Space: the Vinyl Frontier

We spent a small amount of our hard-earned 'extra' money (read: from chopping Dan's hair off) on a photo backdrop that we can use as a stage piece for our outreach, as a super-authentic vignette for our team pictures, and as a general morale booster in these weeks of frustrating testing:

(Viewers should not be alarmed by the lack of EVA suits on our team; Julie has been properly trained and equipped, and is safe from both depressurization, hypoxia, and cosmic rays.)

SUBLIMINAL MESSAGE: EVERYONE COME TO OUR FUNDRAISER THIS SATURDAY 24 FEB. ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS BUY BEER AND THEN DRINK IT.

We isolated the issue with our first servo test (we're convinced that we were just asking too much, mechanically, of our servos) and have Ol' Foamy ticking happily along, as you can see in the video below: