However, each of the four attempts to launch an N1 failed in flight, with the second attempt resulting in the vehicle crashing back onto its launch pad shortly after liftoff.
Energia flew successfully in both attempts, but died with the collapse of the USSR:
The final design for the rocket was expected to be complete by autumn 2021, but the program appears to have been paused or stopped just before this expected completion date.
In 2024, it was announced that the project will resume in 2025.
The first launch was expected to happen in 2033 from the Vostochny cosmodrome.
I'm guessing graft has eaten most of this project's funding.
The only thing in this image that is actually operational is the Falcon Heavy:
200 years ago naturalists were still stealing human bodies from fresh graves to try to learn something about anatomy and causes of death, because Christians believed that dissecting the body would prevent the deceased from being resurrected when Christ returned to Earth. And they were still debating the germ theory of disease.
By the time of the American Civil War (1861-1865) there was enough understanding of infections that field doctors knew they needed to remove damaged limbs to prevent disease from spreading through the body, which led to amputation being the most common surgical procedure performed during the war:
Over the course of the Civil War, three out of four surgeries (or close to 60,000 operations) were amputations.
...because they knew the infection would spread but they didn't have any method for stopping it short of hacking off the entire limb as cleanly as possible.
It just... it hasn't been that long that we've had anything that you would consider actual medical practice.
The discovery of penicillin would not happen until 1928, and useful cultivation and production would not happen until 1939. Anytime earlier than that you'll have really high odds of dying from an infection acquired through what we would consider a common, simple injury.
"...it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization"
This is an increasing problem and I'm not sure how the open source community is going to deal with it. It's been a big problem with NPM packages and also Python libraries over the past five years. There's a bunch of malicious typo-squatting stuff in many package repositories (say you want libcurl but you type libcrul, congratulations it's probably there and it'll probably install libcurl for you and bring a fun friend along).
Now with AI slop code getting submitted, it's not really possible to check every new package upload. And who's going to volunteer for that work?
Someday soon an AI company will win a court case where they argue that their LLM is an expression of their free speech rights per Citizens United and is therefore legally allowed to say whatever it wants and in fact has the same rights to freedom of expression as the corporation itself does.
This precedent will be the basis on which future AI rights are eventually won, not out of egalitarianism or altruism or respect for (possible) sentience, but because corporations want to avoid liability for the behavior of their products.
Might also be worth pointing out in an HOA meeting that if this guy buys and configures the cameras himself then he has access to watch everybody. How much does the rest of the community trust this guy to not be creeping on everyone else?
It seems weird to compare successful launch systems with ones that never flew, as if they were somehow equivalent:
Energia flew successfully in both attempts, but died with the collapse of the USSR:
SLS has only launched once and will probably get cut before anything more than Block 1 flies:
Starship has had several successful launches of Block 1 but none of Block 2 yet:
Long March 9 and 10 are both still in development and have not seen any test launches, though theoretically CZ-10A will fly next year:
The first planned launch of NGLV (the base model, not the super heavy) is still 6 years away:
And Yenesei probably only exists on paper:
I'm guessing graft has eaten most of this project's funding.
The only thing in this image that is actually operational is the Falcon Heavy:
Everything else is either history, or aspirational.