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I'm at a place now where I genuinely believe smiling makes the world a better place and you should do it more often.
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Michael Gunderman
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Michael Gunderman
@Gundermgg
Mechanical engineer, aircraft designer, pilot. Machining and car enthusiast, Etc. I also play the piano.
El Segundo Katılım Aralık 2017
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My favorite thing about Starship is that it is the most "Spaceship-y" spacecraft ever built, and I mean that in the most science-fiction way
Starship Gazer@StarshipGazer
Up close with Starship 39 rolling out to Starbase Massey's test site for the first Version 3 Starship static fire testing ahead of Starship test flight 12. 4/11/26
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@Gundermgg @SOLIDWORKS there are no files I’m literally trying to make the first sketch on a new part
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Hey @SOLIDWORKS your program is crashing every five seconds why???
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@Alex_Hoganson @SOLIDWORKS Sometimes crashes are caused by internal conflicts between files with similar names. Or if you're trying to open a part while it's running FEA on it.
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@Gundermgg @SOLIDWORKS I click new sketch and it crashes. same hardware as for the last four years. Don’t think this is on me
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I find that for myself, some decision directions are more stable (aka final) than others. If I make a decision one way, I will continue to question it for a while, but if I make the decision the other way then I don't have to think about it anymore.
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thoughts: Artemis II felt... retro in architecture. Except that what the crew seemed to be doing most of the time up there was taking pictures with modern electronics (iphones, DSLRs), much of it beamed down with laser comms, and using tablets and stuff to manage SD cards, etc. The modern things about the mission (vs apollo), besides the crew personal electronics, were the toilet, the regenerative CO2 scrubber, the high bandwidth laser comms, the solar arrays (with GoPros!), and some of the manufacturing was different (3D printed air ducts, etc).
But overall, with the expendable SLS launch (similar in scale to Saturn V, using pieces of Shuttle), the rough size of the vehicle, the reentry, the parachutes, the splashdown and recovery... seemed like tech from half a century ago.
Every future Artemis mission won't seem like that. It'll be increasingly obvious that we're not in Kansas anymore. Both landers are substantially bigger than Apollo's. Both will launch with reusable rockets, using several launches per mission with orbital rendezvous (and refilling). Starship in particular is going to be absolutely mind-boggling in scope. Landing and building the base is going to be insane. And the scope of the landers... means Mars really won't be that far away. I can see a Mars uncrewed landing in the 2028 window. I can see at least a crewed transit of Mars (and Venus) happening in the 2030/31 window, crewed landing to follow in 2033 or perhaps the same 2031 window. While we build the moon base. Which will become permanently inhabited at around the same timeframe (as we sunset ISS).
This is just the beginning.
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I know it's been in work for a couple years, but it really blows my mind that blue origin is about to ship a lunar lander
Blue Origin@blueorigin
Endurance has successfully completed thermal vacuum chamber (TVAC) testing! We're now preparing for our lunar lander's return to Florida.
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Okay how is this a GoPro when they usually die after 20 minutes in the sunlight??
GoPro@GoPro
The most historic #GoPro images ever captured. Slide 1: The Moon, seen backlit by the Sun during a solar eclipse on April 6, 2026, is photographed by a GoPro on the Orion spacecraft’s solar array wing. Orion is visible in the foreground on the left. Earth is reflecting sunlight at the left edge of the Moon, which is slightly brighter than the rest of the disk. The bright spot visible just below the Moon’s bottom right edge is Saturn. Beyond that, the bright spot at the right edge of the image is Mars. Slide 2: A GoPro on NASA’s Orion spacecraft captures the Moon and the Earth in one frame during the Artemis II crew’s deep space journey at 6:42 p.m. ET on the sixth day of the mission. The right side of NASA’s Orion spacecraft is seen lit up by the Sun. A waxing crescent Moon is visible behind it. And then, a crescent Earth, tiny compared to the Moon, is about to set below the Moon’s horizon on the right. Slide 3: The Sun is rising at the left edge of the Moon, ending a nearly one-hour total solar eclipse on April 6, 2026. While the Sun hid behind the Moon, the crew aboard the Orion spacecraft, pictured in the forefront, saw a Moon shrouded in night. This offered a perfect opportunity to look for rarely seen phenomena. And the moment delivered. Calling down to Earth at 9 p.m. ET the crew reported seeing six impact flashes, which are light flashes that are created when meteoroids, traveling many thousands of miles per hour, smash into the Moon’s surface. Slide 4: The Orion spacecraft is seen in the foreground lit up by the Sun. A first quarter Moon is visible in the background. Orientale basin, a 600-mile-wide impact crater ringed by mountains, is visible toward the bottom right of the Moon. This basin straddles the Moon’s near and far sides. To the left of Orientale, which has a patch of ancient lava in its basin, is the far side; this is the hemisphere we don’t get to see from Earth. To the right of Orientale is the near side, the hemisphere we see every day from Earth. The nearside is notable for giant, dark patches of ancient lave flows that cover its surface. Credit: @NASA Learn more about GoPro's journey to the moon aboard Artemis II 👉 GoPro.com/news/gopro-cam… #Artemis #NASA #Moon #Space
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It's always the roll axis lol
Blake Scholl 🛫@bscholl
Subjective feel of damping in the roll axis matters more than you think.
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@Robotbeat You're right. I feel like I'm in For All Mankind now
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It feels so odd to be genuinely back on the path to humanity expanding into space (not just POTENTIALLY expanding, but actually beating Apollo, starting with the smallest amount) that it's like we're in some corny alt-history show.
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