The Commercial - and now general space travel - Thread (No Politics Allowed)

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Just your name??????
How much are they charging for that dubious honor?
 
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Just your name??????
How much are they charging for that dubious honor?
Gratis
 
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Well this one was pretty exciting. Didn't think it was going to stick the landing!
Congrats to Blue Origin!

 
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The Way Of The Future...
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May I ask which magazine or book this paragraph if from?
I must admit though, for a mission to Mars timekeeping would probably be the least of their problems. How to keep the crew alive for almost two years? Oxygen supply? Power supply? Water supply? Food? Grow their own food on board? Recycle waste water to water food plants? How to minimise muscle wasting and osteoporosis during prolonged space flight? Lots of things to think about...
 
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May I ask which magazine or book this paragraph if from?
I must admit though, for a mission to Mars timekeeping would probably be the least of their problems. How to keep the crew alive for almost two years? Oxygen supply? Power supply? Water supply? Food? Grow their own food on board? Recycle waste water to water food plants? How to minimise muscle wasting and osteoporosis during prolonged space flight? Lots of things to think about...
Thats just minor details, leave it to Elon! According to Musk we should have been there already. Tunderf00t on youtube has about a million videos on Musk and the time line of going to Mars. He is a bit tiresome to watch with all his repetitions, but I think his reasoning is correct, https://www.youtube.com/@Thunderf00t/videos
 
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This phenomenon was observed in the extreme north of Norway last night. It grounded air traffic and are suspected to be a SpaceX launch.
 
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Damn that's wild. I saw the pictures, but did not have that context.
Pretty amazing!
 
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Also, Artemis 2 made it to the pad over the weekend!


Very jealous of your location. I'd love to see the launch, but it's a guess as to actual launch date. Seems unlikely they'll hit the February window without delays. Seems like we'd have to be willing to camp out for awhile.

What do you think? 200k spectators? 250k?