SpaceX's Dragon capsule captured by ISS
SpaceX's Dragon capsule captured by ISS
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18195772
Well I for one am happy to see that government + private companies can produce big engineering results cost effectively...
Well I for one am happy to see that government + private companies can produce big engineering results cost effectively...
This is great news.
I'm confident that private companies with the vision of people like Musk are the future of space exploration. Not large and unwieldy national government projects.
Hopefully we will get out of Earth orbit again with some manned missions before I kick the bucket. Always wanted to see someone on Mars someday.
I'm confident that private companies with the vision of people like Musk are the future of space exploration. Not large and unwieldy national government projects.
Hopefully we will get out of Earth orbit again with some manned missions before I kick the bucket. Always wanted to see someone on Mars someday.
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Em, "vision" is usually ascribed to people looking forward into the future and seeing established their hopes, dreams, expectations, etc, not looking backward 6 years to a program begun by someone else.AcesHigh wrote:as soon as Obama announced his vision for supporting private space, he got a lot of flak.
the transition was so fast we barely noticed some missions to the ISS were carried by the russians...
Obama's "vision" as regards space has been missing since he took office, but that's no surprise since he said he was going to loot NASA back when he was running in the Democratic primary.
"Courage is not just a virtue, but the form of every virtue at the testing point." C. S. Lewis
LOL!Em, "vision" is usually ascribed to people looking forward into the future and seeing established their hopes, dreams, expectations, etc, not looking backward 6 years to a program begun by someone else.
Obama's "vision" as regards space has been missing since he took office, but that's no surprise since he said he was going to loot NASA back when he was running in the Democratic primary.
Obama's vision was what gave us commercial crew and what did away with the horrible Constellation abomination. Unfortuantely a greedy congress insisted on sucking money out of commercial crew and science projects to fund the equally horrible SLS. Most of all Hutchinson, Shelby, Wolf, Hatch but also Nelson...
Still these mostly republicans had no problem with "big government pork" projects as long as it fed money to their favorite defense contractors...
Nelson is just an idiot on top of that.
LOL a Democrat talking about Republican cronyism! ROFL! Obama would only shift something to the private sector if he had cronies there, which he did.
Did you see the difference between the legacy Nasa control room vs the SpaceX control room?
Best regards,
Did you see the difference between the legacy Nasa control room vs the SpaceX control room?
Best regards,
Counting the days to commercial fusion. It is not that long now.
Who? And actually it was an independent panel of experts (consisting of both republicans and democrats) that put together a list of suggestions (the Augustine commission, read up on it!) and Obama pretty much followed all the suggestions they gave him within the budget constraints.Obama would only shift something to the private sector if he had cronies there, which he did.
So far this has worked very well. For a few hundred million the US got a new rocket and a new space craft. They also got several more in the works and a space industry in the making (look at stratolaunch, planetary resources, etc) because suddenly investors feel like space can be done with a realistic budget, not mulit billions in government money.
Yes I saw it. What about it?Did you see the difference between the legacy Nasa control room vs the SpaceX control room?
Nasa had physical manuals for one thing. SpaceX had tables for their computers for another. The SpaceX control room looked like an office.
And the head of SpaceX is a big supporter of Obama, or had you not noticed for some reason? R's & D's are both on the gravy train, it is just that sometimes they use the same trough. It looks like SpaceX is doing a good job, it is just lucky, it could have ended up like Solendra, or did you forget that crony deal too?
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And the head of SpaceX is a big supporter of Obama, or had you not noticed for some reason? R's & D's are both on the gravy train, it is just that sometimes they use the same trough. It looks like SpaceX is doing a good job, it is just lucky, it could have ended up like Solendra, or did you forget that crony deal too?
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Counting the days to commercial fusion. It is not that long now.
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All of COTS was begun in 2006. Obama had nothing to do with it. Likewise, you can't congratulate Obama for SLS. He tried to scrap all human spaceflight but was unsuccessful. Finally, I will remind you, when you say "Obama's vision was what gave us commercial crew" you are pretending once more you're an American, and you're not. Your tax dollars are not going toward COTS, so your opinion here is not required.Skipjack wrote: Obama's vision was what gave us commercial crew. . .
How many times do you need to be told that it is offensive for you to continue to pretend you're an American, and therefore your opinion matters in things that are entirely American, when in fact you are not? You have no right to criticize our Senators. Just who is it you think you are?
"Courage is not just a virtue, but the form of every virtue at the testing point." C. S. Lewis
Space travel is an industry best left to private companies to innovate while being overseen by a regulatory organization. NASA should just piggyback and continue the science, not try to reinvent the wheel every few years at the tune of copius amounts of tax payer dollars. My opinion, but I don't think they're qualified anymore to say what's best for getting us there. SpaceX just hammers my idea home even further.