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SpaceX One Step Closer To Launching Astronaut
BarbaraHudson writes SpaceX has passed NASA's "certification baseline review," which required the company to outline exactly how it plans to ferry crews to and from the International Space Station using the Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket under SpaceX's Commercial Crew Transportation Capability (CCtCap) contract with NASA. The contract will include at least one test flight with an astronaut in the spacecraft.
I didnt expect this news for at least another year. Ever since the shuttles have retired i have been patiently waiting the day we get a new craft back up and running.
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This astronaut is going to wind up dead. Good thing the dragon capsule doubles as a coffin.
Do you have any idea how many people would volunteer to take the ride, even with the risks? Either way, it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
Musk and everyone at space x should be executed for the murder they are going to commit.
By that thinking, everyone at NASA should have been executed after the capsule fire that killed astronauts Grissom, White, and Chaffee.
Astronauts know that what they are doing is fraught with risk. As one of them said, "You're sitting on millions of pounds of explosive chemicals, with thousands of parts, all made by the lowest bidder."
The don't have to ask what could go wrong. They know. And they still go.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
You might want to update your thinking (or get a new tin foil hat). The Russians are the bad guys again.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
there is stupid here thats for sure...
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Which is a real pity because your format could have been either brilliant social commentary or very funny, depending on if you either stuck to the god's honest truth, or just exaggerated things a bit more.
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Musk and everyone at space x should be executed for the murder they are going to commit.
By that thinking, everyone at NASA should have been executed after the capsule fire that killed astronauts Grissom, White, and Chaffee.
That's was as an accident by a government agency. Space x is going to commit murder for profit. If you're too stupid to understand the difference you should be executed along side them.
So nominate me to make the flight. If it blows up, you get what you want. If it doesn't, I get what I want. Either way, we ultimately advance our knowledge and capabilities.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
but they only send up 3 people at a time to ISS. Seems like a waste. They should set up a lottery for an extra person or two, seems reasonable. I'll buy some tickets.
I agree with your sentiments. However, I suspect the original poster (as Anonymous) to be a troll and doesn't actually believe whatever he/she is posting. It has all the characteristic signs. A short simple statement that is clearly just plain nuts that is designed to provoke outraged response.
I remember a quote from Neil Armstrong saying that he felt there'd only be a 50% chance that he'd actually be able to land on the moon successfully (a failed landing probably meant a slow death.)
So, your concern is that the spaceship was assembled by a for-profit company instead of a government agency? Because pretty a whole bunch of the parts for NASA spacecraft are made by for-profit companies...this is part of the pork-barrelling of NASA, by making them buy parts from companies all over the US, regardless of who could make the best part or an adequate part for less.
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ahhh yes, you look at my name and instantly i am a drug addict. Grow up. educate yourself a bit and you might not look like such an idiot
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Yeah, because in the 60's we were building reusable rockets that were autonomously landing on robotic ships in the ocean... oh wait.
Yes Francis, the world has gone crazy.
That's what this country has turned into: a bunch of cowards. And worse, they're the special bunch of cowards who are jealous of the people who stick their necks out and try to chop it off at first chance.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
Trollope. At worstif they it a lot of corners and compromised savety it could be negligent manslaughter. But if they practiced reasonable care then it is merely an accident.
Just trolls ... /. should really autohide anything that is voted negative AND is AC.
Given the reply to your post, I do believe you're right. I wonder though - do troll hides make good ablative shielding?
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
You know, this would make an interesting slashdot poll. "Would you volunteer to go on SpaceX's first manned flight?"
[_] Yes.
[_] Hell,. yes.
[_] I just volunteered my boss.
[_] Anything to get away from my ex.
[_] Does it come with free flight insurance?
[_] Depends - do I have to be groped by a TSA droid?
[_] Sure - it's not like they can be worse at losing my luggage.
[_] I was okay with it until I heard their theme song was David Bowie's "Space Oddity"
[_] CowboyNeil already tried to boost me into orbit.
[_] I can do "spam in a can."
The lure of the great adventure has always attracted the curious.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
You stupid Americans are so clueless it is beyond believe. A lot of people don't even like the Russians but even they can see the contrast today.
