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>>43151055
Right now the crew just woke up and perigee raise burn is about an hour away,

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>>43151056

>>43151047
Artemis is supposed to end in a space station orbiting the Moon, right? I feel like it's kinda weird not do to one on the surface IMO

t. not /sci/ so don't know if it's actually good or not

>>43151059
Lunar Gateway is in limbo right now waiting to see what will happen with ISS. Right now the plan is to have private companies have the low Earth orbit stations that lease out space to agencies to do science and the like.

Lunar Gateway was supposed to be the big step to help with whatever base is built and can be used as a "gas station" for whatever Mar mission happens in the next hundred years.

>>43151065
>Right now the plan is to have private companies have the low Earth orbit stations
why would anyone host one privately? ISS was/is a giant waste of taxbux, I don't think there's enough interest in operating one by a private entity unless of course I miss some niche that could be taken by them. Something fancy for Starlink, maybe?

>>43151068
A lot of chemistry and pharmaceuticals that can produce higher quality things in low gravity. Or can only be made in low low gravity, so there is a business opportunity there. Varda is a good example of this

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Oh hey neat a Nasapone thread.

>>43151069
Varda does the crystalisation growth for meds and stuff right? Rocket Lab was their provider iirc

>>43151069
really interesting, hope this sort of stuff becomes more common knowledge when meds (and maybe other goods) produced in this manner become generally available
inb4 "Breaking Bad in space" because there's no FDA in cosmos

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>>43151072
That's right! I was wondering when you would show up shouldn't you be in bed with your whack ass timezone?

>>43151076
I hope so too with a bunch of everyday things we take for granted nowadays are from the OG Space Race.

>>43151077
>I hope so too with a bunch of everyday things we take for granted nowadays are from the OG Space Race.
are you talking about 'puters or some other tech?

>>43151078
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spin-off_technologies

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>>43151077
Wanted to catch the orbit burn before calling it a night.

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>>43151080
pretty darn neat

>>43151087
>that file name
That's okay anon she is best princess

>>43151084
Seems Endeavor tipped over
Could have sworn this was one of the edited photos

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Did they fix the toilet?

>>43151108
Yeah they got it working. I swear if they just did a single orbit and returned to Earth because of the missing filter I would have laughed a bunch though.

>>43151047
She's dead, get over it
The best you can hope is to find her corpse up there

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Best thread to wake up to!

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She's alive and she'll be saved, I'm sure of it. I'll never stop believing.

>>43151149
I'll never stop believing too. I hope they wave at her as they float overhead

>>43151149
>Hacoчкa
socks for Nasapone when?

>>43151149
Her snowpity essence got absorbed into the universe itself. She's one with the moon and the stars. Everytime you look in the sky, and see a particular star shining slightly brighter than the rest, that's her. She's very much alive, and she's all around us.

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>>43151157

>>43151162
>In space, no one can hear you clop

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>>43151047
They had a site to become a "passenger" on the ship, a virtual one of course. I've submitted the moon Princess, sadly Nasapone didn't immediately come to mind.
She is a good pone though.

what is the point of this thread

>>43151274
refer to the picture >>43151271

>>43151274
Literally says do in the OP. There's a lot of space autism here.

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>>43151175
Are you sure about that?

>>43151271
picrel worked on me thanks nonny

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>>43151047
I'll always keep her close to my heart

>>43151868
cute!

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TLI successful, we're on the way to the Moon!

Is there any more of NASA Pone? She's a cute mare

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>>43152217
>>43152652

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>>43152652

What is NASApone's personality like? Does she like to do countdowns when she goes to kiss you? Does she like calculate trajectories when you're both watching pegasi flying around?

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>>43152722
First pony plush on Luna or Mars needs to be photographed sunbeaming

>>43152914
>countdowns when she goes to kiss you
hnnng

We need another Nasapone run of plushies.

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>TLI burn so accurate the first correction burn can be skipped
She worked real hard on those calculations!

can we please convince the /mppp/ faggots to make nasapone rather than doing the world's trillionth's anon filly run

>>43153405
>NASApone whispers in your ear "You are go for insertion burn" when in bed

>>43153818
Would love a rerun of nasapone.

