wresting st. francis from the clutches of new age spirituality with my bare hands

higher results from the shorter test.... L in the chat

"Over there, on the horizon, the sun has just touched with light the outermost fringe of the eastern sky. Once again, beneath this moving sheet of fire, the living surface of the earth wakes and trembles, and once again begins its fearful travail...."

there is so much cool stuff happening behind the scenes at @AstroForge AND I CAN’T POST ABOUT ANY OF IT

“Dad? Are we in the arena yet?”

Really great programming here, I'm so tired of the manufactured hot-takeification of tech media so simple, candid observations are very very welcome well done @itsmoislam @JackKuhr youtube.com/watch?v=9gz1VK5X…

i love this crew and i'll never shut up about it

I was received into the Catholic Church this Easter weekend. Glory be to God!

I’d be curious to hear from the SpaceXers "preparing to walk." How much of this is genuine mission disagreement and how much of this is just normal career changes after a liquidity event? If the goal is Mars, there's still only one company realistically pursuing it at scale...

11/ Last but not least: NASA is not fully adhering to its own “Test Like You Fly” principles, meaning it has not required providers to demonstrate certain crew systems (including the airlock, life-support system, and elevator) on the uncrewed demonstration mission.

10/ NASA and SpaceX also disagree over whether Starship meets NASA’s manual control requirement, or the ability for the crew to manually fly the lander if automated systems fail. Blue Origin hasn’t even finalized its manual control design yet.