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

[Cail]

1st time in 45 years that NASA has landed astronauts in the water. Successful landing!

[Outlaw]

Now I can say it. Congratulations SpaceX!

[Meresgi]

I'm happy to see at least space travel/science is progressing along while the rest of the world bickers/burns. Makes me feel good about something!

[TsingTao]

Successful 150m 'hop' last night for SN5. Literally our first step to another planet.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020...eps-off-earth/

The footage mid flight from inside the prototype is pretty cool.

[archibaldcrane]

Didn't realize SpaceX had successfully caught a fairing in their ship with the big net.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1295847382073171970

[archibaldcrane]

Also there's a satellite launch going right now and another one scheduled for earlier today that got pushed to Sept. 1st.

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1300207921452601346

[archibaldcrane]

this shit is so wild

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1301718836563947522

[TsingTao]

At this rate Starship will make its first launch before the SLS.

[Cail]

whats Starship for?

[Krandor]

Starship (SpaceX) and SLS (NASA) are Super Heavy Lift Rockets

[archibaldcrane]

whats Starship for?

Firat they'll use it to deliver tons of satellites, but eventually for taking astronauts to Mars (possibly by the hundreds) and/or extremely fast long distance earth flights (NY to Sydney in 90 minutes, shit like that)

[BaneTheBrawler]

or extremely fast long distance earth flights (NY to Sydney in 90 minutes, shit like that)

that seems exorbitantly wasteful.

but i guess if you absolutely must bludgeon the proles to death with your dick/carbon footprint, it's better than a yacht.

[TsingTao]

whats Starship for?

Here's SpaceX's page on Starship.

https://www.spacex.com/vehicles/starship/

What we see in the vid Archi linked is just the most inner bits of Starship, and just the second stage. Fuel tanks and controls, one engine, the basics needed to prove that it won't blow up when you fuel it up (and a few have) and that it can do a basic controlled hop. As time goes by they will add all the rest of the bits, plus build the matching first stage, so that it looks like the properly cool, fully reusable rocket system on SpaceX's page.

Short version: It's what will eventually get humans to Mars.

[Jaybar]

The payload capacity could at LEAST get us a lunar station.

[Drai]

wouldn't a lunar production facility be the most efficient to aim for at this point? produce ships on the moon in lower gravity environments and launch from there? less fuel needed for launches and I assume could help reach higher speeds with less fuel input as well?

[Meresgi]

wouldn't a lunar production facility be the most efficient to aim for at this point? produce ships on the moon in lower gravity environments and launch from there? less fuel needed for launches and I assume could help reach higher speeds with less fuel input as well?

We are currently in the process of mission planning for a lunar station. There are also missions currently out there like Osiris Rex to look at possible asteroid redirection and moving asteroids back to the moon to orbit and then mine resources from them. Btw osiris Rex has the best patch i've seen so far.

[Drai]

We are currently in the process of mission planning for a lunar station. There are also missions currently out there like Osiris Rex to look at possible asteroid redirection and moving asteroids back to the moon to orbit and then mine resources from them. Btw osiris Rex has the best patch i've seen so far.

That is metal as fuck, and I endorse them.

[Qalbert]

https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1307482097829830657

[TsingTao]

Fuck that clown. A private company will be the first entity to put an astronaut on Mars. Don't try and take credit for SpaceX's efforts, not when the government spent its time and our money funneling billions in to a boondoggle that still hasn't got a firm launch date for its first flight.

[Meresgi]

Fuck that clown. A private company will be the first entity to put an astronaut on Mars. Don't try and take credit for SpaceX's efforts, not when the government spent its time and our money funneling billions in to a boondoggle that still hasn't got a firm launch date for its first flight.

While SpaceX and other private companies are doing a lot, they are doing it in conjunction with NASA in a lot of projects and NASA as a whole is doing WAAAAAY more than putting money into a rocket. Also 1/2 the reason that shit is so behind is the private contractors fucking around with NASA and delaying things due to bullshit reasons.

We have Roman coming up, Artemis plans being started, Osiris Rex out in space, the entire refueling and repair mission environment, placing more retroreflector panels on the moon and a shit ton of other projects going on.