your daily reminder that the United States Space Force has a classified “fleet” of space planes very similar to the Space Shuttle but with no crew and they only do military stuff
they’re called X-37s and every once and a while one will launch, stay in orbit for a few months, and come back down what they do up there is classified we have no idea what is on board
(it’s probably just spy satellites and stuff but i like to tell people this because as much as people like to joke about the Space Force, it’s a serious organization that actually does stuff)
so i’m sure you guys know boeing at this point the airplane company that keeps having doors fall off their planes and other wacky events
well a lot of people don’t know that Boeing is also a space company and has launched things into space
and now they’re working on the first crewed flight test of Boeing Starliner, which is a new vehicle meant to take people to the International Space Station
let’s go over a brief history of Boeing Starliner because it is the worst crewed spacecraft since Apollo 13
the first flight test of Starliner occurred in 2019, it didn’t have people on it and was just trying to get to the ISS It was almost ready to approach the ISS and then MISSED
the second test, also with nobody on it, went fine a few years later keep in mind that Boeing wanted people on Starliner in 2018. It’s now 2024 and a crewed flight test is just now about to happen
istg if Boeing kills a bunch of astronauts I think that’ll just be the end of the company the first company to kill someone in space let’s hope that doesn’t happen
Me: - Had taken a pause for the first part of 2024. And will be more active again
Maps: - theres a backlog of TODO´s, messages, maps, ports, that i try to tackle in the coming days. - new projects are being worked on right now, and are planned for later this day or more likely tomorrow to be finished&released
Server: - The Server will continue - The current season will be extended until further notice
PMC: - Reached level 84, 3 weeks ago. Where i wanted to say a huge thanks for all of your support and also thanks for all the kind comments all around PMC (Wallposts, guestbooks, comments, msg´s) ^^