Which Pocketbook do you have? I've been looking for an e-reader with a 7" screen, so the Pocketbook Era or Kobo Libra 2 look decent. The Kobo is $30 cheaper, though.
My dad's VW Touareg could tow like 7700 lbs, which is more than a lot of trucks and easily enough to pull plenty of boats and campers. Even a compact SUV that can tow 3500 lbs can pull some boats and campers as long as people don't buy giant oversized versions of those, too.
Do it! More microgravity research space will hopefully lead to a better chance of medical and materials discoveries.
My hope for the rest of the world is that Vast and Gravitics can get their stations up without being bogged down by NASA. I still want Axiom, Starlab, and Orbital Reef to succeed, but their timelines don't make me optimistic. I'm also now hoping that The Exploration Company is cooking up a station?
It's great to see space exploration that doesn't need to be gov funded. Best of luck to Astrolab and all their startup customers! It would be great to see Artemis astronauts driving one of these around.
Axiom seems the furthest along so far, so throw some more contracts their way to try to expedite things?
I'm holding out hope that Vast and Gravitics are fast enough to bypass the whole Commercial LEO Destinations program and get their own stations up before Orbital Reef or StarLab.
Seeing the pad improvements in action and all the 1st stage engines working through stage sep was such a relief. Hot staging working and the 2nd stage getting a mostly (?) successful burn was a great next step.
Hopefully we're only a couple months away from IFT-3!
The Falcon 9 might be the safest rocket ever. It's at 200+ consecutive successful launches.
Their groundbreakingly (heh) ambitious dev rocket just made a huge stride compared to the previous flight. If they can figure out what happened with the 2nd stage at the end, they can start launching Starlinks on these while trying to figure out recovery and reuse.
I want to live out my later years somewhere with low gravity (Orbit? Moon? Mars?) so I don't have to care about bad joints. I miiiight need to make a lot more money for that to happen in the next 40-50 years or so...
Are you talking about protesting by not voting or wasting a vote on a 3rd party? Without ranked choice voting, the only good spot for that is primaries and small local elections. The lesser of two evils is still the lesser of two evils. Life will be a hell of a lot worse for tons of people if the former guy wins again.
If their proposed timeline works out, they would stop flying Unity mid 2024, start Delta test flights in mid 2025, then start Delta commercial flights in 2026. They have a lot of cash, so they should make it until then?
I really don't get how this is a public company or how there's supposed to be a big enough market for half million dollar suborbital tourism tickets.
I've brought up other services with some of my active groupchats, but nobody else cares or wants to switch. Soooo I'm stuck in Messenger+Whatsapp, Discord, Groupme (Microsoft), and Slack (Salesforce). At least I got out of Snapchat?
Which Pocketbook do you have? I've been looking for an e-reader with a 7" screen, so the Pocketbook Era or Kobo Libra 2 look decent. The Kobo is $30 cheaper, though.