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I had one of the foreveralone face sitting (alone) on the bridge of an Arrow Freighter. Dunno where it went.

It's competition, plain and simple. Think about it, if CST gets up and running, and starts to exceed or becomes cheaper than Dragon, SpaceX will be motivated to improve it/bring costs down, leading Boeing to improve CST... The more competition, the better.

When is the berthing/hatch opening scheduled?

By sheer luck, I woke up just before the berthing is going to take place.

Holy mother of... That is awesome.

Probably would just end up being referred to as "The Moon Base", just like the ISS is referred to as simple "The Space Station"

The little exhaust nozzle on the upper stage engine gimbals to control roll.

I really like the idea but don't believe a kickstarter for 40,000 was really necessary...

I know what I'm doing today:

Pretty much me on liftoff:

...I must have missed the memo that says Mercury has a magnetic field. Huh.

Nice to see that the project is going along!

This was my view of it: Literally 30 seconds after I took that picture, clouds obscured it fully. But, through the clouds, I could see a tiny bite out of the sun. Made my night~

Just got this from the SpaceX newsletter: Looks like it wasn't just a sensor glitch.

In my opinion, I think they should have contracted some flights between C1 and C2/3, get more experience with the launch vehicle under their belt...

"We're in an orbit with an apogee of 180 feet and an eccentricity of 0.999986..."

The only bright side I can see from this is that the abort system worked flawlessly.

Wait...what happened to their engine-out capability? Guessing that only works at higher altitudes?

Go to hell, engine 5!