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SpaceX successful Starship landing in Texas
SpaceX successful Starship landing in Texas - Very much worth the view (www.youtube.com) さらに...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Once again science fiction becomes science fact. When I was a young boy in the 50's, I had toys of space men in space suits with "fish bowl" like helmets. We actually had that less than 20 years later. "Space ships" were depicted as taking of and landing vertically. Now it's happening. I can't wait to see what's next, A space station orbiting the earth? Naaah. LOL
Space station orbiting the earth? ROFLMAO. You're dreaming. What's next, men on the moon?
Can you imagine what my grandmother felt? Born in 1881, she lived to see nothing but birds and an occasional balloon in the sky to seeing men walk on the moon, before dying a the age of 94. And like you, as a kid, Dick Tracy and his phone watch was so far out there that it could never exist for real, now most of us have something like that. The only thing missing from my childhood dreams, a jet pack for every day use and affordable by most.
Can you imagine what my grandmother felt? Born in 1881, she lived to see nothing but birds and an occasional balloon in the sky to seeing men walk on the moon, before dying a the age of 94. And like you, as a kid, Dick Tracy and his phone watch was so far out there that it could never exist for real, now most of us have something like that. The only thing missing from my childhood dreams, a jet pack for every day use and affordable by most.
Having worked on the Apollo program, all I can say is: HOLY CRAP! Space X must be loaded with geniuses.
I would say that what SpaceX has in common with the Apollo program is an appetite for risk. The reason why NASA's Orion / SRS has not flown despite 10 years of development is the current management's aversion to taking risks. When it does fly it will already have been made obsolete by Starship's far greater capability and re-usability.
Amazing technology !
I find it hard to believe that NASA would have gotten four test flights off since December. They would still be organizing a committee to study the first one.
IMHO, "leave politics out of it," and "keep it scientific" seem to be the better way to go. YMMV.