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NEWS: Michael Bloomberg calls for cancellation of NASA's Artemis program and the SLS rocket – Says @SpaceX Starship can do same for a small fraction of the cost and, unlike SLS, it's reusable.

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— ALEX (@ajtourville) October 18, 2024

Enough Politics...

SpaceX’s last ~40 hours:

- launch of history’s largest and most powerful rocket, Starship, completing the first-ever midair catch of a rocket booster and an on-target ocean landing of the upper stage

- launch of Falcon Heavy with an interplanetary NASA spacecraft headed to one… pic.twitter.com/Xv9ZyBpkEG

— John Kraus (@johnkrausphotos) October 15, 2024

Since your handle is “Whole Mars”, perhaps this lengthy reply is apropos:

Getting the cost per ton to the surface of Mars low enough that humanity has the resources to make life multiplanetary requires a roughly 1000X improvement in rocket & spacecraft technology.

Recent US… https://t.co/BdasygYS5q

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 15, 2024

One More Step

When we get back to the moon or to Mars it will be because of Eln Musk and his ilk. Bureaucrats only kill innovation and progress.

The tower has caught the rocket!!
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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 13, 2024

If You Can't Compete...

SpaceX rivals challenge Starship launch license in Florida over environmental, safety concerns

Rest in Peace Sir

Astronaut Frank Borman, commander of the first Apollo mission to the moon, has died at age 95

Never Underestimate a Bureaucrat or Politician's Ability to F**k Things Up...

...because if money and power are involved you know they will. I hope. I hope. I hope they won't, but...

At long last, the glorious future we were promised in space is on the way

That is Beautiful

Right Out of the Golden-Age of Science Fiction

From rendering to reality, SpaceX reveals Starship test rocket

Our only hope...

...'cause it sure the hell ain't gonna happen if we wait for government to do it.

Space station captures SpaceX Dragon capsule

Free Enterprise in space? I frickin' hope so.

H/T to Patrick.

Long time comin'

SpaceX launched it's Falcon rocket carrying an unmanned spacecraft called Dragon. Two orbits later the capsule returned safely to earth. The first private spacecraft to do so. Maybe the beginning of the end of space travel being a government only monopoly? I hope.

Thanks Roberta.

This is one of several...

...pictures of the sun taken from an $850 million satellite. Scientists are using the data to “find the causes of solar weather events that disrupt technologies on Earth” Considering how many ways the FED pisses away our money, this actually is pretty cool and serves a purpose other than simply pissing away our money to buy a politician a vote.

Via Firehand.

Something BIG hits Jupiter...

...for the second time That's scary and neat. See the aftermath of the first time here.

When Asteroids Collide

Hubble apparently recorded images of space debris from two asteroids colliding. Neat!

Via Rational Review News Digest