I’m old enough to remember the big sell up of the Shuttles where NASA PROMISED the ability to put them into space on nothing less than a few days turnaround. Had we been told the truth then and not had to fund trillions of dollars for that mess and now be relegated to paying the Russians to put our ‘nauts’ up on the ISS, we’d have been able to take a cheap launch up there and CHECK IT OUT....
Spaceballs!
Testing ASAT maneuvers so they can disable US military surveillance satellites
I had thought that there should be a garbage collection service for space junk.
Or maybe anyone who launches anything has to put down a deposit ($3 million?) that can be used to retrieve the orbiting item.
Quagaars!
“Oh God, aliens... Your explanation for anything slightly peculiar is aliens, isn’t it? You lose your keys - it’s aliens. A picture falls off the wall - it’s aliens. That time we used up a whole bog roll in a day, you thought that was aliens as well!”
https://spacenews.com/one-way-to-help-prevent-wars-in-space-military-hotlines-with-russia-and-china/
“With space now considered a domain of war, hotlines between U.S. and foreign rivals might be worth contemplating, said Lt. Gen. B. Chance Saltzman, deputy chief of space operations” ..
A term which will inhabit our future: stealthy space mines.
They move into position undetected, and then with one button push all your adversary’s space assets go dead.
I used to run apogee (and Estes) motors in my rockets 🚀
You don’t expect the Chinese to clean up after themselves, do you?
It’s probably Fred, Sen.Mark Kellys twin brother.