Space Exploration

[CagleMtnVol]

 

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[twoffo]

The latest rendering for the first Martian city is interesting:

 

[Orangeburst]

I gotta ask..

why would anyone want live on Mars?If it is mineral extraction, just send machines.

 

[LouderVol]

I gotta ask..

why would anyone want live on Mars?If it is mineral extraction, just send machines.

explore, sense of adventure, be the first in history, get away from a crappy life on earth/fresh start, opportunity to get rich, bang aliens, be the first to do something, experience low gravity life.

people chose to live in Florida before air conditioning. after that any thing seems reasonable to me.

 

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[CagleMtnVol]

I gotta ask..

why would anyone want live on Mars?If it is mineral extraction, just send machines.

I'm sure some European asked someone why would you want to live in the America's?

Someone from a eastern colony asked why would you want to go west into the frontier where the natives and who knows what else is in there.

Why would you want to cross the Mississippi by wagon train and scratch out a homestead among violent natives?

 

[CagleMtnVol]

I'm saddened by this but it seemed there was no interest in ever getting him confirmed. Hopefully he continues to work with SpaceX on leading future space missions.

 

[twoffo]

Landing attempt tomorrow afternoon:

 

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An update on the Blue Origin lander program: Lunar landers and 'Transporter' tankers: Blue Origin unveils its blueprint for the moon

 

[CagleMtnVol]

An update on the Blue Origin lander program: Lunar landers and 'Transporter' tankers: Blue Origin unveils its blueprint for the moon

That's awfully bold of them considering they haven't reached orbit yet.

 

[OrangeTsar]

That's awfully bold of them considering they haven't reached orbit yet.

I thought Blue Origin had made one orbital launch with New Glenn?

 

[CagleMtnVol]

I thought Blue Origin had made one orbital launch with New Glenn?

Your right I'd forgot about that.

 

[twoffo]

Second New Glenn launch slips toward fall as program leadership departs

We need to produce a lot of second stages.

arstechnica.com

 

[OrangeTsar]

Your right I'd forgot about that.

Easy to do. I had to think a few minutes trying to remember

 

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“NASA and Axiom Space are postponing the launch of Axiom Mission 4 to the International Space Station. As part of an ongoing investigation, NASA is working with Roscosmos to understand a new pressure signature, after the recent post-repair effort in the aft most segment of the International Space Station’s Zvezda service module.”

 

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[OrangeTsar]

The chance of a catastrophic failure of one of the modules due to metal fatigue is no longer trivial. And if I am not mistaken, the module currently leaking is the one through which the cosmonauts would have to traverse to reach their Soyuz life boat. They are going to mess around and get someone killed if they don’t decommission this thing soon. And that also requires that development of the unmanned dragon derived deorbit tug has to be put on highest priority