Indications are at this point, quite positive for presidential support of newspace efforts. The pursestrings are controlled by congress though, which has notoriously funded Commercial Crew at less than NASA asked for and SLS/Orion at more than NASA asked for.
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Same here. I was watching from Merritt Island. Adding to the confusion, the “live” webcast is delayed by several seconds.
As has been hashed previously in Kinja comments, he’s not a natural born citizen of the US, and not nearly old enough to meet the qualifications for a citizen who is not natural born.
Waiting to see if this body shaming gets noticed by the Jezebel Kinja crowd.
“to deliver supplies to NASA Astronauts on the International Space Station. These are the only tax payer dollars they receive.”
SpaceX has a reputation for making its engineers work long hours for lower pay than other aerospace companies, and faced a class action lawsuit (that by all news accounts never gained more than one person in the class) for requiring hourly workers to do un-clocked overtime.
“Once they start seriously scaling up their equipment, then I will get excited.”
I’ve only been to Hawaii a few times, but I never saw anyone refrigerating ants.
The problem is, for every launch where we had a spare shuttle tank, you’d need another launch with all the interior power and life support equipment, and crew to EVA and do all of the refitting work. So far dry workshops (stations or station segments built on the ground) have been more economical than wet workshops…
“These guys were actually pretty fiscally responsible.”
“It’s really not that hard...”
“by ‘cost’ I mean the weight, bulk, etc.... not cost of purchasing the fuel”
When the legs are extended and the engine(s) are firing, they take the heat. They are extended for only about 5 seconds in a landing, so it’s not a problem. For the Dev9R tests that lasted a minute, the legs caught fire. Flying high enough and cross-range would be a burn of several minutes, damaging the legs if they…
Exactly that. They operated them in what was calculated to be their safe operating range. After several launches, they had more data available and were able to verify that the real-world performance was close enough to the models that they were able to safely revise the range. They have said they may revise it one or…
Distance gets better, but then you run into a problem of location.
Launching with populated areas in the flight path is not likely to receive FAA approval.