They caught both fairing halves yesterday. Neat!

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">NASA is currently targeting 2:35 p.m. ET (18:35 UTC) on Sunday, August 2, 2020 for the landing of the Dragonship Endeavour mission.</p>&mdash; Eric Berger (@SciGuySpace) <a href="https://twitter.com/SciGuySpace/status/1285999905274814469?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 22, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

You guys had a chance to see NEOWISE yet?

Had some beautiful views over the weekend. I'm lucky living in the country is SD though. My lazy city friends haven't made the effort to see it yet.

Headed up to Big Bear this weekend to sip whiskey on a deck at the top of the mountain and look for the comet that hasn't been here in 7000 years. That's Mesopotamia and they worshiped lizard beings which when I put the signs together that tells me Sammy Watkins is gonna have a great year.

This is a little long, but here's a nice overview of how Perseverance compares to Curiosity. First chance for launch is early (7:50am EDT) on Thursday. It'll be on NASA TV.

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I've seen the comet a few times, but during work, so I haven't had a good chance to really look at it or take a picture. Turns out that old commercial twin turboprop aircraft aren't great platforms for taking pictures of celestial bodies. Go figure.

Hoping to find some clear sky tomorrow night, take my scope and my camera for a spin.

Virgin Galactic unveils space plane's cabin, poised for commercial flights

https://news.yahoo.com/virgin-galact...180322439.html

https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/Ngx0...Interior.0.jpg

Anyone want to give me the $250k for a ticket? I'm game.

Ready to fly!

https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Ya...VjHsPZg8hT.jpg

This won't quite have the "pucker factor" of the manned launch, but man...I hope it goes well. Lots of super cool tech on this one.

T-5 minutes

You definitely get a little spoiled by SpaceX's production quality, but she's off!

Happened to catch the launch this morning. Really cool.

Hopefully by the year 2120 our space vessels won't look like giant tampons anymore.