I’m hoping it’s because cruise control needs to go through a lot more strenuous QA than an only-used-while-parked feature like a game, but at this point, who knows.

The reporter kind of dropped the ball when it’s a 99-1 vote and they don’t name the one holdout senator.

“… and nothing of value was lost.”

Usually Gwen Shotwell, SpaceX COO, is good at keeping Elon in check and not screwing up SpaceX business. I wonder what happened this time.

I feel bad for Nick Hague and Stephanie Wilson, the two SpaceX Crew 9 crew members who were bumped to make room for the returning Boeing crew.

EDIT: Looks like there’s some disagreement in NASA as to which American gets the commander’s seat, see below.

The way this usually works out is you loose all the good employees and you’re left with the dregs who were unable to find another remote position in time.

You may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.

Detected by equipment on the International Space Station. There is no antimatter on the station itself.

Yeah, unfortunately, SpaceX is streets ahead of anyone else in the launch industry in terms of reusability and, in turn, price. In a purely capitalistic system, they’d be putting everyone else out of business, but the US government wants a second source vendor, so ULA stays around, and foreign governments want independent access to space, for a combination of national security and pride, so the Russian, Chinese, Indian, and European space agencies keep on trucking.

I don’t get why so many people begrudge YouTube for trying make money. They serve up 5TB of video data every second. Somebody’s got to pay for all of that. They know ads suck, that’s why they sell no ad subscriptions.

Also from VT. We were wondering what the red spots we were seeing near the 5 o’clock position were. I had guessed they were flares, thanks for confirming.

For those that missed it, the flares & prominence were visible to the naked eye as red dots.