Space Exploration

Are NASA's future missions and budget justified?

  • It's worth the time and expenditures

    Votes: 225 66.2%

  • Complete waste of money

    Votes: 41 12.1%

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

    Votes: 74 21.8%
  • Total voters
    340
#6,179
#6,179
CagleMtnVol said:
Apparently Floght 10 may launch early this evening.

I haven't been keeping an eye on it.
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I’ve been anxiously awaiting this one in hopes of finally getting a Block 2 Starship (I REFUSE to refer to it as V2 for reasons any student of Rocket history knows 😂) all they way through controlled reentry.
The think I can’t believe on this attempt is that if they didn’t even complete stacking the rocket until last night. I don’t think I have ever seen any rocket launched less than 24 hours after final configuration.
 
#6,180
#6,180
OrangeTsar said:
I’ve been anxiously awaiting this one in hopes of finally getting a Block 2 Starship (I REFUSE to refer to it as V2 for reasons any student of Rocket history knows 😂) all they way through controlled reentry.
The think I can’t believe on this attempt is that if they didn’t even complete stacking the rocket until last night. I don’t think I have ever seen any rocket launched less than 24 hours after final configuration.
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Glad its from Texas and not the cape. Don't want no rocket pieces smacking me in the noggin.
 
#6,181
#6,181
lawgator1 said:
Glad its from Texas and not the cape. Don't want no rocket pieces smacking me in the noggin.
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Cannot happen as flight paths go over the ocean and suborbital velocity means it will be incapable of coming back around to the U.S.
But I understand the concern. But you and the rest of the human race can rest easy in this one
 
#6,184
#6,184
OrangeTsar said:
Cannot happen as flight paths go over the ocean and suborbital velocity means it will be incapable of coming back around to the U.S.
But I understand the concern. But you and the rest of the human race can rest easy in this one
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I had a sonic boom from one wake me up at midnight last week.
 
#6,194
#6,194
SpaceX’s rapid pace is still unlike anything I have ever seen in the Space Industry. You had workers replacing a major propellant feed line on the launch tower five hours before a scheduled launch. NASA or ULA would have spent at least a week testing the repair.
SpaceX; as long as it doesn’t start leaking again, we are good to go 😂
 
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