SpaceX's Private Spaceflights Take Off - RFA's Rocket Burns Up - Starliner Still Waiting

[@Adrian-qk2fn]

At 9.27 '"...We can't all be just crapping on Boeing all the time."' We don't need to. Boeing are doing a good enough job of crapping all over themselves without anybody else's help!

[@MonkeyJedi99]

Given recent events, many more people are choosing Airbus for the mid-flight bathroom visits.

[@yumazster]

Something happened with the Boeing aircraft bathroom? It's hard to keep up with all the fail going on.

[@petert3355]

@@MonkeyJedi99 To the point that Airbus is now having to refuse orders cause they simply cannot build enough planes to fill any more orders.

[@matthewsaxman1028]

Right?! Like... I WANT them to pull out of this funk they've been in for 5 years or so. But they sure keep finding ways to prevent anyone from having anything positive to say about them.

[@niftybass]

Fist bump! I think you phrased that very well.

[@ianglenn2821]

I'll say something positive about Boeing! I once knew this guy who's last name was Boeing, he had nothing to do with the company, he was a great guy!

[@gramateur5776]

Whose

[@Andrew-13579]

I thought this was going to be a limerick. “I once knew a man whose last name was Boeing. He had a spacecraft in orbit that he couldn’t get going.” …and now you all figure out the next 3 lines. And then we’ll make Scotty O’Manley read them in his cool accent. 😄

[@Sonny_McMacsson]

@@gramateur5776 Whoooze

[@filonin2]

The 747 is pretty darned good.

[@frankowalker4662]

@@Andrew-13579 I once knew a man called Boeing, his spaceship just wouldn't get going. He got up to space, but then, the disgrace, He didn't know what he was doing. LOL.

[@protocol6]

If you want something positive about Boeing, they've really done a good job of making all the new players look good.

[@georgehenan853]

What new players?

[@beenaplumber8379]

They set up a great market for Embraer to get into larger aircraft. Embraer has done an extraordinary job in a short amount of time. Are they the largest regional manufacturer yet? Their Brasilia changed everything in the regionals, and I think an alternative to the 737 & A320 would be welcome right now.

[@KnightRanger38]

@@beenaplumber8379 I believe Embraer is the largest aircraft manufacturer that was founded south of the Equator.

[@livethefuture2492]

To be fair SpaceX was always way ahead of the curve, it just contrasts even more when in comparison to the biggest lumbering behemoth of them all, boeing.

[@odysseusrex5908]

@@georgehenan853 SpaceX, Rocket Lab, Firefly, others

[@BLD426]

Something positive? Boeing was once a great engineering company.😉

[@riparianlife97701]

They won WW2, but all those guys are retired or dead.

[@EchelonBlueAlt]

@@riparianlife97701 i wouldn't mention the ones who were dead... some of them were (ahem) still working for Boeing when they... left.

[@drfirechief8958]

You beat me to it. That's all I got. 😊

[@lyricbread]

Now they’re just a leech sucking on our tax dollars.

[@peter4210]

They are great at settling wistleblower cases out of the public court

[@shazam6274]

Exec Summary Quotes: "another boring Starlink Mission", "it's talking out of its ass", "I really hope the toilet works this time"

[@iivin4233]

Honestly, you want your space exploitation operation to be boring. Once you've gotten to the point your operations are routine, them you've proven something. Then you just might be in a position to make money. Or not. It's a crapshoot.

[@shazam6274]

@@iivin4233 Yeah, at this point though, some others would just like to have repeatable success on occasion.

[@esbrasill]

And Blue Ball's sausage going down a hallway

[@jared3174]

Came to the comment just for this

[@solarpunkfuture]

Just like Elon!!! lmao

[@LeonWhite]

Hi Scott, not sure if you saw NASA announced the completion of the Deep Space Food Challenge competition for growing nutritious food for astronauts on the ISS and upcoming Moon and Mars missions! 300 teams competed over more than 2 years, and I recently started working for the winning company after years of obsessively watching yours and Tim's videos ❤️ would love to see a wrap up of the Challenge in your next update! 🌱🚀

[@Andrew-13579]

And now we need a deep space sewage treatment challenge! 😂. Not at all intending disparagement on your food challenge. I think it’s awesome and would love to hear all about it. Just that I suspect on the other side of growing food to eat, there will be need to SAFELY handle or cycle the inevitable sewage back into the food chain. We take it for granted on Earth, just teaming with microorganisms. Off of Earth, it’s absolutely void (seemingly) of microorganisms to recycle organic matter…or any living things at all. Like on inorganic Mars…no readily available liquid water, no nitrogen-oxygen atmosphere, although there’s plenty of CO2, I guess. Not to mention the sterilizing radiation and extreme temperatures. And yet I hope we figure it out and get it going.

