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On the side of a mountain in Albuquerque
Joined October 2023
NG can launch Orion. A "naked" stage 2 sent ahead to LEO by either another NG or a FH can send Orion to TLI with margin. Launch TLI stage. Launch crew on Orion/NG, dock with upper stage, head to the Moon.
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Good overview of the landing. We nominally target a few hundred feet away from Jacklyn to avoid a severe impact if engines fail to start or start slowly. We’ll incrementally reduce that conservatism over time. We are all excited and grateful for yesterday. Amazing performance by
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LANDED IT! That was crazy! Looked like it was going to miss, but slid back into the target and pretty much hovered to the deck and nailed it!
LAUNCH! Blue Origin New Glenn launches on its second flight, carrying NASA's ESCAPADE mission from LC-36. Overview: https://t.co/EhHUlIvvVy Live: https://t.co/vn2FIJD47A
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Those are results for university students at UC San Diego. Only 87% can do math at 1st grade level; just 19% can do math at 8th grade level. However bad you think it is, its worse. Universities get 30 times more inflation adjusted gov't cash then they did in the 1950s.
The report focuses on the decline of math skills in particular. They recently tested a group of their students. Here are the percentages of students who correctly answered questions at each grade level:
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Neighbor took this image last night... I should have gone outside more, but the doggo was postop from being spayed and she would get up every time I went outside.
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The moon from Domingo Baca canyon (top of frame, you have to click to embiggen)
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Smells like smoke. And there’s smoke in the air. Wonder if there’s a prescribed burn somewhere?
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Blog on the NASA Orion space capsule is up. 20 years, $31.6b, and they're planning to fly it around the Moon with four astronauts next year, and also test the life support system and heat shield, which kinda sorta failed on the last flight. Anyway, this was miserable to write, I
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