It's been over a month. It seems like they should have come back by now. I don't really see much coverage of it, though. The part of this article that mentions their "change of clothes" seems funny to me. Is this going to end up being a Ron Howard movie? https://www.npr.org/2024/07/27/nx-s...rough-travel-story-try-52-days-stuck-in-space
What do you guys think of the upcoming Polaris Dawn stuff? I get why Isaacman is up for it. Kind of cool. Nett, you were a flier, would something like space draw you?
It looks very cool... but I can't say that I'd be wanting to do a space walk. The trip and the technology would be a hell of a fun experience, I think, for sure.
Tell me things are not actually OK without saying things are not OK. https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/n...rliner-spacecraft-back-to-earth-without-crew/ Sounds like the issues with Starliner are bigger than they were letting on.
I know that Elon Musk putting his support behind Trump weirds some people out, and I know that SpaceX being a for profit company is odd to others. I get that. But, if you really have any interest in this part of the space program, dig into it a little. It's crazy how many launches happen regularly, and the general public barely knows about it. https://www.spacex.com/launches/ The advancement and what that means is kind of beyond what I can get my head around. It was only 66 years from first flight (Orville & Wilbur in 1903) to man on the Moon (giant leaps for Armstrong and Aldrin in 1969), and now it will be over 50 years before man is on the moon again.
It's very, very cool. Seeing the actual earth from that actual vantage point on a spacewalk like that has to just be mind blowing.
Elon had nothing to do with this shit besides likely holding it back from having happened sooner by being a petulant whiny little shit. The engineers and people working at Space X who keep the moron distracted are the real heroes who made that shit happen.