[@longboardfella5306]

Yes please. And also do a deep dive interview with Fraser Cain!

[@yumazster]

​@@Andrew-13579Up to date there were plans of using dried up human waste as radiation shielding after recycling water on long duration flights. I also read one quite horrific study on reconstitution of food from the waste using a series of chemical reactions. One of the steps in the process is formaldehyde before it settles into fats. Vitamins and micro elements to be shipped separately and texturing by food printers to make it less horrid was suggested. We have a long ways to go, to be sure.

[@vmcprojects]

@@Andrew-13579 So the technology to do most of what you're saying already exists here on earth. For example, there are places in western US states that recycle water from sewage treatment plants, then they treat that water again until it's drinkable for their local population (process is called "Direct Potable"). The dry solid waste from the processed sewage can be further processed and sent through methane digesters that convert organic solid waste into biogas (methane) to burn as heat, or to run generators for electricity. Residual waste can be also be further broken down through a process called pyrolysis, where you "incinerate" that waste until you get the raw atoms again (oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen, etc..). There are other existing technologies where water is recycled from industrial plants too, called ZLD (Zero Liquid Discharge), that extracts chemicals from wastewater while recovering a majority of the water. So, the technologies exist, it's a matter of making it work out in space.

[@krashd]

The Great Martian Bakeoff? What channel was it on?

[@mael6834]

I worked in aviation as a machinist for 35 yrs. I can tell you for a fact that the white collar crowd have no respect for experienced skilled labour/artisans. I watched my machine shop go from doing great work to being unable to replicate parts we made 10yrs ago. The knowledgeable left for better pay or just retired leaving inexperienced machinists that now have to rediscover what we already knew. I'm certain it cost them more to pay us less.

[@Chaos_God_of_Fate]

I sometimes imagine, if it wasn't for Money/Greed getting in the way- how much more technologically advanced would we be? I think we'd be colonizing the Solar system already if not for that. So much tech advancement is being held back by greed, it's sad.

[@ryder6070]

Same story on the water, real sailors are hard to find....if the cat is real, awesome

[@Sendu7]

It is a systemic problem linked to short term bonuses and compensation for senior management. The fix is for delayed bonus and compensation (at least 10 years) based on how the company is succeeding in the future.

[@MrHws5mp]

Amen. I used to work for an aerospace subcontractor. During my time on a niche job, I trained FIVE younger guys to do it, all of whom left before I did, either because they were chasing more money, they were migrant workers who went home, or they were just lazy and couldn't/didn't want to concentrate on a job for eight hours. The staff turnover at that place was insane: of the dozen people who started at the same time as me and went through training together, only three were still there three years later. The amount of effort wasted training and retraining people to do the same job must have cost them a fortune in real terms.

[@richdurbin6146]

@@Chaos_God_of_FateMoney/Greed is what drives innovation. Behind every advance is someone hustling to make a buck.

[@joakimlindblom8256]

Interesting about vacuum chamber test for the entire Dragon... having vacuum tested consumer a grade camera for a space mission, I know first hand about nasty surprises from outgassing (in our case, it was a lubricant that was outgassing, so we had to tear the camera down for cleaning and then re-lubricate moving parts with a vacuum compatible lubricant). Also, electronics inside of Dragon would need to be testing for potential problems and cooling issues, since cooling works differently in a vacuum, though I imagine that this testing was done as part of the original development qualification testing.

[@beenaplumber8379]

When I was a kid, we visited the KSC, and I saw their huge vacuum testing facility. The tour guide told us what it did but didn't elaborate beyond testing the pressure vessel for leaks (which they could do simply by pumping air inside the capsule). After 45 years I now understand why those tests are so important. Thanks! 🙂

[@milantrcka121]

There was an opposite surprise. Way back in the day was an experimental satellite to be released and recaptured by Shuttle Canadaarm as a first test case. Part of the experiment was a mag tape recorder (for mutispectral image acquisition) where always is a problem of temperature control. Worry was overheating from internal dissipation thus conductive cooling was used.. During vacuum tests heat radiation was so severe that heaters had to be installed to keep the recorder and tape comfortably warm.

[@PiDsPagePrototypes]

Nikon? IIRC they've been the prefered stills and video camera on the ISS for some time. I think I saw a publicity peice from Red, about thiers being used,.. and Red is now owned by Nikon, so should be starting to get reliable firmware.

