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01-05-2019, 12:37 PM | #1937 | |
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01-05-2019, 12:49 PM | #1938 |
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I get where he's coming from. Things were pretty stagnant for a long time. But what it comes down to is that cost is the barrier to doing crazier stuff, so reusability is as important as the general design.
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01-05-2019, 12:56 PM | #1939 | |
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But sure, I'd love to see impulse power and warp drive, too! Personally, while I loved the shuttle missions, I realized that it was a step forward and a step back. I love this era. |
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01-05-2019, 01:08 PM | #1940 | |
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01-05-2019, 01:24 PM | #1941 | |
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01-06-2019, 11:26 AM | #1942 |
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I thought this was fun to give a sense of scale to Starship compared to Dragon.
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01-06-2019, 11:30 AM | #1943 |
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01-06-2019, 11:33 AM | #1944 |
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I remember being at Cape Canveral right before the Apollo-Soyuz mission and while admittedly the whole West vs East thing added to the story it was indeed exciting because new things were happening that had never been attempted, let alone performed. I think you're right that we need to do new things to get the public to pay attention to space like we did as a nation back then.
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01-06-2019, 11:34 AM | #1945 |
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Hadn't seen this before today:
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01-06-2019, 11:36 AM | #1946 |
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They're rapidly iterating on the design, so that's even a little out of date, but the basic gist is still the same. Most notably, they're planning for Starship to be made of stainless steel at this point, so it'll be very shiny (and look like something from science fiction for sure).
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01-06-2019, 11:38 AM | #1947 |
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Happy to. My hope is that, someday, we can broaden this to include all of the cool things happening in Space (Blue Origin most notably), but for now, SpaceX is the one that gives us the coolest stuff to dream about.
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01-06-2019, 11:38 AM | #1948 | |
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Or something like that. |
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