I hope when Im 90 Im a fraction as mentally sound and sharp as he is

He probably would've flew back then - JFK want him in - if Chuck Yeager wasn't such a racist and kicked him out of the program. Yeager's white colleges said Yeager was "a piece of work"

lol

Would've been funnier if it was a 452.

@@Neuttah Chances are really good that it was a 452 "Buchanka", but it wouldn't have made sense in the announcement.

Scott, have you made the Dornier DO-31 in KSP yet? 😉

Has to be thought controlled too

It's already a transformer toy in Japan.

Get in the rover Shinji

Actually it is very much the same thing. It's all about navigation. It's fascinating that our instruments and technology are so precise that relativistic effects affect them even at the miniscule percentages of C we operate at.

Their problem was that they needed an accurate clock. Our problem is that we need a system that uses clocks that run at different speeds.

It should be EST. We own the moon. It's our flag on that rock. And don't give me that international Space Agreement. We never ratified it so it doesn't apply to us.

@@ericf5978 LOL Good luck keeping Lunar Standard Time in sync with _any_ time zone on Earth.

@jpdemer5 I'm glad I made you laugh. It was half joke and half serious. We did not ratify the treaty and I am tired of people mentioning that.

Why u making millions off it? It's just been another Ukraine billion dollar money pit

@@davidmoore8741 bot

@@davidmoore8741 It’s an iconic rocket. Is a space/ rocket enthusiast not allowed to be bummed that it’s now retired?

​@@AM-rd9puNope, gotta drink the space x kool-aid. Can't appreciate the history or awesomeness of something if it isn't space x.

@@davidmoore8741 What does Ukraine have to do with a 1950s launch vehicle family?

He ripped through his trousers at 14:33

We may approach that point in two to three years or so. Think Falcon 9 Block 5, Starship of some permutation, New Glenn, Rocket Lab, Vulcan Centaur, and even Ariane 6. Then add in the launch cadence of China in total.

Love the launch news 💓 Please don't hold your breath for Musk Mars missions though UKpostsr and scientist thunderfoot has reported on their consistent failures and missed deadlines The project is looking more and more like Elizabeth Holmes Theranos wonder tech company, which eventually turned out to be a swindle to suckle on govt and investor funding

​@@snipelite94lol. Lmao, even. Thunderfoot is so misguided and confused about spaceflight, this has been demonstrated countless times.

The starlink launches are a waste of news time. At this point who really cares.

I suspect he kept his composure, since he was on a landing plane. 😅

maybe that is the translation? lol

@@ThatOpalGuy rockets are, after all, inherently phallic

@@ThatOpalGuyI mean rockets do look like boners

I mean rockets _are_ a little phalic. *stares straight into funny Amazon man’s soul*

I think UKposts changed something in their voice recognition software. It started to drop syllables some time ago. Maybe that's this new cool AI stuff everybody is talking about.

Those aren't just badges. Toyota is designing it.

Looks like it took a lot of design language from NASA's Multi-Mission Surface Exploration Vehicle (MMSEV) concept. That's a good thing, that was a great concept that NASA unfortunately had to can as part of the cancellation of the Constellation program (which only happened because of the 2008 financial crisis). The MMSEV design was also adaptable into an orbital spacecraft with removal of ground-motive systems and addition of RCS and an engine. Likely an AJ10 derived engine and hypergolic RCS would be selected, but if higher Delta-V was needed they could also have looked into taking lessons from the Centaur ACES concept and using hydrolox with long loiter time abilities instead, or even taken parts of the Constellation Lunar Lander propulsion system which was planned to use Methalox due to it being easier to store liquid methane than liquid hydrogen, while still having higher per-mass performance than Hypergolic systems.

Hopefully, the United States could build one domestically for a backup or just having the capability to make more for future missions

@@lorenzojimenezgutierrez4086 It's not like it's a one-time deal, and it's not like Japan is going anywhere anytime soon (they survived 2 second sunrises, which is more than I can say about the US), so I think that mandating domestic production of it is a fantastic way to kill the program prematurely.

Getting it to look good is just a matter of adding a bunch of clip-on decorative plastic crap on top of the vehicle. But that's the thing, space flight has no weight budget for decorative crap.