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>>43151047
Sorry your thread is so slow, OP. But I'm glad someone else is excited about Artemis. Fight the good fight.

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There she goes

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>>43153935
I love her so much bros

>>43153988
I would love this as well, I need to see more anons with Nasapone.

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>Pink Pony Club as wakeup music
nice

>>43155385
I would get so many

>>43155688
>it didn't get to their favorite part
sad

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I really like how much the exercise is making the solar panels shake

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Mares mentioned!

>>43156704
>"hey Houston, can you beam me up that one picture of Dash? you know the one, thanks, also kill the stream for a few minutes after you send it"
some details, anon?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHcbggp_8bs

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One more day till lunar flyby!

>>43157413
Maybe it'd be cool if we did a /mlp/ sings of this song to commemorate the Artemis II mission.

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>>43158291
If only I could sing

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>>43158358
I'm not good at singing either, but I'd do it anyway for Nasapone

>>43157419
This is layered kek right here

>>43158291
This is Ground Anon to Nasapone~

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Get ready, spacechuds. It's time.

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Wake up, NASApone! I know you've been working hard, but it's almost time!

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>>43159506
It's... it's time...?

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LETS FUCKING GOOOO

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Phew I'm here in time

ayylmaos on the far side. calling it right now.

This stream is making me cry. Reid is asking to name stuff after his dead wife.

>>43159726
I get that feel anon

>>43159547
uhhh you're a bit late

>>43160399
The 40 minute blackout is clearly meant to hide their rescuing of Luna

>>43160400
Imagine if they brought along a Luna plush just for that.

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>>43160413
I, for one, would kill many anons for the chance to place a Luna plush on the Selenean summit.

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eglips :DDD

>>43160629
That's pretty

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>>43160781
have another

>>43161234
Me

>>43161703
On the right? Yeah, that's me on the left.

>>43161708
umm actually thats me on the left and you on the right

>>43161710
gay

>>43161710
straight

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>>43160781
and now for the real kino

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Earthset

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And Earthrise
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/
>some of these photos are "too large" despite being far below 4 MiB
Moon to stronk for 4chan

>>43162230
>>43162233
>Earthrise 2
neat
>some of these photos are "too large" despite being far below 4 MiB
install 4chan-xt, it compresses big files
>>43162228
Holy Moly

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>>43162228
Here's a good one for us stargazers.

>>43162228
In the nicest way possible, this looks fake as fuck

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>>43162918
Lighting in space is not intuitive because there's no air and ~no dust to distort and diffract. It does have a tendency to make everything look like cgi especially if it's digital and not film.

>>43162958
Having film up there would be nice.

>>43163082
That reminds me of a flash game I played when I was younger

>>43162918
But enough about your wealth.

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From the pic one of the crew took.

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>>43163641
nnice

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exercise time
live 4K soon?

who made Nasapone?

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>>43164520
hadley

>>43164671
>just 11 pics on booru
Jeez

>>43164520
your mom

>>43164462
Heard of rocking the boat but this is wild.

>>43164754
boooooo

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>>43164754
The solar arrays shaking from the exercise is one of my favourite things from this mission, it's very funny

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>>43165340
Had to make an edit

>>43151059
Once nasa builds a space station, it becomes really easy to convince Congress to "keep funding resupplies to the existing space station"
This was one of the reasons to build ISS
This was pretty much the only reason to build gateway, just so it would be easy to convince Congress to keep funding resupplies to moon orbit. The science of lunar orbit is is barely incremental to science in LEO
I'm glad isacman scrapped gateway in replaced it with a lunar surface base, lots more fun stuff to do on the surface of the moon

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>>43165369
good one

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>>43165077
This mission got me back into Kerbal and I added a ton of mods this time. The pony mod is pretty neat and has like fifty mares, but unfortunately no nasapone or luna

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>>43165433
Kinda cursed, but look how cute the cmc are!

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>>43164671
I'm surprised how many people have assumed I was Nasapone's creator despite it being actually Hadley. I do love drawing her though.

>>43165561
I admire your dedication needle hooves guy, but you should really work on pony anatomy. Don't want to be rude, but it just doesn't look good most of the time, especially the hind legs.

anybody have a good nasapone KSP flag? With the 512x256 resolution

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>>43165441

>>43165561
You might've drawn her more than him at this point so it's not surprising. I'm a big fan of your spess pone art.

