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[Urabrask Revealed]

Can you dump it down for people who don't spend much time reading about the NASA and the related industries?
Like what does go-no-go call mean?

 

[Doomsought]

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When the Obama administration turned NASA into a propaganda tool, the real spaceflight research started to be taken in by the US military.

 

[Bacle]

I've seen the adds for the first manned launch on the Falcon 9 from US soil on Discovery next Wednesday.

Is it using the Dragon Capsule, or another of the proposed manned launch systems?

 

[LordSunhawk]

Crewed Dragon

 

[Husky_Khan]

Manned flight with SpaceX... Exciting times!

 

[Knowledgeispower]

Between all the stuff in development and in use space during 2020s will almost certainly be led by the US

 

[Urabrask Revealed]

Between all the stuff in development and in use space during 2020s will almost certainly be led by the US

Success begets success after all.

 

[Knowledgeispower]

Success begets success after all.

As much as I hate Obama's nuking of Constellation the idea of making space launches far more commercial wasn't a bad one.

 

[Bacle]

Well launch is scrubbed due to weather, not terribly surprised.

Next try Saturday.

 

[Urabrask Revealed]

Well launch is scrubbed due to weather, not terribly surprised.

Next try Saturday.

Damnit! Stupid weather, why does always sabotage things...?

 

[Bacle]

Damnit! Stupid weather, why does always sabotage things...?

Weather delays are a regular issue in this sort of situation.

With human lives at stake, they are not taking unnecessary chances.

As others are saying "People won't remember a delay, they will remember a disaster."

 

[Knowledgeispower]

Weather delays are a regular issue in this sort of situation.

With human lives at stake, they are not taking unnecessary chances.

As others are saying "People won't remember a delay, they will remember a disaster."

At least we learned something from Challenger

 

[Knowledgeispower]

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The early shuttle program was definitely full of some shady decisions to boost the launch rate

 

[LordSunhawk]

Well, at nasa.gov you can watch the livestream of today's launch attempt. It's looking good so far in terms of weather!

 

[Knowledgeispower]

And we have a successful launch.

 

[Husky_Khan]

That was amazing to watch!

 

[Duke Nukem]

Thank god it didn't rapidly disassemble.

In all seriousness that was a great launch, this proved that Space x is a Highly capable company .

 

[Deleted member]

It is really awesome that the United States is back in space and that we finally have a private space capability.

 

[Urabrask Revealed]

It is really awesome that the United States is back in space and that we finally have a private space capability.

Hopefully it's just the first of many launches. I want to see the Moon become the second platform for further travels.

 

[Duke Nukem]

Flat Earth whackjobs are already coming out of the woodwork claiming that the footage from space was fake CGI