Techno-Optimistic enviromentalist 🌎| Spaceflight enthusiast 🚀🛰️
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Thanks, but I like my Moon even more industrialized.
(Orion's Arm) With more and more people living off Earth, many colonies in the Solar System adopt the Tranquility Calendar by 2359 (390 AT or After Tranquility), measuring the time since the first words spoken by a human on Luna on July 20, 1969.
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It’s always so satisfying to hear the reactions of Pittsburgh locals when I tell them that the T.rex in our museum is THE T.rex, aka the holotype. People can and do have pride in the science held in their cities and home towns, they just need to know it exists.
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Furthermore. The pendant bars connect to the ballast tray with 4 separate pins. If one should sheer (it didn't) the other 3 would handle the load fine. Wouldn't cause it to tip over since its still connected by ballast. And please. A tiny berm keeping several millions of lbs from tipping over? Cranes smaller than this have crushed entire stadiums. Some fucking dirt and concrete isn't stopping this from tipping lmao.
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Lmao. Hes so full of shit. The CC 8800-1 has a very complex counterweight system and works nothing like how he described. If the pins sheered, the derrick would have been ripped down by the pendant bars that attach from its tip to the weights. Which would have in turn ripped the entire main boom apart since the derrick is also connected to that. And overload? Lmao no. These picks the crane is doing is nothing for it. And the table being a multi crane lift- theres 0 chance in hell it ever came close to overload. Not to mention the operators of these large cranes are *very* strict and skilled. They would never do a lift if it was going to overload. This dude is just making shit up. For once my crane tism came in handy lmao
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MMX has separated from the H3 second stage! Japan has successfully sent a probe to land on Phobos, deploy a rover, and return surface samples!!
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Every single rocket launch in history: 1971
Salyut 1 becomes the first space station, but its first crew dies on the way home when Soyuz 11 loses cabin pressure. Apollo 15 drives the first lunar rover, and Mariner 9 becomes the first spacecraft to orbit another planet.
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I give no credence to leaks like this because they ultimately cannot be verified. Even with a declared whistleblower, concerns can be blown out of proportion or minor/temporary issues isolated and magnified for public consumption.
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LAUNCH! JAXA's H3-24L launches MMX to Phobos.
Overview:
nasaspaceflight.com/2026/10/…
Live:
youtube.com/watch?v=Fn6gzuGa…
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LEK Lunokhods where brought to the Moon in large numbers in the 80s. Increasingly obsolescent, they've been met with attempts to replace or modernize them.
But their sheer number ensures they remain a staple of Soviet Lunar work, used for everything from maintenance to towing.
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fixation on 2 crew and 2 cargo sorties a year for lunar ops might seem weird but it’s just the bare minimum for 24/7 occupation
Two 7 month stays at a station allow 24/7 crew access with overlap
Also the ISS needs 15 tons of cargo yearly, so 1-2 extra human-sized landers too
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Every single rocket launch in history: 1970
An oxygen tank explodes aboard Apollo 13, and the crew survives by using the lunar module as a lifeboat. Luna 16 returns lunar soil, Lunokhod 1 roves the Moon, and Venera 7 transmits from the surface of Venus.
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Every single rocket launch in history: 1969
Apollo 11 lands on the Moon on 20 July, and Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first people to walk on another world. Apollo 12 follows in November, while both test flights of the Soviet N1 Moon rocket fail.
