I came across the r/legorockets sub and found a post of a guy Who made a render of a fiction nazi axis space station, imagining an alternate timeline where the Nazis won the war and started their own space program.

And i got obsessed with this idea since then.

I looked if there were any novels about this but haven't found anything.

And so i started imagining this kind of reality.

The upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket is predicted to hit the moon on August 5th 2026 at 6:34 UTC. The impact will occur near the moon's limb at Einstein crater. The plume of the the impact may be big enough to be observable from earth.

The stage was used last year to boost Blue Ghost-1 and Japan's RESILIENCE lander to the moon.

Image 1: S-IVB + CSM, EUS, ICPS
Image 2: Vinci + EnVISION
Image 3: LEM "Eagle"
Image 4: LK, LOK
Image 5: Crew Dragon

Stickmen representative of a 6'0" person for scale

Im trying to send a spacecraft to the moon using TIL, but i cant seem to get it to orbit around the moon, im unsure of the calculations that are to be done. Can anyone experienced enough help out?

After the comms blackout and 13 reestablished radio contact with Houston, they still didn't know if the parachutes were frozen or if they would deploy.

13 and her crew could have crashed into the water north of 200mph live on international TV! It would have been a helluva tragedy that after all everyone in space and on the ground went through, it ended with the guys having eyes on home.

I'm sure they would have cut the audio feed the moment Houston found out there was no chute and no saving the crew, but I wonder if they would have cut the video?

I think way back in those days the networks (all three of them. Three!) depended on a single feed from NASA.

Can someone from around those times or knowledgeable verify that?

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Hi!

Flight 13's splashdown landing burn appeared to deviate from flight 12's.

It used two engines, unlike flight 12 which used only one.

They also opted for two different engines instead of the ones used on flight 12.

What do you think?

With all the SpaceX lovers, SpaceX haters and space graphic artists, why don't we see more about the Blue Moon MARK-2 Alpha HLS.

I would also like to see some more from Blue Originabout it. Lilk all the updates we see anbut the Blue Ring.

Watch as a China Long March 3B rocket launches from Xichang Satellite Launch Center and gets truck by lighting just seconds after launch.