NASA to go to Mars with private help

louis · 2016-10-11 14:25:57

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-37624207

Musk will be able to entertain the NASA crew at the Space X spaceport restaurant on Mars when they finally get there - he will be an old man then.

Void · 2016-10-11 17:27:34

Manipulating people, and manipulating objects.

Nasa manipulates objects on a small scale to gather information which will go into "Books" (Records). Science is very good about getting general information and compiling it into records.

So the records can manipulate people. Thankfully, in our cultures, peoples heads are not cut off for having a divergent view of what records say. Not yet anyway, not very often.

Now some people examining the records, will try to go out and manipulate objects, because they think they have a good understanding of reality. This also will be a sorting process, and will likely force revisions of what the official records of postulation of the nature of reality. Hopefully no heads cut off in a literal sense.

Good deal, Nasa, and industry, it seems, but lets, keep the flexibility to update our understanding of reality, and also to accept new methods of technology, for manipulation of objects.

And watch out for bad vampires, who which to manipulate humans to loot treasure.

From the linked article:

Reaction to this plan was mixed: some space experts criticised the plan as unrealistic, while others praised Mr Musk for outlining a detailed - and audacious - architecture for getting to Mars.

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SpaceNut · 2016-10-11 18:43:35

Another link U.S. Partnering With Private Firms to Send Humans to Mars by 2030s, Obama Says

More than 1,000 companies across the country are already working on private space initiatives, Obama wrote in his op-ed. Within the next two years, the companies will, for the first time, send astronauts to the International Space Station, and "the next step is to reach beyond the bounds of Earth's orbit."

Now if what has taken 8 years to get going is continued, then we do have a chance....

clark · 2016-10-13 19:31:40

2030's; close as predictions go.

RobertDyck · 2016-10-14 06:02:00

Robert Zubrin keeps saying NASA took 8 years to land a man on the Moon. Actually it was 8 years from JFK's speech to Congress where he asked for funding. But bids NASA received from contractors for the Apollo spacecraft are dated 1960. Obviously North American won that, their design became the Command and Service Module. That means NASA was seriously working on designs to go to the Moon a year before JFK asked Congress for funding. Which makes sense; they had to figure out how much it would cost before asking for funding. So from the time NASA seriously started work on a mission to the Moon until Apollo 11 was actually 9 years, not 8.

Still, "in the 2030s" means about 20 years from now. That's a lot longer than 9.

clark · 2016-10-14 22:09:52

My comment was a veiled reference. 2030s has always been the most practical near term window for the last 20 years. Tech caught up. Economics is catching up. The info was there if you knew where to look.

Mars_B4_Moon · 2022-05-12 05:05:09

Orbex reveals first full-scale microlauncher rocket
https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Orbe … e_999.html
Orbex has unveiled the first full-scale prototype of the Prime orbital space rocket on its dedicated launch pad publicly for the first time.

The unveiling of the first of a new generation of European launch vehicles - designed to launch a new category of very small satellites to orbit - represents a major step forward for the British rocket company as it prepares for the first ever vertical rocket launch to orbit from UK soil. Orbex's Prime rocket is the first 'micro-launcher' developed in Europe to reach this stage of technical readiness.

Mars_B4_Moon · 2022-07-25 16:09:56

Impulse and Relativity announce proposal for joint Mars landing mission

https://spacenews.com/impulse-and-relat … g-mission/

Mars_B4_Moon · 2022-09-13 04:01:50

How space exploration has changed, 60 years since JFK's 'We Choose the Moon' speech
https://www.ijpr.org/science-technology … oon-speech

Celebrating 60 years since JFK's moon speech
https://www.fox13news.com/video/1117110

Mars_B4_Moon · 2023-08-30 16:36:27

Intuitive Machines says it is ready to fly to the Moon
The Intuitive Machines-1 mission has a launch slot reserved from Nov. 15 through Nov. 20.

https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/08/i … -the-moon/

A Houston-based company that is one of several US firms building private lunar landers, Intuitive Machines, says its 3-meter-tall Nova-C lander is finally ready to take to the skies.

"Our Nova-C lander is completely built," said Steve Altemus, co-founder and chief executive of Intuitive Machines, in an earnings call on Monday. "We will deliver a lunar lander ready to go in September."

Intuitive Machines is competing with other US companies, including Astrobotic and Firefly, for NASA-funded missions to deliver science experiments and other payloads to the surface of the Moon. Intuitive Machines and Astrobotic were formally awarded the first of these "Commercial Lunar Payload Services" contracts in May 2019. Each of the companies is running a couple of years behind schedule in producing their landers, however.

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