SpaceX successfully launches first crew to orbit, ushering in new era of spaceflight

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  1. Steve N

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    Absolutely. One cannot simply identify as a rocket blasting into orbit.
     
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    Elon is doing nothing that hasn't already been done.
     
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    He is doing what a corrupt failing government can no longer do.
     
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    Dutch Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Lemmi rephrase - for a decade we've paid Russians to hitch a ride, and now once again we have our own ride :applause:
     
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    Dutch Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Yes... and a good Conservative Administrators like Donald Trump.
     
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    They will get a well done from me when they send a man beyond a low earth orbit which they claim to have done 50 years ago, but have all sorts of excuses why they can't do it now. The goal of NASA is not to boldly go where man has never gone before - rather it is to get funded and (to quote Mel Brooks) protect their phony baloney jobs.
     
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    Under the last president, I can't remember his name, NASA's job was to promote global warming fear and Islam. I kid you not.
     
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    Anarchists live in caves.

     
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    Although a man was sent to the moon 50 years ago, one of the reasons the claim not to be able to do it now is (in their own words):

    The surface of the Moon is baldly exposed to cosmic rays and solar flares, and some of that radiation is very hard to stop with shielding. Furthermore, when cosmic rays hit the ground, they produce a dangerous spray of secondary particles right at your feet. All this radiation penetrating human flesh can damage DNA, boosting the risk of cancer and other maladies.

    I guess back in the day Neil and Buzz had cajones of stainless steel.
     
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    No, it was allowed to burn up because a President decided not to boost it into higher orbit.
    Must have been a Republican President. ;-)
     
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    What was fake - about the science? ;-)
     
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    I'd like to see a human on Mars before I kick the bucket. I was seven years old when Neil Armstrong landed on the Moon. I remember how exciting that was. It would be cool to experience that again.
     
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    Sure he did. I do not recall another non Governmental organization building a rocket capable of transporting humans into space.

    Further - he did something the the US has not done in 10 years.
     
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    I wonder if it was a "hold my beer" moment for Obama.
     
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    Moon base first.
     
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    I see they have a global warming web site -- and a global warming web site for kids.

    All Federal agencies seem to now spend a lot of money creating web sites that no one looks and and putting information on these web sites that no one looks at.

    Our tax dollars at work.

    https://climatekids.nasa.gov/climate-change-evidence/
     
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    How many genders are there now?
     
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    It is shocking. All of this money that we have given the Military Industrial Complex, only to have the US morph into a near Communist society. And yet their appetite for more money, e.g., Space Force, is endless.
     
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    Asking a liberal how many genders there are is like asking a mathematician to define pi (3.14 ...). The answer is infinite.
     
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    Yay! Whilst Minneapolis burns to hell the TRUE American spirit reaches for the heavens!
     
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    And so were the subsidies.

    Just about everyone says that private development is the future of Space exploration and utilization
     
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    I have to ask. What is the goal of this "reach for the heavens" and what exactly is the Return on Investment?
     
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    After landing on the Moon, we spent 50 years redistributing income. And the people on the receiving end of the wealth transfer are still not satisfied. They’ll never be satisfied.

    To hell with it. Let’s just go to Mars.
     
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