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I mentally heard Randal Monroe say "If the inside of your rocket is on the outside you will not be going to space today."

So they have this precarious pile of wreckage a couple hundred feet tall just sitting there. Rigging that down in a safe manner is going to be a challenge.

GWAR supporting public media:

This is more or less what I did in my helicopter code, though I don't use the simulation time step. The main throttle input specifies the target_speed of the rotor, and the rotor speed is set by something like: animation_speed = animation_speed + constant * (target_speed - animation_speed)...

Having prime government contractors less emotionally mature than your average 5-year-old also isn't anything to crow about either.

I thought HLS was just supposed to shuttle astronauts between the lunar gateway and the lunar surface? To Bergman's point, why in the world do they need to drag Raptors, tanks, and related structures up and down from lunar orbit when they are only needed to get it to the moon? What a mess of...

Uhh...won't they need Raptors to get back off the moon? I am not following HLS too closely as I think the odds of seeing it fly are about zilch, but I if we're still entertaining the fantasy I hope we're just as committed to getting boots back from the moon as we are getting them there.

The imagery coming from these missions is just amazing. We have cameras through all phases of orbital flight now. I remember when reentry plasma blackout was a thing and video cameras were too cumbersome to use during reentry.

I'm not sure what people are seeing as tank burn-through and fire on the forward portion of the Starship. I'm seeing venting gases, but no fire. I do see the flames from the aft skirt, but that's probably a busted line. A tank burn through would cause major loss of pressure and it certainly...

That camera dinghy needs some work.

Some TPS material peeled up.

Plasma coming up.

So no booster catch this flight, similar Starship re-entry into Indian Ocean as before? Hopefully without as much stainless steel phase change?

Hey, if it pays the bills:

You could do what I do in my air-breathing engine models and make a dummy thruster group that takes the main engine throttle, and make another thruster that actually delivers the thrust: th_dummy = vi:create_thruster({pos=rudder_pivot, dir={x=0, y=0, z=1}, maxth0=1, hprop=main_fuel_tank...