Ouch

I don't like the looks, but 8.3" of ground clearance for a Subaru EV is cool. What's the range, though?

Now, the bigass overpriced truck on the other hand...

Huh, I guess those still exist

Between Giannis's hyperextended knee in their championship run, Brook's back surgery, and this, the Bucks have actual sorcerers on their medical team.

Is ship reuse on the critical path? I wonder how cheap and light a barebones disposable Starship could be...

You know what, I really dislike a lot of people sometimes, thanks

Subaru will lose the PNW to the R2 and R3 if they don't get moving on these soon

There's so much more to the private sector than tourism rockets! Consider:

• Cheap components that don't work
• Cheap satellites that don't work
• Cheap lunar landers that don't work
• Pump-and-dump get-rich-quick schemes

I've absolutely been following some of the eurospace startups a lot more closely lately. The next time I switch jobs might be the first time I switch continents.

"Let's be very honest again," Bolden said in a 2014 interview. "We don't have a commercially available heavy lift vehicle. Falcon 9 Heavy may someday come about. It's on the drawing board right now. SLS is real. You've seen it down at Michoud. We're building the core stage. We have all the engines done, ready to be put on the test stand at Stennis... I don't see any hardware for a Falcon 9 Heavy, except that he's going to take three Falcon 9s and put them together and that becomes the Heavy. It's not that easy in rocketry."

Or it means he can turn it into the Hubble servicing mission he wanted

And there are at least a handful more scheduled:

• Ax-4
• ISS private mission 5
• ISS private mission 6
• Haven-1
• Polaris-2 (?)

Agreed, I was surprised they were going for a booster reuse at this point. I guess it makes sense that they're better at the booster than the shop given Falcon heritage.

Ship catch, tower readiness aside, seems like a hell of a time to permit.

This has quietly been the 6th private Dragon flight. The Dragon program has been such a big win for NASA and spaceflight.

I feel like every year since 2020 has been "the year" that competitors are finally supposed to show up. Vulcan and New Glenn have at least finally launched now, but it'll take them years to ramp up to the point of actually being competition to Falcon.

Booster reflight is so hype. Working through stage separation will be huge for the program. Pulling off a good soft splashdown would be phenomenal.

Have you read Seveneves?

Idk if I'm in on their mission anymore. EVs are cool and the industry needed the kick in the pants and jump start that they gave, but now the company is a tech/AI/robot/cybertruck/2-seat-robotaxi company that doesn't make a ton of sense to me. EVs and solar panels and power walls all made sense, but what are they even doing now.

They actually did it, they filled a fairing. I never thought I'd see the day.