Mayday delay

The most shocking thing about recent delay of the Boeing Starliner’s first crewed flight is that it has been delayed due to technical problems in the ULA Atlas V Centaur second stage, and not in the Boeing’s engineering masterpiece.

However, the ISS is still over our heads, relatively low in the gravity well, so heaven may wait for an oxygen valve’s decent cut on Steam.

Things could have turned for the worse, had it been the flight to the Moon that they scrubbed. After all, per words of NASA tribal chief Jim Nelson himself, the Moon doesn’t turn,

hence the Starliner team would have been able to access it only from the side where the endless dark reigns.

I’m generally not a prominent conspiracy theorist in things concerning space exploration, but from this hearing alone one could easily comprehend why some folks strongly suspect that the Moon that NASA blithely proclaims their goal is not the same Moon that is said to have been visited by humans during the Apollo flights. Maybe it is even haunted.

Luckily, Chinese probe, Chang’e 6, shall provide us with sufficiently bright photos from the dark side of the Moon very soon, in early June, when, if ever, come perfect days for Jim Nelson to practice amateur astronomy.

Ostensibly, NASA needs a slight logo correction, namely, an addition of a glass prism and a Newton’s rainbow.