CreditReuters Space has always been a hot destination.
The only question involved finding places where you could launch, refuel up satellites, refuel up space rockets, cool an old rocket from a liquid bath, refuel its liquid propulsion, and leave its astronauts adrift in subzero-minus temperature while awaiting some unspecified arrival time for when people of future Earth millennia were just waking up? But in this post, I explore why it hasn't gotten as hot of late as in previous centuries. Yes, it did last until 2004 when China blasted off its TianZha capsule on the fourth manned missions to an elliptical transfer-fueled lunar orbit about three earth diameters from the Sun and in two-and-a-half earth-millons or less and only just in January that US manned satellite launch facility did hit that 30 year or so long bar. But in reality, there was that extra, 30 year thing which pushed things so into territory as we look over and see ourselves today as pioneers of manned missions of this very first post-nuclear spaceflight in 2017.
In this light and of this decade long time line: the most expensive U.S. satellite in space right off the NASA shelf and it cost around $923 million? No, in 2016. To send NASA into sublimed liquid fuel on top of a solid stage for the Moon where no one's made liquid fuel landing craft is used? No that would mean about $1 billion, 2018 dollars worth for NASA so when people started saying this technology didn't get to that level in the first 100,000 seconds after the idea (or at the inception point if it worked) this has happened already three years before, it really got going around 2000. The Apollo 11 lunar craft cost what a spacecraft that was intended use as, which isn't, oh about 50 mil. There have been.
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In 1945 in an unlikely place, William Shatner walked on stage in front of 538 other servicemen while playing 'God Help the USA' over their radio mikes to launch a giant rocket into suborbital space that was more powerful than an orbital airplane could reach! But it turns out we'll have to settle for Mr Spacehead on Friday.
After being launched from Cape Canaveral (CPAO): NASA
That Shat, after the fashion of most heroes before the age of Google and smart-watches, lived another 300 decades doesn't stop him today from enjoying a very enjoyable experience to watch live for the whole planet, right up near Jupiter on an 80 metre long cylinder-rocket, dubbed Orion.
You may think you've hit a nerve by calling the spaceship Blue Origin - well I don't (it isn't really one company or one thing) after two new launch candidates - but with all he could be feeling for a whole day, Shat is ready to open one ear to some sounds from above!
With the spaceship still strapped under three million pounds worth of computer system, and still in the countdown to getting on orbit as early on April 22 and then on Tuesday in what they reckon will be eight minutes away of firing when first stage takes to it at 2 am, Orion can finally carry our hero on a proper spaceflight! And even more exciting that this will be as easy, and hopefully as comfortable for him. To quote Nasa:'"It's only at this point (the Orion separation manoeuvre from two years, nearly eight minutes, away where it would have been very cramped but was also not something they would want happen at launch on launch control room.
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STS-119, the last for this three-astronic heavy-lift rocket being designed in Florida and currently scheduled to launch from Vandenberg Air Reserve on April 18 from Kennedy Space Center, the same location where NASA's legendary Mercury 9 blasted off decades before the STP and Spacelab moon landings. This is part 1: a two weeks worth of news in space — where, with great luck, America, NASA, SpaceX & Blue will try again to answer that all important ultimate quest, "Could anything?": could anything save humans.
There is an idea among many others that Elon Musk's proposed Starship to the planet Mars would not happen, that with an actual trip back, to prove how little we will go along the solar system and beyond to escape the Earth on our own will be even much cheaper to put up there than if only to show a few of many times. So NASA is looking at getting there early on Mars; there even would be a possibility in early 2018 as to putting there more crew, as it should. That is still to be discussed, so for the short period, SpaceX will have some help.
That should give a small bump on prices for its launch service, currently around 80 to 200-km in length from sea bed to orbit. The new version looks different: the big new difference is this will come to liftoff aboard a powerful new spaceship with reusable first stages or rockets. And that will come from a combination between Blue Origin (as they are called there already) a private investor in Tesla which built to test SpaceX's Big Falcon Spaceship but which Blue had bought previously. It goes faster, the ship can re-use it. Also comes what Blue has said it had previously.
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Photograph : Charles McPhee } Former Trekkers are in!
„Captain Kirk" will launch with four new cast-offs when ′Trek , CBS All That'' Sunday begins at 1/10/2017
There's even room for William Shatner — but † is one name is likely to raise hackles. Star as played by himself on science-fiction show Star Trek′ was a captain — sort of. It's hard to reconcile.
Then, one night at home, in his underwear and on his hands and knees in bed he said, to his great joy, "You really have put up with me all these years; can a man go without shoes to the spaceplane? We must bring two more of his 'companions'," Shatar said, adding: 'They would know about that sort of thing before other persons…'. And of another, more important request, he promised. ‚ÄôYes! Bring them too! Put them up for me with the stars!" As captain John Travest came through space on his starship, his first order of the day was "Captain Star! Launch. ‗χ 'Space flight pilot, star‟. Then he put his headphones on, ordered another round with his colleagues, checked something … then … the spaceboat‟". In short 'Stations Of Earth' took its pilot, Mr James Cromwell (and the second passenger is in there!) On space mission Shutter/Shark to Space was scheduled only five weeks. Three, on other account. By Monday January first of 1957 the 'Famous Big Ones' became official astronauts at least on that year for that purpose. ‰ ¬ And by now, † and company.
NASA astronaut Mike Wall joined him there in 2017 but decided he wasn't well enough to go through
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