Hey! We've been working since last year on a In Control: Rocketry, a spaceflight sim where you build the rocket and wire up its control panel yourself. Sensors, inputs, outputs, the whole thing is Turing-complete, so however you want to solve a flight problem, there's a way to do it. It will be available on Steam in 2027.

Real orbital mechanics, a fictional solar system to explore, sandbox mode if you just want to mess around and blow things up!

Feel free to add the game to your wishlist if you want to support the project! See you in space.

Right now, these are the only three countries with independent human spaceflight capabilities. Several others have ambitious space programs, but developing a crewed spacecraft, launch systems, life support, and safe reentry is an enormous challenge.

If you had to bet on one country becoming the fourth, which would you pick, and why? And how many more years will it take?

If we were to send up a new interstellar item designed to convey information about humankind, what scientific developments have been made in the last 50 years that would change how much/what types of data we could store on it?

Hey everyone! I was passing through Pocatello, ID and saw these booster railcars sitting in the Union Pacific train yards. There were two sets of five segments joined together. Artemis 3 has already completed booster stacking, so could these be empty or perhaps for another rocket?

We all know spaceflight is beneficial to humanity and nations, no doubt

We develop tech from spaceflight, amazing.

We go to space as a symbol of a countries achievements, when countries tend to excel in other areas of life

India is interesting... open defecation is a contested issue, ~6% (80 mil people) live in EXTREME poverty, states are claiming open defecation free as an accomplishment (which it is, no doubt)

All iis said.. I dont meaan to target india or put it down, its an amazing country with beautiful culture and practices. This can be applied to any other nation which is focusing so heavily on spaceflight but internal systems/technologies are very outdated/'backwards'/ etc.

When is it appropriate for a country to focus on spaceflight? Is it worth focusing on spaceflight over other national interests (such as fixing open defecation)

References:

• Dutta, Saptarshi (24 September 2018). "Four Years Of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan: Rajasthan Is ODF But 100 Per Cent Toilet Usage Remains A Challenge". NDTV Swachh India. Retrieved 11 September 2021.
• "After Sikkim, Kerala, Himachal, These 4 States To Be Open Defecation Free". NDTV Swachh India. PTI. 4 November 2016. Retrieved 11 September 2021.

Hello, I don't know if this question is allowed here.

I want to do a craft project for myself and sew important spaceflight mission patches on my jacket. I plan to have an Apollo 11 and the Artemis patches on there as well as some Starship ones, also the space programs logos. What are your recommendations? What should I add?

For the record, I am German, so I don't want exclusively American missions on it.

Back in September, I shared my 80m/px lunar classification maps here. Your incredible feedback, technical insights, and even the tough challenges from some users motivated me as a student to push this work to a much deeper level.

I’ve spent the last few weeks processing NASA PDS data (LRO/LOLA DEM) to focus entirely on Shackleton Crater at a stunning 5m/px resolution.

The complete analysis—including annual solar radiation averages, seasonal solstices, slope safety zones, and a viewshed simulation for communication towers—will be fully unveiled on November 16th!

Stay tuned! 🚀🌕

NASA will provide an update on its plans to return American astronauts to the surface of the Moon by 2028 at 2 p.m. EDT, Friday, Oct. 23, at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida: https://www.nasa.gov/live

Participants in the briefing include:

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman
NASA Associate Administrator Amit Kshatriya
Jeremy Parsons, NASA’s Artemis program manager

The update will include details about NASA’s Artemis III mission that will send four astronauts to low Earth orbit next year to test critical systems needed for future lunar landings, and how plans to return American astronauts to the Moon by 2028 are progressing.

U.S. media interested in attending in person must apply online by 12 p.m., Friday, Oct. 16. To ask questions remotely, media must request the dial-in number from the Kennedy newsroom no later than one hour prior to the start of the update by emailing: [ksc-newsroom@mail.nasa.gov](mailto:ksc-newsroom@mail.nasa.gov). NASA’s media accreditation policy is online. 

As part of a Golden Age of innovation and exploration, NASA will send Artemis astronauts on increasingly difficult missions near the lunar South Pole to explore more of the Moon than ever before. In addition to providing economic benefits and advancing scientific discovery through its Moon missions, NASA will establish an enduring human presence on the lunar surface and build on the agency’s foundation for the first crewed mission to Mars.

Learn more about Artemis: https://www.nasa.gov/artemis

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I'm trying to build a model of Salyut 7 and I am struggling to find information on the attitude control system for the system, i can't find too many photos of good enough quality to make out smaller components. If anyone has any info on the RCS that'd be helpful thanks!

295 players drew a falcon 9 to scale. the typical guess was 194 m. the real rocket is 70 m, so they made it almost three times too tall.

my hypothesis: rockets are almost never viewed with a reference object next to it.
launch footage shows them alone against the sky, with nothing next to them. so every big rocket should end up the same size in our heads, no matter how big it really is. the game has more rockets to test it.

and it held. the sls (98 m) came out at 210 m, the saturn v (111 m) at 150 m. three rockets from 70 to 111 m, all guessed at about 150 to 210 m, and the smallest of them got almost the tallest guess. only the little v-2 (14 m) stayed small, at 12 m.

so "big rocket" seems to be one size in our heads: about 200 m.

4 in 10 guesses came from the us, but it's not a one-country thing: americans drew it at 198 m, brits at 207 m, the rest of europe at 172 m.

more visuals, every guess and the raw data: https://roughly.is/blog/falcon9-guessed-too-tall.html?s=reddit-spaceflight

Looks like a space whale

The SpaceX Falcon 9 launch for the CRS-35 resupply mission lifted off at 6:33 AM EDT. These are from Savannah

We make Rocket Garden, a VR museum where the rockets are real size. The Saturn V stands about 110 meters tall, and even knowing that number, it's hard to picture until you're standing at its base looking up.

The launches use real thrust-to-weight ratios, so the Saturn V clears the tower slowly, the way it did in the footage. The color and shape of each exhaust plume are based on the propellant that rocket burned.

We'd love feedback from people who know rockets!

What if you could launch normally, but when you separate the final stage, what if you left the liquid O2 tank, but with things added? You could then unpack things into the tank and connect it to the crew area and use it as lots of extra space. Would that work? If not, tell me why.