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After 50 long years, America has taken its rightful place back among the stars. Never thought id see it. It took too long. We're all going to make it bros.
The Space Thread - Launches, Events, Live Streams, Governments, Corporations, drama in Spaaaaaaaaaaaace
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I hope we can eventually colonize the moon and do space autism as we were promised as kids.
Fat black lesbian astronauts vs Chinamen taikonauts vs Russian cosmonauts with a side of a laughing European astronaut.
Let’s hope the Indians don’t come to Luna and start moon-shitting. Would be bad for all.
Fat black lesbian astronauts vs Chinamen taikonauts vs Russian cosmonauts with a side of a laughing European astronaut.
Let’s hope the Indians don’t come to Luna and start moon-shitting. Would be bad for all.
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I hope they make it by late 2028, but probably 2029 with the Blue Origin lander most likely.
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I meant the one in two years. I don’t know why we had to take a leaf for this one.
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This mutt lady doesnt look real
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Fuckin Ay, the hard part's done. Humans are orbiting Earth again and tomorrow it's back to the moon and around we go. I've been waiting over 50 years for this now. May it finally signal a return to REAL manned spaceflight once again.
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Absolutely abysmal presenter. Also sack the retard running the switchboard for the livestream.
The whole thing is the hard part, but re-entry has caused more crew deaths than any other segment of manned spaceflight missions.
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You're autistic, this is all veteran flight hardware that is very well understood and has been flying for a long ass time. The chance of it blowing up was very low and most of the "splosions" in Space Flight perception come about because of how Musk has a fetish for seemingly blowing up Starships and calling it progress (it's not progress, you just failed to do basic quality control). Oh, and how striking of a moment Challenger was because of how the mission was basically forced to fly, and it was on national TV and brought into schools.
This is actually a European achievement as well because of the service module being built by Europe, Eurobros keep on winning!!!! - Even though the US could have done this on their own.
It is actually because of the contributions to Artemis and other associated programs which is why astronauts from other countries are launching on Artemis. Japan for instance gets an Astronaut on the moon for what would have been the third moon landing on Artemis V because of them building a Moon Rover - beating out Europe, who would have gotten a seat on Artemis IV to Gateway.
But the entire timeline for Artemis is now fucked because Isaacman cancelled Gateway, which was a means of augmenting Orion's capability where Moon Missions are limited to 2 weeks unless all the crew lands.
Apollo had film cameras and you really can't compete with film when it's actually shot. - It's just "digital is soooo much easier and cheaper".
The Space Shuttle was actually a necessary stop gap with learning how to live into space. Mercury, Gemini and Apollo basically showed that space travel was possible, but it didn't really have any staying power. Now, the Apollo Applications program did bring quite a few things out of it. Voyager came from it, Skylab came from it, which had the Shuttle not been delayed because of engine develop and if there weren't problems
If you're going to go to Mars, you need to make sure you can keep people alive for long periods of time during the transfer from Earth to Mars, for this you needed to know how to live in space. The Space Shuttle did a shit ton of background stuff, it just didn't have the pomp and circumstance of say Apollo. It was Shuttle that launched the Chandra Space Telescope for example, which was quite the tall boy:
Shuttle also performed a shit ton of repair stuff, because that it was optimised to do. The problem of course, is that it was an incredibly dangerous design. But a lot of the stuff the Shuttle did was a necessary stop gap in actually building an understanding of Space.
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What the fuck, I choose not to poke into this thread and missed out on an actual moon mission in my lifetime?
(Yeah yeah, I can just sit and watch the footage now if I want, but seeing it live would've been cool, dammit!)
(Yeah yeah, I can just sit and watch the footage now if I want, but seeing it live would've been cool, dammit!)
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What ever happened to that bloke from Wigan and his dog that went to the moon in 1989 in a homemade rocket?
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No its because Musk doesn't have to worry so much about PR and can do testing in production.
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... Day 5 approaches on the Artemis II mission. After careful consideration, the crew has decided to eject The Black Guy as he has started showing signs of becoming feral from fried chicken deprivation. May he be one with the blackness of outer space...
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here's the live view sans commentary stream, for when it starts:
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Ms. Confederate Woman found this for me, so you all get it now. Have fun tracking it
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HOLY SHIT THEY DOXXED THEM
SOMEONE SEND A PIZZA
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WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN HUMANITY IS GOING TO THE MOON AGAIN!? I THOUGHT WAS BS!
seriously though, space is the final frontier and the day we can make space travel possible would be fucking great for humanity as a whole!
seriously though, space is the final frontier and the day we can make space travel possible would be fucking great for humanity as a whole!
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Except, it is common af for testing to be done in production. Such as when a test tank was purposefully pushed to the limit with SLS
Artemis 1 was also a test flight of Artemis 2, and the main reason as to why Artemis 2 is launching this year despite being meant to be launched earlier was because of NASA wanting to take caution with the Heat Shield, which was pushed beyond normal operating conditions (on purpose) with Artemis 1. This flight is doing a shit ton of testing as well, including the rendezvous system, as well as basically proving Artemis is capable of meeting the needs of future flights.
Oh and hardware for future versions of SLS (this being BOLE, the next generation SRBS) have been tested:
Now, as I've said BOLE is actually important because NASA will run out of left over SRB parts. Meaning, they cannot actively launch shit without them. But yeah, shockingly stuff with Artemis and SLS is tested but there isn't an entire parade everytime NASA does stuff, they love to break stuff. No, SpaceX has basically made iterative testing into his brand when he does stupid shit and is like "see, we're totally going to the moon and blowing shit up is hecking wholesome". Hell, shit was being built for EUS which was being tested but for whatever reason people love to suck off Berger.
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Its okay Fren, you missed the launch, but the mission is still on going. Next up is the Orbital escape burn, the lunar inercept with the Dark Side of the Moon flyby, followed by atmospheric reentry. Shit is just getting started.
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On a miniscule budget of just a mere 24 million dollars.
NASA launched a space craft successfully into space, for the first time in decades, this is a, I dont even have the words to express how happy I am right now.
Why they had ever defunded NASA, is beyond me.
This one is for the history books
NASA launched a space craft successfully into space, for the first time in decades, this is a, I dont even have the words to express how happy I am right now.
Why they had ever defunded NASA, is beyond me.
This one is for the history books