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Starship from high altitude

July 28, 2023

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Aircraft, Awesomeness, history, Hmm…, News, photography, rockets, spacecraft, youtube

Starships first not-exactly-successful launch was filmed not only from the ground, but from the NASA WB-57 flying at altitude. Apparently at least five

Hot staging

July 4, 2023

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Art, Awesomeness, projects, rockets, spacecraft, youtube

Spiffy CG animation showing what will *hopefully* appear in the sky soon… Starship hot-staging off of Superheavy.

That’s a lot of clothes

June 26, 2023

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blather, Hmm…, photography, spacecraft, ಠ_ಠ

Clothes are throwaway items now. Back In My Day, socks with holes in them were repaired; now, often enough, shirts are worn only

1/25 scale Enterprise

June 15, 2023

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Art, Awesomeness, Crazy, Models, Science Fiction, spacecraft, youtube

Sometimes I look at some of my goofier projects like the “2001 Briefcase Computer” and I think to myself “that’s actually pretty cool.”

Space: good news/bad news

June 3, 2023

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AARRRGH, Awesomeness, Dumbassery, history, News, science, spacecraft

Good news: In a First, Caltech’s Space Solar Power Demonstrator Wirelessly Transmits Power in Space This is *many* orders of magnitude away

Forthcoming cyanotypes

May 29, 2023

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Aircraft, Art, Awesomeness, cyanotype blueprints, Drawings, New Products, projects, rockets, spacecraft

I’m working on generating more cyanotypes, focusing again on prints formatted to fit in standard 11.75X36 frames. Below is a screenshot of the

Virgin Orbit sold off

May 25, 2023

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AARRRGH, Aircraft, Crazy, News, rockets, spacecraft

Given the vast amount of money spend on Virgin Orbit to develop a rocket that promised to be cheap, the fact that the

Stratolaunch drops a Talon

May 13, 2023

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Aircraft, News, projects, rockets, spacecraft

Stratolaunch Successfully Completes Separation Test of Talon-A Vehicle Stratolaunch LLC announces it has successfully completed a separation release test of the Talon-A separation test vehicle,

Gravitational Lensing

May 9, 2023

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Awesomeness, News, photography, science, spacecraft

The James Webb Space Telescope recently took a shot of deep space, showing a multitude of galaxies lensed *spectacularly.* Full-rez version at the

“Journey to the Stars”

May 5, 2023

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Art, Awesomeness, history, Monthly Historical Documents Program, Patreon, projects, rockets, science, Science Fiction, spacecraft

In 1983 “Science Digest” ran an article that 13-year-old me lost his tiny little mind over. Illustrated by Rick Sternbach, designer of, among

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Starship from high altitude

Hot staging

That’s a lot of clothes

1/25 scale Enterprise

Space: good news/bad news

Forthcoming cyanotypes

Virgin Orbit sold off

Stratolaunch drops a Talon

Gravitational Lensing

“Journey to the Stars”

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This is now the “official Unwanted Blog”

The “Maybe” Binary

1959 Electric Space Vehicle

“Star Trek IV” and the timeline divergence

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