>>43165776
I think it's alright

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>>43165794
No, but I'm planning to channel my artfagging towards stuff like that for use as flags and decals. Here's a lazy start using a font generator since I'm away from home.

>>43165369
>sensiblechuckle.gif

>>43165377
> lots more fun stuff to do on the surface of the moon
inb4 people draw dicks on the lunar surface and NASA sending its agents to erase them every time. after a while, the moon is declared a restricted military zone and no civilian is allowed near it ever again. all because of some dicks. I just find that thought funny.

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>>43166903
>he doesn't know

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>>43167007
Somewhere, up there on Mars, there is a human penis

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Reentry draws near

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>>43166778
Finished version. I don't know what it stands for, but I do it for the mares

Did they redesign the Orion heat shield after Artemis 1? I don't want NASApone being cooked.

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>>43167523
Yes, but the redesigned heat shield will be introduced on Artemis III. For this one they changed the reentry profile to one that should be better suited to the current chemistry.

>>43167583
I heard they were hitting the atmosphere very, very fast this time... I haven't looked into it more than that, but the bad heat shield was the first thing I thought of.

>>43165776
It's been a while since I've drawn the needle hooves, but I also don't post art too often either. Appreciate the critique, there's always room for improvement.
>>43166356
Thanks, I do enjoy the spess pones very much

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>>43167467
it gets a bit squeezed on flags, but thanks!

>>43167769
Did you rescue her?

>>43167829
No need! The centaur V upper stage had plenty of delta v remaining after mun orbital insertion

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She's coming home in around seven hours. You nerds ready?

>>43168378
Please let the heat shield hold up

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Splashdown soon! 12,500 miles to go!

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God I can't wait

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What are you all doing while you're waiting for the landing?

>>43169273
clopping
in all seriousness just shitposting

>>43169273
watching them get ready for the landing

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The USS John Murtha is a stupid name for a ship.

AN ARTEMIS JUST FLEW OVER MY HOUSE RIGHT NOW AAAAAAAAAAAA

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>>43169273
>>43169292
Think I'll do some stress relief clopping AFTER they land safely
If they don't...

>>43169318
But it's in the middle of nowhere Pacific
>sees flag
>realize what the thread is
Carry on and please confirm MF4 KSC trip

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>>43169273
waiting for the module separation.

Holy shit is just popped off that’s sick

I wish they had cleaner video, I miss film sometimes.

>>43169330
I will be hosting that again this year yes.

25 minutes to splashdown!

>>43169359
That’ll come after splashdown, right now they are prioritising telemetry data rather than video quality

>>43169396
I know I know. I just want my hasselblad kino

What a kino shot

>>43169308
no one else likes it either, people were mad when it was named after the representative

>>43158291
Hell yeah, even if it turns out half as good as thank you for the fandom I'd be happy

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LET'S GOO

T...that's just ice right?

SHE'S COMING HOME BROS

SHE'S COMING PONE

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Come home, spacepone.

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SHE'S HOME

>>43169493
THREE GOOD LOOKING PARACHUTES

Perfect decent, couldn't have had it better. Absolutely beautiful

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SPLASHHH

Is it bad I want to see Nasapone in a swimsuit splashing in a pool?

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>>43169506
Get on it, drawfags

>4 green crewmembers
>that is not their complexion
lmao

Splashdown is also a good name for a fellow space pone

>>43169519
Damn I was hoping they were Kerbals

>>43169523
Splashdown can be a support crew mare.

Someone should draw Nasapone with 5 little red balloons on her head

Alright who bent the antenna before launch?

"NO, YOU GOTTA PUSH THE RIGHT BUTTON!"

Sounds like me when I try to help my parents troubleshoot their phones.
>just reboot it, man

>>43169550
I think they just forgot to pay their roaming charges and their plan got cancelled on their satphone

>>43169575
>roaming charges

Yeah, I'd say they've been roaming just a bit.

I want nasapone to erect my front porch

>>43169613
She'll whisper in your ear about strenuous docking procedures

>8 people inside
Didn't know she could take that many

>>43169669
indoor space of about 2 minivans they said, it's definitely tight in there

it's like nasapone with an innertube and floaties.

