Our Astronaut Did Not Make It to the Moon

[@firedale2002]

Woot! Kerbal Space Program references!

[@buzzbros2002]

I really dig these episode postmortems, especially when it's talking about what could have caused failures on the episode.

[@upinarms79]

Alcohol doesn't conduct electricity, but if you have even the smallest leak of fumes, it's so volatile that it wouldn't take more than a tiny spark from any short in the wring to set it off and you wouldn't likely see it burning until it set something else on fire. It takes a good bit of energy to set off those motors and it's hard to do without conducting a hot spark directly to them, so I doubt that's what did it. I'd be interested to see if you guys could make your own larger solid fuel engines and what potential they have to deliver a damaging payload but faster and with more force than the alcohol version. Maybe something sugar-based or an HTPB mix. Make rocket darts or ones tipped with Armstrong's mixture, maybe? Tipping one with spark plug insulator ceramic and see if it would punch through a window? Rocket knives? The potential with what you can do with rockets is pretty much endless.

[@KowboyUSA]

The boys are back in town.

[@JTBioheart]

I'm never this early, I don't know what to do.

[@theindooroutdoorsman]

Man, Brian is really starting to look old. Scary part is he isn't terribly older than me.

[@lawley52626]

banana

[@mfcfbro]

I'm never this early, I don't know what to do.

[@Septicemic-Fugue]

I'm never this early, I don't know what to do.