Back to Space

[Dukasaur]

Watched Return to Space yesterday.

First thing on Netflix that I've really enjoyed in a long time.

I realize Musk is annoying in some ways, but I think his dedication to a spacefaring future for humanity is genuine.

[Lonous]

I am glad that we have someone that wants to truly travel into space and has the power to make it happen.
Was getting embarrassing Nasa using 2nd rate Hollywood shticks for PR.
Once all of America's captured Nazi scientists started dying from old age, our shit started exploding and such.

[2dimes]

Initially the US space program had difficulty developing rockets that didn't blow up when the, "captured" scientists were still young.

There's reasons the phrase, "It's not rocket science." is a popular thing to say when trying to claim something is not difficult. The main one is it's tough to make rockets that don't explode and such.

This video is almost half an hour but it's quite good. It's part two of a discussion on the movie The Right Stuff based on the book of the same title by Tom Wolf. It mostly discusses the way the movie which was already rather long condensed things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2ALfBUC74c

Every launch is a potential failure. Mr Musk and his associates blew up a few too. Here's a video of one of those.