Can't remember the name, but the rogues planet that shoots pink matter onto space

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If you want to be that nuanced they died in the atmosphere and/or the ground.

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Falcon 9 performance has continued to improve since 2018. However, let’s go with the 16,000kg number, SLS block 1 still doesn’t have 3 times the payload to TLI, it doesn’t even have twice the payload. We’ll likely get block IB, but it’s unclear if block 2 will ever get funded.

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I lived in Europe too! Naples, Italy. We saw it on AFN. I was 13.

The deaths aboard Soyuz 1 and Soyuz 11 didn't end Soviet manned spaceflight.

The Apollo 1 fire didn't stop the Apollo program.

The loss of the Challenger delayed, but didn't stop future Shuttle launches.

The loss of Columbia ultimately led to the end of the Shuttle program, but not for another 8 years during which 22 more missions were flown.

Crewed spaceflight will continue.

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I’ll just stick with nice, familiar Ceres. I weigh only 4 pounds there. After years of practice, I can slam-dunk a basketball there. I can hit a golf ball nearly to Vesta. Ceres is cool.

NASA could advertise a Mars mission as very very possibly one way and they’d still have a line around the block to go.

Stopping what they died for would render their sacrifice pointless. It's the exact opposite. When people die for these reasons we put even more effort into it to get it right. That's what we owe them. To not let them die in vain! Not today, not ever!

That's why we went to the Moon in first place, at least so quickly. JFK died serving his country and we just owed him.

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Friend of mine was telling me they were at a work training and the person giving the presentation used the iconic Challenger explosion picture to illustrate the point they were making, and you could clearly tell in the room where the age dividing line was, because half the room got very, very quiet, and the other half was asking what they were looking at.

I was 15. I can still picture the classroom with the TV on the rolling cart.

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HLS depends on LSS and a number of other starship tests beyond LEO, without at least LEO, I am curious how SpaceX will show NASA the HLS starship and in orbit refueling will be ready. You should definitely read the 1970 SLS NASA detailed proposal, it was close to that. It used the MULE/NERVA with 500-1000s ISP that had been tested on the ground and ready for the TLI dedicated lunar presence. There was a shuttle for LEO transfer (sadly dropped to the side of the tank and landable boosters were cut in the abandonment of the space race in 1972), situated on the top of a heavy lift booster, both of which reusable. Sadly it was cut due to the fact the Nixon administration considered the space race won, and the research and development money was better spent on Vietnam.

I don’t really care who wins, just that cost plus contracting is abandoned, and we keep the speed up now we have a Cold War like space race motivating politicians, and the western funding of human presence in deep space flowing to as diverse a basket of opportunities as possible.

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When does this comet appear largest to us? And when does it go away?

I was working for Computerland, on 2nd street, in the shadow of the Bay Bridge, San Francisco.

It was one of those moments, like when the planes hit the World Trade Center towers, so many years later.

Everybody just clustered around the one TV in the warehouse, in a bit of a state of shock, trying to glean any bits of information they could get.

So many of us with the same lived experience. We watched it sitting on the floor in the hall between two classrooms, with that same TV on a rolling cart. I’ll never forget it.

I was home sick from school and was watching it on TV.

My gym teacher was one of the finalists - final 20 or something like that.
He knew Christa McAuliffe and was there for the launch...

Sad day