Sounds expensive. 747s are cheap. Probably not going to happen anytime soon.
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Doomsought
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Does she have qualifications? If not expect space programs to be sidelined for propaganda.
At the moment, Bridenstein's deputy is acting as head of NASA. Steve Yurchik. Interestingly, he decided to manage the processes without leaving his own home. Although this may be a necessary measure.
Sufficiently qualified women to be the next leader. It's strange to me that gender is emphasized in some news. It will be interesting anyway.
Sufficiently qualified women to be the next leader. It's strange to me that gender is emphasized in some news. It will be interesting anyway.
Undertone
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bluShift Aerospace launched a test rocket to the modest height of 1200m. It's a very early place for any company with orbital dreams to be. But it does prove their homebrew fuel works.
www.space.com
Startup bluShift Aerospace launches its 1st commercial biofuel rocket from Maine
The low-altitude launch is the world's first rocket flight from Maine.
www.space.com
bluShift Aerospace launched a test rocket to the modest height of 1200m. It's a very early place for any company with orbital dreams to be. But it does prove their homebrew fuel works.
Startup bluShift Aerospace launches its 1st commercial biofuel rocket from Maine
The low-altitude launch is the world's first rocket flight from Maine.
Wow a biofuels rocket no less.
Doomsought
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The term biofuel is utterly meaningless. There is no difference between sourcing it from bio-fuel production lines or oil refining lines other than cost.
Unless it is ethanol fuel, then you are using an inferior fuel in order to subsidize corn farmers.
The Final Report by Trump’s CEA Demonstrates Progress in Space Policy | National Review
The Trump administration brought us closer to a flourishing private sector in space.
www.nationalreview.com
The Council of Economic Advisors issued a report in which one chapter details the accomplishments of the Trump Administration in regards to Space and states the previous administration helped ensure a flourishing private sector investment in Space Flight based in America.
Specific achievements include the creation of USSPACECOM as a Unified Combatant Command and the inauguration of Space Force, the successful partnership between NASA and SpaceX, and the starting of international cooperation in regards to the Artemis Accords.
The article goes into more depth on how the Trump Administration helped lay a path for future private investments into Space as well.
Because they don't want us to escape their "paradise".
SpaceX's Starship SN10 certainly had an exciting test flight (and landing).
Contract awarded to Northrop-Grumman for the Mars Ascent Propulsion System (MAPS) contract, which will provide the rocket engines required to implement NASA's planned Mars Sample Return operation which is exactly like it sounds, an attempt to get some cool Martian rocks from the red planet back to Earth.
mars.nasa.gov
NASA Awards Mars Ascent Propulsion System Contract for Sample Return – NASA Mars Exploration
The award moves NASA and ESA a step closer to realizing Mars Sample Return, an ambitious planetary exploration program that will build upon decades of science, knowledge, and experience.
mars.nasa.gov
Rest in Peace
Glynn Lunney is a 'legendary' Flight Director for NASA who served in the role of Flight Director or Lead Flight Director on numerous Apollo Missions including the famous Apollo 13 mission popularized on film. Other missions he was the Flight Director on include Apollo-Saturn-201, 4, 7, 8, 11, 14, and 15. He served as lead flight director for Gemini missions 10 and 12, and was a flight director for Gemini missions 9 and 11. He worked for NASA for over twenty years, ranging from the Mercury Project to working on the Space Shuttle. After retiring in 1985, he worked in the private space industry for over another decade.
He passed away at the age of 84 after a long illness.
www.space.com
Glynn Lunney is a 'legendary' Flight Director for NASA who served in the role of Flight Director or Lead Flight Director on numerous Apollo Missions including the famous Apollo 13 mission popularized on film. Other missions he was the Flight Director on include Apollo-Saturn-201, 4, 7, 8, 11, 14, and 15. He served as lead flight director for Gemini missions 10 and 12, and was a flight director for Gemini missions 9 and 11. He worked for NASA for over twenty years, ranging from the Mercury Project to working on the Space Shuttle. After retiring in 1985, he worked in the private space industry for over another decade.
He passed away at the age of 84 after a long illness.
Glynn Lunney, NASA flight director who led from 'trench' to the moon, dies at 84
Lunney led Mission Control during some of NASA's most challenging and triumphant hours.
www.space.com
Virgin Galactic unveiled the VSS Imagine, a two pilot, two passenger aircraft that will take people into suborbital flight. Already a passenger list six hundred people long and tickets only cost a cool quarter million dollars. This is apparently the first of Virgin Galactics 'Starship III' models.
nypost.com
Virgin Galactic unveils new VSS Imagine spaceship for tourists
Virgin Galactic unveiled its latest spacecraft Tuesday as it prepares to continue testing ships that it hopes will ferry tourists out of Earth’s atmosphere. The VSS Imagine is the first of Vi…
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Asteroids are nature's way of asking "How's that space program coming, anyway?"
rather kind of ultimatum - if you do not come to space,space would come to you.
Bear Ribs
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Russia's pulling out of the ISS and decided they're making their own space station, with Blackjack and Hookers.
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Russia plans to launch own space station after quitting ISS
Russia is ready to start building its own space station with the aim of launching it into orbit by 2030 if President Vladimir Putin gives the go-ahead, the head of its Roscosmos space agency said on Wednesday.
www.reuters.com