YES!

it wouldnt be a launch leader for very long

@@WeirdSeagul hmm, true. Maybe when the Falcon 9 retires.

@@WeirdSeagul Maybe the should donate the first booster one to retire from old age? Actually, what I'm kinda wondering if we will see is if SpaceX switches to an accelerated lifetime testing program at some point? Ship a high cycle booster to TX, build a launch and landing pad there and start doing daily/weekly hops with water tanks on top until something fails.

+1

It is, and I’m glad somebody got it. You may be old, but you’re clearly cool.

@@scottmanley I've rarely been considered cool, so thank you. Obviously, it takes years to develop rockets and spacecraft. But some of the American programs are perceived, perhaps falsely, to be making progress at a much slower pace than others in the U.S. and worldwide. Have you ever done a video looking into the possible reasons?

Hmmmm - I must be seeing a different thumbnail - I have seen plenty of Rawhide and don't see it.

@@cylonred8902 The thumbnail on his website reads "roving, roving, roving ..." But the one in this comment thread says "the final countdown" [EDIT: It no longer does]. Strange.

I thought it was a limp bizkit ref

It was a pin that held the battery array in place.

Oh man that’s a story that fell through the cracks….. or rather punched through as it fell from space.

@@ThatOpalGuy That explains why it was able to survive re-entry.

@@ThatOpalGuy ..and it was made from steel

@@AluminumOxide It was Inconel, not steel.

I bought a copy a few years ago because of nostalgia. I intend to go through it again 😊

if we have that much time. remember the robots are coming

United Arab Emirates also want an astronaut on the Moon; India will send "Vyomonauts" on their own spacecraft and China/Russia have the "International Lunar Research Station" consortium to cater for their friends. EVERYONE is going to the Moon; there's too much money to be made not to go. 🇮🇳🇨🇳🇷🇺🚀🌚💲💲💲

​@@mrpicky1868Yeah, and we're gonna use them to maintain space stations when we aren't there. Take the Valkyrie project by NASA, for example

Yeah cooperation from a country that still blame us for the war they started and haven't apologized to their honorable acts in East Asia, good candidate to represent humanity, atleast I hope their rover is better, the lack of competition better mean something

late 90s driving west on I10 just past Lordsburg NM at sunset the CB came alive with excited truckers talking about the streaking ''cloud" on the horizon. I thought it looked like a Vandernburg missle launch (grew up in SoCal) but was astounded to see this from New Mexico.

And fourth launch of Angara 5 too. They had a partial failure of Plesei upper stage in the last test flight, in December of 2021, so needed to get back in the game so to speak.

@@michaeldunne338Persei upper stage. Orion is a version with a new engine (?), all using Kerolox not hypergolics like the Briz-M.

@@johnmoruzzi7236 I thought the European Service Module for Orion used hpergolics with the AJ10 engine?

Also Angara will be used to deliver next Russian space station to orbit and whats more, most of the Russian space station modules are already in metal, not just some beautiful 3d graphinks like some other countries, what makes me nervous about their space program future

@@user-bx8zh2xc2z Thales Alenia Space is currently constructing Axiom Space's AxH1 module. As for the Russian modules, NEM-1 was supposed to go to the ISS. Supposedly it now has a timeline of 1 to 2 years for redesign/rework. Which of the three other modules are currently under construction?

You know it wasn’t joes idea. He has a hard time selecting ice cream.

In my book your cool. Just because I worked on Delta for over 5 years😊

Drag racer's meme: second is just being first loser.

It's like giving away expired food for free. Seems like a good idea until you realize you're actively spreading a source of disease. Same thing with free launches on test vehicles: it can and expected to fail, and there's a very good chance that someone's PhD thesis will go down in flames.

I think the Olson (TZ) DB needs an extension for different speeds of time now. Great, one more field to parse and understand. I had hoped to never touch my TZDB parser code again.

For ISRU you are going to need nuclear power, especially if you want to do fast sample return.

