Quiet the landing!
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Hahaha sorry I used too many abbreviations.
SN9 stands for Serial Number 9. Itâs an iteration of SpaceXâs Starship vehicle.
NSF stands for NASA Space Flight, Youtube channel that is documenting all of the Starship progress, they are also a Space News site.
FAA is the Federal Aviation Administration, their Space Division is responsible for granting permission for launches. There was some drama about it with Elon calling them out.
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7 minutes, how many millions of dollars?
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The cost of research
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What Shrike said, all in the name of research. They are doing tests and changing things as they go along. SN10 is already ready and waiting and there is about another 4 busy being built, one of them almost completed with stacking. Also his choice of building material is working out alot cheaper than what it would have.
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Yeah, I was being a little facetious. My comment went down like a lead balloon, and fell a little flat.
Much like SN9, amirite?! 
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You have redeemed yourself haha.
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Space is frikken beautiful!
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows bright, colorful pockets of star formation blooming like roses in a spiral galaxy named NGC 972.
The orange-pink glow is created as hydrogen gas reacts to the intense light streaming outwards from nearby newborn stars; these bright patches can be seen here amid dark, tangled streams of cosmic dust.
source
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Eish⌠Run a de-noiser or something!!!
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There is such a thing as too much denoising, and I think it applies here.
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I said that as a joke. Sure, it can be bad. However, I often think they leave it in just to make it look more âscientificâ. One pass on Paint.net with default settings:
Obviously with stacking and all those fancy Nasa tech goodies they can get a better image with less noise, thats all I was saying.
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Thatâs kind of what I was getting at, actually. Denoise is just another filter on top of what they already do to get light that we donât normally see to be visible. NASA isnât an art museum.
To be fair, the one you posted is more pleasing to the eye.
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Landing next week!
And the video in the article
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Yeah I remembered yesterday that this was happening soon. Super exited. Great animation.
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Iâm gonna have to pray I have power and internet at the time. I woke up at 3am to watch the Curiosity landing. True, itâs just a bunch of people sitting in a control room mostly, but it was bloody exciting.
Before they cut to the control room, they had that William guy with all the extra punctuation in his name doing an interview about how it is important to get kids in school into space exploration. At the end of the interview, he tried to lean backwards to get out of the camera shot, but the camera kept zooming out. It looked so awkward I lmaoâd.
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Should be a little saner this time around -
2:15 p.m.â NASA will provide multiple feeds of live landing coverage of the Perseverance Mars Rover, leading up to the roverâs landing at approximately 3:55 p.m. EST
That means live stream on NASA Live from 21:15, with rover landing at 22:55 on Thursday
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Sweet, thanks for letting us know!
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Little more info in this clip, also from the JPL using the same animation, with commentary from the Guidance Lead, Descent and Landing Lead, and Flight Director:
âThe seven minutes of terrrorâ.
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You should try out Elite Dangerous 
In other newsâŚ
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