[@joakimlindblom8256]

​@@PiDsPagePrototypes This was quite some time ago, and was for an array of 9 soft x-ray/extreme ultraviolet (EUV) solar telescopes built using multilayer optics (it my Ph.D. thesis experiment flown on a sounding rocket to and altitude of 200 miles, and was a precursor to the NASA TRACE mission which was launched in 1998). Due to the immaturity of digital EUV detector technology at the time, we chose to use specially designed Kodak EUV film and selected the Canon T70 35mm consumer grade compact camera body, instead of the NASA approved flight-proven Nikon F3 camera for 8 out of the 9 cameras, due to the space constraints (the 9th camera was the NASA approved Nikon F3 with motor drive). This was much to the chagrin to our NASA bosses who at the time did not like the idea of flying consumer grade camera; ironically, all 8 Canon T70 cameras worked perfectly during the flight, while the only in-flight failure was being with the lone Nikon F3 camera.

[@joakimlindblom8256]

@@beenaplumber8379 In addition to vacuum testing, the other standard pre-flight qualification is vibration testing, which shakes the payload to a level 50% greater than expected during launch. In our case, the vibration testing uncovered a flaw whereby the internal batteries that were held in place by springs were losing momentary electrical contact, causing the cameras to reset themselves (hard soldering the battery contacts solved the problem, and everything worked perfectly after that). I have to say: seeing your experiment that you've spent years carefully building being shaken to 18 g's is a pretty frightening experience, and I was quite amazed that nothing else broke😬

[@suesun7072]

I had a short trip by plane last week. Both flights on a Boeing 737 and I am still alive! I think that's a positive!

[@ZboeC5]

Never mind that 737s have carried billions of passengers over hundreds of millions of flights without any problems what so ever since they came out in 1965 and the only MAX crashes occurred at the hands of pilots from the 3rd world. That's not saying there isn't a problem but at the same time if you fly Western crewed jetliners your chances of death are basically nil no matter who builds the aircraft. Training matters.

[@curtlezumi]

⁠@@ZboeC5 I am not so confident in your conclusion, the test pilots in the MAX simulator had several failed flights because they didn’t react to the automated nose down trimming within the first 10 seconds of the problem arising. I think ground crew and plane maintenance was a big factor and I think western and European ground crews were better. Still the inherent risks in the MAX design could have gotten ANY pilot under unfortunate circumstances IMOHO.

[@ebenwaterman5858]

That's not positive, that's lucky.

[@georgehenan853]

@@curtlezumino it’s mostly inexperienced pilots in backwater countries

[@georgehenan853]

@@ebenwaterman5858no, you’d have to be very very unlucky for something to happen

[@WWeronko]

Speaking of "talking out of their arse," Boeing got a new CEO. They finally unceremoniously got rid of the accountant and replaced him with an engineer, Robert "Kelly" Ortberg. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Iowa in 1982. He was the CEO of Collins Aerospace, Ortberg remained with the company through its merger with Raytheon in 2020 to form the RTX Corporation. He retired from RTX in 2021. One of his first moves was to move his desk back to the production facilities at Seattle. We shall see how long it takes to fix that mess there.

[@sirmonkey1985]

sadly he'll never get a chance to fix it and will be used as a scape goat by shareholders.

[@robertadsett5273]

It took decades to crumble, reversing that process is likely to be harder and take longer

[@BabyMakR]

@@sirmonkey1985 unfortunately, I believe you are correct. He'll be used as an excuse to put another lawyer/accountant in the job.

[@BabyMakR]

@@robertadsett5273 and he'll be given 6 months.

[@simongeard4824]

@@BabyMakR I think they'll give him some chance. Putting an engineer in charge suggests that the message is finally getting through that they're in danger of killing their cash-cow... having executives dragged in front of Congress to explain why the company is such a disaster has no doubt opened a few eyes. And to be clear, I don't think it'll be enough, but I think they'll give him some room to make changes... enough to publicly show that the company is trying to mend things, if not enough to *actually* mend things.

[@Deltarious]

The nicest thing I think I can say about SLS/Boeing is that it's good to have competition in the industry and they're ding a great job of highlighting how it's a hard industry and how it can be done better. I suppose that and the fact that all the controversy and pressure may actually result in meaningful positive change, which would be great

[@44R0Ndin]

"meaningful positive change" in this case IMO would involve replacing the entirety of Boeing's C-Suite with REAL ENGINEERS not a bunch of ex-MDD "trust me I know rockets and planes" financial-types that never used a slide rule or a micrometer in their lives.

[@IstasPumaNevada]

@@44R0Ndin Apparently they finally replaced their CEO with an actual engineer who moved their office back near production again. That's definitely an improvement, but I'm not sure just the CEO will be enough.

[@Syntex366]

@@IstasPumaNevadathat all depends on how the CEO does business. He’s been given the place to oversee operations and decide how it should be run.

[@greg4367]

Speaking as an engineer with 40 years of experience, and operating on the principle of "If you can't say anything nice, be still", here is my critique of Boeing:

[@floundericiouswa5694]

Boeing took a bold decision when they decided to model themselves after GE even after GE acknowledged that being GE was not great

[@MonkeyJedi99]

Wait. The guy from Malta, funding and heading up on A SpaceX mission over the poles... Does that make the mission a Maltese Falcon?

