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True. Wealthy people do the most savagery and want to escape their consciousness
Official space thread vol.....Astronaut status
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"RANGE IS GO FOR LAUNCH."
SPACEX LAUNCHES 2 ASTRONAUTS FROM FLORIDA, MARKING FIRST NASA CREW BOUND FOR ORBIT FROM U.S. IN 9 YEARS
SPACEX LAUNCHES 2 ASTRONAUTS FROM FLORIDA, MARKING FIRST NASA CREW BOUND FOR ORBIT FROM U.S. IN 9 YEARS
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Oh missed this thread.
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humans leaving this planet is still pretty crazy to me
Great job NASA and SpaceX
Great job NASA and SpaceX
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We are about twenty miles south and watched the launch from our dock. Visually, it looked like any of the previous SpaceX launches. One of the unique things about living here is that your house shakes when the rockets go up and it is totally normal. Pretty cool knowing astronauts are aboard.
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Post to SN on point
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I used to want to be an astronaut when I was a kid... then I saw the making of Apollo 13 and all those space shios turning over and exploding. Then I decided I wanted to be a games journalist. I'm neither now, btw.
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got claustrophobic just watching the 2 minute video
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Love Interstellar.
The First Man has some pretty dope launch scenes, I'm pretty sure my neighbors didn't enjoy me watching that movie, but they're lucky I never hooked my sub up.
The First Man has some pretty dope launch scenes, I'm pretty sure my neighbors didn't enjoy me watching that movie, but they're lucky I never hooked my sub up.
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Recording Lucy In The Sky on HBO right now. Gonna watch later. Hope it's good.
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I never knew Joshua Dobbs was a trained aerospace engineer. 
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jking0821 you still at NASA?
I know you guys are proud of this achievement and congrats. What was different about launch america? Anything you guys were particularly proud of? How was it teaming up with SpaceX?
Yep still at NASA but I am at Goddard Space Flight Center which didn't have anything to really do with the Commercial Crew team. But we do have contracts with SpaceX and the one thing that I will say about our interactions with them is that they work really hard. The pace that they were able to basically become what they are today to me is insane.
The plus to the privatization is they can fail (and the sheer amount of capital they have helps
). They can fail wildly and continuously (which you need to do) to move forward. As a government entity failure really isn't an option. Because if you fail...its with tax payer dollars and that carries a lot of weight and is taken very seriously by everyone. NASA also is less then one half of one percent of the government budget...so if we had the funding it would help to push things forward as well instead of trying to use legacy builds to move inches forward we could use the money to really truly innovate.
