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Comment Re: Compare with Spacex's Starship (Score 2) 37

Yes, they have:

"The car, mounted on the rocket's second stage, was launched on an escape trajectory and entered an elliptical heliocentric orbit crossing the orbit of Mars.[6] The orbit reaches a maximum distance from the Sun at aphelion of 1.66 astronomical units (au).[4] Video of the Roadster during the launch was transmitted back to the mission control center and live-streamed."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk%27s_Tesla_Roadster

Comment Re:Kind of surprising (Score 1) 20

This.
I love Space. I hate SLS/Artemis.

You missed a bit:

SLS is nothing but a giant money-funnel, sending US taxpayer dollars by the billion to Boeing and Northrop Grumman, using leftover parts from the Shuttle program, designed in the 1970s to be reusable but being thrown away after one use in 2026 @ $140,000,000 a piece.

"The real excitement is the competition between Blue Origin and SpaceX for the lunar lander."

I think they will both be part of a hybrid mission: Spacex from Earth to Lunar orbit, BO to lunar surface, Spacex back to Earth.

Comment Re:Why can't they all just get along? (Score 1) 20

A Starship prototype already demonstrated "a soft landing (without anything to catch it like they have on Earth)".
But there is no way a human should be in that for at least another 50, successful, unmanned landings.

I think the most likely solution is a hybrid: Dragon to Starship in LEO, Starship to the moon carrying Orion + BO lander, and back, Dragon from Starship in LEO to splashdown.

But that would require Musk and Bezos to both swallow their not-inconsiderable pride.

Comment Re:"Unmanned" is the word you meant (Score 1) 23

Except of course that NASA used "manned" until the hateful woke cunts like your miserable self made them used the ugly "crewed" only to please the manhaters who cannot comprehend that "man" can mean "adult human" not "adult male human".

Fuck you, hateful misandrist cunt.

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