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Safe zones are also absurdly expensive to run, both in terms of power and in terms of purchasing zone chips to run the generator. ---------- Post added at 20:06 ---------- Previous post was at 19:53 ---------- Hmmm... Would there be interest in running a private SE server?

Ah, yes. Griefers. There's a reason why I tend to run without radios or beacons, and tend to keep a low profile far from the planets in multiplayer.

Yup. You like your nose into the wrong volume of space and you're liable to get blown away by a frankly ridiculous amount of rocket fire... Or even rammed.

Ah, you chose the "Masochist Mode". :lol: I almost always start out on Earth, because of wind power being so effective and reliable. Sometimes, though, I'll spring for an orbital start, slap four solar panels on the little starter ship, and shoehorn in both a basic refinery and a basic...

Confirmed by TASS. Pilot ejected safely and was recovered by SAR crews promptly. Aircraft was completely destroyed in the crash. https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/31620/su-57-felon-advanced-fighter-crashes-in-russia

Dang, Harv. Looks sharp! May the Early Access phase be as successful as KSP was!

In other words, they ran out of spots to park the undelivered aircraft.

Not sure if they've decided on that yet.

It will remain automated for revenue flights. I've spoken with folks who worked on it or still do, and have gotten to sit in the capsule mockup. There are zero controls other than a door handle and your restraint buckles.

For New Shepard, there is no crew. It is 100% automated.

Then you'll have trouble calling it a "crew capsule" at any time, then. There's literally nothing the folks onboard do to run the mission. They're payload, not crew.

Looks promising, especially for the immersion factor... http://youtu.be/eFp0yxdThF8

So... An unclassified counterpart to the X-37B?

Hmmm... They did reposition the upper dome yesterday, and apparently a sledgehammer was involved at one point. Wonder if they didn't make the new welds to spec? EDIT: http://twitter.com/John_Winkopp/status/1196880896806313985?s=20

And NASA basically admitted that SLS is going to be over $2 billion a launch now. To put that into perspective, that's the equivalent of throwing away an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer each flight.

Electric cars are much better suited to the European market, tbh. Everything is much closer together than the US, and the petrochemical industry doesn't seem to have it's talons sunk nearly as deeply into your governments.

Not to mention the higher-than-anticipated abrasion of several exposed (and highly important) skins. That said... I think they can do it.

I'm not so worried about the cloud of unburnt propellants, as I doubt that the crew's immediate response to a pad abort would be to open the hatch and their helmets right after splashdown. Furthermore, I doubt that the capsule immediately begins to take in air from outside after landing, either...

All of them in Russia, if memory serves. Everyone else shuttered them as soon as other, safer options presented themselves.

If they're using aviation-spec hardware, there's an unthreaded section in the middle that is as thick as the joined materials, to prevent the threads from damaging the joined parts and to increase the shear strength.