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[eggplantgifs]

Minerva Fabienne Hase & Nikita Volodin: Stay » 2024 World Championships

[on-a-lucky-tide]

When you look down and the titties are overhanging the belly but for very different reasons now.

[crazykuroneko]

Nothing, just me missing my figure skating parents (read: Virtue/Moir)

[kitkatstu-dies]

Day 48/100 [01/02/2025]

Lifted -> starting a new regime tomorrow

Worked on some more art payments (almost done with the second portrait), and sketched in my sketchbook too.

Got a new hair oil! Rosemary and mint. It's supposed to help with hair fullness and length

[vio-starclad]

Home made elk steak stir fry hellllll yeah.

[sunskate]

fs photographers are pretty amazing- this one caught Hannah and Ye mid somersault entry to their SlLi

📷: David Kirouac

the more i look at this picture the more impressed i am with them - look how beautiful her position is in the middle of something so difficult 😭

[lonestarflight]

Cancelled Spacecraft: TRW Janus, Manned Orbital Spacecraft with Stage Re-Entry, aka landing with extra steps

"American manned spaceplane. Study 1965. This TRW design of 1965 used a unique concept - a lifting body main stage, that provided both ascent propulsion and re-entry protection.

TRW'S STAGED REENTRY SPACECRAFT VIEWED FROM ABOVE AND AFT. A = JET AIRPLANE COCKPIT CANOPY; B = PANEL COVERING JET AIRPLANE NOSE; C = TOP SURFACE OF JET AIRPLANE FUSELAGE AND WINGS; D = FLAT LIFTING BODY TOP SURFACE; E = JET AIRPLANE HORIZONTAL FLAP (1 OF 2); F = TUBBY LIFTING BODY BELLY; G = EJECTABLE ABORT ROCKET MOTORS (1 OF 2); H = DEORBIT/ABORT ROCKET MOTOR; I = PARACHUTE/LANDING AIDS COMPARTMENT COVER; J = MOVABLE CONTROL FLAP WITH ACTUATOR (1 OF 4); K = FLAT AFT BULKHEAD; L = AIRLOCK OUTER HATCH

"CUTAWAY DRAWING SHOWING JET PLANE (BLUE) NESTED IN UPPER HALF OF LIFTING BODY "POD." NOTE THE JET'S DOWN-TURNED VERTICAL STABILIZERS, ONE OF WHICH IS VISIBLE IN THIS SIDE VIEW."

Status: Study 1965. Gross mass: 7,300 kg (16,000 lb). Height: 8.17 m (26.80 ft). Span: 4.88 m (16.01 ft).

RIDING THE RAILS: TRW'S METHOD FOR MOVING ASTRONAUTS BETWEEN THE LIFTING BODY POD AND THE JET AIRPLANE COCKPIT.

THE JET PLANE SEPARATES FROM THE LIFTING BODY POD. A = EMPTY ABORT ROCKET COMPARTMENT (1 OF 2); B = LIFTING BODY PAYLOAD; C = JET AIRPLANE SEPARATION MECHANISM (1 OF 3); D = PANEL COVERING SUBSYSTEMS (FOR EXAMPLE, LIFE SUPPORT); E = JET ENGINE; F = VERTICAL STABILIZER (1 OF 2); G = VERTICAL CONTROL SURFACE (1 OF 2); H = LANDING SKID (1 OF 2).

The main stage was 8.17 m long, had a 4.88 m wingspan, and could accommodate a payload of 24.4 cubic meter volume. The 7300 kg gross weight included a separable manned aircraft of 6.4 m length, which had a delta wing of 62 degrees sweep and a span of 4.05 m. The vertical stabilizers turned down from each wingtip. After the mother ship had re-entered the atmosphere, the manned aircraft would separate at Mach 0.6 and 9150 m altitude. Equipped with a single turbojet, a nose wheel, and aft landing skids, it would proceed to a landing at a conventional airfield. The main stage would descend to earth under a parachute and be recovered for re-use. The whole concept was strikingly similar to Chelomei's Kosmoplan, which was being cancelled in the Soviet Union just as the TRW study was completed."

-Information from astronautix.com: link

"The pod descends on parachutes and the crew flies to it's preselected landing site."

