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Had a long discussion about privatization of space travel this last week after SpaceX relaunched a previously launched rocket. Trying to understand why NASA couldn't have, or hasn't designed the same cost saving measures for their exploration.
Anyway, the discussion came up about private space travel that is coming around, and I was curious. Would you go? I mean, do you have a real and factual plan to save up and do it? I have had a side savings account that was for buying a dream car when I retire, but the last few years I have been seriously contemplating this.
Thoughts?
Blue Origin Space Travel
My first thoughts were how many people would be in the spacecraft and how long the trip would be. My first hesitation is being trapped in a small area with another person, if I could go alone I would say yes, as long as it wasn't for a really long time.
I looked up the planned trip for next year and it says 2 people for about a one week trip around the moon.
Assuming I could afford it, and if I felt that I would be OK with being around the other person for a week, I would go.
I do not have a savings plan organized for something like this. I can only imagine the cost of such a trip would make it something I would not be able to afford in the foreseeable future.
*edit, I could not watch the blue origin link until now, so my answer was not based on that.
It would depend on how long the trip was, and 6 people on board would make it seem a lot more crowded to me, that would be a big consideration.
One day it could just be a day trip.
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Had a long discussion about privatization of space travel this last week after SpaceX relaunched a previously launched rocket. Trying to understand why NASA couldn't have, or hasn't designed the same cost saving measures for their exploration.
Anyway, the discussion came up about private space travel that is coming around, and I was curious. Would you go? I mean, do you have a real and factual plan to save up and do it? I have had a side savings account that was for buying a dream car when I retire, but the last few years I have been seriously contemplating this.
Thoughts?
Blue Origin Space Travel
My first thoughts were how many people would be in the spacecraft and how long the trip would be. My first hesitation is being trapped in a small area with another person, if I could go alone I would say yes, as long as it wasn't for a really long time.
I looked up the planned trip for next year and it says 2 people for about a one week trip around the moon.
Assuming I could afford it, and if I felt that I would be OK with being around the other person for a week, I would go.
I do not have a savings plan organized for something like this. I can only imagine the cost of such a trip would make it something I would not be able to afford in the foreseeable future.
*edit, I could not watch the blue origin link until now, so my answer was not based on that.
It would depend on how long the trip was, and 6 people on board would make it seem a lot more crowded to me, that would be a big consideration.
One day it could just be a day trip.
lol, if it was a day trip I'd be all over that!0 -
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MeeseeksAndDestroy wrote: »_har_T_Swallow wrote: »MeeseeksAndDestroy wrote: »Had a long discussion about privatization of space travel this last week after SpaceX relaunched a previously launched rocket. Trying to understand why NASA couldn't have, or hasn't designed the same cost saving measures for their exploration.
Anyway, the discussion came up about private space travel that is coming around, and I was curious. Would you go? I mean, do you have a real and factual plan to save up and do it? I have had a side savings account that was for buying a dream car when I retire, but the last few years I have been seriously contemplating this.
Thoughts?
Blue Origin Space Travel
My first thoughts were how many people would be in the spacecraft and how long the trip would be. My first hesitation is being trapped in a small area with another person, if I could go alone I would say yes, as long as it wasn't for a really long time.
I looked up the planned trip for next year and it says 2 people for about a one week trip around the moon.
Assuming I could afford it, and if I felt that I would be OK with being around the other person for a week, I would go.
I do not have a savings plan organized for something like this. I can only imagine the cost of such a trip would make it something I would not be able to afford in the foreseeable future.
*edit, I could not watch the blue origin link until now, so my answer was not based on that.
It would depend on how long the trip was, and 6 people on board would make it seem a lot more crowded to me, that would be a big consideration.
One day it could just be a day trip.
lol, if it was a day trip I'd be all over that!
The New Horizons probe only took like 9 hours to get to the moon!
But until @cee134 builds his Park there's nothing to do there
that's just what they want you to think.
Are *they* the government or are *they* the moon people?
Do they need to be exclusive of one another?
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*recovers tin foil hat from back of closet*0
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MeeseeksAndDestroy wrote: »Had a long discussion about privatization of space travel this last week after SpaceX relaunched a previously launched rocket. Trying to understand why NASA couldn't have, or hasn't designed the same cost saving measures for their exploration.
Anyway, the discussion came up about private space travel that is coming around, and I was curious. Would you go? I mean, do you have a real and factual plan to save up and do it? I have had a side savings account that was for buying a dream car when I retire, but the last few years I have been seriously contemplating this.
Thoughts?
Blue Origin Space Travel
My first thoughts were how many people would be in the spacecraft and how long the trip would be. My first hesitation is being trapped in a small area with another person, if I could go alone I would say yes, as long as it wasn't for a really long time.
I looked up the planned trip for next year and it says 2 people for about a one week trip around the moon.
Assuming I could afford it, and if I felt that I would be OK with being around the other person for a week, I would go.
