** The Official Space Flight Thread - The Space Station and Beyond **

Delvis said:
So many daft people on YouTube all like 'oh wow it's still live Amazing', 'hey insaw this view the other day it's fake', 'why are there no stars', '''ere are the satellites'
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yep love the star one, same as apollo landings, and yet its the same issue as on earth.You're focusing on a bright object of course camera isnt going to show stars up. But people are dumb and love to fight the system so make stupid statements.
 
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So the Trump administration wants to stop funding the ISS in 2024.

In its budget request, to be released Monday, the administration would request $150 million in fiscal year 2019, with more in additional years “to enable the development and maturation of commercial entities and capabilities which will ensure that commercial successors to the ISS — potentially including elements of the ISS — are operational when they are needed.”
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So, privatising the ISS. That sounds like a good idea, I mean, privatisation has always been a great thing right. Right?? :confused:

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Good the iss is a hinderence, it swallows up vast amounts of money. Which could be going towards a moon base or deep space gateway.
It's also very old and is taking ever more time to repair.
Privatising it is pointless, a due to repair time and b due to Bigelow expandable habitats, 2 of their large ones gives you more pressurised volume than the iss.

Iss needs to have longer duration missions. Like 2 years. They also need to test new equipment. Really should send up the centrifugal beds and see how they work,as well as modern co2 scrubbers.test the tech for the first gen private stations.

NASA can then buy a Bigelow station and turn it into the deep space network.

And rivatisation in space works extremely well.becuase unfortunately Congress dictate NASA what to do and why the sls has allready cost over 15bn compared to less than 1bn for falcon heavy. Same with flight costs have around 100m, SLS being close to 1bn we launch.
NASA should build future stuff outside of what privatte companies can do. Not only are they not doing that, they spend many more times the money to develope stuff private industry surpasses.

Oh and they need to test a new toilet.
 
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Good shots but the screaming, why is twitch and YouTube filled with over the top screaming g,I just don't get the appeal. People obviously love it though.


Just think what NASA could do with all that money. SLS is costing 2.8bn a year to develop and just the3 yeardelay for their maiden launch with rumours of a further 3 year delay to 2023.

For the sake of argument, consider the costs of this three-year delay against the lift capability NASA could have bought by purchasing Falcon Heavy rockets from SpaceX in 2018, 2019, and 2020. That $7.8 billion equates to 86 launches of the reusable Falcon Heavy or 52 of the expendable version. This provides up to 3,000 tons of lift—the equivalent of eight International Space Stations or one heck of a Moon base. Obviously NASA does not need that many launches, but it could buy several Falcon Heavy rockets a year and have the funds to build meaningful payloads to launch on them.
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i so need to go see one launch. never seen a rocket launch but thats teh one to see, especially if there's ever a return to land for the boosters, if that ever happens again.
the trouble with rockets is all the delays.
 
ocuk Florida meet.
i fear there's not going to be two cores returning to land again. which probably makes a f9 launch better, or wait for BFR.
 
So today's launch has gone from expendable to recovery attempt. Interesting.

Edit: ignore. Launches are now so close together they're confusing me lol.
 
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