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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LOL... I agree. Radiation belt, multiples of rockets to drive the rocket there and back.
They never spent one thin dime on the Moon! It was all spent on Earth.
What is REALLY stupid, estimates vary, but it looks like NASA was, for a time, getting about 2.5% of the US GNP for a couple years. Spending actually peaked about 1965.
One of the big problems they had (among many) back then was with the thrusters. They are impossible to test effectively on earth, because they perform differently in the vacuum of space. Vacuum chambers exist, but the vacuum is gone as soon as you fire it, that kind of thing. The problems they had were with overheating of the teflon seals, which would swell, and cause an obstruction.
Fast forward 60 years. The Boeing craft has problems with the Thrusters. You’ll never guess what. Overheating. Swelling of the teflon seals, causing an obstruction.
Maybe they’ll have to scour the nursing homes down in Florida and find some of the guys who solved that problem 60 years ago. Sad. They threw away the “clearly leading role” in space as per the president’s directive, and now they can hardly get into orbit.
I figure there should be routine tourist flights in lunar orbit by now.
Bwahaha!! Go to your room! You’re grounded, buster
Liberals whined about how the money could be better spent here.
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All the money was spent here.
I though Trump or someone in his admin floated the idea of taking up old spent nuke material and building several nuclear reactors on the moon. What happened to that idea?
First gay trans wheelchair astronaut in space, baby!
Of course, /sarc
Whitey’s Back On The Moon!
Rocket to the Moon--Moon Mullican
Rocket to the Moon--Lenny Welch
Space travel should be restricted to robotic missions. Billions... Yes... Billions are being wasted designing ships and equipment that humans either use or occupy. There is no need for such waste. Robots can pretty much do it all and they need no food, no air and take up very little space.
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It will enhance the state of robotics, also.
(Obscure TV reference)
The (German) men at NASA who solved those problems 60 years ago took their notes and lots of other stuff with them when the Apollo program was shut down.
That's why NASA now admits that they don't know how to get back.
The institutional knowledge walked out the door.
No, they won’t.
That dusty rock has both strategic and industrial value. It is also important as a possible future refueling station for Mars missions. If we plan to survive the inevitable extinction level event on Earth then we must have self sustaining colonies on Mars. That will take many centuries to establish so time is of the essence.
Trump will keep the mission, but put his own spin on it. Maybe claim it's a MAGA mission.
Still the same wasteful, pointless mission, whatever label from whichever president.
You sound like someone who is unable to recognize or appreciate sarcasm.
Bombs and Rockets--Carl Ruth
"...they say that pretty soon they'll be travelin' to the moon, and with rockets they are going to conquer space..."
This type of US mission prevents Chinese territorial claims on the moon
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True, but at this juncture, its more likely that China will get there first. Another reason is 47’s canning of Jared Isaacman as NASA director and appointing a talk show host [ S. Duffy, the duffer ] to run it now.
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