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Funny! One of my projects on the backburner is a sci-fi story titled 'A MARS ODYSSEY', which will describe the first successful manned mission to Mars and the subsequent, decades-long process to establish a viable human presence on that planet.
The space race appears to be on again: https://news.sky.com/story/russia-see...What an awful discrimination - they look only for a woman, otherwise I'd try an audition.
So, ladies, don't tell "I didn't know" afterwards :)
So, Elon Musk is chosen to give a lift to the moon: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-envi...I imagine traffic jams on that route in a hundred years
The worldwide outage of Face $ Whatsapp adds to the feeling that our matrix has cracked somehow. Gotta take a hot air balloon option to leave for stratosphere: https://www.travelandleisure.com/trip...
Nik wrote: "The worldwide outage of Face $ Whatsapp adds to the feeling that our matrix has cracked somehow. Gotta take a hot air balloon option to leave for stratosphere: https://www.travelandleisure.com/trip..."FB is out, and employees can't access the building...
Jeff Bezos is shooting Captain Kirk to space, for an hour or so.https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sci...
I gotta do it.
https://youtu.be/8wI4jMxveyI
Given his penchant for trolling, what are the odds of Elon Musk will sending Mark Hamill into orbit for a week? Will Branson fly Peter Capaldi to the edge of space?
He's going where some men have gone before, but it's still cool.
I admire Shatner, at 90, for going up and I'm glad he had a safe trip. I don't even want to fly commercial.
I watched New Shepard and crew on their flight to low space (no orbit) An awful lot of effort for a <3 min post 100km trip and even less time spent weighless. But bravo to the crew for going up in 2nd manned craft trip.Comparison with Space X who did 3 days in 65okm orbit
Current Russian actress is in ISS for 3 months I think at 250-350km
Dragon returned to Earth yesterday with a second Israeli cosmonaut on board, who paid for participating 55 mln USD and accomplished some research experiments while at ISS. I guess biz in Africa can be pretty lucrative. The first one perished with Columbia in 2003.
Yes, it's a dream. I hope to live till the times when a short space travel of say one - two orbits around the earth + zero gravity and desirably a short walk out in a spacesuit (yeah, I know I ask too much here:)) would be under 20K USD
Walking in space with that thin tether to safety -- not for me. Only the brave.
Unfortunately, super heavy explodes while performing a ground test:https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-star...
Nik wrote: "Unfortunately, super heavy explodes while performing a ground test:https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-star..."
As that sort of accident goes, it didn't look too bad.
So NASA expects humans to live on Moon already this decade:https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-63688229
Is anyone packing already?
Nik wrote: "So NASA expects humans to live on Moon already this decade:https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-63688229
Is anyone packing already?"
It depends on the neighbors.
@J - lol - You hit that nail on the head! :) I would want just a small piece of the moon without neighbors as it would be more peaceful that way. Peace and quiet. :),
Nik wrote: "So NASA expects humans to live on Moon already this decade:https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-63688229
Is anyone packing already?"
I wonder if they mean, "spend some time there", or "go there and don't come back"? Cheap tickets there but full charge both ways if you want to return. Good for certain neighbours you don't like here?
Marie wrote: "@J - lol - You hit that nail on the head! :) I would want just a small piece of the moon without neighbors as it would be more peaceful that way. Peace and quiet. :),"My luck: The Hollow Moon nuts are right, and the moon men have an HOA.
J. wrote: "Marie wrote: "@J - lol - You hit that nail on the head! :) I would want just a small piece of the moon without neighbors as it would be more peaceful that way. Peace and quiet. :),"My luck: The H..."
an HOA - that is so funny, I laughed out loud.
Philip wrote: "New travel destinations?https://twitter.com/latestinspace/sta..."
Likely, however not in our time. Alas
Congrats to India on Lunar landingSympathies to the scientists in Russia's space probe failure trying to do the same thing. As India has found recent practice makes perfect.
Russia's continuing space program is an exemplar of what they could be doing globally if they weren't so busy invading neighbours.
Due to the fact that I am now 76-years-old and have always become nauseous on most amusement park rides, I have to rule out space travel for myself. However, I do believe that the exploration and eventual settlement of humans on other planets and moons will eventually become a very viable option for the survival of the human race and contact with other species.
I can't handle amusement park rides either. I have not been seasick on small river boats, lake boats, or the cruise ship I was on. So I am going with that and believing I could do space travel. Artificial gravity will be real.
Have always loved sci-fi but fiction is as close as you'd ever get me to one of those exploding death traps.
NASA, Forest Service to Share Moon Tree Seedlings, Promote STEMhttps://www.nasa.gov/press-release/na...
When I was younger, I thought I would take a ride if a ship landed and friendly beings invited me. Now that I'm old, I'm not willing to risk the time I have left. A paradox, really, that when you're young and have so many more years left to live, you're more willing to risk losing them.
That's because you're immortal when you're young.I'm feeling very mortal at 63.
Right. I guess it's like supply and demand. The less there is of something, the more valuable it is.
The average age of an astronaut candidate in NASA is 34. Not exactly a bulletproof twenty-something.https://www.nasa.gov/feature/frequent...
To see a blue ball covered with patches of white clouds while hovering in a gravitation- free environment in front of an illuminator sounds like a must before calling it quits :) I can also imagine a sip of whisky augmenting harmoniously this ideality
I can imagine you there with your sunglasses on and a glass in your hand :-)
Could be perfect, except I'm not sure a glass holds liquid in conditions of weightlessness. I'm not a snob, I'll sip from the bottle :)
I believe sipping from a specially designed bag is better. The problem with weightlessness is that liquids tend to break up into globs that float around in an uncontrollable way.
Sipping your whisky is the easy part.https://www.nasa.gov/feature/boldly-g...
There is a solution.
https://www.space.com/orbital-assembl...
Or, Nik, you could work for it and consume a space glob of whisky. Pretty cool.
Definitely. Hope space travel 🧳 will become more affordable while I’m still flight/airworthy 🚀👩🚀
Heroes passing into legend:Astronaut Ken Mattingly, who flew to the moon on Apollo 16, has died at 87
https://www.npr.org/2023/11/02/517140...
RIP and looking forward to new Luna travelers
And again...Apollo astronaut Frank Borman, who first orbited moon, dies at age 95
https://www.npr.org/2023/11/09/953342...
J. wrote: "And again...Apollo astronaut Frank Borman, who first orbited moon, dies at age 95
https://www.npr.org/2023/11/09/953342..."
Two sad announcements.
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/12/11/pol...
Any volunteers for space relocation, if an opportunity to launch titles on Amazon will be accessible from there too?