Posted on 09/07/2024 4:39:03 AM PDT by george76
I watched the spacex launch video just a day or so ago.
Shortly after liftoff the picture split into two side by sides. we were thus given the opportunity to see two live space events.
The first stage separated and was in one view while the main rocket continued on the other.
We were thus able to watch as the first stage returned to earth under constant and complete control. We saw it actually land precisely as scheduled, on a pad near the launch site and available for the next flight.
Mean while on the second screen we could monitor the constant increase in speed and altitude until it reached the 150 kilometer orbital altitude where it leveled off.
This spectacular double success was the 23rd I think we were told. And it was accomplished by a private company who has spectacularly bested what were said to be the best in the world.
Sorry dude. It left without you.
I think that in the meantime, Boeing sold the company that created the Starliner
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight-related_accidents_and_incidents
19 astronauts (18 US, 1 Israeli)
Even the Russians lost cosmonauts (4) To me, it’s understandable that NASA didn’t gamble with the 2 astronauts’ lives. I can’t imagine the firestorm that NASA would be engulfed in.
I have no love for the NASA administrator, Bill Nelson (He’s a former astronaut) and the political wokeness that has infiltrated the Space Agency today.
Back in the glory days of NASA, not only the astronauts, but the the people running the Space Agency had The Right Stuff.
Why didn’t they keep Starlink up there as a backup, in case SpaceX develops an unforeseen problem that delays its launch even unacceptably later?
I lost my bet. Figured it would not make it back.
3) Change name of spacecraft to Collapso.
Glad to see NASA err on the side of caution.
Last I heard, they were sending two suits up.
Just saw a real world demonstration over the sickness of our government being run by delusional ideologues.
I was sent to detention when I returned to my homeroom...like I cared...All girl catholic school...Nuns loved their power!!
One of the few decisions they have made right, lately.
In 2014, NASA gave SpaceX and Boeing multibillion-dollar contracts to finish work on their astronaut taxis — capsules known as Crew Dragon and Starliner, respectively... SpaceX's first astronaut mission, a test flight to the ISS called Demo-2, lifted off in May 2020. Starliner's crewed debut was... on June 5 [2024].
Boeing can get it done, just will need more time and more & more money, and thanks to corrupticrats, will get it. In three more years they'll have reached man-rating, and in a mere ten years (and billion$ more) will have figured out reusability.
Within two or three years, SpaceX will have done an uncrewed and then a crewed lunar orbital mission, landed a crew on the Moon and returned them to Earth, and within five years will have dropped an autonomous robot onto Mars.
Within ten years, SpaceX will have landed humans on Mars -- assuming the Creep State hasn't put him behind bars.
:^) Dehydrated Spaghetti-Ohs! Mmm! I think the pantry is well stocked and good for months.
The two stranded astronauts put their blue Boeing suits into the Starliner before it got buttoned up and sent back down. Crew-9 will arrive with their SpaceX suits to wear during reentry.
It will also have only two passengers, the pilot and the cosmonaut needed in the rotation to maintain the Russian systems, because Crew Dragon is now the preferred ride.
From what I’ve heard Boeing used to use their own people as president or chairman of the board. Now they use people that were hired from outside to run the company. I wonder if that was a good idea?
Human spaceflight is a huge waste of time and money when robots do it a billion times faster and cheaper
We could already be drilling the ice moons and hollowing out asteroids for mining and as spacecraft if we eliminated weak, puny, needy meatbag humans.
Boeing encountered a problem, but they succeeded in uploading new software to fix the docking problem, and they also successfully returned the capsule to earth.
Space flight is HARD, and while not by any measure a flawless mission, their team recovered from set backs to achieve a measure of success.
I have no problem with that, except give the politicians enough time, and they’ll find SOME way to come up with DEI for robots. Add in AI, and there ya go.
Put a camera on it and send a thousand spacecraft out to explore so I can see it in my lifetime
I don’t care about this “oh, it’s so romantic, just like the movies, when humans do it” crap.
Robots rule space, weepy human lovers need to get out of the way and let machines do space
I demand 100 new flights a year, by machine to explore NEW places, not boring low earth orbit nonsense from the past
I agree.
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