## spacefaring [Chinese villagers capture video of falling Long March rocket booster [video] | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38783870) [Falling Chinese Rocket Booster Captured #shorts #science #space - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/j1b4whvmIOc) [ignition.pdf](https://library.sciencemadness.org/library/books/ignition.pdf) [NASA loses contact with Ingenuity Mars helicopter | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39070784) [NASA loses contact with Ingenuity Mars helicopter | Space](https://www.space.com/nasa-loses-contact-ingenuity-mars-helicopter) [NASA regains contact with mini-helicopter on Mars | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39078669) [NASA regains contact with mini-helicopter on Mars](https://phys.org/news/2024-01-nasa-regains-contact-mini-helicopter.amp) [Due to blade damage, Mars Helicopter Ingenuity will not fly again | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39134349) [After Three Years on Mars, NASA's Ingenuity Helicopter Mission Ends - NASA](https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/after-three-years-on-mars-nasas-ingenuity-helicopter-mission-ends/) [How much bigger could Earth be before rockets wouldn't work? | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39243303) [launch - How much bigger could Earth be, before rockets wouldn't work? - Space Exploration Stack Exchange](https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/14383/how-much-bigger-could-earth-be-before-rockets-wouldnt-work) [Private company landing on the moon today | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39465230) [IM-1 | Intuitive Machines](https://www.intuitivemachines.com/im-1) [Intuitive Machines successfully lands on the Moon | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39474909) [Odysseus spacecraft lands on the moon as Nasa hails 'giant leap forward' - as it happened | Space | The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/science/live/2024/feb/22/nasa-odysseus-moon-landing-intuitive-machines) [Varda Capsule Reentry - Five Minutes from LEO to Earth [video] | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39538800) [Varda Capsule Reentry - Five Minutes from LEO to Earth - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw4DseiPu7E) [Building a rocket engine from scratch | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40240724) [Building a Rocket Engine from Scratch - by Ryan Kuhn - abl](https://blog.ablspacesystems.com/p/building-e2) [How many photons are received per bit transmitted from Voyager 1? | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40561872) [electromagnetic radiation - How many photons are received per bit transmitted from Voyager 1? - Physics Stack Exchange](https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/816698/how-many-photons-are-received-per-bit-transmitted-from-voyager-1) [Super Heavy has splashed down in The Gulf of Mexico | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40596883) [SpaceX on X: "Super Heavy has splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico https://t.co/hIY3Gkq57k" / X](https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1798701489097183286) - THE PINNACLE OF ENGINEERING IS IN SPACE TRAVEL, BUT IT'S ALSO NOT THAT USEFUL BEYOND [GPS] TECHNOLOGY [Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders ID'd in WA plane crash | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40614227) [Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders killed in WA plane crash](https://www.fox13seattle.com/news/william-anders-wa-plane-crash) [50 Years Later, This Apollo-Era Antenna Still Talks to Voyager 2 | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40081348) [50 Years Later, This Apollo-Era Antenna Still Talks to Voyager 2 - IEEE Spectrum](https://spectrum.ieee.org/apollo-era-antenna-voyager-2) [Europe's new heavy-lift rocket, Ariane 6, made its inaugural flight | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40924915) [ESA - Europe's new Ariane 6 rocket powers into space](https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Ariane/Europe_s_new_Ariane_6_rocket_powers_into_space) [Apollo 11 vs. USB-C Chargers (2020) | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38778390) [Apollo 11 vs USB-C Chargers](https://forrestheller.com/Apollo-11-Computer-vs-USB-C-chargers.html) [NASA says Boeing Starliner astronauts may fly home on SpaceX in 2025 | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41184359) [NASA Says Boeing Starliner Astronauts May Fly Home on SpaceX in 2025 - The New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/07/science/boeing-starliner-nasa-spacex.html) [NASA investigation finds Boeing hindering Americans' return to moon | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41229049) [NASA Investigation Finds Boeing Hindering Americans’ Return to Moon - FLYING Magazine](https://www.flyingmag.com/modern/nasa-investigation-finds-boeing-hindering-americans-return-to-moon/) [NASA acknowledges it cannot quantify risk of Starliner propulsion issues | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41285046) [NASA acknowledges it cannot quantify risk of Starliner propulsion issues | Ars Technica](https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/08/nasa-acknowledges-it-cannot-quantify-risk-of-starliner-propulsion-issues/) ## watercraft ['Underwater bicycle' propels swimmers forward at superhuman speed | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40297748) ['Underwater bicycle' propels swimmers forward at superhuman speed](https://newatlas.com/marine/seabike-swimming-propeller/) ## autos [Old vs. new growth trees and the wood products they make | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39562530) [WOOD](https://hullworks.com/wood/) [Mazda's rotary engine in the age of the electric car | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39850340) [Keeping Rotary Alive: Mazda's Rotary Engine in the Age of the Electric Car | Nippon.com](https://www.nippon.com/en/in-depth/d00956/) ## electric car [Apple to wind down electric car effort after decadelong odyssey | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39528134) [Apple to Wind Down Electric Car Effort After Decadelong Odyssey - Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-27/apple-cancels-work-on-electric-car-shifts-team-to-generative-ai) ## aircraft [A Matter of Millimeters: The story of Qantas flight 32 | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38586773) [A Matter of Millimeters: The story of Qantas flight 32 | by Admiral Cloudberg | Medium](https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/a-matter-of-millimeters-the-story-of-qantas-flight-32-bdaa62dc98e7) [Why is it so hard to build an airport? | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39789920) [Why Is It So Hard to Build an Airport? - by Brian Potter](https://www.construction-physics.com/p/why-is-it-so-hard-to-build-an-airport) [Boeing missing key elements of safety culture: FAA report | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39523813) [Boeing Missing Key Elements of Safety Culture: FAA Report | Aviation International News](https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/air-transport/2024-02-26/boeing-missing-key-elements-safety-culture-faa-report) [Testing the F-35C Tailhook | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39525243) [the_engi_nerd - Testing of the F-35C Tailhook](https://the-engi-nerd.github.io/posts/welcome/) [Airfoil | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39526057) [Airfoil - Bartosz Ciechanowski](https://ciechanow.ski/airfoil/) [300k airplanes in five years | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40454136) [How to Build 300,000 Airplanes in Five Years](https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-to-build-300000-airplanes-in) [Boeing Starliner launches first crewed mission | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40585728) [Live: Boeing Starliner launches first Nasa crewed mission - BBC News](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-69094213) [Is Clear Air Turbulence becoming more common? | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40819784) [Is Clear Air Turbulence becoming more common? | Flightradar24 Blog](https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/is-cat-more-common/) [One man's quest to restore the first-ever Air Force One | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41260345) [The First Air Force One and One Man’s Quest to Save It - Atlas Obscura](https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/first-air-force-one) [What Makes The Windshield Of An SR-71 Blackbird Jet So Special?](https://www.slashgear.com/1789039/sr-71-blackbird-jet-what-makes-windshield-special-explained/)