This is pretty funny. NASA calls BS on it.
Category Archives: Space
Heroism
The sailor who chose to “save his kids” by dying. In my book, I point out that in the Navy, saving the ship, not “safety,” is the highest priority. There will be stories like this in the future about spaceflight.
Thirteen Years Of No Space Tourism
Today is the anniversary of the first spaceflight of SpaceShipOne. At the time, everyone expected its successor to be flying passengers before the decade was out. As we now know, that was over-optimistic, for a variety of reasons. But here are my blog posts from the event at the time.
The #JourneyToMars
…seems to be pretty much dead.
#JourneyToMars was never alive.
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) June 20, 2017
Elon And Mars
He’s published his plan.
I haven’t read it yet, but then, I don’t care much about Mars.
A Wet Workshop
Almost half a century after Skylab, private companies are proposing to outfit a propellant tank on orbit.
Key issue is getting life support going in it quickly, so they don't have to work in suits to outfit it. https://t.co/kZWHojKknt
— SafeNotAnOption (@SafeNotAnOption) June 12, 2017
Private Space Exploration
There was an interesting conference in New York last week (that I would have liked to attend if it had been in my budget). It’s still hard to raise money for it, because modern philanthropists don’t know the history
[Update a while later]
Sorry, added missing link.
U.S. Air Traffic Control
My friend Bob Poole (who has been advocating this for almost half a century) says it’s time to get it out of the sixties.
SpaceX
…is having quite a year. And it’s not half over. Yesterday, Elon implied in a tweet that FH could fly in late September or early October.
China And Space
They seem to be trying to get a little more innovative, but they don’t seem to be in a big hurry about it:
Reusable lift-body launchers will be developed in three stages — rocket-engine partial reusable vehicle, rocket-engine full reusable vehicle and combined cycle-engine reusable vehicle, said Lu.
The Long March carrier rockets still have room for improvement, Lu said, adding that the CALT is developing a heavy-lift launch vehicle with a payload of 140 tonnes to low Earth orbit and 50 tonnes to lunar transfer orbit.
The heavy-lift carrier rocket is currently called the Long March-9, and it should be sent into space by 2030, he said.
[Via Parabolic Arc]