@@SocialDownclimber Fast is a relative thing, you're not gonna ISRU the fuel you need to get to orbit in the ~40ish sols you have between the Earth-Mars arrival window and the nearest Mars-Earth departure window. If you want to use ISRU, you already committed to the return window after that. Besides, as far as we know the samples collected thus far, are just dumb rocks. That means that the speed of the return is absolutely not critical, which means that using ISRU to reduce the launch mass of the sample return mission's surface-to-orbit segment is a great way to reduce the size of the launcher you need. That means the sample return mission can probably get away with using a cheaper rocket for that segment. I know that's a tiny fraction of the overall costs of the whole thing, but it looks great to congress and the average layperson taxpayer so even if it takes longer and costs more overall it'll probably get funded because it spreads those costs out over MORE TIME meaning less cost per year. Plus I'm sure that you don't "need" nuclear power, you do need a lot of power but that doesn't mean you have to send a nuclear thing. Sending a nuclear thing takes a lot of setup time BEFORE launch anyways, we literally don't have enough Pu-238 to make RTG's big enough for that purpose right now, so solar panels are the way to go. They could develop some sort of larger flexible solar array (individual cells would be standard solid monocrystalline solar cells mounted on a flexible backing, similar to how the ISS replacement solar arrays are constructed) that would be rolled out over the surface by the action of springs integrated into the solar array trying to unroll it over the terrain once the latches release, that way you don't have to design some complex rigid unfolding solar array with a lot more moving parts and points of failure for the same or likely a lot less power output. And like I mentioned in my first post, if it is decided to use a carbon monoxide rocket, those solar panel arrays could have some sort of hose with regular perforations in it integrated into them to blow dust off of them if the need arises (no wind? Make your own wind to clean off those solar panels!).

The enemy's gate is down!

Yeah, i need answers. if it is 59microsecnods per year, why bother with it you can do a correction every month and it wont matter much. If it is per day then it is a problem.

Per Day ;-)

According to wikipedia (Coordinated Lunar Time article) it is per day. Losing less than a few milliseconds per day is not a problem for a computer network - PC clocks lose or gain much more all the time and the speed of the Operating system clock can be adjusted to correct for that. It is however a big problem if you want to do navigation or astronomy - both require super precise clocks. Light travels about 1770m in 59µs - this gives you an extreme deviation for GPS-like location tracking and very inaccurate speeds for doppler-based measurements.

Facts

He's an immigrant, give him some slack.

... don't Forget the Trailer and the Mining Equipment #NASA #USSF

Somebody needs to repurpose the "the front fell off" meme for Boing's "door" problem.

Doesn't it! Hell, as a former warehouse worker I've operated lifting machines similar to the Astrolab "Rover". Astrolabs design is a "base operations workhorse", not an exploratory vehicle. Possible future: Astrolabs "Lunar Lifter" working at base, unloading cargo, rolling along 3D printed pads, roads and aprons; Lunar Outposts "Lunar Truck with winch" building outposts and worksites further out; Intuitive Machines "Lunar Explorer" connecting all and exploring beyond; While above, GATEWAY crews monitor remote probes. Standardized equipment for specialized roles.

Those don't even match a fraction of the requirements needed to be an astronaut

Oooooh, I like it, but I think t would make most sense to have the time zone for noon run smack down the middle of the near face.

I don't think that the Moon needs more than one time zone. It doesn't even need one really.

I think the problem is more deciding on a standard time increment and a standardized method of translation back to Earth time increments than picking where to start counting. Its also very likely that whatever method is chosen will have to be designed with an eye on being applied or used as a basis for application on other planets, so its a pretty huge decision with far reaching impacts.

@@patreekotime4578 No, you don't need 'Moon time' to match 'Mars time'. Mars already has its own time; each sol lasts 24h 39m 35s and so far a martian calendar hasn't been necessary. The Moon is very different, with one lunar 'day' lasting a month. I should think GMT (Eastern Daylight Time, 'mission time' or whatever) should suffice for now.

@@nagualdesign Im not sure you understood the problem. This isnt about "lunar days" or "martian days". It's about relativity causing clocks to count differently on different celestial bodies. To work around the relatavistic problems you absolutely have to have a different way of counting time or converting it.

I am the editor, and I don’t have enough time myself. I have a day job, family, a house and this odd hobby of mine.