** The Official Space Flight Thread - The Space Station and Beyond **
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Man of Honour
Lasers have been fired on Mars now, Curiosity lasers:
Soldato
Isn't this like the 7th rover to land on Mars? (the 4th to work properly)
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Its a real shame that the USSR gave up on Mars rovers when they realised the USA didn't have the capability to compete, imagine how much we could have learned already
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Its a real shame that the USSR gave up on Mars rovers when they realised the USA didn't have the capability to compete, imagine how much we could have learned already
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Live spacewalk outside the space station:
Soldato
Nope. There were talks of us designing and building two habitation modules, to provide a much larger and more comfortable living space but honestly, can you imagine the government actually giving away some money?
Soldato
It's something ESA are involved in, and the UK contributes to ESA.
No, we did sign up for the project (as part of the European Space Agency) however the UK has contributed nothing to the project as per our policy against manned space travel (1986) however British astronauts have visited the ISS.
Soldato
Hold on, we have a policy against manned space travel? What the hell for?
It appears so, this may change if they back the Reaction Engine, which I hope they do.
Associate
Bit of a shame they didn't go for somewhere else like Io or Europa. I'd love to see some surface pics from there. The Mars stuff we're currently seeing is epic (don't get me wrong) but there is a sense of 'been there done that'. It would be nice to go somewhere else. I know they tried Venus a couple of times but it was hard to stop everything melting in the first 30 seconds. I would also assume surviving the extreme cold of further out is equally hard though.Isn't this like the 7th rover to land on Mars? (the 4th to work properly)
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Its a real shame that the USSR gave up on Mars rovers when they realised the USA didn't have the capability to compete, imagine how much we could have learned already
Don
Its a real shame that the USSR gave up on Mars rovers when they realised the USA didn't have the capability to compete, imagine how much we could have learned already
USSR had an appalling record of success with Mars landings.
Edit: In fact every Russian lander project failed with the exception of one that landed then died after 15 seconds.
Soldato
Hold on, we have a policy against manned space travel? What the hell for?
Because you know, why do something yourself when you can just pay for someone else to give it to you? Why would you ever want to make money? "Oh hey, you developed a satellite launcher for a record low cost that also happens to improve relations with another country? Yeah, we've decided that we're just going to pay the Americans for that instead."
Associate
NASA have announced another Mars lander for 2016
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19327286
Static rather than a rover this time.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19327286
Static rather than a rover this time.