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Comment Re:Will is crash again? (Score 1) 46

They have yet to have a fully successful mission. Still in debug phase. Good luck.

Neither has Artemis or Starliner. Yet all are making commercial launches. Vulcan Centaur though it has had fully successful launches has those launches suspended due to the failures of the SRBs, New Glenn is suspended due to the failure to achieve a proper orbit on the 3rd flight.

Starship is not yet a production model though hopefully now much closer with Block 3. Those mentioned above ARE supposed to be production models (including Starliner with it's dodgy manned mission).

Comment Re:It's already known that they won't (Score 1) 31

ISS has been extended to at least 2032, and there's a caveat that for any commercial station "taking over", there must be a 6-month overlap (so it could extend further). NASA will have crews on both during those 6 months, I think.

The U.S. Congress committed to doing so. Russia has not. Is the U.S. going to seize and operate the Russian modules? What if the Russians remove key components, delete the software or otherwise render their modules non functional?

Comment Re:Hey Canada, here's a hint (Score 2) 108

Choosing it to sell to someone whose administration is actively trying to undermine you, would be self-defeating.

This isn't about business. The US is burning its bridges, well, let's burn this one too. Trade is for people you can trust and rely on.

The advantage of selling power to the U.S. is that if they try to invade all that infrastructure gets destroyed and their own people lose access to the electricity, oil and St Lawrence Seaway. Attacking Canada becomes effectively attacking themselves. Let Quebec power New York City and as soon as an invasion begins the lights go out.

Comment Re: In normal times, this would be true (Score 1) 108

"The first thing China will do is terminate ALL Ice Hockey being played in Canada, and permanently eliminate The Stanley Cup." Beyond delusional, just completely batshit insane current USA president. Like a poisoned and poisonous LLM trained on complete bullshit.

Projection. Just telling his own plans.

Comment Re:talk about overpaid incomptence (Score 1) 31

The rotating idea from 2001 and other sci-fi movies would only give you some amount of gravity (and would make docking a decently big challenge, having to get your capsule or shuttle spinning to match the station, which again uses some fuel),

There is a thing called a spin decoupler to allow docking to a non spinning part of the hub.

Comment Re:Good moves (Score 2) 128

Which astronauts do you feel were not qualified for mission?

The problem comes from BEFORE the crew was determined. They announced that there would be a black man and a woman going to the moon. Right there it was determined that two of the crew were being selected from those who were in those classifications not from just which 4 person team would be best. It became which 4 person team WITH a black man AND a woman would be best. This could end with the same result but that seems unlikely. If the best crew happened to be all trans people of different races I wouldn't care, I'd just think that was odd. But when the crew has a predetermined race and gender for two crew members when the crew has not yet been determined it is fishy.

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