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SpaceX and Boeing Slated For Manned Space Missions By Year's End (fortune.com)
schwit1 shares a report from Fortune, covering NASA's announcement last week that it expects SpaceX to conduct a crewed test flight by the end of the year: SpaceX's crewed test flight is slated for December, after an uncrewed flight in August. Boeing will also be demonstrating its CST-100 Starliner capsule, with a crewed flight in November following an uncrewed flight in August. NASA's goal is to launch crews to the ISS from U.S. soil, a task that has fallen to Russia's space program since the retirement of the U.S. Space Shuttle program in 2011. NASA began looking for private launch companies to take over starting in 2010, and contracted both SpaceX and Boeing in 2014 to pursue crewed launches. The push to restore America's crewed spaceflight capacity has been delayed in part, according to a detailed survey by Ars Technica, by Congress redirecting funds in subsequent years. The test flights could determine whether Boeing or SpaceX conducts the first U.S. commercial space launch to the ISS. Whichever company gets that honor may also claim a symbolic U.S. flag stuck to a hatch on the space station. Sources speaking to Ars describe the race between the two companies as too close to call, and say that a push to early 2019 is entirely possible. But in an apparent vote of confidence, NASA has already begun naming astronauts to helm the flights.
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The chance of a lifetime.
they have put in big curved monitors and cheat us, there is no space, there is nothing
This will be good practice for SpaceX's crewed trip to Mars in 2024. We truly live in exciting times!
Anybody who actually believes that SpaceX is anywhere ready for a manned mission is completely delusional.
Even if Boeing (who has the knowledge and a successful track record) builds the capsule, fact is SpaceX has yet to have a single fully successful mission (they always had a major problem) and has a track record of ignoring problems.
How can you do a crewed test flight? You send people up, tell them to do no work, and then examine whether they've exploded or not? Who volunteers for that mission?
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Oh, yeah, the other 100 or so targets promised by Musk and not delivered on time. It's all a big PR sham.
Should have happened 30 years ago. Not now and not at this price. Space belongs to everyone.
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With a few careful observations, you can begin to understand that the
heliocentric model is a lie, and you live on a flat plane.
Science says the tilt of the Earth gives less sunlight to the North on Dec 22. But have you noticed that the sun also appears weaker, and yellower? The tilt only moves it towards the south, and gives it a shorter, lower track through the sky. But the amount of atmosphere traversed is the same for any light coming up from the horizon -- East or South. So what makes the light itself appear weaker in Winter? There should be the same amount of atmosphere to cross whether the Sun rises due East in the summer, or South-East in the winter.
So why is the winter Sun weak and yellower than the summer sun at the same altitude in the sky?
Space is fake. The Earth is flat. The eclipses prove it.
Solar Eclipse: https://vimeo.com/230976895
Light of the chromosphere can be observed on the back of the moon. Allais Effect
Lunar Eclipse: https://vimeo.com/92378881
Shadow is black, then changes color to reddish.
Next lunar eclipse: January 30/31, 2018 mid-to-west North America
The trolls sure are out in force for this one! I guess Russia/China/Soros/etc just HATE to see America retaking the lead in space exploration.
Is big, really big. You might think its a long way down the street to the chemist, but thats just peanuts compared to space.
Space is fake. The Earth is flat.
I'm not thrilled of constant delays by SpaceX, BO, NASA Orion but rather than bitching and moaning, how about insightful commentary? I haven't RTFA nor am I a rocket scientist. I offer this https://www.youtube.com/watch?... where "Everyday Astronaut" summarizes reasons for FH delays (some insights of why not to just stop improving and fly the same thing over and over). There are probably better articles, finding them can be challenging particularly private companies don't want to reveal too much. Or maybe building something so high performance is much more difficult than first imagined.
At times I wonder how were we able to do it so fast back in the days when nowadays a flying a new manned spacecraft keeps getting delayed. My first guess is the infrastructure (hardware, parts logistics, education system) ain't what it used to be. But then I don't really know.
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