Space Exploration II: Always Looking up

[ScoobyDoo]

9 hours until Blue Origin's New Glenn launch of NASA's ESCAPADE mission to Mars.

That'd be cool if it were the American people who accomplished it. Instead it's just another multi-billionaire who'd rather do that with his money then actually support Democracy and regulated capitalism in his own country.

 

[Kepler]

EscaPADE orbital injection was successful.

Meanwhile, in another part of the forest.

China has just lost two critical spy satellites despite their successful launch on 9 November. This comes on top of the recent loss of two other satellites and is a real blow for Beijing given the strategic importance of each individual satellite to the country's space intelligence capabilities

 

[Kepler]

That'd be cool if it were the American people who accomplished it. Instead it's just another multi-billionaire who'd rather do that with his money then actually support Democracy and regulated capitalism in his own country.

Bezos is a POS but that mission, unlike Musk's boondoggles, is great science.

Most people who conducted great explorations, let alone funded them, have been ahem "big personalities." We have to share this rock with apes for a while longer, and I'm not too particular which ape helps the humans develop the technology by which we will leave and strand them here.

Columbus, Magellan, Cortez, Raleigh, Drake, Von Braun. All dicks.