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>>15995246
*activates MOOSE*
haha sucker, get MOOSED on

MOOSE Edition

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fifth for orbital skydiving (spacediving?)

>>14499885
That's not a real moose, you son of a bitch.

MOOSE Edition

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Updates:
• DoD seriously considering E2E Starship for cargo delivery
• RocketLab targeting 12 launches per year from Wallops, including lunar probe for NASA
• NROL-44 still on pad at KSC

>>12022887
fucking hell

>>11272823
Parachute isn't going to work but plenty of effort has been put into escape pods and spacediving.

If you're in orbit, you're not going to do anything, a slight push towards Earth will just put you in an eccentric orbit (a retrograde push at apoasis would be more effective but you'd need a cannon rather than some helpful friends). If you're being held in place by giant engines, you'd fare better with a couple of parachutes (a supersonic drogue followed by a larger one to carry you below a fatal impact velocity) than a barrel. Personally, I'd rather have a MOOSE.

>>5154338
I agree with you, for the most part.

However, I do think reduction efforts ought to be made, until we have as small and light of a system as possible. Something like MOOSE, maybe.

I wonder what the BARE MINIMUM it would take to survive reentry from orbit is...

Could you survive with a small, hand-held heat shield, space suit and chute?

Is pic related already as minimalist as it gets?

>>4602587
MOOSE is fucking awesome.

And yeah.

Not a normal spacesuit, no.

But if he had a MOOSE with him...