Hmmm...
Dr. Zarkov's rocket:
"Radar Men From the Moon" aka "Commando Cody"
Rocketship XM starring Lloyd Bridges
and... Boca Chica???
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SpaceX and other space stuff
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Hmmm...
Dr. Zarkov's rocket:
"Radar Men From the Moon" aka "Commando Cody"
Rocketship XM starring Lloyd Bridges
and... Boca Chica???
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Just saw this scrolling through the “Amazing Photos” thread...
Yeah, I was worried about reentry too. Evidently the sample return device will be able to seal up the goodies and bring 'em home.
From what I've read the first Hayabusa mission didn't bring back anything "earth shattering".
There were some problems with the mission and they only got dust particles. There might have been some contamination too. What they did get was consistent with samples from meteorites, Mars and the moon. I pasted an overview below. The Hayabusa2 sample return is due on December 6th.Hayabusa: Troubled Sample-Return Mission | Space
The asteroid missions are cool and all, but I think some folks are getting too high of expectations. All an asteroid is is a pile of rocks.
We have a huge pile of rocks not far from where we live. I could wander around that pile of rocks all day and not find anything, but it'll be fun looking. The same is going to happen here, but the journey there and back will be fun.
-Mike
We have a huge pile of rocks not far from where we live. I could wander around that pile of rocks all day and not find anything, but it'll be fun looking. The same is going to happen here, but the journey there and back will be fun.
-Mike
O what a glorious boon,
To have a car on the Moon.
No worry of rust,
Just plenty of dust,
To kick up while being a hoon!
The pile of rocks you can walk to has been subject to several million years of geology, weather, pollution, and other terrestrial effects. They can tell you about "down here, right now." The piles of rocks that make up asteroids have been floating around unbothered by weather and people since the formation of the solar system, and can tell us far more about "out there, back then." A key benefit comes from getting more information about what kinds of elements were present when things formed, versus what was formed on Earth.
Still fun, of course.
Mission 100 for SpaceX today. Successful as usual.
-Mike
-Mike
Big announcement from NASA about the moon tomorrow at 12 PM Eastern:
NASA will share an 'exciting new discovery' about the moon on Monday. Listen to the announcement live.
NASA will share an 'exciting new discovery' about the moon on Monday. Listen to the announcement live.
I heard one of the Astronauts say the moon dust was like snow. Interesting.
O what a glorious boon,
To have a car on the Moon.
No worry of rust,
Just plenty of dust,
To kick up while being a hoon!
I've certainly heard (Aldrin / Armstrong, or maybe Cernan, if I recall) reference it as being exactly like talcum powder.
$99 a month and $499 up front for hardware for maybe 150 meg? Pass.
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-Mike
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There's a lot of it, with the plan being to turn it into rocket fuel.
Refinerys will be built on the moon, and that fuel will supply manned vehicles going on long range missions.
That brings down the cost of getting long range vehicles into space (they only need to carry enough fuel to escape the earths gravity, and then they collect / dock with a ready and waiting fuel tank, in orbit around the moon, and possibly Earth).
It won't apply to vehicles going to the ISS, or the moon. But manned missions to Mars, or Europa, and possibly time sensitive (unmanned) supply missions, will definitely benefit, and be significantly cheaper.
Sadly, I think the only people who'll enjoy drinking "Moon water", will be the people working on the moon. The sheer weight of water would make bringing it back to Earth prohibitively expensive, for anyone that has more sense than money.
I know it wasn’t gonna be...but somewhere in my mind I was hoping for free internet service service for the world!
I'm surprised how expensive it is. If they aim to bring internet to parts of the world that don't have it, those kinds of prices are going to be out of reach for many people in those areas.
Perhaps the pricing details leaked in that article are incorrect.
-Mike
