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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1Sq1Nr58hM discuss space topics in here, like how loving terrible the space shuttle was, how stupid elon's newest e: here's a schedule of upcoming launches https://spaceflightnow.com/launch-schedule/ Raskolnikov38 has issued a correction as of 18:55 on Jan 12, 2019 |
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Will the SLS ever launch? LET'S FIND OUT
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iospace posted:Will the SLS ever launch? LET'S FIND OUT *narrator voice* It didn't
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is it funding thats delaying the program or did NASA gently caress up building/designing it
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brb starting a "space elevator working group" at my local DSA
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Star Citizen is never coming out
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Raskolnikov38 posted:is it funding thats delaying the program or did NASA gently caress up building/designing it It's called the Senate Launch System for a reason. I think it's a bit of NASA being pigeon-holed in to using as much shuttle derived components as possible and the Senate pulling an F-35 by sticking as many parts in many states as possible.
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Raskolnikov38 posted:is it funding thats delaying the program or did NASA gently caress up building/designing it It's a porkbarrel/jobs project. NASA has to re-use as much 'shuttle' tech as possible ostensibly for cost savings but in reality to spread the government money over as many states as possible to keep politicians happy. As it turns out stuff designed for shuttle can't immediately be re-used for SLS without costly modifications, and it's impossible to have competitive bidding when the hardware needs to be based off existing components that are already made by existing companies. The end result is a rocket that will cost multiple billions per launch and that doesn't even have a clearly defined mission, literally the only reason for it to exist is so that people have something to do and government money gets funneled into a bunch of large contractors.
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welp at least we still have the soyuz
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Raskolnikov38 posted:welp at least we still have the soyuz Only till the end of the year.
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i found it amusing that as far as a few quick wiki searches can tell me, only white american christian men have ever set foot on the moon i dont care enough to figure out the dudes' denominations but it'd be funny if they were all protestants too china should fix this silliness soon enough but for now the moon is the most exclusive whites-only neighborhood in the world edit: i said 'in the world.' that's dumb. oh well oystertoadfish has issued a correction as of 19:15 on Jan 12, 2019 |
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Raskolnikov38 posted:welp at least we still have the soyuz for a couple of months https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-faces-a-race-against-time-to-launch-astronauts-as-russia-confirms-soyuz-flights-will-end-in-2019/
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oystertoadfish posted:i dont care enough to figure out the dudes' denominations but it'd be funny if they were all protestants too theres a conspiracy theory that armstrong converted to islam after hearing the call to prayers on the moon
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^^ oh yeah! i like that one the space shuttle was a death trap but idk they're astronauts. aren't they supposed to get put in death traps? the real tragedy wouldve been if anything had happened to STS-90, which was carrying two precious oyster toadfish   but seriously, i wish the astronauts luck in not dying and i wish the engineers luck in getting the money to make that happen
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there's death traps and then there's "we solved the problem of crew safety in case of something happening during the launch sequence in the '60s but what if we threw that out the loving window?!?!"
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Raskolnikov38 posted:there's death traps and then there's "we solved the problem of crew safety in case of something happening during the launch sequence in the '60s but what if we threw that out the loving window?!?!" did somebody say window????
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hell yeah I've been reading one of the nasa history publications on the design and making of the shuttle half of every chapter is "NASA asked for a bigger budget, and then the Bureau of the Budget cut their budget instead, and then the president cut their budget, and then Congress cut their budget, and then NASA made a bunch of terrible technical and strategic moves because it was about the only thing they could still afford and they were afraid they'd face even more budget cuts"
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 the smarter version of our dumbfuck shuttle
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yeah rip my favorite thing about buran was that it did a completely automated unmanned launch and landing once and then the soviets realized it was a waste of money and resources and mothballed it forever meanwhile NASA had to have two of these things catastrophically explode/fall apart before realizing the same
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the Soviet space program, with the exception of the murder of Gargarin and other early gently caress ups, was always way better run than ours lol.
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Existing technology in the 60s probably would have been enough to let us build nuclear propelled craft that could reach about 3% of the speed of light, which would have put our solar system within reach and meant it would be a mere century give or take to reach the nearest star system. All for there mere cost of roughly one year of national GNP. Then the nuclear test ban treaty had to come along and ruin everything.
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Larry Parrish posted:the Soviet space program, with the exception of the murder of Gargarin and other early gently caress ups, was always way better run than ours lol. the whole concept of a "space race" is ridiculous since if it was actually a judged competition, the soviets beat the US in every single metric except for putting people on the moon (and even then you could make the argument that if korolev had lived, they'd have gotten that one too)
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even after we hogged all the best nazis
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Helsing posted:Existing technology in the 60s probably would have been enough to let us build nuclear propelled craft that could reach about 3% of the speed of light, which would have put our solar system within reach and meant it would be a mere century give or take to reach the nearest star system. All for there mere cost of roughly one year of national GNP. i absolutely do not trust the american MIC to have produced project orion without turning all of arizona into trinitite or irradiating the gulf of mexico or something
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acting!!!!!!
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Larry Parrish posted:turning all of arizona into trinitite i'm sorry was this supposed to be a negative
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oystertoadfish posted:acting!!!!!! 
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lmao tim curry you dog you
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how long until a bunch of billionaires die on mars
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I love how they went with a clip where he's barely hiding his own laughter.Larry Parrish posted:i absolutely do not trust the american MIC to have produced project orion without turning all of arizona into trinitite or irradiating the gulf of mexico or something The remaining population of Arizona would have been ideal candidates for populating Barry Goldwater Memorial Crater, the hottest new Helium3 mining and processing facility this side of Sol.
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oystertoadfish posted:even after we hogged all the best nazis The Soviets sidelined their Germans quite quickly after the war according to Chertok because Stalin didn’t trust them.
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Oh thank god a CSPAM space thread, is the other one still infested with BAZIONGOs that will form an angry mob and run me out if I dare even breathe criticism of Our Lord and Savior, the Once and Future Emperor of Mars, the Last Best Hope of Mankind, Elon Musk?
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Larry Parrish posted:the Soviet space program, with the exception of the murder of Gargarin and other early gently caress ups, was always way better run than ours lol. I assume you mean Gagarin, and i'm, along with the rest of the world, 100% certain the soviets didn't kill him.
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AMA about space. its what i do.
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we are never leaving this rock but there's lots of cool stuff in space to look at, when i have nothing to do at work sometimes i go on one of those websites where you classify galaxies from deep field images. there's a lot of the fuckin things
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guidoanselmi posted:AMA about space. its what i do. Crazycryodude has issued a correction as of 00:31 on Jan 13, 2019 |
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guidoanselmi posted:AMA about space. its what i do. what's up there?
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Virtual Russian posted:I assume you mean Gagarin, and i'm, along with the rest of the world, 100% certain the soviets didn't kill him. There have been persistent conspiracy theories that his crash in 1968 was due to foul play, but yeah it's a bunch of bullshit.
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