Irony.

Bets on it exploding?

No it wouldn't, the tech in Star Wars allows ships to hover over a point on the ground and still be in low orbital altitudes. Meaning they can go up and down without needing to do any normal orbital manouvers

Well in Star Wars the ships aren't moving that fast when they are close to a planet, repulsers work upto something like six planetary radii.

Bit extreme but okay

Someone's a Stargate fan

INB4 it blows up on the pad then spends the next 10 years in comittee.

So I see the Senate Launch System is living up to it's name of just being a jobs program.

At this point I'm surprised this hasn't been canned multiple times over the nearly two decades this has been in the works. Maybe I'm just overly cynical but part of me thinks it's going to blow up on the pad or just after launch

To be fair most drone footage I've seen has been very very steady. This seems to be useing something quite similar.