Moon Base 13, The Moon: NASA Is In Kinga Forrester's Pocket

[Cail]

Space X launch in 10 min from Vandenburg...probably going to see a lot of people freaking out on Facebook cause of the contrails

bah, missed out

[TsingTao]

Video of this morning's launch. Details about the CA facility, including the newly finished pad where they made their first return this morning.

https://youtu.be/vr_C6LQ7mHc

Ars has an article with some nice stills from the mission.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018...omething-else/

[6souls]

Virgin Galactic Announces that they'll Reach Space "In Weeks," Branson to Travel to Space "In Months"

"We should be in space within weeks, not months. And then we will be in space with myself in months and not years," the firm's founder and chief executive told news website CNBC.

He said the firm would be taking people into space "not too long after" that.

Earlier this year, Virgin Galactic completed a supersonic test flight of its SpaceShipTwo passenger rocket ship, its first since the crash.

"If I have a room full of 10 people, eight out of 10 would love to go to space if they could afford it," Sir Richard told CNBC.

"It is up to us to produce as many spaceships as we can to cater with that demand."

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-45796403
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/09/rich...twitter%7Cmain

[Roranora]

imagine a world where the rich ride the ferris wheel into space and the poor go without clean water

[Cail]

imagine a world where the rich ride the ferris wheel into space and the poor go without clean water

Elysium

[Psion]

deponia was such a great game series.

but wouldn't it be a space elevator? ferris wheels suck to wait in line even at normal scale, imagine the wait time on one to space. not to mention whenever the wheel gets stuck all the people about to ascend or decend would die of starvation before getting back down.

[Cantih]

Ferris wheel is a bit hyperbole, but there is a thing you could squint at sideways and call it that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyhook_(structure)
Pro is it may be less difficult to make than a space elevator,
con is "Oh god just look at it. Do you want to get on it? I don't want to get on it. I don't trust anything looking like that, that close to a gravity well."

[Roranora]

We went with ferris wheel here because it's a big dumb ride.

There won't be queues because it'll be big enough to fit all of the select individuals wealthy enough to ride it. And no one starves; there is food and booze and drugs aplenty for a full ride + any delay. The carriages will also rain fecal waste and spears of frozen urine down upon the beggars and peasants.

[BerenTebogo]

Just interesting status update for you guys if you haven't heard:

Hubble has suspended science operations for the next several weeks after an attempt to recover from a gyro bias issue. Now there is a real risk that they have to run on only one gyro from here on out. Science will still be possible but definitely hindered.

We're (Chandra) offline since yesterday morning due to a still unexplained error which caused the spacecraft to go into safing mode in the middle of an observation, which is not generally where errors happen. We expect to be up and running by the weekend but it's still definitely the extreme range of anomalies.

Spitzer is the only great observatory still operating right now. lol.

[Zetanio]

So this is when the aliens invade, right?

[BerenTebogo]

Yep. Right on schedule.

[BerenTebogo]

Actually I think there is a plot of some shitty alien movie where the only warning we get pre-invasion is that a lot of telescopes and satellites and shit go offline and we don't know why.

So yeah you ded son.

[Zetanio]

good, something needs to happen to improve the timeline.

[Jaybar]

Soyuz rocket that was sending a US and Russian astronaut/cosmonaut to the ISS failed during ascent. The crew made a ballistic reentry back to Earth undergoing 6.7G at its peak descent. NASA is saying it was a problem with the booster during separation. The crew made it safely back to terra firma.

https://www.space.com/42097-soyuz-ro...e=notification

[Salodin]

6.7g holyyyyyy

I saw a picture of them sitting on a couch getting examined with that look you give your friend after you both had a shitty day lmao.

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[Roranora]

Soyuz rocket that was sending a US and Russian astronaut/cosmonaut to the ISS failed during ascent. The crew made a ballistic reentry back to Earth undergoing 6.7G at its peak descent. NASA is saying it was a problem with the booster during separation. The crew made it safely back to terra firma.

https://www.space.com/42097-soyuz-ro...e=notification

This is pretty incredible

[Salodin]

Who's runs Soyuz? This was a challenger about to happen and an emergency escape system is all that saved them.

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[Zetanio]

Russia.

[Jaybar]

Soyuz rockets are the only certified manned rockets in circulation with a high success rate (citation needed). SpaceX and ULA are in the works to get certified manned rockets for US launches, but they are years away.

[BerenTebogo]

JK Spitzer isn't really taking science data at the moment.

None of the great observatories are taking science data at this moment. L O L.