Combining the Space X Falcon 9 landing with a Christmas themed challenge. Try to land a rocket in a parking spot, without damaging the cars around it and ruining someone's Christmas shopping. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5v3TW2u6yk
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Audio & Video were filtered incorrectly - shame I couldn't fix the 'stuff exploding' problem.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqYKXo1gbc8
As the final pieces of the exploration ship Sleipnir lock into place we experience a phantom force situation that results in significant damage to the ship before we undock the new drive section.
Fearing the months of boredom associated with these kind of incident inquiries the crew instead fix the ship as best they can and decide to demonstrate its space worthiness with a mission to minmus.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTlJEZ2WN6U
Finally freeing a rocket up to bring colonists from Earth to their new home where they now realise that they have to work hard for me! We have to get them growing food & mining rare metals so we can fund the colony.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbJ9rs3nUOY
I hit the random button and it picked Cargo Commander, wherein you play a space scavenger grabbing loot from containers in space. It's a change from my usual stuff, but hey it does feature drilling through hulls and floating through space!
It's currently available on the cheap in Indie Royale's Lunar Bundle
http://www.indieroyale.com/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ4MtpPjtaQ
The Androns make their first appearance, and I waste a great deal of effort trying to catch one of them alive, shouldn't have bothered apparently.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV2Uu5gs5vM
Comments by Elon Musk on Twitter tell us that SpaceX will be turning the Upper stage of Falcon 9 into something closer to the upper stage of the BFR to test key technologies:
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1060253333116473344
Details are of course vague at this time, but after thinking about it I think I have a good idea of what to expect based on what's been revealed, what we know and when this is supposed to fly.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adSY9nek1Hg
NASA has used 'gray tape' to solve a few problems in space, but the season 2 finale of 'For All Mankind' includes a scene with a pair of astronauts improvising a pressure suit from oxygen masks and duct tape. And it turns out that this isn't as ridiculous as you might imagine, a pressure suit doesn't need to provide atmospheric pressure, but mechanical pressure and the strength of material required is well within that provided by off the shelf tape.
"For All Mankind" tells a story of a space program in an alternate universe where the Soviet Union lands on the Moon before NASA and the space race never stops.
https://tv.apple.com/us/episode/red-moon/umc.cmc.58f7yvuesckz5c6bnprcgkb8s
There's a couple of great books from NASA which cover the technical details:
Dressing For Altitude
https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/683215main_DressingAltitude-ebook.pdf
Bioastronautics Data Book
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19730006364/downloads/19730006364.pdf
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdoMOXvqjbY
Lunar Flight has a special place in my list of favourite games for looking and sounding great, for a $10 indie game the presentation is top notch. Since I first looked at the game in May last year a couple of new features have been added, most notably a Mars map for experts.
http://www.shovsoft.com/lunarflight/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZdfGrjgVGQ
With our cash reserves filled and our scientists working hard we finish much of the research tree, and the Aliens send their first battleship to challenge us, and I send a team in on the new Valkyrie troop carrier.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxf-nxvN3To
I know people wanted some cool kerbal stunts, but I just really wanted to play Elite and when Kerassh turned up I couldn't resist just shooting spaceships instead.
Originally broadcast on twitch.tv/szyzyg
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUvEJ5C4tQs