I do not have a savings plan organized for something like this. I can only imagine the cost of such a trip would make it something I would not be able to afford in the foreseeable future.
*edit, I could not watch the blue origin link until now, so my answer was not based on that.
It would depend on how long the trip was, and 6 people on board would make it seem a lot more crowded to me, that would be a big consideration.
One day it could just be a day trip.
lol, if it was a day trip I'd be all over that!
The New Horizons probe only took like 9 hours to get to the moon!
But until @cee134 builds his Park there's nothing to do there
Lol
While a park would be awesome, I'd amuse myself, I always do!
I like to just lay back in a recliner and stare at the sky0 -
_har_T_Swallow wrote: »[
that's just what they want you to think.
Annuit coeptis, novus ordo seclorum!
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Lol
While a park would be awesome, I'd amuse myself, I always do!
I like to just lay back in a recliner and stare at the sky
So this?
Actual view.
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MeeseeksAndDestroy wrote: »
Not on the sunny side.The sky is just awash with stars when you're on the far side of the Moon, and you don't have any sunlight to cut down on the lower intensity, dimmer stars. You see them all, and it's all just a sheet of white. -Al Worden, Apollo 15
I want to see this....
They said it like this: (From Hubble telescope)
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_har_T_Swallow wrote: »MeeseeksAndDestroy wrote: »
ever since i read that description of Jupiter in the 2010 Space Odyssey story, i've wondered what that'd be like to see it on approach. the size of it being so mind-boggling gigantic, it literally fills your entire field of vision where you can't see an edge.
That would be terrifyingly wonderful to see!1 -
MeeseeksAndDestroy wrote: »MeeseeksAndDestroy wrote: »
Not on the sunny side.The sky is just awash with stars when you're on the far side of the Moon, and you don't have any sunlight to cut down on the lower intensity, dimmer stars. You see them all, and it's all just a sheet of white. -Al Worden, Apollo 15
I want to see this....
They said it like this: (From Hubble telescope)
Which was on the picture. Then you wouldn't see Earth either lol
Good point. I really am just focused on the wall of stars. I get excited if I can see 100.0 -
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Hubble Selfie?
The Hubble Space Telescope hovers at the boundary of Earth and space in this picture, taken after Hubble second servicing mission in 1997. Hubble drifts 353 miles (569 km) above the Earth's surface, where it can avoid the atmosphere and clearly see objects in space.2 -
Hubble Catches Stellar Exodus in "Action"
Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have captured for the first time snapshots of fledging white dwarf stars beginning their slow-paced, 40-million-year migration from the crowded center of an ancient star cluster to the less populated suburbs.
White dwarfs are the burned-out relics of stars that rapidly lose mass, cool down and shut off their nuclear furnaces. As these glowing carcasses age and shed weight, their orbits begin to expand outward from the star cluster’s packed downtown. This migration is caused by a gravitational tussle among stars inside the cluster.
Globular star clusters sort out stars according to their mass, governed by a gravitational billiard ball game where lower mass stars rob momentum from more massive stars. The result is that heavier stars slow down and sink to the cluster's core, while lighter stars pick up speed and move across the cluster to the edge. This process is known as "mass segregation."
Until these Hubble observations, astronomers had never definitively seen the dynamical conveyor belt in action. Astronomers used Hubble to watch the white-dwarf exodus in the globular star cluster 47 Tucanae, a dense swarm of hundreds of thousands of stars in our Milky Way galaxy.
The cluster resides 16,700 light-years away in the southern constellation Tucana.
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First Woman in Space, Valentina Tereshkova, 1963
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Gullies with Color Anomalies
This observation from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is an oblique view of gully deposits from the steep slope of an impact crater. The deposits with anomalous (bluish) colors may reveal very recent activity, not yet homogenized by dust deposition, or there may be sand preferentially trapped in some places to give this appearance.2 -
I have nothing to add. I just enjoy the pics.0
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In 1983, astronaut and astrophysicist Sally Ride became the first American woman in space aboard the space shuttle Challenger.
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Orbital ATK's Cygnus on its way to ISS.
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The photo you see above shows a couple of interesting celestial sights. For starters, the colorful collection of lights on the right is a galaxy called NGC 7250 which NASA notes is extremely active forming stars and playing host to supernovas. The galaxy is made up of billions of stars, and is located over 45 million light years away, so we’re only seeing a tiny glimpse of what it has to offer.
The ultra-bright star to the left of the galaxy is named TYC 3203-450-1, located in a constellation called Lacerta, which means “The Lizard.” It’s not a particularly notable star and researchers haven’t spent a whole lot of time studying it thus far, but because of its distance from Earth — roughly 1/1,000,000 the distance of the galaxy in the photo — it appears to be a much more dominating force in the sky. NASA even notes that, if the two were photographed at similar distances from our planet, we probably wouldn’t even be able to spot the star.
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