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Certainly it's two orders of magnitude less complicated than the Space Shuttle. Speaking as an engineer, that's not a bad thing!!!
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You could call something advanced just because it is newer than the alternatives.
LOL!
I'm amused looking at the clothes the technicians are wearing. Baggy shorts. scruffy slacker beards and t shirts. Growing up seeing the NASA guys all with pressed white shirts and skinny black ties thick black glasses over buzz haircuts, this is a cultural shift.
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NigelM
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SpaceX Announces Independent Safety Advisory Panel for Commercial Crew
There's some discussion/speculation on this spaceflight forum thread about how independent this panel would really be, whether the persons selected are the best-suited for the task, and how much pull or enforcement ability it would have inside SpaceX.
The next major milestone for SpaceX (coming up in about a month now) is taking the unmanned cargo-version of their space capsule to the ISS, but SpaceX has always had a strong focus on human transport.
There's some discussion/speculation on this spaceflight forum thread about how independent this panel would really be, whether the persons selected are the best-suited for the task, and how much pull or enforcement ability it would have inside SpaceX.
The next major milestone for SpaceX (coming up in about a month now) is taking the unmanned cargo-version of their space capsule to the ISS, but SpaceX has always had a strong focus on human transport.
Mars for the 'average person' | KurzweilAI
If this is correct then I will be visiting Mars after I exit my current startup. Of course it's hard to see how it can be (perhaps million in the article should read billion?).
Edit: I stand corrected. Elon means it. $500,000 round trip to Mars, within the total wealth of an average person. Blimey. Really hope he is right.
BBC News - Mars for the
I am off to listen to the linked radio programme (Scott's legacy, Episode 2) in which Elon makes the claim
If this is correct then I will be visiting Mars after I exit my current startup. Of course it's hard to see how it can be (perhaps million in the article should read billion?).
Edit: I stand corrected. Elon means it. $500,000 round trip to Mars, within the total wealth of an average person. Blimey. Really hope he is right.
BBC News - Mars for the
I am off to listen to the linked radio programme (Scott's legacy, Episode 2) in which Elon makes the claim
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Norbert
TSLA will win
Let's hope before transporting all these people to Mars he switches the Falcon rockets to LH2/LOx...
WOW!!! I've said I never want to leave the Earth. But half a million for a round-trip to Mars, I'm not sure I could turn that down. (I always said I'd never sky-dive. Then when I actually had the opportunity for a tandem sky dive, I could not turn it down.) However, in 15 years I'm sure I'll be too old and feeble. I'm 63. I'll be 78. No way will I be able to make that trip. Fooey! I wonder how long the trip will take. A few months, at least??? In a small space capsule crowded with the other tourists and crew.
You seem like an active person. No reason you can't still be in good shape by 80. My dad looks great at 80. Better to do a trip like that later in life, anyhow. You'll die from something else before the radiation induced cancer shows up.
I highly doubt that at 78 I'll be able to tolerate the stresses of launch, or the bone loss of several months of weightlessness during the trip. Broken bones and bone loss are significant issues at that age. I am active, and I jog or ride a stationary bike four to five times a week. But I'm also starting to get arthritis and my shoulders can no longer tolerate the weight work that would help maintain bone density. No, I'm afraid a Mars trip is too far in the future for me. It may be just as well, because I'd probably be space sick the entire trip. If they evaluate you on the "vomit comet" before they let you sign up for Mars, I'd be disqualified even if the trip was running now.
The length of the trip is another thing most folks are not thinking about. The moon is a few days away. But Mars would be months, maybe a year round trip. I hate sitting in an airplane for six hours. Imagine six months in a space capsule!
The length of the trip is another thing most folks are not thinking about. The moon is a few days away. But Mars would be months, maybe a year round trip. I hate sitting in an airplane for six hours. Imagine six months in a space capsule!
Steph
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Watch live news conference to discuss the Flight Readiness Review with @NASA from Johnson Space Center at 2:30pm CDT http://ow.ly/ajJwS
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Thanks for the link! I caught the last 10 minutes of it live, but I can't seem to find the full recording now that it's over. Does anyone know where I might find that?
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