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Thankfully, at SpaceX there's only one person to "consult," and Elon seems to be an exceptionally bright and globally gifted decision maker. As he revealed 2 weeks ago, they tried 3 times to cancel Falcon Heavy. Would really like to know the other side of THAT story!
Seems many of us are onboard with conversion of the Dragon trunk into a service module capable of life support during longer missions. Great minds think alike. My extension of that concept was my "modular approach," where a "power module" could be mated to the base for TLI and return. Simply mating an NTO/UDMH fueled motor with plenty of gas directional control thrusters to the base of the habitat (modified trunk) module and away we go to Luna!
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I've known a number of wooden headed people at some risk of Dutch Elm Disease, if not of Death Watch Beetle!
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For a free return flyby all we need after life support for the dragon with TLI fuel would be a cynus to supply the crew with the duration of consumables to make it enjoyable. The cygnus could be recycled into larger and longer living space with each mission.
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Musk is know for his strange tweets and sometimes hype or cryptic 'out there' statements he puts online. Moon Express or MoonEx talked about private missions to mine the Moon but maybe using robots, Hakuto or formerly White Label Space is a Japanese company named after a mythical WhiteRabbit, the car Company Toyota is also looking at Lunar exploration. Starship's 'Dear Moon' crewed flight will not take place until after Starship is thoroughly tested and after an uncrewed circumlunar test flight. If it works it adds to SpaceX's further plans to colonize Mars.
Elon Musk reveals NEW prediction for when humans will land on Mars using his Starship rocket
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/17982770/ … sion-date/
Social media talk
Nelson: "NASA's return to the moon and the agency's success in establishing a lunar economy is going to require competition."
NASA leadership is "committed to having competition" on HLS. Didn't have enough money for first landing, but intend for LSTS to award future contracts.
https://twitter.com/thesheetztweetz/sta … 8838341638
Nelson, describing the Artemis III crewed mission, says that NASA astronauts will be delivered to the surface by "the SpaceX lander Starliner."
https://twitter.com/thesheetztweetz/sta … 3147108353
While the SLS is only confirmed for use on the first few Artemis missions, many other proposed NASA missions intend to launch on the SLS, such as: Neptune Odyssey, Europa mission, Persephone, HabEx, Origins Space Telescope, LUVOIR, Lynx, and Interstellar probe.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/arti … t-a-time1/
Nasa's giant new SLS Moon rocket makes its debut
https://news.yahoo.com/nasas-giant-sls- … 22596.html
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NASA, SpaceX adjust Crew-5 launch date
https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/NASA … e_999.html
Crew-5 will carry two NASA astronauts Mission Commander Nicole Mann and Pilot Josh Cassada, along with JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Koichi Wakata and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina, who will serve as mission specialists.
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Sensitive tweets?
https://twitter.com/yousuck2020/status/ … 6085413889
Crash of Hakuto, the private Japanese moon lander, blamed on software and a last-minute location switch
https://apnews.com/article/moon-lunar-l … 9ed7d6ed4c
Hakuto-R Mission 1 was launched on a Falcon 9 rocket.
The dearMoon project is a lunar tourism mission and art project conceived and financed by Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa. It will make use of a SpaceX Starship spacecraft on a private spaceflight flying a single circumlunar trajectory around the Moon.
Crew size 10, Members Yusaku Maezawa, Steve Aoki, Choi Seung Hyun, Yemi A.D., Rhiannon Adam, Tim Dodd, Karim Iliya, Brendan Hall, Dev Joshi. The back up crew are Kaitlyn Farrington an Olympic snowboarder and a Japanese person named 'Miyu'.
Yusaku Maezawa is divorced, with one child, and lives in Chiba, Japan
he uses the handle name 'YouSuck' on twitter
Moon missions
https://twitter.com/name6less9/status/1 … 4748129282
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Wanting to claim 15 minutes of fame is the billionaire...
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'already pushed into the 2030s.'
https://twitter.com/SciGuySpace/status/ … 2881525096
'elonmusk is no longer following yousuck2020'
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