Blue Moon really should go first. It's a more practical, less ambitious design, with better inherent safety. We shouldn't splash out on the towering ambitious megarocket just because we can. That stuff should come later, once we've gained confidence and experience. That should be obvious.
NASA does not need a lander with a dry mass of 100+ tonnes to put 2–8 astronauts on the Moon. The lander's excessive size and mass actually make several problems, such as the hatch being 30 m above the ground and there needing to be a crew elevator system with no current plan for a backup if it fails.
Big spaceship does not equal good spaceship. Don't be fooled by spectacle and awe. Starship HLS is ill-suited to taking humans to the surface of the Moon. The best case for it is as a heavy cargo vehicle, perhaps in service of a Moonbase. Again, that comes later. Skylab after Mercury-Redstone, not before.
It's genuinely possible that Starship HLS might not be ready before Blue Moon MK 2 is.
Artist's concept of the missile-mounted Space Shuttle Orbiter during launch.
Date: November 23, 1981
NARA: 6364453
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Artemis is ace I think, and ace counts as not straight, and not straight = gay. This checks out.
[people cheering in the background]
MOLLY COBB in For All Mankind (2019– )
by ltg.art
The Long Gas Tail of Spiral Galaxy D100 : Why is there long red streak attached to this galaxy? The streak is made mostly of glowing hydrogen that has been systematically stripped away as the galaxy moved through the ambient hot gas in a cluster of galaxies. Specifically, the galaxy is spiral galaxy D100, and cluster is the Coma Cluster of galaxies. The red path connects to the center of D100 because the outer gas, gravitationally held less strongly, has already been stripped away by ram pressure. The extended gas tail is about 200,000 light-years long, contains about 400,000 times the mass of our Sun, and stars are forming within it. Galaxy D99, visible to D100’s lower left, appears red because it glows primarily from the light of old red stars – young blue stars can no longer form because D99 has been stripped of its star-forming gas. The featured false-color picture is a digitally enhanced composite of images from Earth-orbiting Hubble and the ground-based Subaru telescope. Studying remarkable systems like this bolsters our understanding of how galaxies evolve in clusters. via NASA
A color shot of the asteroid Ryugu’s surface. © MASCOT/DLR/JAXA
hooked noses, flat noses, big noses, and nose bumps are cute society just has bland taste and a preference for white features
Did you know Orion spacecraft has an incredible 11 parachutes?
by @ChutesNL
21 · female · diagnosed asperger'sThe vacuum of outer space feels so comfy :)
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