Photos from April 1965 edition of Space World

Posted on Flickr: link, link, link, link

Photos from Wired.com: link

Photos from SecretProjects.co.uk: link

[mofffun]

Hello there! I'm going to Japan for the first time in March. I thought that the Kingohger pop up store would still exist by then, but I'm wondering from your post, do you think they will sell out of everything so quickly? I'm worried. Thank you for your time ^_^

General Kenobi!

Nah, it's just first day + weekend that the queue is so long. After the initial craze, it should be fine. Go early on show day or pick a weekday if you want to be extra safe.

They have experience in two cities now so things should be better by March. When I went to Osaka's, it was a first day but weekday, and the crowd was gone in 2 hours. The stock is sufficient and only a handful of the hundreds of items were sold out, and they weren't exclusive to the pop-up (Gira and Jeramie sunstar photo frames and the leftover movie moffun stuff that probably has little stock to begin with).

Just keep an eye on their twitter for updates!

[ophexis]

Posting my exo today bc I miss playing this but. I was out of disk space.....

[ikjun]

watching classyc tour @ tokyo dome i know the only reason these fans didn’t pass out seeing changmin and yunho appear on stage is bc they saw them 10 times last year already

[unfortunate-development]

me when i am suddenly told i have work

[vio-starclad]

The new manager/trainer/pro female bodybuilder at the gym said I was looking bigger today

[sunskate]

similar lifts from Morozov/Chen

Martins/Kowalczyk at 🇨🇦 Next Gen

Zingas/Kolesnik FD

[jesseisstuckinside]

@girl-detector

[sanchoyo]

oh also I wanted to mention a lot of why I can do the webcomic is bc my job is remote and really lax in the sense that I can set my own hours and I’m at my desk all day and can kinda doodle when things are slow. And like.. whatever else can be said about the company or the work itself (lack of health insurance, low pay that means I can’t afford to move out..) I’m also so grateful for that aspect of it being relatively low effort just like..mentally. When I was still working at Walmart or some other places, I’d be too mentally drained to draw most days when I got home, even putting aside how physically draining that job was (most days I’d come home shaky because they’d stick me in the heaviest depts like drinks frozen or chemicals ugh) like …I don’t do well with being in public for so long and my brain would be too fried to do much besides lay in a dark room and try to recharge my Brain Power shdjdjdk I have no idea if that makes sense. Mental illnesses. but I’m so grateful for the job I have now (I..had a bad string of jobs right before it, lol) it’s not my passion and given what field it is it prob won’t last forever, but it happened at just the right time for me to WANT to make a comic and also be able to be well enough after my shifts to draw most days which is exciting!!! It’s like it was… idk, very good timing and really lucky. Esp after working it for over a year now I’ve really found my groove with it, I’ll prob be really sad if I have to do a job that’s not so remote in the future. I feel kind of spoiled on this one 😭

[lonestarflight]

Martin X-23A P.R.I.M.E. (Precision Reentry Including Maneuvering reEntry) (SV-5D)

“The ultimate in travel between earth and space, of course, would be a vehicle capable of flying into space and returning on its own.

This would eliminate the need for launching by rockets, a costly business. However, a ship designed to do at least half of the job now has reached an advanced developmental stage.

It’s the Martin Co’s SV-5, a wingless V-shaped space plane that looks, at different angles, like an elongated teardrop or streamlined flat-iron without a handle. The Air Force has announced that the ships, scaled down from the actual size envisioned for them, will be used to explore the effects of hypersonic speeds—of about 17,000 mph—on flights from space down through the earth’s atmosphere. The test vehicles, of course will be unmanned."

"The PRIME project was the second part of the Spacecraft Technology and Advanced Re-entry Tests (START) program. It had the dual objective of testing advances in space hardware and further exploring the development of manned and unmanned lifting body vehicles. On a typical flight, the unmanned SV-5D was launched by an Atlas booster from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. At the high point in its flight path, the Atlas pitched downward while its rocket continued accelerating it to speeds nearly as great as those of the spacecraft re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lifting body's inertial guidance system directed it to a preselected recovery point. Three PRIME test flights were made, the first on Dec. 21, 1966, and the last on April 19, 1967. A scheduled fourth flight was cancelled due to successes of the previous tests."

Artwork by Frank DiPietro

Date: 1965

Mike Acs's Collection: link

Ed Dempsey's collection: link

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