[@epincion]

Hmm Chinese tech billionaire (and you don’t get to be billionaire in China without the permission and support of the CCP) then buys EU citizenship - possible in Malta and Cyrus (although the latter has supposedly said it will stop doing so) if you spend many millions. Both have attracted lots of Russian billionaire mates of Putin and third world dictators. It would not surprise me that the members of CCP would use this opportunity to become a westerner with a major passport. What better way to get a person an inside look at a high tech US rocket and crew capsule.

[@robertking2593]

Malta G.C. is the correct name for Malta

[@mred8002]

Groaner.

[@BabyMakR]

It's too bad Elon wasn't around to be able to call it the Millennium Falcon...

[@kantpredict]

​@robertking2593 Every party needs a pooper, that's why they invited you.

[@Capt.Turner]

To quote another famous Scotsman: "Naah, It'll be fiiiine !!"

[@Shivaho]

"Captain, I've giving you all She's got! She can't take anymore!" - Scotty Kirk - do it anyways!

[@PitViper329]

Go away now! ;)

[@patrickdurham8393]

Critical Drinker is my spirit drinker....err... Animal!

[@douglasstrother6584]

"I thought I'd take a break from 'modern entertainment' polluted by 'The Message', and take a look at the 'modern Space Age'. My attention was first drawn to Boeing's 'Starliner' ... ".

[@AndrewinAus]

Ahhhh gotta love the Critical Drinker 🍺🤣

[@EdwardRLyons]

One point about Polaris Dawn: this will be the first time that four people will operate under vacuum conditions, two on EVA, and two inside the spacecraft cabin. There have been previous occasions when three people have worked in vacuum: Apollo 9 docked EVA, Apollos 15, 16 and 17 (Trans-Earth EVA), Skylab 2 CM depressurisation to check the docking probe (a very poorly documented activity), and, of course, STS-49 with the first and so far only EVA by three crew. So this is a very notable aspect of Polaris Dawn.

[@neithere]

There was yet another case of three people - Dobrovolsky, Volkov and Patsayev - working under vacuum conditions, albeit accidentally and therefore not for a long time. RIP.

[@The.RandomTube]

3:19 "Yeah another boring Starlink launch" I love how fast and routine Falcon 9 flights have become even though they are kindof a miracle! (Of hardwork and determination)🚀🚀

[@StYxXx]

The rolling turbulences when the RFA rocket is burning look so cool 19:55

[@scottmanley]

Yeah the steady winds are helping make those

[@IstasPumaNevada]

Agreed.

[@jessejacobsen01]

Absolutely Beautiful!

[@angelarch5352]

i dunno... as much as I enjoy any average RUDs, this one looked more scary to me than cool :(

[@jessejacobsen01]

@@angelarch5352 how about 'terrifyingly beautiful'

[@48920jeff]

😂😅🤣”another boring Starlink Mission”. The most “left handed compliment” I have ever heard relating to the space industry. Great work!

[@tiagdvideo]

Beat me to it! 🙂

[@barl6412]

Should have said “more space junk dumped in orbit”

[@zhongxina9420]

​@@barl6412define space junk.

[@adastra8218]

@@barl6412 african kids are using those stalite

[@spooders8424]

@@adastra8218Greenlandic too

[@Carstuff111]

"That means, this space craft is literally talking out of its ass." And this is just one of many reasons I love this channel! HAHAHAHA! Thank you Scott, I needed a good laugh!

[@TomiLoveless]

😎 Well Scott, this is the way I see it, the solution to the problem is Tighter Quality Controls, and I mean Tighter! I worked at Convair Division, General Dynamics, Building 1 special Tool and Die machine shop, where the Spirit Of St. Louis was hand built. We in tool n die worked close with QC. We were building the tools to build the Production components for many of NASA's and DARPA's designs, yes we even did Jobs for Lockheed, the factory there was producing DC 10 fuselage sections. . So I kept track of QC's rejections, of course. In the years I work there at the SD airport, 51% of everything produced there was Scrap! 😎

[@sheldoniusRex]

Tragically underrated comment.

[@jiubboatman9352]

I have no idea why, but hearing that Senagal has a satelite in space, put a smile on my face.

[@ThomasMTube]

I was shocked to see you when I cycled past you in Edinburgh the other week! Hope you had a good holiday here.

