20 minutes until the reentry burn starts. And maybe 21 before the thing blows up. :^)
The landing (assuming all goes well) will be a minute after midnight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ0T-cZWh78
It’s down. Didn’t look like the propulsive landing worked, but it didn’t blow up, just hit hard.
tx
But after my initial post (#14) re seeing the headline as
NASA prepares for Boeing Starliner's unscrewed return to Earth
The positive waves and Messianic signage started free-flowing like crazy from every direction, so 'miracle save' was the big vibe suddenly coming my way.
Years of data (collected since 2015 in this case) started lining right up. The effect reminded me of the MRI story yesterday out of Mountain View, of the equipment simply doing what it does naturally. There was no going back for that wheelchair.
I'm barely scratching the surface here without posting the massive background info/inspiration, but it would never be enough for the already-decideds anyway. For documentation and future reference:
Suny (Sunita) named this Starliner "Calypso" on December 22, 2019, upon first landing. 24 Kislev, 5780.
Starliner [סטארליינר] -- (= 570) mainly derived from "star"
Calypso [קליפסו] -- (= 286) named for Jacques Cousteau's research ship which had been named for Calypso:
The name Calypso derives from the Ancient Greek καλύπτω (kalyptō),[2][3] meaning 'to cover', 'to conceal', or 'to hide';[3][4] as such, her name translates to 'she who conceals'.[5] According to the medieval dictionary Etymologicum Magnum, her name means 'concealing the knowledge' (from Greek: καλύπτουσα το διανοούμενον, romanized: kalýptousa to dianooúmenon), which – combined with the Homeric epithet δολόεσσα (dolóessa, meaning 'subtle' or 'wily') – justifies the reclusive character of Calypso and her island.[6]
(The name crisscrosses with words like crypt, crypto, grotto, grave, cave, cavern.. on and on into instruments named in reference to a soundbox).
In related views, voices rise from the crypts all of the time:
A sound box or sounding box (sometimes written soundbox) is an open chamber in the body of a musical instrument which modifies the sound of the instrument, and helps transfer that sound to the surrounding air.
"Starliner Calypso", compared to "Esther":
Esther [אסתר] means "star" and "I will be hidden". The word for a scroll (megillah) is rooted in revealing as in an unrolling/rolling/wave, which is why the full name of the Megillah (Megillat Esther) is described as the "revealing of the hidden".
The Book of Esther (Hebrew: מְגִלַּת אֶסְתֵּר, romanized: Megillat Ester; Greek: Ἐσθήρ; Latin: Liber Esther), also known in Hebrew as "the Scroll" ("the Megillah"), is a book in the third section (Ketuvim, כְּתוּבִים "Writings") of the Hebrew Bible.
The Megillah [המגילה] = 93
Ride the wave:
Mission duration Planned: 8 days
Capsule Final: 93 days, 13 hours, 9 minutes
Crew: 93 days, 17 hours, 28 minutes
When trying to pull up the lyrics for the key passages, Google's default kept appearing in Dutch for some odd reason. I'd never seen that, but I wasn't going to hit the lyrics sites which are notoriously riddled with viruses and sketchy code.
Bing provided:
To sail on a dream, on a crystal clear ocean
To ride on the crest of a wild raging storm
To work in the service of life and the living
In search of the answers to questions unknown
To be a part of the movement, part of the growing
Part of beginning, to understand
Aye, Calypso, the places you've been to
The things that you've shown us, the stories you tell
Aye, Calypso, I sing to your spirit
The men who have served you so long and so well
Perhaps AI got all discombobulated because John Denver's surname was Deutschendorf by birth, and the Pennsylvania Dutch aren't Dutch.
What else gets misapprehended in translation -- lost in the woods -- that we *don't* know about? It's Always Something.
Calypso made her own way back to shore -- alone, but she's in good shape for the shape she's in!