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

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  1. Reasonablerob

    Reasonablerob Well-Known Member

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    To boldly go where no man has gone before...
     
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    Well we have been to Mars. What are the advantages of sending a human to Mars and being absorbing a likely fatal dose of radiation? What can the man do that computers cannot do?

    To me what you are saying is we have wasted money on social programs so that justifies wasting money on a space program. What happened to fiscal conservatism?
     
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    JET3534 Well-Known Member

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    That goal will not be achieved in a low earth orbit.
     
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  4. Reasonablerob

    Reasonablerob Well-Known Member

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    No but it's a first step (and where Steed and Tara ended up).
     
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  5. Dutch

    Dutch Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    One is temporary, the other is forever.
     
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    Dutch Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Not just Mars, we need to go to Europa to see how Europans are doing and why are we not permitted to land there.
     
    Dutch, May 30, 2020
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    Mmm. I think that was designed by GWB in 2004.
    However, all good things must come to an end. In 2004, seven years before the final space shuttle flight, President George W. Bush effectively put the final nail in the coffin when he announced that the space shuttles would be retired.
    https://nationalinterest.org/blog/techland/why-did-nasa-kill-space-shuttle-144822
    It was Obama that did the privatization of the space program.

    Poor Trumpers are still searching for something Trump has accomplished.
     
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    So you know the politics of everyone who worked on this program?
    You know how stupid that sounds?
     
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    Hater^^^^^
     
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  10. Dutch

    Dutch Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Why, Trump just sent two astronauts into space on American made vehicle, something that has not been done in 10 years! :applause:
     
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    Dutch Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Live long and prosper Captain Kirk and all the other Enterprise captains! :salute:
     
    Dutch, May 30, 2020
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    Yeah, you may be right. Maybe he used his sharpie on the weather map again. :)
     
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    Im not ashamed to admit I got a little teary-eyed watching it today. It was Fing glorious.
     
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    Dutch Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    That, and also pushed through more funding and fresh ideas to NASA. We need him for another 12 years!
     
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    Dutch Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Same here my friend, and then the tube started showing a riots in downtown Denver!
     
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    Give the tube the boot!

    I watched it online and wasn't subjected to anything except what I wanted to see :)
     
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    Lol.

    I made a point to he home to watch this, good stuff.

    I really need to make a trip to the area for a close up viewing of a launch, it would be so cool I think
     
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    But not on a black and white TV
     
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    The planet is too unstable.
     
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    It is a total loss operation.
     
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    Our first color TV was in 1967, two years before the Moon landing. But the video from Apollo 11 was broadcast in B&W.
     
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    A stepping stone to other greater discoveries? It is worth it just for the development of the technologies it will take to survive in that kind of environment. Look at all the advancements in technology going to the moon brought us. When we do not push the boundaries of what we can achieve we stagnate. Pressing on to Mars and beyond will bring benefits like the age of exploration brought to Europe. Slow and expensive at first, but overwhelmingly beneficial in the long run.
     
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    As a taxpayer I would not want to provide a great deal of funding for NASA to put a man on Mars until at a minimum an approach is proposed for addressing the radiation issue.

    Either that or issue a firm fixed price for an RFP without progress payments, i.e., the contractor only gets paid if they land a man on Mars.
     
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    Lol, there are a **** ton of things I would not want my money going towards. I would gladly take money away from those things and give more to space exploration. But anyways, rest assured they will come up with a solution to dealing with radiation on mars before a man goes there. Astronauts tend to be courageous, not suicidal. Most likely it will be private enterprises that develop the solutions, and will have hugely profitable non-space applications as well. That is the joy of technological innovation.
     
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    My parents TV was color but not the one I had in my room.
     
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