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Space Exploration II: Always Looking up
- Thread starter MichVandal
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NASA applied to him!
Jimjamesak
Already insane, UAA making it worse
He didn't even need a rocket to get to space. He just jumped and the Earth let him go strictly out of fear.
aparch
Acetaminamerican
Christina Koch's POV of the "Pink Pony Club" radio wakeup in space.
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The "Yes! Wait, where's the chorus? NO! Call them!" is absolutely sending me.
Christina Hammock Koch on Instagram: "What really happened on Pink Pony Club morning. 🎧 Sound on. Wake up songs are a tradition at NASA that we were excited to carry on. Most of our song ideas came from our families. A couple crew’s daughters, ni
91K likes, 810 comments - astro_christina on April 18, 2026: "What really happened on Pink Pony Club morning. 🎧 Sound on. Wake up songs are a tradition at NASA that we were excited to carry on. Most of our song ideas came from our families. A couple crew’s daughters, nieces and nephews were...
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The "Yes! Wait, where's the chorus? NO! Call them!" is absolutely sending me.
MichVandal
Well-known member
Amazon launched today, a successful first reuse of a New Glenn booster.
With X falling apart, the billionaires race is heating up for space.
With X falling apart, the billionaires race is heating up for space.
ticapnews
Never graduate.
That's a good place for them.
Jimjamesak
Already insane, UAA making it worse
Just don't mention the fact that the second stage failed to put the satellite payload into it's proper orbit and will be destroyed.
MichVandal
Well-known member
LOL Got farther than SX's space ship crap. Which has been paid for by the moon lander contract that they will never finish.
Jimjamesak
Already insane, UAA making it worse
Just because SpaceX sucks doesn't mean Blue Origin also doesn't suck.
ticapnews
Never graduate.
MichVandal
Well-known member
That's true. We have billionaires milking out tax dollars. Yay.
aparch
Acetaminamerican
How can you not be romantic for space travel after some of the views from the Artemis?
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Reid Wiseman on Instagram: "Only one chance in this lifetime… Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @astro_christina is
312K likes, 3,249 comments - astro_reid on April 19, 2026: "Only one chance in this lifetime… Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @astro_christina is hammering away...
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Jimjamesak
Already insane, UAA making it worse
For lack of a better place to put this…
In watching For All Mankind and its upcoming spinoff Star City, everyone loves the whole “what if the Soviets beat the Americans to the Moon” premise. But I saw a more intriguing premise: What if the US had beaten the Soviets in putting the first man in space?
In watching For All Mankind and its upcoming spinoff Star City, everyone loves the whole “what if the Soviets beat the Americans to the Moon” premise. But I saw a more intriguing premise: What if the US had beaten the Soviets in putting the first man in space?
MichVandal
Well-known member
I had to stop watching that after just the 2nd season. One premise that I could not ever get over was the idea of totally unlimited budgets, since that is what it would have cost to put a base on the moon back then.
When they put a Korean War vet on Mars when he had to be eligible for Medicare just ended it for me.
Jimjamesak
Already insane, UAA making it worse
They actually answered the budget question pretty cleverly. Basically, in FAMK, NASA gets to hold onto to its patents and the profits from licensing said patents to companies.
Back to my original question though…
MichVandal
Well-known member
That *might* have covered one rocket engine for the Mars mission. But there wasn't enough time to put that base on the moon. Let alone abandon them there for a long time. Or put a astronaut back in space when he had mental issues from being on the moon for a really long time... Edit- let alone having NASA profit from their work is very communist. Imagine the US government owning an EV maker....
But it's drama, I guess.
To your original question- not sure it would have changed much, assuming that the paths taken stayed the same. The biggest issue for development time was the paths that were taken- the Soviets used well known ICBM missile engines to get into space- using a lot or a WHOLE lot of them given the rocket. Whereas the US were developing new motors- which is where Mercury really struggled. But in the end, what was learned turned into the program to develop to develop the massive J-2 engines to power the Saturn V- which flew without a launch failure.
But I don't see the Soviets being able to change much in their program- once committed to the group of ICBM motors, a change would have set them back years. But in the end, the chest thumping was to show the world which country could actually make the best missiles. Which would have kept the Soviets in the space race.