Your entire nation is a lie.
I am NOT from, or living in, the USA. Replacing a gang of thugs with a gang of crooks doesn't look much different.
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Just trolls ... /. should really autohide anything that is voted negative AND is AC.
But then APK would have to get an account to crap-flood multiple times after most of my posts, so his posts would start out visible to many others. This way, anyone who isn't logged in doesn't see them, same as anyone who uses the Simply Slashdot app, and he still gets to waste his time, which means he isn't doing it to someone else. "It's a tough job, but someone has to keep him from playing in traffic" :-)
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
Putin is no angel, but under his watch Russia has been a far better world citizen than the USA, by any measure.
"Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs," I said. "we have a protractor"
We've noticed. But, on a related note, have you noticed how everyone suddenly sprang into activity once SpaceX muddled the waters? Suddenly, there's the "twice cheaper" Ariane 6 in the works, suddenly there's a replacement for the RD-180 in the works... Suddenly things are possible. How nicely timed indeed. :D
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Maybe the astronauts know and accept the risks of their chosen profession but their families don't seem to. Google up "Apollo 1 Lawsuit", "Challenger Space Shuttle Settlement" or "Columbia Space Shuttle Settlement". In every case either NASA or a NASA contractor paid off the families, $26.6 million in the Columbia case. Legal actions were initiated after each disaster.
There's a great ted talk by a real astronaut on the risks. 1 in 40 chance of dying, and why he still makes the flight:
Ted Talks
The GP post is clearly bullshit, it's in no way in spacex's interests to deliberately kill an astronaut, especially given that the government has multiple contractors working independently on commercial crew transport. However I have a feeling you are being overoptimistic.
overall chance of casualties from launch and landing activities of its Dragon capsule at 30-in-1 million
NASA management came out with similar figures for the space shuttle. http://sunnyday.mit.edu/accide...
Yet the actual crew loss rate for manned space vehicles has been in the single digit percentages. The space shuttle has had two crew loss failures and according to wikipedia has had 135 launches putting the credw loss rate at about 1.5%. Apollo had one crew loss incident during launch preperations and had about 17 manned missions (including skylab, appollo-soyuz and the aforementioned failure on the pad) putting the crew loss rate at about 5.9%. Soyuz has had 124 manned launches and has had two crew loss failures putting it's crew loss failure rate at about 1.6%.
Hopefully both failure analysis and our understanding of spaceship components have improved, but i'd still consider a figire two orders of manitude better than previous vehicles hard to belive without substantial data from actual flights.
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Drug addicts like you should be tied to the launch pad underneath the engines. The world will be a better place when you and your ilk are all dead.
Someone pee in your Wheaties, dude?
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
In the '60s we had enough workforce and disposable income to build rockets with western engineers right here and do it right.
Western engineers like Wernher Von Braun and his buddies?
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
War in South Ossetia/Georgia. War in Ukraine. Ongoing civil war/occupation of Chechnya, and he played quite a big part in that. You could argue that 2nd Chechen war was effectively started in order to make Putin popular and put him in power.
How has he been a better world citizen. He's been as bad as USA, probably more.
And I'm not saying this to praise USA. As someone else said, this is a choice between a thug and a crook.
Well, ok, unless you count the whole mass surveilance business. And then other shenanigans created by USA corporations. But I could argue Putin would have done the same and more, except his hands were too short- Russia is not as powerful as USA, and not as technologically advanced.
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A few dozen Germans, on a workforce exceeding 100,000 at the height of the Apollo program.
Yes, they are Western engineers. I'm guessing you're from the US and assume the Western only refers to Americas. Actually it was Europe that was considered the west first and America was added on later (as a kind of after thought)...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W...
In what definition of western is Germany and hence Von Braun not included?
Really? In what way?
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
And we are back doing it again. So far, F9 is the safest rocket ever flown.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
In the '60s we had enough workforce and disposable income to build rockets with western engineers right here and do it right.
Well, some of those "western engineers" weren't from "right here" and weren't part of "we".
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
oh we know
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Really? In what way?
He's a secular despot, which I'd take over any theocracy.
"Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs," I said. "we have a protractor"