The hottest destination for 2021: China probe follows UAE's into Martian orbit Typical. You wait years for missions to Mars and then a whole bunch come along at once. Less than a day after the Emirates Mars Mission dropped into Martian orbit, China's Tianwen-1 has followed suit and NASA will be arriving shortly. Tianwen-1 is, however, an entirely different beast to the UAE's "Hope" probe. The China …
The plan from the start of commercial crew was that Russia and the US would trade seats on a one-for-one basis without money changing hands. Steps in that direction made last year's news. Congress are to be commended on their tireless marathon effort to delay this exchange by diverting CC funds to SLS.
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Well of course it's typical... Orbital mechanics pretty much ensures that (at until we get warp drive, or some other way of getting very cheap deltaV (haven't run the numbers on how well starship could brute force that encounter, but it's probably possible - if there was something approaching a 6-9 month "emergency")).
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