Space Exploration

Are NASA's future missions and budget justified?

  • It's worth the time and expenditures

    Votes: 222 65.9%

  • Complete waste of money

    Votes: 41 12.2%

  • We need to explore, but not at the current cost

    Votes: 74 22.0%
  • Total voters
    337
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I would assume they are testing a lot of things beyond just the engine. Figuring out if the Starship acts like they expect it to act, that it can hold propellant for extended timeframes after the engines fire, who knows what they might be looking at.

This is better than any reality TV show, we just need a host to tell us what’s happening.
 
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Sunday could be a huge day for SpaceX!

They are looking at launching (2) Falcon 9 rockets from Kennedy Space Center. While in Texas at their Boca Chica Starship production and test facility. Starship prototype SN6 could perform the second 150m hop of the month following SN5's 150m hop on August 8th.
 
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CagleMtnVol said:
Sunday could be a huge day for SpaceX!

They are looking at launching (2) Falcon 9 rockets from Kennedy Space Center. While in Texas at their Boca Chica Starship production and test facility. Starship prototype SN6 could perform the second 150m hop of the month following SN5's 150m hop on August 8th.
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This activity is awesome. America is BIB baby
 
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VolStrom said:
Just curious, what is your attachment to the space program?
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I've been a space nut ever since I was 5 or 6 years old.

We are entering a most exciting time for space exploration not seen since the start of the Mercury program. IMO.
I wish more Americans would take a look at what is happening with NASA & private companies in regards to Space.

We just launched another huge rover to Mars that includes a drone helicopter.

The Trump administration mandating a man & woman returning to the moon by 2024 along with the new Lunar Gateway spacestation in Lunar orbit and a crewed mission to Mars by 2030.

NASA and their new crew system SLS which scheduled to launch a test flight (Artemis 1) around the moon in November 2021. (Artemis 3) would be the first Lunar landing since 1972 and its currently scheduled for October 2024.

SpaceX' Elon Musk's Starship a vehicle that will be capable of carrying 100 people from point to point on earth and 30 to 40 on a Mars mission. Don't forget SpaceX Crew Dragon and Boeing's Starliner taking astronauts to the ISS.

Then their is Jeff Bezos Blue Origin and their massive New Glenn rocket.
 
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CagleMtnVol said:
Footage of yesterday's Falcon 9 booster landing.

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Cant wait for the whole process to be automated. It lands. An arm grabs it hooking up several hoses and sensors. Some smaller pieces do inspections. Crane rolls in delivering the next payload and plops it on top. Then reverse the support and hoses, sound an alarm for a countdown, and woosh off we go again.
 
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LouderVol said:
Cant wait for the whole process to be automated. It lands. An arm grabs it hooking up several hoses and sensors. Some smaller pieces do inspections. Crane rolls in delivering the next payload and plops it on top. Then reverse the support and hoses, sound an alarm for a countdown, and woosh off we go again.
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That will be a long way off the way I understand it a good bit of the internals (hoses, wiring, etc..) have to be completely replaced.
 
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