Posted on 08/28/2025 4:39:47 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
We won yesterday's space race. We'll win today's space race against China, and we'll always win tomorrow's space race.
@SpaceX's Starship test flight success moves us one step closer toward achieving that goal.
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Well, that is an interesting place! Thanks!
Well said. I'm glad to see that one or two people here get it.
thank you for your thoughts...now back to reality not-so-Bullish
Well, the Apollo program ended in 1972.
You are right that some documents, telemetry, and video footage were lost due to government incompetence...sorry, to "regain storage space", though.
There are, you just missed them, and more are planned.
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There are no routine tourist flights to the Moon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Moon_Flights_Club
There were planned tourist flights to the moon—but those who bought a ticket were left holding the bag....
All of the Saturn people were still there. Skylab was placed in orbit using a Saturn V, and the Apollo was used to transport astronauts there and back.
At the time I was there all Saturn/Apollo documentation was in the documentation center. I retrieved quite a lot of material from that facility.
The government made a choice to discard documentation, as did the numerous contractors. Nothing was lost due to incompetence by that generation. I can't speak for the youngsters who followed.
All of the telemetry was stored on 9-track magnetic tape. There were large rooms with large shelves for them. The base material did not stand the test of time; and, 9-track tape transport machines eventually degraded beyond the scope of routine maintenance. Neither tape or the machines are made at this time; and, few machines work.
My job at Marshall was "data reduction". I wrote software for that purpose and handled a lifetime of 9-track tapes. Remember: "No ring, no write".
We can, and did.
This is what is called an "Open Forum". I'm surprised you find an unsolicited response unusual.
You missed them - very low key, out of sight of the MSN. Billionaires only sort of thing. Not for the general riff-raff.
Just getting a slot to book a single passage is over a million. If you have to ask how much the starter fair for the actual trip is, you cannot afford it, even if you think you have a lot of money; of course, deluxe and premium trips are much more - much more.
International law prohibits any country from claiming territory outside of Earth.
I mention it because that poster was speaking for the poster I replied to.
He wrote:” You sound like someone who is unable to recognize or appreciate sarcasm.”
Only the poster I replied to originally would now it’s sarcasm or not.
No rule against it at all, but given you spoke for the person I relied to by saying, “You sound like someone who is unable to recognize or appreciate sarcasm.” I thought you were that poster when I replied to you.
Why are you speaking for another poster?
Quoth Ronald Reagan (1986):
“I think you all know that I’ve always felt the nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the Government, and I’m here to help.”
It should be obvious what he meant by that.
We’ve all heard the phrase “safe and effective” over the last few years, and pretty much all of us recognize it as a flat out lie.
The government, and its minions, have been telling us exactly that, as you surely know.
Does expressing skepticism of government claims make you a “looney”?
LOL!
There are no routine tourist flights to the Moon. If there were, nobody could miss them.
They would be affordable, too, by the way. Maybe not cheap though doable. Honeymoon stuff.
Why?
A couple of posters here have gotten close, but no one actually seems to recognize it explicitly.
Robert A. Heinlein did.
The why is that then you own the Moon’s enormous energy of position.
Heinlein defined a weapon as (paraphrasal) a device that focuses destructive energy on an opponent.
Heinlein’s “Loonies” put the two together, as can whoever lays claim to the Moon 1st...
That’s the short term view. The long term survivability of mankind is the long term view. :-)
Who thinks the Chinese would abide by “International Law”?
Hint: Try asking the Filipinos 1st.
I think we are in a club of grumpy people. I sure have my moments. ;=D
“ Does expressing skepticism of government claims make you a “looney”?”
Denying moon landings is looney.
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