Going to the moon in 2024

[Jer]

I'm more than halfway through, but got interrupted. They go into a lot of info. I just got past the part where they show their huge plating shop and how they anodize the aluminum parts after machining and roll shaping.

The friction welding portion immediately after this was incredibly interesting to me.

[Justin]

SpaceX is full speed ahead on SN2 for Star Ship. They're already ring-stacking.

https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/in...pic=48895.1760

[Justin]

SpaceX Starship SN4 passed it's cryogenic pressure test!


https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1254632509863866368

[Justin]

Starship SN4 successfully completed it's first static fire test of the Raptor Engine!

[stevew]

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.

[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.

[iego]

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

-John

[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.

[BushMasterBoy]

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

[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.