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The United Nations Will Launch Its First Space Mission In 2021 (vice.com)
The United Nations will send its first ever mission to space in 2021. It said it intends to send Sierra Nevada's Dream Chaser spacecraft into a two-week, low-Earth orbit flight in 2021. Sierra Nevada had signed the UN as a partner in June. Motherboard adds:As detailed for a small crowd at the International Astronautical Congress yesterday, the goal of the 2021 UN mission is to make space accessible to developing member states that lack the resources to develop a standalone, national space program. "One of UNOOSA's core responsibilities is to promote cooperation and the peaceful uses of outer space, but our work is about more than that," said Simonetta Di Pippo, the director of UNOOSA. "We have the vision of bringing the benefits of space to humankind, and that means helping developing countries access space technologies and their benefits."
What year did Macross and Robotech start up in?
Put the HQ in San Fransisco. Get it started right.
U.N. Spacy SDF 0.1
Good to know that brewery has diversified into space craft.
My eyes reflect the stars and a smile lights up my face.
and Chrisjen Avasarala will be the Secretary of UN some time in future.
Now it all makes sense!
The UN says they will launch a spacecraft in LEO in 2021. Musk says he will be launching 1,000 spacecrafts to Mars to colonize the planet. Total fucking lunacy. Is everyone disconnected from reality here?
"Sierra Nevada Corporation Will Launch Its First Space Mission In 2021. UN Will Bicker About it and Do Nothing."
FTFY
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Yes, often while walking in a t-shirt breathing air, I wish for the benefit of a hard vacuum, direct solar radiation, and bone demineralisation. For all mankind.
What is it with these empty slogans and meaningless hype about "space benefits" with you geeks? Is it a religion?
Trying to imagine people behind setting up the UN in the 1940-ies dreaming about the organization sending up space ships some day... Failing...
Whatever this undertaking costs, President Trump is likely to cut UN funding by exactly that amount. And he'll be right.
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
Down with the Feddies! SIEG ZEON!
Have you taken a look at reality lately?
Much healthier to be delusional at this point.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Someone didn't get the idiocracy reference.
UN has its own space program?
*mind blown*
Whatever problem NASA has with bureaucracy and money-wasting, compared to the UN they are like Henry Ford and Jeff Bezos combined.
In other space news, Elon Musk has announced that SpaceX will partner with Samsung to make its Mars spacecraft.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Well, Mission Control will look very spiffy and smart in their blue berets. No more silly vests! It's time to move forward!
lolololololol
Maybe if they're successful getting into space, in a few years they can move their damned headquarters OUT of my country and into orbit.
From TFA: "The total cost of the Dream Chaser mission has yet to be determined and will depend on the nature of the payloads being sent to orbit. UNOOSA is hoping that companies, organizations and established spacefaring nation states will be interested in helping sponsor the cost of deploying these payloads."
Awesome. So we will be paying for the UN and 3rd world countries to have a space program. Never mind that our own space program is underfunded and that our debt continues to climb. Sure, let's go pay for someone else's space program too.
It's the UN law!
To all of us for paying for it whether we want it or not.
Who is the UN anyway?
Remember back when the UN was supposed to be a forum for (civilized) states to settle disputes and communicate in a multilateral and open manner? Well, that's boring, and we're not that good at it, so let's distract away from our structural ineptitude by wasting our member states' taxpayers' money on rockets!