And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thursday, March 14, 2024
Blastoff! SpaceX Starship launches to space on 3rd integrated test flight - Amazing Video
no way! the "watchers" will need them to regulate their watching (how far can their mouths stay open); to determine how much "damage" will the spaceships be allowed to do to their new environment (space), ad nauseam. Ad astra per leges - unfortunately
You clearly have no idea of what NASA does. As impressive as Space X's accomplishments are they are still just NASA's delivery system. Space X has taken ideas and technologies developed by NASA, Boeing, Lockheed and others and perfected them. Nothing more.
With SpaceX in the picture NASA can stop developing delivery systems and focus their resources in other parts of their mission. There was a time when the Army manufactured weapons. We now rely on privateers to manufacture weapons for the Army. That doesn't mean that the Army needs to fold up tent and go home....
If Spacex merely “perfected” previous technologies it would still be a first class space company, a successful version of ULA,, but it went well beyond that.
Economically reusable mass produced rockets is the new technology that Spacex developed that is making longterm realistic utilization of space possible. This is a major jump over NASA’s capabilities. (NASA claimed that space shuttle was reusable, but it never got past handbuilt prototypes essentially undergoing a major refurbishment after every flight, and it cost more to “reuse” the solid fuel side boosters than it would have to build new ones.)
Add to that SpaceX’s sister company Starlink which created and manages a profitable massive constellation of satellites that connects the entire world and we are way beyond being NASA’s delivery system.
If anything Spacex is Starlink’s delivery system, and more. NASA and the US are lucky it came along when it did,
It is true that NASA should concentrate on other missions and just rent rides to space, but as long as they hang onto the ULA Vulcan and the old way of designing rockets, those other missions are going to starve (e.g. Chandra).
All due respect, but NASA lost the plot decades ago. What little NASA does is abysmally slow, painfully over budget by orders of magnitude and devoid of any real excitement. Its entire mission can be handled by private enterprise for far, far less money.
Riiiiight. Like Douglas, Boeing, and Lockheed "only perfected" what Orville and Wilbur did.
NASA is to space flight what the Montgolfier Brothers are to aviation: something best left in the misty past.
They are the buggy whip company of transportation. Time to put them out to pasture to die quietly of natural causes, and stop squandering vast budgets on them. Their heyday is long since past history, and it's time for them to face the obvious.
Roll any national security missions over to the Air Farce/Space Command, and quit propping up an octogenarian and trying to get him to tap dance.
They missed the bus when the follow up to the Moon was Skylab, and Mars got pushed off two generations later. We're not getting the band back together. Let them go.
Awesome ride. Lots to work on, but much went well.
ReplyDeleteas we get to the ability to migrate off planet, can we leave the politicians, lawyers and democrats behind?
ReplyDeleteno way! the "watchers" will need them to regulate their watching (how far can their mouths stay open); to determine how much "damage" will the spaceships be allowed to do to their new environment (space), ad nauseam.
DeleteAd astra per leges - unfortunately
Are you crazy? That'd be silly.
DeleteSend them on a probe to the Sun!
NASA needs to fold up the tent and go home. They are no longer relevant.
ReplyDeleteYou clearly have no idea of what NASA does.
DeleteAs impressive as Space X's accomplishments are they are still just NASA's delivery system.
Space X has taken ideas and technologies developed by NASA, Boeing, Lockheed and others and perfected them. Nothing more.
With SpaceX in the picture NASA can stop developing delivery systems and focus their resources in other parts of their mission.
There was a time when the Army manufactured weapons. We now rely on privateers to manufacture weapons for the Army. That doesn't mean that the Army needs to fold up tent and go home....
If Spacex merely “perfected” previous technologies it would still be a first class space company, a successful version of ULA,, but it went well beyond that.
DeleteEconomically reusable mass produced rockets is the new technology that Spacex developed that is making longterm realistic utilization of space possible. This is a major jump over NASA’s capabilities. (NASA claimed that space shuttle was reusable, but it never got past handbuilt prototypes essentially undergoing a major refurbishment after every flight, and it cost more to “reuse” the solid fuel side boosters than it would have to build new ones.)
Add to that SpaceX’s sister company Starlink which created and manages a profitable massive constellation of satellites that connects the entire world and we are way beyond being NASA’s delivery system.
If anything Spacex is Starlink’s delivery system, and more. NASA and the US are lucky it came along when it did,
It is true that NASA should concentrate on other missions and just rent rides to space, but as long as they hang onto the ULA Vulcan and the old way of designing rockets, those other missions are going to starve (e.g. Chandra).
All due respect, but NASA lost the plot decades ago. What little NASA does is abysmally slow, painfully over budget by orders of magnitude and devoid of any real excitement. Its entire mission can be handled by private enterprise for far, far less money.
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DeleteRiiiiight.
Like Douglas, Boeing, and Lockheed "only perfected" what Orville and Wilbur did.
NASA is to space flight what the Montgolfier Brothers are to aviation: something best left in the misty past.
They are the buggy whip company of transportation.
Time to put them out to pasture to die quietly of natural causes, and stop squandering vast budgets on them. Their heyday is long since past history, and it's time for them to face the obvious.
Roll any national security missions over to the Air Farce/Space Command, and quit propping up an octogenarian and trying to get him to tap dance.
They missed the bus when the follow up to the Moon was Skylab, and Mars got pushed off two generations later.
We're not getting the band back together.
Let them go.
Might have gone up ok but it didn't come down ok.
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I remember when NASA had to hire more muslims. Haven't seen much happening with nasa since those days.
ReplyDeleteHere's the re-entry vid filmed from the rocket, via CFP:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX1LTw48ymQ&t=232s
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