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Space Exploration II: Always Looking up

Looks like SpaceX had a successful flight test 4 of Starship.

Watch the video. Starship had burnthru on one its flaps during reentry, but the flap held together and the Ship did a successful landing
 
If we were a good country, we'd have figured out a way to save Hubble or bring it back and put it in a museum.

that thing is one of the most important space and cosmological artifacts in history. Right up there with Galileo's telescope Nd the moon lander.
 
dxmnkd316 said:
If we were a good country, we'd have figured out a way to save Hubble or bring it back and put it in a museum.

that thing is one of the most important space and cosmological artifacts in history. Right up there with Galileo's telescope Nd the moon lander.
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We are a good country- instead of putting it in a museum, we have gotten many years of
more information of the universe from it. Way better than just looking at a big tube.
 
aparch said:
Boeing's Starliner had a successful launch yesterday and has docked with the ISS. But, there was a small issue found that NASA is unconcerned with currently: there are leaks from the helium tanks which provide thrust to the Starliner.

The leaks are small enough to not affect the Starliner during flight, nor will it cause the ISS any drift issues (as of now).

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/06/scien...scn/index.html
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It launched as I was driving home from work. When I pulled up to one red light, it was perfectly aligned in my rear view mirror. I tried to snap a pic so I could caption it “Objects in mirror are higher/faster/more expensive than they appear.” But i was rushing and I botched it. Oh well, next time!
 
dxmnkd316 said:
I'm aware.

I'm just saying maybe build one fewer F35 or send Israel one fewer arms shipments and preserve one of the most important space artifacts in history.
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Even if we put the money to it, I don’t see a realistic way to bring it back. The shuttle could not land with that kind of payload.
 
Yeah I think the best a shuttle could have done was maybe get part of the Hubble to save for posterity.

We should find a way to fix it! There has to be an out of work repairman who will take cash ;)
 
According to Dr. Google, the space shuttle was rated to take off with up to 65,o00 lbs of payload and land with up to 28,000 lbs.

Hubble weighs 27,000 lbs.

Just sayin.
 
LynahFan said:
According to Dr. Google, the space shuttle was rated to take off with up to 65,o00 lbs of payload and land with up to 28,000 lbs.

Hubble weighs 27,000 lbs.

Just sayin.
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I imagine getting Hubble hypothetically inside the shuttle to take back to Earth would've been the worst game of Tetris and Legos combined ever created.
 
So let's go philosophical for a moment.

What would you consider to be the three most important artifacts lost to history and what would be a reasonable expense to obtain and preserve it?

note, it's fine to say we should just chuck everything into challenger deep.
 
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