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I keep saying it, but that dual landing never gets old.
** The Official Space Flight Thread - The Space Station and Beyond **
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Never gets old, never fails to impress. Great job.
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A wealth of fashion from sci fi films and series and THAT is the best they could come up with and it's not even tailored
Yeah, they don’t look like they fit very well.
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Someone looked at the hat and thought "you know what this needs? More badges. No, more than that. I want badges all around it."
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14 engine static fire of Super Heavy booster. I really hope we get to see this thing fly before Xmas.
Its about 1hr20m in
Its about 1hr20m in
What next. The long journey to the moon and back:
Today – the critical trans-lunar injection burn that will send Orion to the Moon. (08:14 GMT) and ICPS separation.
Flight Day 2-5 - Outbound transit
Flight day 6-9 - Transit to Distant Retrograde Orbit (DRO) around the Moon
Today – the critical trans-lunar injection burn that will send Orion to the Moon. (08:14 GMT) and ICPS separation.
Flight Day 2-5 - Outbound transit
Flight day 6-9 - Transit to Distant Retrograde Orbit (DRO) around the Moon
- Flight Day 6 (11/21): Outbound Powered Fly-by (burn 7:44 a.m.), Lunar Closest Approach (~60 miles)
- Flight Day 10 (11/25): DRO Insertion (burn 4:52 p.m.)
- Flight Day 11 (11/26): Orion passes Apollo 13 Record (8:42 a.m.)
- Flight Day 13: (11/28): Orion reaches maximum distance from Earth at approximately 298,565 miles (4:05 p.m.)
- Flight Day 16 (12/1): DRO Departure (burn 4:53 p.m.)
- Flight Day 20 (12/5): Return Flyby (burn 11:28 a.m.), Second Closest
- Flight Day 26 (12/11): Splashdown (12:40 p.m.)
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As impressive as the launch was and shear noise coming from those 4 RS-25 engines, I personally cannot wait for the Starship orbital launch when we get to witness the might of 33 raptor 2 engines roaring away.
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Hmm I was hoping NASA might have leant something from SpaceX and given us so camera views from at least the second stage.
Honestly, with all the delays and troubles, I'm glad they concentrated on getting the damn thing into space successfully rather than on camera-ing it up!
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Space is big, things need to go fast, the smallest error can screw you over, humans are fragile meatbags, health and safety now exists, and it's a bigger overall plan to put us there permanently whilst providing a stepping stone to further exploration.
Apollo achieved one single mission goal with almost limitless budget - Artemis and SLS have much bigger plans than simply getting to the moon.
If you'd like to learn more, please play Kerbal Space Program.
Got to design and build a very large rocket.
Got to test it to make sure it's safe to put human crew onboard.
Got to design and build a spacecraft.
Got to test it to make sure it's safe to put human crew onboard.
Got to design and build a lander.
Got to test it to make sure it's safe to put human crew onboard.
Got to put it all together and test it to make sure it's safe to put human crew onboard.
Got to train a human crew to put onboard.
Apollo was only as quick as it was because the funding (in the beginning) was essentially limitless. And even then, it took from 1961 until 1968 to have a successful manned flight (one in LEO, one lunar orbital). Artemis got started in 2017, and is planning a manned lunar flyby for 2024.