I wish it was robot probes going someplace cool. But nope—just launching two middle-aged dudes to study the effects of futility on the human body 400 kilometers above sea level.https://twitter.com/AstroBehnken/status/1265670462815776768 …
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A lot of the coolest stuff in the Solar System is around Jupiter, in a radiation environment that would cook people alive. Even if we spent the planetary GDP on rockets, astronauts could never go there. Real space exploration necessarily means robot probes—the kind we build well!
The most hospitable off-Earth environment for human beings is not on Mars, but Venus. You can float along high in the Venusian atmosphere at a comfy temperature and normal pressure, as long as you don't open the window (because of the hurricanes of acid) https://sacd.larc.nasa.gov/smab/havoc/
The fact that they gave the capsule a touchscreen adds all the more dad energy. Vision blurring due to excess G forces? Why, simply raise your arm and drag the slider on the MuskBar to reduce thrust! But be careful not to tap the volume slider, because Journey is about to come onpic.twitter.com/OxSFVU3s4X
A lot of the complaints here boil down to the STS being a terrible program maintaining a terrible spacecraft. In the end robots will not be able to react to changing conditions or be anywhere near as flexible as a person for a wide variety of missions that SpaceX's tech enables.
That history of air force requirements is hilarious and depressing.
I was just thinking about this article today - especially when important NASA guy said "we don't just want commercial rockets, we want commercial space stations"
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