[@Renard380]

I hope they realise they're going to need to retrieve those poor astronauts before they deorbit the station 😅

[@EdwardRLyons]

Remember the story back in the day about a Nigerian astronaut stranded on Mir after the last Soyuz had departed? At least that was an imaginative scam, whereas this one is real! 🤣

[@mattcooper1159]

@@EdwardRLyonsno. Hardly anyone heard about that scam

[@owensparks5013]

At this point, it might be worth considering landing the space station and deorbiting the capsule.

[@E-d1d3]

Such externalities are of no interest to Boeing's team of accountant engineers.

[@angelarch5352]

Boeing and NASA are too afraid politically to make any decision to fly back the stranded astronauts, so they wil just ask SpaceX to account for the extra weight of two people for the de-orbit module.

[@DoRullings]

Jannicke Mikkelsen is a special effect and cinematographer who has worked on several other projects such as Queen's "VR The Champions" and she made the interaktive installation "Lunar Window" for the Apollo 11 50th anniversary. She participated in "One More Orbit Mission" together with Hamish Harding who unfortunately died in the Titan accident last year. Mikkelsen is a very good candidate to capture Earth from space.

[@rogerstone3068]

I hope that's 'capture images or footage of the Earth from space'. Your version is a little James Bond for me.

[@BrianKelsay]

You may bl ow the first one up. 2nd blows up on the way to orbit, 3rd makes it to orbit but may have trouble staging or with the fairing. Number 4 however, has GOT to make it. Usually that is when the money dries up.

[@bill4913]

Welcome home Scott..

[@C_B_Hubbs]

Scotland will always be his home, Bay Area is just his current residence 😉 He could live on the Moon someday and Scotland will still be his "home".

[@dyingearth]

I'll be pleasantly surprised if Blue Origin can launch ESCAPADE on this launch window. I'm not holding my breath.

[@chrissouthgate4554]

At least it's Amazon. Some other carriers will either leave it on your drive or throw it over a wall while claiming you signed for it!

[@Ranchhand323]

Scott , i recently noticed you were in the credits for a Apollo 8 Documentary. Congrats, good work !

[@Martin42944]

With how impressive SLS looks, and the fact my taxes are paying for it, I really want it to be successful. It would be amazing to see SLS, New Glenn, and Starship all active at the same time. Just please Boeing, double check the bolts on the door…

[@angelarch5352]

technician looks up at the SLS rocket... looks down on the ground... sees a handful of loose bolts. "Uh oh..."

[@michaelimbesi2314]

Here’s something positive about Boeing: They’ve really helped increase the knowledge base of the industry, by serving as a perfect example of what not to do.

[@beansdad70]

“That means this spacecraft is literally talking out of its a$$!!” 😂 I love it! 👍🏼

[@riparianlife97701]

I want to edit this into a Musk or Bezos interview recap.

[@solarpunkfuture]

Just like Elon!!! lmao

[@RCAvhstape]

I know some people who have worked for Boeing for many years, and they are good engineers. They don't work for the programs that get all the bad press, Starliner, 737, SLS, etc. They work for older, more obscure programs and are pretty good at their jobs, despite the upper level corporate issues. That's all I got.

[@jacoblf]

so much packed into this update. the last 4 min had so much i had to replay 3 times.

[@TBone-bz9mp]

Between Black Arrow, Virgin Galactic and this I'm starting to think that the UK just isn't meant to have launch capacity.

[@C_B_Hubbs]

You mean Virgin Orbit? VG has been overwhelmingly successful since their 2014 failure.

[@LightjetPilot]

​@@C_B_Hubbsoverwhelming might be pushing it from a financial standpoint.

[@C_B_Hubbs]

@@LightjetPilot that might be fair, but I mainly just meant in terms of flight performance over the past few years. Either way, to the original point, UK has had bad luck in orbital launch attempts.

[@krashd]

If Reaction Engines ever manage to achieve their ambitions that could all change. Mind you seeing as they built their second test facility over in the US I have a feeling the SABRE is going to be another story of British innovation handed over to the Americans to use.

[@Adrian-qk2fn]

To be fair Black Arrow WAS launched from Australia- even though it was built and the rocket engines tested on the Isle of Wight.

[@gafletcher1]

That failed rocket test made some beautiful dual flame vortices from the wind over the test stand. So it wasn't a total loss.

[@ilkoderez601]

When starlink (falcon 9) launches get boring, that's a good thing.

[@Ranchhand323]

As long as they don't become complacent

[@Torby4096]

Apparently, they are doing something right.

[@simongeard4824]

Bad news for the folks at RFA... but if it's any comfort, I think they're the front-runners for the "best rocket failure footage" for 2024. That video with the flame vortex is just awesome.

[@frankgulla2335]

Welcome home and thanks for the enthusiastic report.

