Yep. Texas does that because of a state law that says any landowner with property adjacent to a highway has a right to access that highway.
I can get to 22 in the foreground of the pic with some lanes underneath others with the flyover ramps.
FYI: I think the estimate is that humans can burn all of the fossil fuels that exist several times over and still not hit the critical tipping point that leads to Venus. So Venus is not really on the table as a worst case scenario.
You're allowed to use any mode of locomotion in a track race, including skipping, crawling, or moonwalking, as long as it's under your own power.
Oh yeah. I remember all the warnings plastered all over the X11 config file about how dangerous the settings were if you got them wrong.
Whew. I can't imagine any Sunny D consumer being satisfied with a real orange flavor.
I can't imagine trying to put $12 in quarters into that machine.
For a while the only electric aircraft around in the news was that solar flyer. Things are a bit different now.
No it's orange skin, from too much cheap spray-on tan. The engineered hair artifact is pretty blond.
Except the "emergency capsule" is all of them, including Starliner. Because Starliner is perfectly capable of returning to earth safely.
Because every thruster that has shut down has hot fired okay, and the known helium leaks still leave enough margin to cover several multiples of the 5 hours or so of RCS operation that you need to get to landing.
It was a successful test of the drive termination system.
No, you're supposed to go to prison where you can legally be put to slave labor. They used to be called work houses.
Discarded corn cobs and pages from the Sears Roebuck catalog. At least in midwestern USA.
This comes up on every one of these articles. The astronauts are in no way stranded.
There's a common sense operating rule on the station: every person on board ISS must have a dedicated seat in a ride home that is ready to undock and leave within 30 minutes notice.
Right now, the Starliner capsule is certified and ready for that role for the two test pilots. The crew dragon and soyuz are docked to handle the rest of the station crew.
Earlier today there was an emergency shelter event on the station when some debris got unusually close. In this type of event all crew evacuate to the escape spacecraft and close hatches. So if something does hit the station, it's less likely someone gets hurt during a depressurization.
Starliner served as an emergency shelter for this exercise, because it is certified for emergency reentry, and the five identified helium leaks are not close to preventing it from returning safely.
To get from ISS to a landing site requires no more than 5 hours of RCS operation. There is plenty of margin in the helium system to cover 5 hours.
My understanding is that the second Distance campaign is mostly recycled Nitronic Rush levels.