Going to the moon in 2024

[Erni]

About a year or so ago I got to go into NASA in Houston. A friend of mine has access to just about everything there and helps train just about everybody it seems. We would walk into a room and everyone knew who he was. Impressive. Got to go into the room where they were making actual suits and such. Put on one of the example helmets and gloves. Got to walk into and around the submerged training area for the astronu... and go into the control command room, just missed a call from Trump they said. Got to get into all the stuff on the floor like shuttle and such. You could see other visitors about 40ft up on a second floor looking down at us from behind glass walls. It was all pretty interesting. At that time they said they were still using 386 CPUs because it takes so long and so much money to certify everything about a CPU and board. That shocked me. I think I heard him say they did finally upgrade.

Aerospace state off the art means 10 to 20 year old tech.

[Gman]

About a year or so ago I got to go into NASA in Houston. A friend of mine has access to just about everything there and helps train just about everybody it seems. We would walk into a room and everyone knew who he was. Impressive. Got to go into the room where they were making actual suits and such. Put on one of the example helmets and gloves. Got to walk into and around the submerged training area for the astronu... and go into the control command room, just missed a call from Trump they said. Got to get into all the stuff on the floor like shuttle and such. You could see other visitors about 40ft up on a second floor looking down at us from behind glass walls. It was all pretty interesting. At that time they said they were still using 386 CPUs because it takes so long and so much money to certify everything about a CPU and board. That shocked me. I think I heard him say they did finally upgrade.

It's not just CPU architecture changes, but hardening. Electronics get exposed to some pretty crazy stuff in space.

[Justin]

About a year or so ago I got to go into NASA in Houston. A friend of mine has access to just about everything there and helps train just about everybody it seems. We would walk into a room and everyone knew who he was. Impressive. Got to go into the room where they were making actual suits and such. Put on one of the example helmets and gloves. Got to walk into and around the submerged training area for the astronu... and go into the control command room, just missed a call from Trump they said. Got to get into all the stuff on the floor like shuttle and such. You could see other visitors about 40ft up on a second floor looking down at us from behind glass walls. It was all pretty interesting. At that time they said they were still using 386 CPUs because it takes so long and so much money to certify everything about a CPU and board. That shocked me. I think I heard him say they did finally upgrade.

Nice! I would love to get a tour like that!

A former co-worker of mine worked for NASA, specifically do some things for the ISS. She had some really cool stories.

[Justin]

About a year or so ago I got to go into NASA in Houston. A friend of mine has access to just about everything there and helps train just about everybody it seems. We would walk into a room and everyone knew who he was. Impressive. Got to go into the room where they were making actual suits and such. Put on one of the example helmets and gloves. Got to walk into and around the submerged training area for the astronu... and go into the control command room, just missed a call from Trump they said. Got to get into all the stuff on the floor like shuttle and such. You could see other visitors about 40ft up on a second floor looking down at us from behind glass walls. It was all pretty interesting. At that time they said they were still using 386 CPUs because it takes so long and so much money to certify everything about a CPU and board. That shocked me. I think I heard him say they did finally upgrade.

Nice! I would love to get a tour like that!

A former co-worker of mine worked for NASA, specifically do some things for the ISS. She had some really cool stories.

[iego]

Scary, now that we know that the Government is everywhere.

-John

[BushMasterBoy]

Space Force has a new recruiting video. An X-37B is scheduled for a liftoff 16MAY20 at Cape Canaveral.

[Aloha_Shooter]

Space Force has a new recruiting video. An X-37B is scheduled for a liftoff 16MAY20 at Cape Canaveral.

Second commercial is MUCH better than the first. The first time I saw the "orbital collision" one, I just about spit out my drink laughing. I thought it was a spoof the first few viewings; when I found out it was real, I just had to ask if anyone at HQ USAF had bothered asking a space geek before shooting it. The only thing positive I can say about it is that at least some of the airmen (spacemen now?) in the clip were actual service members. Anyone I know that knows anything about conjunction assessment thought it was comical.

[Justin]

Starship SN4 is undergoing inspection after the successful static fire test.

Starship SN5 is almost done.

Starship SN6 has started construction:

[BushMasterBoy]

Space Force coming to Netflix...

[iego]

I know it's not the moon, but the SpaceX Starlink Satellite train is seriously cool.

https://www.space.com/spacex-starlin...ity-guide.html

-John