[@gnaskar]

Fram ("Forward") was the ship used by the first expedition to reach the south pole. Unlike a lot of exploration ships which end up sinking, Fram was preserved and has been sitting in a museum for most of a century. The connotations of the name aren't quite the same as Forward. Forth would be better perhaps. But it also comes with the expectation of arrival through adversity that isn't present in English. An expression from the time period that encapsulates it is "No matter what, the mail will get through": "Posten skal Fram". I guess the best way to describe it to this crowd is that its the Ad in Per Aspera, Ad Astra. It's a fantastic name for a ship in a somewhat obscure language.

[@joshroolf1966]

I would 💚 to see the Fram in real life, I forgot it was in a museum!? The descriptions of the engineering that shipyard put into the Fram and Endurance must be the pinnacle of human knowledge for building tough vessels from wood.

[@rogerstone3068]

How about "Boldly Go"?

[@BlueSpruce2]

I think there's more to testing the capsule in a vac or TVAC chamber than material off-gassing including damage to electronic hardware from exposure to the vacuum due to trapped air or other gasses and fluids in the spacecraft componentry. Assume they will open the hatch in an orientation that doesn't expose the interiors to excessive temperature swings.

[@jeromethiel4323]

I think we are spoiled with how well modern rocketry works. This stuff is STUPID hard to get right. Any single failure in one of thousands of components can result in a loss of a vehicle. This is difficult stuff, and the people making these rockets are just that good at making sure the mistakes don't happen. It's also why all of this stuff is crazy expensive.

[@joansparky4439]

yeah, no.. that's not it.

[@ES-1984]

SLS is a more efficient way of destroying money as opposed to shoveling it into a large Industrial furnace. There you go Scott I said something nice about SLS.

[@sheldoniusRex]

Critically, SLS gets more politicians reelected than an industrial furnace would.

[@johnbrooks1269]

"talking out it's ass" and you did not break character. Well said Scott, thanks for the humor. I do so enjoy the updates, thanks.

[@arvibi3084]

I like to think that Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer has temporarily been the Earth Rocky Moon Explorer.

[@JMWexperience]

Thanks for the update! Welcome back home.

[@jackcoats4146]

Boeing has disappointed me and others after a great history to be proud of. Also, NASA is much more 'risk adverse' than we, the public have, historically. Sigh. I hope Boeing puts a few more engineers in charge rather than spread sheet based accountants to help them get back on track, both in space and airplane areas.

[@classydave75]

"I hope Boeing puts a few more engineers in charge". I don't know what you're talking about... Muilenburg, who was CEO between 2015 and 2019 was the one in charge (among other top management pieces of sh!t) during the two crashes debacle of the B737 Max. And he is an engineer in aeronautics and astronautics.

[@tilmerkan3882]

Thats like saying "I hope Socialism would solve its main problem to be a viable option to capitalism"

[@chrissouthgate4554]

@tilmerkan3882 Socialism works OK. It's Communism or Capitalism that needs Angels to run well.

[@tilmerkan3882]

@@chrissouthgate4554 nah, not going down this road with you :D Greetings from Ex Eastern Germany.

[@TomDrez]

@@chrissouthgate4554 All ideologies work ok at some point for some times until they fall upon their own contradictions, at this point being an ideologist just destroy the ideology and therefore the economy ans society.

[@MirlitronOne]

When it comes to twenty-first century, hi-tech toilet humour, Scott is way ahead.

[@michiganengineer8621]

The last bird that Boeing built for the Government that worked to specifications is affectionately called the BUFF. Still going strong with the grandkids of original crews flying them.

[@Vuzin]

Go DORA! Now my second cubesat I've been a part of that's been mentioned in a Scott Manley video!

[@DaDudeb]

Boeing can act really fast and efficient when it comes to important topics! For example on whistleblowers.

[@magnum8264]

Thanks Scott for keeping us updated!

[@gasdive]

That guy who came out of nowhere to thank Bezos made me think this was literally the first time anyone had seen him on the factory floor.

[@worldsedge4991]

Cool animation of the probe close fly-by of the moon. Not often we see a spacecraft that is close enough to give a feeling of motion like that…

[@Vtarngpb]

Definitely digging the punny mission names 😂

[@ggginforlab]

9:25 In the last years, nobody is talking shit about Saab, Plymouth, Pontiac... Boeing is going this way...

[@brendancross2767]

The difference is those weren’t megacorp defense contractors involved in a duopoly in commercial aviation manufacturing. They were subsidiaries of an automotive megacorp who is still around. And to my knowledge they didn’t put lives at risk in their final years.

[@davidjernigan8161]

Usually welders are required to perform test welds and have them inspected before welding critical components even when using automated equipment. Boeing needs to pay more to get more highly skilled people to build these rockets.

[@blackhat4968]

I saw Stowaway when it came out, but never knew you voiced one of the control center voices. Now I am going to have to look it up to see it again and listen for you. 😉

[@riparianlife97701]

Love the hot dog down a hallway mention.

