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Big Dumb Booster @buccaneerboosters.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Meschiane: I saw a tame tiger with fangs longer than my hand. What shall we call him? Meschia: Whatever he wants. From "The Claw of the Conciliator" (Eschatology and Genesis) by Gene Wolfe.

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Big Dumb Booster @buccaneerboosters.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Flight 14: -Made it to orbit: finally -Still losing engines, meaning truncated mission: come on. Not really a failure but not much of a success. SpaceX just doesn't seem interested in fixing Starship.

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Big Dumb Booster @buccaneerboosters.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

For comparison: a crude render of Spectrum, the first successful German private rocket and OTRAG, the first German private rocket.

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Big Dumb Booster @buccaneerboosters.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The biggest problem with the internet is that it's a positive feedback loop for increasingly anti-social behavior.

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Big Dumb Booster @buccaneerboosters.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Using a typewriter to write. Pro: sounds cool. Con: I make lots of typos, apparently.

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Big Dumb Booster @buccaneerboosters.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Anyone else start dreaming of dead cities below the ocean after the Falcon 9 hit the moon?

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Big Dumb Booster @buccaneerboosters.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

One of the nicer shots of Atlantis on the Mate/Demate Device after STS-44.

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Big Dumb Booster @buccaneerboosters.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Went well enough. It would be more impressive if this was Flight 2, not 13. Still losing tiles, there's damage to the airframe, and Super Heavy was lost again. On the same flight path as the others. At some point, this thing has to actually work.

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Big Dumb Booster @buccaneerboosters.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

For the 23rd Party Congress, we'll be discussing Luna 10 because STS-75's recording had an issue. www.youtube.com/watch?v=q94N...

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First to Orbit the Moon | Luna 10 | End of Mission Episode 49

YouTube video by Pressure-Fed Astronaut

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Big Dumb Booster @buccaneerboosters.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

To reiterate: it's abundantly clear the Starship program is a colossal systems engineering failure. Despite cries of "iteration", we are at the thirteenth flight and third version of this vehicle and it still lacks basic functionality.

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Big Dumb Booster @buccaneerboosters.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Spoke to the Eternal President today for 20 minutes. I swear I saw him get his skull ventilated by a rebel last week. Strange times we live in. Anyway, back to trying to make OTRAG work.

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Big Dumb Booster @buccaneerboosters.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I remembered how to make pretty space shots. Pictured here is one of Buccaneer's planned space services.

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Big Dumb Booster @buccaneerboosters.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

What do I bring up more: orbital mechanics or the ISS's configuration? We're talking "Gravity"! www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GSr...

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Angular Pedantry | Gravity (STS-157) | End of Mission Special Episode 14

YouTube video by Pressure-Fed Astronaut

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Big Dumb Booster @buccaneerboosters.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

It's called hard science fiction because you have to do a lot of hard math.

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Big Dumb Booster @buccaneerboosters.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

More things to read for my "Bad Arguments About Space" series* (which is real I'm totally working on it it just goes to another school you wouldn't know about it okay). *Nothing against this article. I want to be able to find it again.

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Big Dumb Booster @buccaneerboosters.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

AMROC's Aquila 31, the 1992 version with H-1500 hybrids, an Orbus 21s third stage, and U-75 hybrid upper stage. Remade the logo myself.

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Big Dumb Booster @buccaneerboosters.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

So... do we have a space program anymore?

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Big Dumb Booster @buccaneerboosters.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Caravel is now gay in celebration of Pride Month.

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Big Dumb Booster @buccaneerboosters.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

A celebration of 4k subscribers is underway, starting with audio issues and New Glenn exploding (I had nothing to do with it). www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkfF...

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4,050 Subscriber Special! (And New Glenn Blew Up)

YouTube video by Pressure-Fed Astronaut

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Big Dumb Booster @buccaneerboosters.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

So... who wants to make a lunar lander bid? (Yes, I will make you talk like a pirate.)

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Big Dumb Booster @buccaneerboosters.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

What am I supposed to say? It didn't blow up, but it's still losing engines, parts are still falling off, and whatever happened to Super Heavy. Am I supposed to be impressed? We're at Flight 12 and there's basically no real progress.

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Big Dumb Booster @buccaneerboosters.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Yes, I am pleased to announce my very cool space hotel that you should buy tickets to visit without any renders based on this simple and not suspicious at all announcement.

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Big Dumb Booster @buccaneerboosters.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I have been inside the 16" gun turret of a World War II battleship (USS Alabama). Very crammed, but cool.

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Big Dumb Booster @buccaneerboosters.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Heads up, End of Mission folks: Mariner 4 is coming Saturday the 16th without the standard posts. I'll be on vacation (and reading "Book of the New Sun").

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Big Dumb Booster @buccaneerboosters.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Only 4 months behind schedule! Let's take a look at some, not all, Europa III proposals. (More coming later this year, I promise.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Srzz...

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Europa III | Know Your Rocket

YouTube video by Pressure-Fed Astronaut

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Big Dumb Booster @buccaneerboosters.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I keep forgetting the Wikipedia OTRAG article doesn't use the right design/model for the rocket. It's clearly Interorbital's Neptune or concept art of something like it. Should I fix it?

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Big Dumb Booster @buccaneerboosters.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

It's fun reading the press kits for old Shuttle missions. They tell you everything: where the experiments are in Spacelab, basic wiring diagrams, and the names of each experiment. Even better when there are diagrams of the experiments themselves.

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Big Dumb Booster @buccaneerboosters.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Got any more of them Moon missions? This one was pretty fun. Can we do it again?

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Big Dumb Booster @buccaneerboosters.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Ladies, yes, I will name a Moon (or other body) crater after you given the opportunity. (This is the part where you slide into my DMs and I forget to respond because I have crippling social anxiety.)

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Big Dumb Booster @buccaneerboosters.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

The Eternal President came to me again, asking about going to the Moon himself, mentioning the propaganda value of the whole thing. When reminded of the expense of a moon program, he laughed and said he converted to Islam to get money from Gadaffi.

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Big Dumb Booster @buccaneerboosters.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Guys. Someone laid eggs in my house. This isn't funny anymore. Also, the President said what?

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Big Dumb Booster @buccaneerboosters.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Going back to the Moon! Best of luck to the Artemis II crew despite their lack of protein crystal growth experiments. (And yes, the ending half hour is incoherent rambling about the changes to the program.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfzS...

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What? No Protein Crystals? | Artemis II | End of Mission Special Episode 16

YouTube video by Pressure-Fed Astronaut

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Big Dumb Booster @buccaneerboosters.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Soviet space hardware has a certain look to it I like. (This is from the Energia-Buran Archive.)

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Big Dumb Booster @buccaneerboosters.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Mir, late June 1995, taken during STS-71.

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Big Dumb Booster @buccaneerboosters.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Making renders for the End of Mission Interstellar Probe special is going well. Building a 1000km diameter solar sail is easy, right?

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