Two Soyuz launches, Starhopper hops, sats play chicken with Indian weapons test fallout SpaceX has set tomorrow as the launch date for the second Falcon Heavy, which was hauled up to pad 39A last week and its first stage engines ignited briefly as part of a routine static test. The booster, which stood without its payload, had its motors fired up at noon local time. Based on the results of the test, and after …
As they obviously came first in the successful history of muppets meddling with spaceflight, I presume "Pigs in Space ...!" will be the correct intonation used for "Trump on Moon!"
On landing, I further assume he will not want a US flag planted to honour those who worked to get there but a 'claim' sign for the land so he can build a golf course ...
The UN should establish littering fines, proportional to the amount and location of ALL litter, for all nations, and all debris and leftovers that they do not clean up after their use. So far, near Earth space has been treated as just a dumping ground by everyone.
Elon's never going to get a decent Korolev Cross with only two bolt-on rockets.
I want four bolt-on rockets, a Korolev Cross and streaming video playing The Blue Danube on the audio.
I saw 2001: A Space Odyssey when it came out and, frankly, real life is lagging behind my expectations.
Come on guys, it's not Rocket Sci.........oh, as you were. Sorry.
I just hope this Falcon launch is as great as the last. No cock ups, no minor "unscheduled disassembly" of the vehicle ... and if they can plant the landings it'd be awesome. Musky can be a mouthy twat but he seems to have got the lighted candle thing working quite well ...
Musky can be a mouthy twat but he seems to have got the lighted candle thing working quite well ...
He might take the "atta-boy's" but it would have to be for hiring engineers with the right stuff who have the same vision also. Their attitude of "get it done" is impressive and out shines Boeing by a huge amount. We need more people of vision and entrepreneurship especially in developing space travel. Boing has lost it's edge, not just in space travel.
The space program was really Eisenhower's baby as he wanted the capability to do photo recon of the Soviet Union. There has been a lot of speculation that he wanted the Soviets to be first to launch a satellite so they would not be in a position to complain about American satellite overflights of the Soviet Union. Von Braun was in the position to launch a satellite in 1956, but Ike had orders to make sure he didn't try.
Kennedy's goal for a landing by the end of the 60's would not have been possible without the F-1 engine, and development started in 1958. Kennedy was also making a lot of noise about the "missile gap" when Ike knew the Soviets only had a handful of operational ICBM's in mid 1960.
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