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The Discovery display at Udvar-Hazy is one of the most bad-ass displays of flight hardware anywhere: Why do they want to wreck this and waste taxpayer's money doing it? It seems all they want to do is break everything good about the US and waste money doing it.

I'm not sure what they were testing but they probably shouldn't do that on the next mission.

Maybe. Any damage it ever suffered in its lifetime, whether pressurized or not, could also lead to an eventual failure. Composites don't fail like homogeneous materials do. Proofing the COPV once is not a guarantee that it won't ever fail at that load or less. They require regular hydraulic...

It sounds like they just re-discovered stress rupture in COPVs.

That's exactly what Mossad would want you to think.

These reminds me of the AMOS-6 incident. I wonder if a header tank or line failed.

Never mind the fantasy of going to Mars, the hallucination of putting boots on the Moon again relies on on this thing not exploding. Artemis is dead dead dead.

Have you tried vessel:send_bufferedkey (keycode)?

OrbiterSound only works with C++ in Orbiter 2016 IIRC. If you want to use Lua on Orbiter2024 you need to use XRSound. Documentation for using xrsound is available in the Orbiter Lua Script interface documentation.

ULA Inga Hansen Benson Yansen Tallen-Hallen Svaden-Swansson

Because ULA = Ulla has much more pleasant memory associations than the phonetic alphabet.

I just say "ULA" without the article, pronounced like the name of Ulla in The Producers.

AbküFi is fun, almost like TLA in the US.

To be fair, there was an attempt to develop alternatives to Dragon in the form of Starliner. But Boeing can't seem to make flight-worthy anything these days, no matter how much taxpayer money they spend. Orion would need the boondoggle of the Artemis architecture, including a HLS that is based...

They'll have to break out the space trampoline again:

Only if they can make a ship that doesn't shake to pieces, catch fire, explode, and/or melt on re-entry.

At least it didn't all happen at once: