Space Exploration

Are NASA's future missions and budget justified?

  • It's worth the time and expenditures

    Votes: 213 66.1%

  • Complete waste of money

    Votes: 40 12.4%

  • We need to explore, but not at the current cost

    Votes: 69 21.4%
  • Total voters
    322
#2,127
#2,127
If anyone else has claustrophobia like me, this is not a good profession. I can't imagine being these guys and pretty much being immobile for hours. If you've ever been to the Kennedy space center museum look inside a Mercury or Gemini space capsule, holy crap you might as well stuff yourself into a coffin.
 
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Matt2496 said:
Saturday doesn't look much better weather-wise either.
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Sunday is a 3rd opportunity if needed. Had they had like 10-15 more minutes they would probably had a clear window. Unfortunately everything is down to the second from fueling the rocket etc. that they only have seconds on the launch window to be able to rendezvous with the ISS.

Now with Dragon they have to check weather down range for a possible crew abort if they have to be rescued as well as the drone ship where the Falcon 9 would land.
 
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The FAA today officially gave SpaceX a 2-year approval to launch suborbital test flights from it's Boca Chica facility.


 
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