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Nova is a fully reusable orbital rocket in development, with payload capability of 3 metric tons to LEO.
Stoke Aerospace Zenith 1st stage engine. Zenith is a methalox FFSC rocket engine. Nova is a stainless steel fully reusable rocket in development, with a methalox booster that lands the same way Falcon 9 does, and a reusable hydrolox upper stage that uses a regeneratively cooled heat shield.
@[email protected] @StarProphet did one of the tours beforehand and got to see both B1067 and B1096 on their respective pads at the same time. They open the viewing area here for launches from SLC-40, which would be a really good spot if you ever get the chance.
“Common ancestor thing?”
Every bilateral animal on Earth shares most of the same HOX genes for head formation.
The genes tells the head to form, including the same exact spots on the head for the first pair of eyes, and then the nature of each segment from the head to tail. In arthropods, it’s the nature of each segment and its limbs. In vertebrates, it’s each vertebral segment. In most mollusks the body segments are erased, and there’s no segmentation in the complete embryo.
“The chance of another sophont evolving a biped stance exactly like humans (instead of velociraptors, a more stable biped), and even more improbable, having a breathing mouth with nostrils (most animals on Earth have respiratory systems completely separate from the digestive system), was so preposterous that teenage me rejected it.”
Most animals on Earth have a face with eyes, but their bodyplans are radically different from each other.
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