NASA is already encountering compatibility challenges with spacesuit and vehicle designs for future Artemis missions. Blue Origin requires specific suit information to finalize its Blue Moon Human Landing System design. To this end, Blue Origin utilized the Agency’s government reference spacesuit interface design document to develop a don/doff area—where suits are put on and removed. Axiom, the presumed spacesuit provider, subsequently decided to use a different don/doff connection. For the Axiom spacesuit to be compatible with the Blue Moon lander, Blue Origin must either make significant changes to the crew module airlock layout or develop its own don/doff hardware to support Axiom’s design, potentially increasing the cost to NASA. A uniform spacesuit standard could have mitigated this issue

This wasn't a revolutionary report. Most of this we already knew, it just lays things out more clearly. The one thing I did find super interesting was this -- basically NASA didn't set a uniform spacesuit standard for Artemis contracts and that's a problem.

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I have undefined levels of hate for showing a soccer score vertically like that.

Except corporate AI SaaS stuff today.

Wow. I've worked in the space biz for 20 years now, but if I saw this on a rural highway I'd probably start a new religion or something. That looks crazy.

As the lead of the working group, I was expected to give a toast. So I toasted to our grandfathers, mine had fought for the Navy in WW2 & is buried in Arlington, who would not have believed that we could sit around the table and work on something like that together.

I also see it as a failing of the tech industry that it’s overly difficult to separate “writing code” from “integrating systems together”

The latter is deeply technical, but you barely need to write code in order to do this well, and no amount of code expertises gives you the integration skillset

I love this, because I do this every spring and my wife does theonion.com/girlfriend-to-stay-under... every Fall, and literally today I wore shorts to work. I will put on pants again in November at the earliest.

Saw this from the stands. I audibly sighed when I watched an aging CB line up a 40 yard shot. But some do go in! Hell of a goal.

Amazing thread, fun conclusions

Incredibly happy to hear the news from Hungary, for many reasons. Budapest is one of my favorite cities in the world and I can't wait to visit again.

One of my favorite films visually, and one I use to test any home theater upgrades I make.

civil war monument: THE PENALTY OF TREASON IS DEATH. NO NORTH NO SOUTH THE UNION FOREVER

One of my best friends is talking to people around the moon again today. Still can't believe it.

Our expectation I that you would only become a werewolf only when in view of the full Moon. We use a combination of mitigations - limiting launch opportunities to days when we’ll approach from the side, window shades when & special sunglasses during transit.

I really appreciate all the deep insights into your requirements and design philosophy, especially where werewolfs are concerned.

I have a slightly more complicated take here, having been employed by both NASA and one of the shitty billionaires in question, but I still feel this in my bones. A truly positive, for everyone, mission. We can still choose this future. It can still happen. It might not! We've got to fight for it.

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back

Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

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I might be squealing in a slightly high pitched voice right now. Just slightly. Nothing too crazy of course.

One of my best friends is talking to people around the fricken' moon right now. No words for how cool it feels to hear her voice.

"The air, to an even greater degree than the sea, is intolerant of incapacity, carelessness, or neglect"

Meh as long as the Worm is visible then it's all good :-)

“go back to the moon but this time we have really good cameras” was a fantastic idea

-3.4 billion to NASA Science. In other words, "this shit again".

Will I ever get over this image? I don’t think so

New Glenn!

Let’s talk about how this works and why we have older devices. When I started doing cabin integration back in 2017, we actually had a 2020 launch date. We bought the tablets the crew used for Artemis II back then. To not spend as much, we limited our choice to devices that were in the ISS catalog.

There are now 10 toilets in Space

International Space Station: 4
Crew Dragon Docked at ISS: 1
Soyuz Docked at ISS: 1
Tiangong Space Station: 2
Shenzhou Docked at TSS: 1
Artemis II on way around Moon: 1

This will be the first time a toilet has left low earth orbit!

Last thing I did on Orion in early 2010 was being the very first person to get Orion FSW talking over a real Time Triggered Gigabit Ethernet link in an avionics lab in Houston. Craaaazy to think it's been 16 years since that day but awesome to see people in space on it.