Let's Watch: Space

Mike Stoklasa

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This is an ongoing happening that keeps happening. It's cool stuff and we have the technology to broadcast all aspects of it. What am I talking about? Space! Launches, cargo missions, landings, experiments, meteors!!! and (god willing) all-out warfare.

What's going on in space today??

Currently SpaceX has their Crew-4 mission docking with the International Space Sation. Check out the livestream!


The crew capsule has cameras in it and giant screens so you can see the readouts. It is really cool stuff and there are commentators going over all sorts of details. This is the fucking future. They even have this cool camera mounted on the spacecraft to see what they see. Watch this neat Star Trek shit, they are about to dock! And docking is rad.

That front-mounted camera is fucking awesome. The shots from it are super kino.
 
I've lost interest in watching Falcon 9 launches, which is a good thing. We want access to space to become so commonplace and safe that most of it is routine and boring.

Starship on the other hand, I'll put on a NASASpaceFlight live stream of a cryo test that doesn't even happen. The FAA and possibly other agencies have thrown a giant spanner into the Starship program, delaying an orbital launch by months, but thankfully there is a lot of work SpaceX can still do without launching anything.

If Starship meets its most ambitious estimates of cost to orbit, everything should change. No more space telescopes that are a decade late because they have to be just right the first time, missions to Titan, Pluto, Uranus, etc. can go from concept to execution in a few years instead of decades. It will also give SpaceX an even bigger competitive advantage for launching Starlink satellites.
 
I don’t see how this is a big deal. We’ve been to the moon several times back in the 60s and 70s. Why is it so fucking hard to send people to a station that isn’t even in outer space?
 
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