There was no way possible to get a pic of the whole, actual Saturn V inside the building
Quarantine after returning to earth
This was cool. You stood under a mock up Saturn V thruster and felt and heard the power of lift off. Was way cool.
Van Braun’s office
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Very nice! Send more.
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Want this planter in NMS
Took so many pics…
Sky Lab
Sims
Apollo 1 backup suits.
So many reflections, lol.
And now I am exhausted.
Did not make it to the Apollo 16 movie in the National Geographic theatre. Ran out of time.
Bought some merch.
We did make it to the James Webb movie in the planetarium and Our Place in Space. Both very nice.
Couple more. Poor little monkey. Laying in this tiny little pod…
Shuttle was closed for reno
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Space Camp in progress
Astronaut down
Treadmill ISS
Sleeping Bay
…nope…
The Milky Way on your neck
The quesadilla I had for dinner.
It was delicious!
Seriously, really more info than my brain could absorb in 1 day. There was so much more.
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We have blown up our new rocket.
I console myself with the thought that if they weren’t going to blow up, there wouldn’t be any point testing them.
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You Brits excel at doing things properly. No small boom. It’s like someone said, ‘If we’re going to blow the thing up, then let’s bloody well do it correctly.’
Although, it does state it was a German company carrying it out. You could do the American thing and pass the buck.
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Thanks, the German news were less quick about reporting the outcome… Well, it’s still early in the morning.
There are a handful (at least three) interesting south german companies trying to get into the space delivery business, and they are all still in the “will it explode when I push this button?” stage. I remember them because, on their rockets, they proudly put the flags of the states of BaWü and Bavaria next to UK and US. 
Also, their webpages are indistinguishable from an ARG… 
During the Waking Titan ARG I thought, good that these sci-fi companies got such exaggerated cliche stock-art websites with fake hollow text, so nobody outside the game will take them seriously… Since then, reality has caught up with us!
Home (The HyImpulse website is slightly less over-polished)
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As yes, we’re collaborating with German engineers as part of our space programme.
Unlike the Americans, who relied on the well known New Jersey homeboy, Wernher Von Braun.
It was a very big bang, though.
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Yes. We took the best. Left you the rest. 
Seriously though, the US space program started with a LOT of explosions. Hence, the need for so many types of rockets.
I am sure they will work it out.
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Well, that’s one checkbox hooked off. It’s supposed to do that. True, by the end it’s supposed to do that in a way that doesn’t result in rapid unscheduled disassembly, but that’s what we call “implementation details” in the software industry…
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From the article:
We want to learn as much as we can about the suit and the operation as possible, but we only have so much oxygen and nitrogen to work with,
Uh, hold up… Nitrogen? They’re going vac on a nitrogen mix? That would mean a full atmo of pressure, or close to it. No pure oxygen with pre-breathing to ba able to lower the pressure in the suit, even though they would have the time to do it.
They have tested in vacuum chambers, so the basic functions of the suit seem to work, which makes me wonder just what that suit’s capabilities are. If you can articulate inside them while pumped up to one atmo, that would already be a world of improvement over the current generation. I’m aware these aren’t work-suits like the ISS’ EMUs, so they won’t need that much mobility for a short sortie, but it will still require some to do safely. I think I might have to read up on these suits a bit…
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Fun fact. The guy who designed the suit, thought it was for a movie. Will look for that info.
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I wouldn’t be too sure. I remember the enthusiasm surrounding our previous missile/space vehicle development - the Blue Streak / Black Prince programme, which was cancelled at a very advanced stage.
Successive UK governments have a lamentable record of cancelling major capital projects as too expensive - only after they have spent billions, and are nearing completion.
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Well then, hopefully there will be a few more impressive explosions before it comes to an end. 
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Will try for launch tomorrow
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