Airlifting nasapones directly to (you)r house

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What a kino mission, we can still do things. It really has restored some of my faith in humanity. It was just such an amazing time following along with this and the crew was so fantastic, I really don't know how they can top these astronauts ok imagine Dominick/Kim, Pettit, Pesquet/Gerst/Cristoforetti, and I guess the Canadian backup lady/some JAXA rep. They would've absolutely deserved to land on the Moon.

>>43167595
The quicker entry is actually supposed to help this chemistry as it's suspected the issue was that the prior skip entry with longer heating led to the gases being trapped in such a way as to damage the heat shield.

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>>43169513
I have started a sketch. Planning to add two more mares after a good night's slumber

>>43170015
Delta Vee in a bikini

>>43170017
>>43170015
Let's name some Space Pony mares. We have:

NASApone
Delta Vee
Splashdown

What others?

>>43170026
See if Seafood or someone has made an Orion, Artemis or SLS pony?


Splashdown would be holding onto the float ring to support Nasapone returning to Earth.

>>43170032
Artemis pone has problems using the toilet

>>43170043
Sorry, Orion pone

>>43170015
Really looking forward for this!

>>43170026
I think kerolox would be a god name

>>43170480
That sounds like a villain from some 80s b-movie

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>>43170017
>>43170026
>Delta Vee
I'm no longer interested in this.

>>43170588
For fuck sake she's more than just an incest OC
I suggested her because of space related OCs that aren't just ponified x/y/z

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>>43170026
Merlin!

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>>43170588
>>43170611
>she's just a incest OC
but what if Button Mash comes and haves sex with her? Two WINCEST FAMILIES COLLIDING

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>>43170026
ESApone a cute. Not as well known, but she's doing her best to ensure ponies can into space.

>>43170970
I like her glasses :)

What's her personality like?

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>>43171555
She's trying her best with the limited means and constant pull in multiple directions she has. Really likes probes and instruments, smart and sweet just don't mention georeturn around her.

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>>43170015
Draw update!
Did lots of stuff and I think the perspective is looking alright. Next is deciding which ponies go where and adding their manes.
>>43170026
>>43170970
Probably these four qt's

>>43172028
Can't wait to see the finished piece!

people really will believe anything just to not have to pay attention to what's happening here on Earth, huh?

>>43172028
Splashdown is the one inside the capsule making sure recovery is going well.
Nasapone is the one in the floaty
ESApone is the one diving in to represent the service module diving in
Delta is the one balancing the ball and also wet mane

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https://youtu.be/DYY4nnfxKbU?t=3040
The astronauts' speeches in this event were hilarious, it's almost like stand-up comedy. I really can't get over how great this crew was.

>>43172714
Cute cuteeee

THERE'S A NIGGER ON THE MOON

>>43174027
Hurry and get your lander ready, SpaceX pone!

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>>43174246
It's not that easy in landerery

>>43174278
Do you think the Starship lunar lander is a good idea? That elevator they're talking about makes me nervous... Seems like too many things that can break.
And that's even if the thing can land without toppling over...

>>43174294
It's far too oversized.

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>>43174294
I do wonder about the elevator system as well, as cool as it is, it does make me curious as to what contingencies there are if it broke down while mid descent, or just overall.

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>>43174514
For (You).

>>43166356
>sweetie belle's face
KEK

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>>43175098
>ywn become spaghettified by a massive black hole pone
I mean, why even bother getting up in the morning?

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>>43174294
>>43174802
>Do you think the Starship lunar lander is a good idea?
It's the only realistic choice SpaceX has (they could surely do a more traditional lander but it wouldn't make sense for them) and had the best technical rating in the selection (though that may be more because of how bad the other options were).
Tipping has definitely been a concern with all the commercial landers recently, Starship probably has a bit of an advantage with all the heavy engines on the bottom but from the outside it still seems like one of the big concerns.
The elevator is supposed to be "multi-fault tolerant" and you can easily come up with simple contingency measures like rope and winch or even just rope in some way, but we've not heard or seen much of those tolerances yet...
Most of all though I'm wondering how the fuck either SpaceX or Blue Origin is supposed to have a crew-accessible (i.e. surely requiring at least basic life support?) version of a lander ready a year from now. I think in-space testing for Artemis III is a great idea and I'm glad Jared is lighting a fire under their asses but man does it seem questionable. Blue doesn't even fully know what their lander is supposed to be yet and while SpaceX has in worked on their design for over five years now we've seen fairly little HLS-specific hardware and of course now it needs to be Ship V3-based and they've just started making those and ships already take the better part of a year to build and HLS then needs a lot of extra work. They better be doing HLS stuff to one of the ships still in factory or they need to start very soon.

