[PIF]

Poor Susie, she’s a day late and a dime short - SpaceX’s Starship is already in advanced testing and awaiting FAA approval for its first sub orbital flight.

[Samurai_Jack]

SUSIE remains a concept for now

[Dave911]

These people can’t even field an army. They need us to protect them.

[ryderann]

Whatever happened to that huge cargo-carrying blimp?

[kiryandil]

[catnipman]

would have loved to see Sam Kinison do a bit on “space exploration”:

Space Exploration? What’s there to explore? IT’S SPACE! THERE’S NOTHING IN IT! BY DEFINITION!

What do they expect to find? MORE NOTHING?

[ought-six]

I heard a few years ago that France and Britain — and maybe Germany? — were collaborating on some kind of space vehicle. I wonder what became of that.

[SunkenCiv]

Yeah, and Bezos’ Blue Origin is way ahead. :^)

Arianespace has been getting some things done since their last major scrub, including managing to launch the Webb (kudos for that!).

[JustaTech]

That would have been a cool, cutting edge concept they have there...back when Bush was POTUS.

Either one.