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  1. With so many subscribers now, I wish you did more content. Discussions about all the Boeing mishaps, upcoming events etc.
    Other space related channels are doing more, whereas you seem to only show up during a launch. However you do have some great interviews with the CEOs.

  2. That was truly epic Tim… you rock! Your energy is astounding & your positivity would be annoying if it wasn’t so genuine & therefore infectious. Keep living the dream man… you are 100% in your element!

  3. Hi Tim,
    I just recently saw your YouTube post for the Astro awards. I am a sculptor based in Richmond California. I would be willing to make you a sculpture for next year's Astro awards. I could work on this project pro bono plus the cost of materials. I also think there is value in having the award be figurative and handmade. You can see my work on Instagram artofalexanderpetermfa .
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    Traditional Figurative Sculptor

  4. Question: With a "constellation" of Star Link satellites in LEO will there have to be any special protocols for launches or is the separation significant enough that it is not an issue?

  5. The reason why people are so mad about Boeing calling the Starliner mission a "success" is because all they've had is off-nominal performances.

    During the abort test, it failed to deploy all its parachutes, and then ruptured a fuel tank when it hit the ground. Imagine if both tanks ruptured – hypergolics do not need a flame to ignite. That's 2 failures already: chute deployment, and fuel containment.

    On the launch, it oriented wrong because of the mission cock and wasted a bunch of fuel. True, if astronauts were aboard, they could have manually overridden, but the fact is that they never should have had-to. That's a third failure mode.

    The docking was never tested. If NASA authorizes them to fly humans without autonomously docking with ISS, they'd be doing it irresponsibly. They should have to PROVE it works in-reality before getting the greenlight to fly people.

    Add to that, SpaceX has done more pad tests, and will even do an in-flight abort, and that the 1 catastrophic failure was on the capsule that had already been flown, docked and was fished out of the ocean.

    The internet is mad because SpaceX deserves to be the first to ISS with human passengers. Boeing/ULA doesn't get grounded when they fail, but SpaceX does. Boeing does not have to live up to the same quality standards that SpaceX has to live up to. Boeing is less innovative and forward-thinking, and they aren't as open to the public as SpaceX. And Boeing is far more expensive than SpaceX, yet still seem to win all kinds of contracts. Boeing is part of the military industrial complex, and the revolving door, and they get sweetheart deals because of crony capitalism. Meanwhile SpaceX represents real capitalism: working hard, becoming the best, and yet they aren't rewarded (to the same degree) as Boeing.

    I think everybody is glad that Boeing is in the race, but people aren't glad about the blatant favoritism they get from NASA and the US government.

  6. the spacX failures are a thing, and the Boeing failures are another. SpaceX has to clean up theyr own mess, and is systematicly sabotaged by competitors. do you know the cause of theyr endless delays? Curios Elephant unveild them. A former employee of spaceX told that spaceX doesn't have the capability to manufacture everything, so the have to relay on others like Northrop Grumann, that is supplyng them at huge prices, and the goverment contracts are at fixed prices for them.
    Boeing failures however, are paid by you, the taxpayer. Why? Becouse they can. They have contracts of many billions of dollars, and they don't care about innovation or lowering the cost to space down. Only when spaceX published the intention of reusing the rockets, they came up with the Vulcan rocket, that it's maiden flight is yet to be made. If will ever be.

  7. Please correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t the purpose of the star link network to eventually connect the global Tesla fleet to its own private internet network?? I don’t see star link being the future internet source for India, the African continent, or the Middle East, or as you say the children who can’t access the internet. There are super affordable 3G networks (and in the near future 5G) already available globally today. The US has some of the most expensive mobile internet in the world. In the Philippines, for example, I paid $5 for 20GB of data for a month (tethering supported) and had far better reception than in the US! So I’m just still not buying the goal of the star link network as you described it. Is there any official info on this?

  8. two things:
    1 The star link project can help us, but not Africa, the information equality theory doesnt apply there where millions of people are hungry.
    2 the e of chang'e should be pronounced as 'er' in early

  9. Let's be really clear here. This channel is the Alpha channel for information on space. I have watched since its inception and the improvements have been exponential. Tim has gone from relative obscurity to sitting or standing joking and serious with the heavy weights who are taking us to the farthest reaches of our imaginations. I am 64 years old living on a fairly fixed income and I'm busting my nuts to figure out how to give a hundred a month to this site. Some of you folks watch the channel and bitch..why? You are here. Enjoy. Learn, and park your egos at the curb. God speed. Everyday Astronaut.

  10. Boeing has yet to have a nominal test.

    Space X has had almost every test go perfectly. The parachute issue was only a problem at Space X. Boeing had the same issue and NASA accepted it. Even as Space X upgraded their parachutes. Plus Space X is doing an extra test that Boeing is not. The Draco test failure was after the orbiter had been submerged in salt water. (Possibly effecting the check valve).

    Meaning that if safety and reliability are paramount, Crewed Dragon will fly first, but if politics is of paramount importance, Starliner will.

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