[@PaleoWithFries]

I almost spit out my food on that one.

[@n1k0n_]

16:32 ...I literally spit my red bull all over my keyboard. Thanks Scott

[@renerpho]

When was the last time a human was 1,400 km above Earth's surface? Apollo 17? I think Gemini-11 still holds the record for the highest crewed non-lunar mission, at 1,369 km, so I guess that's going to be broken... Also, has there ever been a spacewalk at an altitude of 700 km?

[@manythingslefttobuild]

Great update video Scott, thanks for continuing to make them.

[@PizikSpaeth]

800KM, wouldn't that take 4000 years for the orbit to decay? Seems like a pretty monumental error.

[@Nuke-MarsX]

no its around 100-150 years

[@18robsmith]

@@Nuke-MarsX Still not a good event 😞

[@scottmanley]

Depends on the ballistic coefficient of the debris

[@langdons2848]

​@@scottmanleyalso whether the orbit was circularised?

[@cjay2]

China itself is a monumental error. Yeah, I went there.

[@whereswa11y]

Scott the other feather in Jannicke’s cap is she has flown over both poles in 2019 as a member of One More Orbit.

[@treemaker2]

Let's see; 737 MAX, Stayliner MAX and SLS MAX. We don't have to dump on Boeing, they are doing a fine job of that themselves.

[@mobeus5019]

Forgot GMD, KC46, and the fact that the F15Ex and T7 trainer are behind schedule.

[@matthewellisor5835]

I appreciate you giving us more than The Cold Equations.

[@awilliams1701]

I can be positive. I'm positive that they will be returning with crew-9 next year. lol I'm also positive that I didn't care for SLS before and I still don't now.

[@sheldoniusRex]

Tragically you're likely paying for SLS, whether or not you care for it. As am I. 😒

[@awilliams1701]

@@sheldoniusRex I know and that's why it makes me angry

[@LiamDyson-rm7cv]

Good to see Rocket Lab are still going strong with Electron!

[@dereks1264]

Who on Earth ever thought "SARS" would be a good acronym for a space thingie?

[@unflexian]

look up the Harvard list of dumb astronomy acronyms, SARS is nowhere near the worst haha

[@hammondpickle]

Synthetic Aperture Radar Stuffs. Also presumably a reference to the Coldplay song.

[@TamaraWiens]

You might have been joking, but since synthetic aperture radar (invented/patented in the early 1950's) and satellites using that technology (starting in the mid 1960's) predate the SARS epidemic (2002-2003) by 40 to 50 years, it seems like there was no negative connotation for many decades. So, it would be equally if not more fair to say "Who the hell ever thought naming a respiratory epidemic 'SARS' was a good idea?" If anything, the mission is redeeming the good name of a very useful technology.

[@saleplains]

all i could think about was coronavirus haha

[@Veptis]

Search and rescue satellites

[@AlexPortRacing]

Once you open the hatch and are exposed to the vacuum of space isn't everyone technically spacewalking to some degree? I'm assuming everyone is in a suit and tethered even if not leaving via the hatch. Are they Spacesitting? is it not a topological question to define what's the inside and what's outside of the spacecraft once there's a hole in it. Cross over with Matt from Standup Maths maybe? 🤔😂 16:06

[@ryanb9749]

"Sci sat 1" that sounds like a name id use in KSP.

[@ryanb9749]

Also. Sci sat 1 would be more successful than Starliner.

[@brettwoodard167]

Thanks Scott!

[@JUST_SID_]

"talking out of it's ass" 16:33 with a poker face made ne laugh. Love the work!

[@JamesCairney]

Scott Manley-Flysafe, excellent, this'll be a good watch

[@ericpatterson8794]

"like throwing hotdogs down a hall..." I don't think that means what you think that means.

[@bigianh]

The ship Fram was used in several Arctic and Antarctic expeditions including Amundsen's expedition to the South Pole that famously beat Captain Scott.

[@ianglenn2821]

That Juicy spacecraft is definitely not on a Lissajous orbit (yet), you've done so much to teach about gravity assists. Since it's full moon right now, and the flyby takes it by the moon and then by the Earth in one day instead of the three days it took the Apollo trajectory, we know that's the perfect type of trajectory for a gravity assist (not lissajous).

[@nowhereman1046]

STS-36 launched on February 28, 1990 flew to a 62 degree inclination.

[@Zippezip]

It is the Manley!🤩

[@Zippezip]

and he talks his arse off but never talks out of his arse!

[@icaleinns6233]

Also Really Hoping Blue can pull off their VERY ambitious inaugural launch of a brand new vehicle! Gotta give Blue props for cahunes, though. Going interplanetary for your very first orbital launch ever? Yeah, that's ballsy!

