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Im still hype for it and hope it succeeds. I dont want to be here a month from now bitching about how current year NASA diversity hires arent good enough to calculate the correct temperature and trajectory of James Webb's morning coffee as they hand it to him, let alone a manned lunar orbit mission.
 
mindlessobserver said:
The death pay out would probably be cheaper then running the mission twice.
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It would likely be the cheaper than actually the increased costs that would come from renting out the NASA facilities (SLS is the only program to use a lot of NASA facilities like the VAB, so there's an added tax that comes out from the program budget with maintenance before any work is actually done on the big boom sticks).
 
I might be the last person alive on this planet who is still huffing copium over the artemis program. I am looking forward to this upcoming launch and really hope everything goes well, so NASA can get moving on future launches to the moon!
 
Lonjil said:
I might be the last person alive on this planet who is still huffing copium over the artemis program. I am looking forward to this upcoming launch and really hope everything goes well, so NASA can get moving on future launches to the moon!
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Me too 😁

Get us back on the moon before the Chicoms get there
 
mindlessobserver said:
portable ultrasound machine
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I would be really surprised if it was a pregnancy. I suspect female astronauts are required to be on long acting contraception as part of the deal. Also no boners in space? I hadn’t even considered that… you learn something new every day!
Ultrasound could be more likely used for cardiac/venous issues or similar. At such an early stage in pregnancy you also need an internal ultrasound not the one shown.
 
Otterly said:
I would be really surprised if it was a pregnancy. I suspect female astronauts are required to be on long acting contraception as part of the deal. Also no boners in space? I hadn’t even considered that… you learn something new every day!
Ultrasound could be more likely used for cardiac/venous issues or similar. At such an early stage in pregnancy you also need an internal ultrasound not the one shown.
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wait where did you read that astronauts can't get boners in space?
 
Ars Technica: Lawmakers ask what it would take to “store” the International Space Station (archive)
Another add-on to the authorization bill would require NASA to reassess whether to guide the International Space Station (ISS) toward a destructive atmospheric reentry after it is decommissioned in 2030. The space agency’s current plan is to deorbit the space station in 2031 over the Pacific Ocean, where debris that survives the scorching reentry will fall into a remote, unpopulated part of the sea.

The most recent NASA authorization act, passed in 2022, extended the US government’s support for the ISS program until 2030. The amendment tacked onto this year’s bill would not change the timeline for ending operations on the ISS, but it asks NASA to reconsider its decision about what to do with the complex after retirement.
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We might get Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, or the ISS in the Smithsonian after all. Don't count on it though.

Otterly said:
I would be really surprised if it was a pregnancy. I suspect female astronauts are required to be on long acting contraception as part of the deal. Also no boners in space? I hadn’t even considered that… you learn something new every day!
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It was almost certainly the Japanese man that had the medical issue.
 
Holy blap. There's so much unique space gunge growing in that thing already, you'd for sure not want to be the first crew back on a reactivation. Or any crew. They had that problem with Mir. And it was going to be a problem if the absolutely wacky 'reactivate Skylab with Shuttle' plan wasn't overtaken by events.


This guy putting the text together was Chief of Staff at NASA? He ought to know better. I realize upmass is expensive but if anyone's superheavy lift plans work out you're going to be working with obsolete-small modules even if you could bring it back to life.
 
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Vast Haven-1 is going to take into 2027 to get to launch. Shouldn't be entirely surprising, but they were acting like 2026 was a possibility.
The first phase of Haven-1 integration includes installation of the station’s pressurized fluid systems, including thermal control, life support, and propulsion system tubes, and component trays and tanks. These systems will undergo pressure, leak, and functional testing. The second phase of integration will incorporate avionics, guidance, navigation and control systems, and air revitalization hardware. The third and final phase will complete the vehicle with crew habitation and interior closeouts, exterior micrometeoroid and orbital debris (MMOD) shielding, thermal radiator installation, and solar array integration, bringing Haven-1 to a fully flight-ready configuration. Vast remains focused on completing integration and conducting a suite of system environmental tests at NASA’s Neil Armstrong Test Facility later in 2026.
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Based on the current integration timeline, Vast is updating its schedule for Haven-1 to be ready to launch Q1 2027. Haven-1 is contracted to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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Toolbox said:
Vast Haven-1 is going to take into 2027 to get to launch. Shouldn't be entirely surprising, but they were acting like 2026 was a possibility.
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Long-term, they're going to have to move away from the obsessive use of clean-rooms for every single component of a spacecraft, especially if or when any sort of orbital manufacturing is starting up. Sensitive instrumentation like the Webb telescope is one thing, but something that amounts to a portacabin in space shouldn't take so long to build.
 
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