And How Was Your Day?

24 Replies to “And How Was Your Day?”

1. Oops, someone lost something.

2. “They are professionals … and we trust them”

3. I suspected it wouldn’t go well when the speed was 60Kmh, and the distance was only 30 meters.

   bit of a hard landing.

   1. It took The Eagle 24 seconds to go the last 30 meters (in the broadcast, 100 feet), meaning it averaged 4.5 km/hr in that last 100 m.

      1. Imagine if Neil and Buzz had gotten to 30m, then we just never heard from them again.

         …sorry to be a dick.

      2. Typo: “in that last 30 m.”

      3. When they said 700 km / hour at 7 km ,I thought Houston we have a problem. 36 seconds to impact at that speed – you need some serious braking.

4. NERDS!

   1. It is what it is.
      Space stuff is hard.
      At least they managed to get it on the surface.
      You learn from your failures , still exciting times for adventure in one of the last frontiers.

5. “…We could not complete the landing…”

   Oh, you completed the landing, sir. You landed that thing real good.

   1. BINGO …. that was my thought too … Gravity can be a bitch!!!

      1. Calculus too

6. Modesty all. We have had our failures too.
   https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/astronauts/canadian/former/bio-julie-payette.asp

   1. Hablabla

   2. It’s an impressive bio. The problem is that she’s an entitled bitch.

7. If it was easy the room would be full of old ladies.

8. That’s what happens if you don’t acknowledge you’re on indigenous land.

9. Awwww geez, what a shame. You know if you’d have asked nice, Nasa would probably give you the telementry data from ’69 Apollo missions. Oh, wait. that was destroyed errr lost..my bad.

10. Simple read, lots of valid questions, a dearth of answers:
    https://centerforaninformedamerica.com/moondoggie/

    (And no, it’s not about anomalous photos)

    RNrn

11. It has been a rough week up there:

    https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/apr/20/elon-musks-spacex-launches-test-flight-for-rocket-that-could-bring-people-to-mars

12. Proving that Asians can’t drive in space, either.

13. Break out the wakizashis.

14. It is rocket science, after all. There is nothing we do as a species which is more difficult.

15. The lack of suits and ties explains the failure. Not that I’m a suit and tie guy myself.