[@andrewfidel2220]

With an 800km perigee saying that it will take some time is a bit of an understatement, decay time that high up is measured in centuries! There's a reason Starlink is all below 620km, and mostly below 550km.

[@CerealPort500]

arent you assuming a circular orbit with those decay times...?

[@andrewfidel2220]

@@CerealPort500 decay time is mostly based on the amount of atmospheric drag at the perigee.

[@CerealPort500]

@@andrewfidel2220 I think we casual observers lack enough detail to predict the decay of this debris with any degree of certainty. I'd be very surprised if you had enough data about the debris and the orbital stability to make anything resembling an accurate prediction, but if you do, then please, share it with everyone, as it's very rare for China to be so forthcoming about their rocket components, particularly if they are bits that dropped off... t's more likely you're making wild assumptions based on grand suppositions and a speck of knowledge.

[@Hackanhacker]

That fire was insane !

[@DorkJelly]

Oh damn. I saw Tim's tour of RFA...and I got a nervous feeling from them...they seemed a little TOO obsessed with using cheap parts and being a little too lax when it came to aerospace grade hardware. I just had a weird feeling about them and then boom this happens... 😟

[@paweiwanczyk8270]

On Transporter - 11 also flew biggest Polish satelite yet, Eagle Eye :)

[@brindlereo5972]

Jared and Gillis to walk

[@MCsCreations]

Thanks, Scott! 😊 Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

[@Shivaho]

I Can't believe they didn't send up some SpaceX Space Suits on that Cyngus for the Marooned ones to come back in a Dragon.

[@jhromeror]

Suits can be sent with the capsule itself.

[@The_Angry_Medic]

Fun Fact: the model airplane field I used to fly at over 30 years ago was (and still is) Scobee Field. First time I saw a turbine jet in the 90s too.

[@beyondsingularity]

Scott dropping the biggest bomb right in last sentence.🚽

[@Daddyoh94]

I think it's very exciting to be in the beginning of the Space Age; I know many people who remember the early days of NASA have been dreaming of this frequency of missions for decades.

[@mytube001]

Hmm, what is the radiation situation for a polar orbit?

[@QuantumHistorian]

It's fine? Keeps you further away from the van Allen belts even I believe?

[@mytube001]

@@QuantumHistorian Yes, but you get the full force of the incoming solar wind over the poles, where the geomagnetic field lines dive into the planet.

[@QuantumHistorian]

@@mytube001 True, but the "magnetic field lines dive into the planet" in a fairly loose way, it's not like it all gets funneled into a tight beam around the magnetic poles (which are anyway quite far from the geographic poles). So while you get more radiation, it's still much less than the peak of the van Allen belts I believe. Would be interesting to know if it would be safe to have a long term space station there or not. A Scott Manley video on the radiation profiles of earth orbits would be nice :)

[@joyl7842]

Fair enough, I'll give it a try. Here goes: Boeing once made a nice aircraft called the 747. It's known as the "Queen of the Sky" and no longer in production. It was fast, large, reliable and beautiful. It is also the aircraft of choice for the POTUS, including the new aircraft to replace the current Airforce One. It also has a fantastic cargo configuration used worldwide. I probably forgot something nice to say about the 747, but the last thing I can think of right now is: it was made in a different era and is still a great aircraft unlike the 737 Max, 787 and 777x. Kind regards.

[@calvinphillips6132]

Something positive: SLS is the only human rated vehicle capable of supporting Artemis lunar missions.

[@Dan-Simms]

I see that as a negative, there should be multiple. More competitors usually mean both better products and cheaper prices.

[@NatesRandomVideo]

Which with the current plan for on orbit refueling will never happen.

[@davidrogers9464]

Powered by boeing🙄

[@Wordsmiths]

ouch. Definitely a negative.

[@bobm2331]

Scott, Soyus does carry fuel for the orbit adjustment rockets. NASA messed up big when it allowed Russia to add that feature to their part of the space station.

[@TucsonHippy]

The family of Boeing's CEO will be getting nice presents this year at Christmas

[@billbrockman779]

Boeing’s St. Louis based fighter production seems pretty solid. Former McDonnell operation.

[@Pottery4Life]

Boeing? Yeah! OK. Sure. umm... well... um... I got nothing. nvmd. Best wishes I guess.

[@lewisbenzie845]

Always a pleasure.

[@davesatxify]

awesome as usual. lol. toilet out of service in space.. either they use diapers or the old stick on units from apollo :-p

[@SpontaneousIntrospections]

Hey Scott, LOVE your vids! Long time viewer! I'd seen somewhere that Jared and Sarah were the two primarily tasked for the Spacewalk, can't recall the source now though unfortunately and that was weeks ago so uncertain if that has changed.