>>43176047
Am I missing something here?

>>43176089
Being Roscosmare is suffering

>>43176311
I think it's almost certain that China is going to put mares on the moon before us. On the plus side, that will kick the space race into gear. There is only so much desirable real estate on the moon and both sides are aiming to claim even if they deny it. Even the biggest ice deposits are only a few miles across and access to them is very limited by step terrain. Also, once someone is established they can pretty reasonably request that nobody else lands within a few miles for safety and limiting dust.

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>>43176380
I'm not particularly confident in China's timelines either, they still have a lot to do as well, but they're much harder to judge from the outside.

>>43176311
Excellent response, thanks for the info.

Not sure if I'm reading your image right, but is that Roscosmare dreaming about NASApone wanting her autograph?

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>>43176560
yes

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Do any of you watch "For All Mankind"? What do you think? I want to see ApolloPone.

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>>43176457
>Chyna
They haven't a timeline as set more than before end of 2030, while NASA has set 2028.
Although I do think NASA will make it there before, I'm not very convinced it will be done like presented, especially with Starship and SpaceX not really looking to be on track and only managing to achieve less than half of the promised LEO payload capacity, and remaining challenges with launching all the fuel tanks, in-orbit refueling, HLS, and solving everything before the proposed mid-2027 Artemis III launch date.

>>43176660
>read premise
sounds like another Netflix wokeslop, why would you watch this?

>>43176660
It went to shit after season 2

>>43176380
While China is nothing the scoff at, they haven't been doing tests like NASA has. The reason why NASA takes so long is because of budget and making sure shit doesn't go wrong. The loss of Challenger and Columbia was devastating and halted NASA for several years. We have to get it right the first time.

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>>43176752
>I'm not very convinced it will be done like presented
There are some details that could be changed, but overall that is how it's going to be done. Both SpaceX and Blue Origin require multiple launches and while I have doubts whether SpaceX can be ready in a year, they are likely still ahead of BO with their HLS work. There is no alternative. As for Starship's payload capacity, that's their problem, they'd just have to launch more, it should be enough for the lander (also what do you mean, half the promised payload, 100t was always for Vn+1 with Raptor n+1, Vn is just a prototype, also don't you know Elon never makes promises just aspirations, you must have EDS, suborbital is basically orbit btw ^^^^^:)).

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>>43177184
The first three seasons were alright, jumped the shark in season 4

>>43178053
sounds like MLP to be honest

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>>43177537
I'm very much stoked to see New Glenn fly again later this month, it's very nice to see BO actually be an orbital spaceflight company rather than the suborbital tourist kind it's been for years now. Not only launching rockets to space, but landing and soon about to be reusing boosters. It's good to have competition, it's about time some company is starting to catch up with SpaceX.

>>43178058
kek

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>>43178579
Yeah. They seem to be in constant danger of spreading themselves too thin and falling apart over morale after braindead management decisions so I hope they can keep it together but it's great to see BONG finally flying.
Also related, I wonder what'll happen with the Amazon KuiperLeo minimum satellite limit later this year, people generally expect them to get an extension but since FCC chair Carr is pretty much bought and paid for by SpaceX I think there's a nonzero chance he just kills their license on the letter of the regulations.

>>43179633
That's beautiful

>>43179068
>Boing

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>>43180303
wrong company Anon

>>43180688
Sorry saw BONG and thought you were memeing on Boeing so I did the needful

Since it fits the occasion I went to see Project Hail Mary. I enjoyed it.
>space burial
kino desu
>spin gravity actually sort of part of the plot
holy based

>>43181187
yeah it's just a funny acronym for New Glenn.