SpaceX and other space stuff

[ahc]

The good news:

NASA to Study a $700 Quintillion ‘Goldmine’ Asteroid

The potentially bad news:

Higher but still slim odds of asteroid Bennu slamming Earth

 

[Winslow]

Higher but still slim odds of asteroid Bennu slamming Earth

1. Find out where it's going to hit

2. Publicize a "vaccine free zone" on that spot

 

[Deleted member 165050]

Must dig out Deep Impact from the DVD collection. And Survivors.

 

[Jeff Siddall]

Or Greenland...

 

[ahc]

NASA thinks it solved the mystery of the Perseverance rover's missing rock sample, but now it has to drive away and try again

 

[StereoPlayer]

Starliner/Boeing cancelled again. Who would even want to go to space in a spacecraft that has that many problems?

 

[ahc]

Starliner/Boeing cancelled again. Who would even want to go to space in a spacecraft that has that many problems?

Every space program has had setbacks and failures. Think back to the Vanguard and Redstone failures before Project Mercury. The Apollo 1 preflight test tragedy and the Challenger and Columbia disasters on the "proven" Space Shuttle. VSS Enterprise (Spaceship 2) was a calamity. Space, and all that it entails is a dangerous place.

 

[Winslow]

Starliner/Boeing cancelled again. Who would even want to go to space in a spacecraft that has that many problems?

Cosmonauts?

 

[ahc]

A Chinese satellite seems to have collided with a piece of a Russian rocket in March - the first big space crash in a decade

 

[ahc]

Someone Is Trying to Build a STAR TREK Impulse Engine for Interstellar Travel

 

[Jon Clegg]

Not exactly a vote of confidence...
A lead engineer at Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin has left to join Elon Musk's SpaceX. He was working on Blue Origin's moon lander.

 

[Winslow]

He was working on Blue Origin's moon lander.

Sounds like he was ready to...













...jump ship.

 

[Clank Plank]

Blue Origin deliberately delays America's return to tnhe moon...

Blue Origin suit stops work on NASA HLS contract with SpaceX - SpaceNews

 

[Jon Clegg]

Blue Origin deliberately delays America's return to tnhe moon...

Blue Origin suit stops work on NASA HLS contract with SpaceX - SpaceNews

Further contributing to the Elon Musk = Tony Stark; Jeff Bezos = Lex Luthor meme.

 

[ahc]

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[StereoPlayer]

Blue Origin is launching at 9:35AM

 

[fig]

@ahc , this is encouraging news with a practical demo for debris removal. Man, it so needs to be done.

Blue Origin is launching at 9:35AM

Thanks for the heads up. Just tuned in 10 minutes after launch time, it's still on deck. Very nice of them to wait for me. LOL

 

[StereoPlayer]

@ahc , this is encouraging news with a practical demo for debris removal. Man, it so needs to be done.


Thanks for the heads up. Just tuned in 10 minutes after launch time, it's still on deck. Very nice of them to wait for me. LOL

Tick…tick…tick…

 

[fig]

Tick…tick…tick…

Well, they were nice enough to delay for my breakfast, too. Such accommodating folk. LOL

Ok...maybe that's not the reason...

 

[fig]

Glad to see the mission was completed and successful.

Liked the camera shots at the end. Booster back on deck, the capsule, under 'chutes, drifting down at a lazy 16mph (26kmh) off in the distance.

The announcer was just giddy and excited to be doing her job, which is always good. Thought she was gonna have one of them thar organisms ya hear about.