Very cool photos...thanks, 930!

NASA coverage said when returning from the moon, the heat shield gets about twice as hot as a spacecraft returning from low earth orbit. So looking forward to seeing how that heat shield did.

A few years ago, they showed pictures of a team a NASA engineers in a museum. They were allowed to peel apart layers of the heat shield on an old Apollo spacecraft. They did that because the old drawings did not give them enough detail how it was done in those days!

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That's pretty cool. I guess if anyone would be allowed to do a semi-destructive test, it would be those involved in the new design. I imagine their new documentation/drawings will be more informative for the next generation.

Minutes away from the first American lunar landing since Apollo 17 back in 1972. Very cool.

Huge!

Congrats to Elon, NASA, and the entire Intuitive Machines team! http://forums.pelicanparts.com/suppo...s/beerchug.gif

And once again we have a space race, and the moon is the immediate goal. Things are heating up. China is up next with their planned landing in May.