Climbing through the clouds for the first time as pilot in command

Apollo 12 launched on 14th November 1969

Watched 2010 and noticed this line about radiation levels at Io, back of the envelope math puts a 15minute exposure roughly equivalent to the legal annual limit for US workers. So, right in the ballpark of what makes sense.

I’m in Scotland for a couple of weeks to see my Scottish family, and by sheer coincidence WorldCon 2024 is happening in Glasgow at the same time, and so I arranged to do a Q&A for attendees who want to talk about science, gaming and anything else on Friday.
https://guide.glasgow2024.org/id/cce71fe6-2591-4c80-9656-847701723efc

So NASA is cancelling VIPER. For a combination of reasons the mission was going to exceed its original budget by 30%, and a law kicked in that means nothing more can be spent on it without congressional approval.
NASA is still committed to paying for delivering the rover to the moon, so, the griffin lander will be given a mass simulator rather than the completed rover that’s being tested.

I love that the Nature paper identifying the tunnels leading out of the Mare Tranquilitatis Pit used publicly available data from a radar instrument on LRO which was recorded in 2010 - there are stories in the data if you just have the time to dig for them. Pun intended.

I murdered that burger like it was a Jedi with their back to me.

Certified aircraft avionics contain just as many hacks as any other piece of small run consumer electronics.