If there is one thing that strengthens any military it is falling victim to easily preventable diseases

Eager to see if they include Marcos Pontes, first Brazilian in space and also Bolsonaro's batshit far right Science Minister.

Aliens trying to subvert human society but every idea they come up with is less damaging than things humans already do or are doing

𝐏𝐎𝐃

They'd better keep it a call-in show.
I'm gonna be Jim Haggerty's Old Man Housephone

The Soviets planned to publicly unveil the Vostok booster to the world on the 10th anniversary of Sputnik 1's flight in October 1967. Instead, two French journalists successfully pestered them into unveiling it early at the 1967 Paris Air Show. The Soviets shipped the entire parade mockup to France.

The Soviets were so nervous about the delegation spreading the location of the site that they kept de Gaulle in the dark about where they were going and changed every road sign along the tour route in Baikonur.

What they couldn't hide was that de Gaulle had seen the design of the rocket.

The Soviets were so secretive about their space program that, even by the late 60s, they had never confirmed what the R7 rocket looked like or allowed visitors to Baikonur.
French President Charles de Gaulle was the first to tour the launch site in 1966 and watched two launches.

Feeling optimistic

Launch vehicles that have launched a fully successful mission in 2026 so far:

SLS ✅
New Glenn ❌
Starship ❌

"Bailkal" version of Buran, Credit Vadim Lukasevich,

"Baikal" version of Buran, Credit Vadim Lukasevich,

With the original name "Baikal", with which the first ship (11F35 product 1.01 by the Ministry of Aircraft and 1K1 by the Ministry of Social Affairs) was taken to the site of the OKI (fire control tests) in the spring of 1988.

New show Patreon goal: Identified

NASA selects Falcon Heavy to launch ESA Mars rover mission despite budget threat NASA has selected SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy to launch a European Mars rover, support for which the agency is once again proposing to cancel.

What's getting weird is that NASA has, so far, been completely unresponsive regarding this seeming contradiction: spacenews.com/nasa-selects...

This is the space equivalent of those American vetbro companies with ads covered in MiG-29s.

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New bonus episode! We dived back into our Strangereal-sonas (?) to talk about possibly the biggest military boondoggle in Ace Combat: Diego Gaspar Navarro's Gleipnir.
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Reviews are in. They say buy my book.

Kerbal Space Program surpasses its all time high active players

Its like people are interested in space again for some reason.

The Weirdo in question was promoted twice during his mission, leaving as a Senior Lieutenant and landing as a Major. Tragically, exposure to space did not make him any more Normal.
He spent the rest of his life partying, fighting hippies, and dabbling in right-wing politics and poetry criticism.

Happy Yuri's Night!

65 years ago, the Soviet Union achieved a major step in human history by successfully launching the first Freak into orbit of the Earth. The carefully trained and selected Nutjob spent almost 2 hours in space and completed one full orbit before landing safely.

Here is the list of NASA science missions that the Trump administration proposes to terminate.
Note that it includes many missions that are already in space, fully operational.
This is a wrecking operation against America.

12 April 1981: The first orbital spaceflight of NASA's Space Shuttle program, Columbia STS-1.

12 April 1961: Yuri Gagarin crewed the Vostok 1 mission, completing one orbit around Earth.

International Day of Human Space Flight!

12 April 1961: Yuri Gagarin crewed the Vostok 1 mission, completing one orbit around Earth.

12 April 1981: The first orbital spaceflight of NASA's Space Shuttle program, Columbia STS-1.

ESCAPING ASTRONAUTS RECAPTURED

DARING GETAWAY CUT SHORT JUST PAST LUNAR ORBIT

SPACE CRIMINALS BROUGHT BACK TO EARTH TO STAND TRIAL

"We're all in this big blue boat together." SAYS NASA SPOX IN NEW STATEMENT. "No exceptions allowed---not on our watch!"

MOST SUCCESSFUL BREAKOUT ATTEMPT SINCE 1972

Watching the Artemis streams while building a bootleg Chinese "Lego" rocket (Long March 5) and holy hell does this kit like using illegal Lego building techniques. It keeps wanting to fly apart and is holding the potential energy of a hand grenade. Liberal use of model glue not producing results

I want those chutes. Everything was jettisoned or detached, even the mains after landing. There are priceless space history artifacts that have flown around the Moon floating free in the Pacific right now.

𝕀 𝕨𝕒𝕟𝕥 𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕞.

YEAH BUDDY
EARTH W
MOON L
SCOREBOARD, BITCH

Orion has 11 chutes total. 3 to pull the cover off, 2 drogues to slow down and maintain orientation, 3 pilots to pull the mains, and 3 mains.

According to the mission's parachute manager, it can still fly successfully if 1 of each kind of chute fails.

Beautiful view of the opening sequence that gives you a great idea of how space parachutes work and how every part of deployment triggers the next phase.

Tiny pilot chutes yank the parachute hatch. Spud guns fire drogues. Drogues stabilize the craft then detach. New pilots deploy and yank mains.

Times like these, I'm reminded of the famous words of Toyohiro Akiyama, the first Japanese space traveller, on his successful return from 8 days in orbit:

“I want to eat something that actually tastes good, and I want a smoke. I want to drink a beer, too.”

Eric Berger: After today's delays to the Artemis Program is time for another poll. Which mission do you think flies first: Artemis II: 10.4% Starship Mars test flight: 49.4% New Glenn 1st launch: 23.5% VIPER lunar rover: 16.7%

also everyone we must go and fucking laugh at Eric Berger right now