Space - Spacex, NASA, Rocket Lab
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THUMP. Fuck that hit hard.
Lots of flame.Does not look 100% successful but better than previous
Amazing they landed it. Great progress, we are in the future.
landing on a single engine just blows my mind. The team Musk has funded has arguably done more than any single human in terms of advancing human spaceflight. It's amazing.
Was explaining to the kids we are on the cusp of a re-usable mars vehicle. That is not something I expected in my lifetime
FIFY
makes you wonder what NASA was doing with their billions since they landed on the moon
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@kiwiwomble said in SpaceX:
THUMP. Fuck that hit hard.
Lots of flame.Does not look 100% successful but better than previous
Amazing they landed it. Great progress, we are in the future.
landing on a single engine just blows my mind. The team Musk has funded has arguably done more than any single human in terms of advancing human spaceflight. It's amazing.
Was explaining to the kids we are on the cusp of a re-usable mars vehicle. That is not something I expected in my lifetime
FIFY
makes you wonder what NASA was doing with their billions since they landed on the moon
NASA got screwed by alternating politicians and a tender process that delivered pork to donors.
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@kiwiwomble said in SpaceX:
THUMP. Fuck that hit hard.
Lots of flame.Does not look 100% successful but better than previous
Amazing they landed it. Great progress, we are in the future.
landing on a single engine just blows my mind. The team Musk has funded has arguably done more than any single human in terms of advancing human spaceflight. It's amazing.
Was explaining to the kids we are on the cusp of a re-usable mars vehicle. That is not something I expected in my lifetime
FIFY
makes you wonder what NASA was doing with their billions since they landed on the moon
nah, you broke it.
It is absolutely the team. But it's because he's got a vision, and throws money at it. No one else has done that as successfully as I can see, and been willing to publicly blow up rockets to get where he wants. He hasn't done it himeself, but he has funded, directed and inspired it
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@kirwan yeah, was a bit tongue in cheek
They also just seemed to have a different focus, "science in space" rather than much development on how to get to space cheaper or more regularly
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@kiwiwomble said in SpaceX:
@kirwan yeah, was a bit tongue in cheek
They also just seemed to have a different focus, "science in space" rather than much development on how to get to space cheaper or more regularly
They have the same goals as SpaceX really, you get more science in space when you have payload of Starship and Falcon Heavy.
They constantly have had their budgets cut, and then have to build stuff they didn't want. The space shuttle was supposed to be a space truck and be super reusuable. They had to build it much larger and complex than they wanted to accomodate spy satellites from the military, for example.
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They constantly have had their budgets cut, and then have to build stuff they didn't want. The space shuttle was supposed to be a space truck and be super reusuable. They had to build it much larger and complex than they wanted to accomodate spy satellites from the military, for example.
...and give it wings so that it is 'flown'. Carting airframes up to space and back ... isn't very efficient.
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@kiwiwomble said in SpaceX:
@kirwan yeah, was a bit tongue in cheek
They also just seemed to have a different focus, "science in space" rather than much development on how to get to space cheaper or more regularly
They have the same goals as SpaceX really, you get more science in space when you have payload of Starship and Falcon Heavy.
They constantly have had their budgets cut, and then have to build stuff they didn't want. The space shuttle was supposed to be a space truck and be super reusuable. They had to build it much larger and complex than they wanted to accomodate spy satellites from the military, for example.
i think we're essentially saying the same thing, nasa was force to do a wide variety of stuff rather than spaceX's seemly more linear focus
once nasa had the space shuttle they used it for over 30 years to do all kinds of other stuff
spacex, and maybe because theyre still new, seemed to be focused on making this "new" idea work, im sure once it works we'll see a change
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did i read the Rocketlap were going to start working on manned rockets? thats will be interesting to watch too
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@kiwiwomble said in SpaceX:
did i read the Rocketlap were going to start working on manned rockets? thats will be interesting to watch too
Yes. First step is the Neutron, a new rocket in development
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Live Stream | Rocket Lab
A live webcast of the launch will begin on this page approximately 20 minutes prior to the target T-0 time.
really interesting video, apparently rocketlab are sending a satellite to a Luna orbit to assist NASA return to the moon, thats cool
not this launch but later in the year
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@kiwiwomble said in Rocket Lab:
Live Stream | Rocket Lab
A live webcast of the launch will begin on this page approximately 20 minutes prior to the target T-0 time.
really interesting video, apparently rocketlab are sending a satellite to a Luna orbit to assist NASA return to the moon, thats cool
not this launch but later in the year
Bought a few shares. Hopefully they take them to the moon as well
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@kirwan i think i have watched that video 3 times today
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@mariner4life said in NASA:
@kirwan i think i have watched that video 3 times today
It's pretty amazing all right. Nice to a "first" after decades of what feels like nothing. The fact we could see humans on the moon in the next five years is fantastic.
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whats the atmosphere on Mars like? i wonder how different the chopper had to be to fly, or is more similar in density than i think? just the breakability that's an issue?
