NASA and the Private Sector - Page 66
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Sermokala
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On September 24 2015 01:05 Cazimirbzh wrote: @Rassy It's more than "given up on [only] space exploration" and the worst is that there is no breakthrough incoming. I dont understand how a country can be so shortsighted and give up all his future. That a funny paradox : in terms of funding science, republicans seems intelligent and democrats are really really really stupid so weird If we'd pay a tax on internet, scientifics will be so rich :p But as they're the kind of creatures with a brain it's for all humanity. I wonder how long before SpaceX goes to bankruptcy? SpaceX is the pet/legacy project of a multi billionaire. I doubt that it needs to show any type of return until the guy dies. The Left believes that the money spent on space travel can be better used to help people on earth while the right sees it as a great economic investment. Its not really about an appreciation of science. Which is a real shame beacuse the left could channel some JFK space race magic and the right could use it as an actual supply side economic success story. | ||
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NASA to Announce Mars Mystery Solved NASA will detail a major science finding from the agency’s ongoing exploration of Mars during a news briefing at 11:30 a.m. EDT on Monday, Sept. 28 at the James Webb Auditorium at NASA Headquarters in Washington. The event will be broadcast live on NASA Television and the agency's website. https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-to-announce-mars-mystery-solved | ||
rebuffering
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edit: might be over soon tho, get it while its hot! | ||
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http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/sep/28/nasa-scientists-find-evidence-flowing-water-mars | ||
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Confirmed and the stream is great for me, a lot of details on how they came to this conclusion and they're really dumbing it down for people that won't understand the technical aspects of it. | ||
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Interesting news regardless! | ||
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Which is a real shame beacuse the left could channel some JFK space race magic and the right could use it as an actual supply side economic success story. COuld you explicit that part or point me to some sources ?The Left believes that the money spent on space travel can be better used to help people on earth while the right sees it as a great economic investment. Its not really about an appreciation of science. I dont understand this part.. The left one yes aka dummies with no clues (ez to understand^^) but from the right if they believe it can be "a great economic investment" how they cannot link rocket science into "a great economic investment". For nuclear research why not but rocket i mean it's 101. What they except ? to be better than russians?.... edit : @Yrr the NASA sticker was the worst PR part in the trailer^^ | ||
Sermokala
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On September 29 2015 01:25 Cazimirbzh wrote: @Sermokala COuld you explicit that part or point me to some sources ? I dont understand this part.. The left one yes aka dummies with no clues (ez to understand^^) but from the right if they believe it can be "a great economic investment" how they cannot link rocket science into "a great economic investment". For nuclear research why not but rocket i mean it's 101. What they except ? to be better than russians?.... edit : @Yrr the NASA sticker was the worst PR part in the trailer^^ I can't find it right now but 8 or so years ago when I was at nationals for FIRST right before the director of NASA spoke to everyone they had a promo video talking about the landing on the moon. How JFK's famous space speech How less then seven years after words we landed on the moon. But the kicker was that the average age of the engineers working on the moon landing ment that they were still in high school when they heard that speech. All the sciences and inventions required to do crazy things in space delivers patents that are later spun off into the economy that deliver many times over what was spent on their research. | ||
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Virgin Galactic completed its latest successful test firing of the NewtonThree main stage engine, which ran for more than 20 seconds. This is the liquid rocket propulsion system that will power Virgin Galactic's small satellite launch vehicle, LauncherOne. | ||
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It was, as usual, a spectacular display of fire and force, a rocket blast lighting up the still dark sky shortly before dawn. The launch from Cape Canaveral Friday was historic, too— the 100th for the United Launch Alliance, a milestone that the company cheered as a symbol of its long heritage in space. But it came at a perilous time for ULA, the joint venture between Lockheed Martin and Boeing, which for years has had a monopoly on launching Pentagon payloads to space. ULA is facing a challenge from SpaceX, the hard-charging upstart founded by billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, which just won certification by the Air Force that would allow it to compete against ULA for the next Pentagon launch contract. And ULA faces an even bigger problem: the Russian-made rocket engine it relies on has been entangled in a messy political fight that could threaten its ability to compete at all. Source | ||
JimmyJRaynor
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On September 29 2015 08:17 Sermokala wrote: How less then seven years after words we landed on the moon. But the kicker was that the average age of the engineers working on the moon landing ment that they were still in high school when they heard that speech. it was 6 years after this speech that they orbited the moon. its really cool how well the human circulatory systems ( there is more than 1 ) can deal with lagrange points with no issues. On September 29 2015 01:25 Cazimirbzh wrote: What they except ? to be better than russians?.... back then it was the Soviet Union or the USSR it was not "the russians" because the USSR consisted of more than just Russia. | ||
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