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Welp, this is what happens when I decide to include Boeing in the fun. Sounds like it's SpaceX's race to lose.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-s...-idUSKCN1R12QR Boeing delays by months test flights for U.S. human space program: sources SEATTLE (Reuters) - Boeing Co has delayed by at least three months its first uncrewed flight to the International Space Station under NASA’s human spaceflight program, and pushed its crewed flight until November, industry sources said on Wednesday. (more at the link) |
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As always, it's possible it will slip, but here's your one-week warning for the next FALCON HEAVY launch!
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Is the thought that we could actually colonize Mars? |
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I read once that it's possible to colonize Venus, and Venus could be a more hospitable place in the long run.
The problem with Venus is that it has a massive amount of carbon dioxide, which produces all sorts of problems. But there are certain types of bacteria that could survive there and that eat carbon dioxide. So you fire a rocket there that's full of those bacteria, wait a hundred years or some such time until they clean the place up, and then introduce oxygen and water. Voila - you have created an inhabitable new world.
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I, I, I, I is so excited! So excited!
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Fun to think about though. |
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#2093 |
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BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. —
SpaceX will attempt its second launch of the powerful, three-booster Falcon Heavy rocket this weekend. The launch window opens at 6:36 p.m. Sunday.
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It's not much, but Starhopper has officially been lit.
And Falcon Heavy (sans fairing) is on the pad for a static fire today!
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https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/11...888100352?s=09
Static fire of Falcon Heavy complete—targeting April 9 launch of Arabsat-6A from Launch Complex 39A in Florida |
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That thing got up quick!
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If Mars doesn't have ice below the surface, the whole idea is dead in the water. Bringing water with us to a "colony" is just not sustainable. They can make water out of thin air now. Too expensive on earth to be practical. Don't know if its even possible on Mars. The Israelis have been using desalinization to provide water since the 80's. But, that option, as far as I know is not available anywhere near us. My son did some research in college that maybe as we travel along we could find trapped ice in large meteorites as a solution to providing water for space travel.
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