maxjam

It's time for Test Flight 4. Road closures have been approved for June 1st. The main goal will be to improve on Flight 3. Hopefully that means:
SuperHeavy booster "soft lands" in the ocean in the Gulf of Mexico. 
Starship performs a deorbit burn while in orbit. 
Starship makes it through the bulk of the atmosphere, ideally all the way to sea level. 
Here's a real video (not a render) of Starship being "stacked" by the "chopsticks" above SuperHeavy to test all the systems in the Wet Dress Rehearsal earlier in the week. 
If they meet these objectives, Flight 5 will likely see the chopsticks try to catch SuperHeavy on the launch tower as it returns from space (which would be wild!). In case that destroys the launch tower, they're quite far advanced in building a backup elsewhere on the Starbase site. 

Musk's SpaceX is what is known as a "New Space" company, completely disrupting and revolutionizing the industry, while Boeing is the epitome of "Old Space". Back in 2014 NASA made history with the award of its first Commercial Crew Contracts when, for the first time ever, private companies and not national space agencies would send astronauts into space, all the way to the International Space Station. They awarded $4.2bn to Boeing to build a spaceship called Starliner, and $2.6bn to an upstart company called SpaceX to build a spaceship called Dragon. Both were to take four astronauts at a time to the ISS. Boeing were seething. They said it was ridiculous for NASA to give money to SpaceX, and all of the pot should have gone to them.
Ten years on, Dragon is the first 21st-century spaceship, with touchscreens and ethernet, lots of space for its astronauts and a large cargo capacity to boot. Nowadays there are four Dragons in operation which, between them, have so far taken 50 astronauts into space, mostly to the Space Station. Ten years on the Boeing Starliner still hasn't flown anyone into space. It is much more like the 1960s Soyuz capsule, or what the Americans did with their early space programme, with rather cramped conditions and lots of knobs and levers. And the reason I am writing about it here, is in honour of our very own B4/Daniel - because it has a flange. And a flange that has gone wrong.
The latest attempt to try to fly test pilots aboard Starliner went wrong with this leak, and the date for it has gone back and back. And today it was announced the will try to fly it on June 1st, the very same day that SpaceX are attempting their next Starship test! It's an  amazing juxtaposition of old vs new space. Get your scraves and flanges out to celebrate!

The problem with England is that Harry Kane, great player that he is, is fated never to win a trophy...
Other than the 'Curse of the Year' trophy!
 

The problem with England is that Harry Kane, great player that he is, is fated never to win a trophy...
Other than the 'Curse of the Year' trophy!
 

Also a real test for some of our impatient fans, not you obviously 🙂

Its the hope that kills ya.
 

Well they booed them off at HT, does that count?

Its the hope that kills ya.
 

All that build up, and then very little after the final whistle.....😄

Its the hope that kills ya.
 

Well they booed them off at HT, does that count?

I guess coming back from 2-0 down to Oxford and getting promoted ain't for everyone. 

Well they booed them off at HT, does that count?

You are a tough man!
Thought he was great before his injury. Our only proper senior 'club' man who can offer cover as full back/wing back and center half. 
Doubt he's breaking the bank. 
Happy for him.