Space and Stuff : It's Big

[Wizard]

That's a new way of measuring. lol

Like something Alex Horne would say on Taskmaster

 

[Wizard]

US potentially to land on the moon for the first time since 1972. Pretty mad they haven’t gone up there in that long.

Not clear yet if it’s landed successfully or crash landed

EDIT: the link updated as I posted it and they have apparently successfully landed

Odysseus spacecraft lands on the moon as Nasa hails ‘giant leap forward’ – as it happened | Space | The Guardian

Controllers say ‘we are on the surface’ as Intuitive Machines’ craft makes first US moon landing since 1972

amp.theguardian.com

 

[tommye]

US potentially to land on the moon for the first time since 1972. Pretty mad they haven’t gone up there in that long.

Not clear yet if it’s landed successfully or crash landed

EDIT: the link updated as I posted it and they have apparently successfully landed

Odysseus spacecraft lands on the moon as Nasa hails ‘giant leap forward’ – as it happened | Space | The Guardian

Controllers say ‘we are on the surface’ as Intuitive Machines’ craft makes first US moon landing since 1972

amp.theguardian.com

Had the telescope out, can't see anything, must've parked behind a crater ffs

 

[Bishop Thumpety-Thump]

US potentially to land on the moon for the first time since 1972. Pretty mad they haven’t gone up there in that long.

Not clear yet if it’s landed successfully or crash landed

EDIT: the link updated as I posted it and they have apparently successfully landed

Odysseus spacecraft lands on the moon as Nasa hails ‘giant leap forward’ – as it happened | Space | The Guardian

Controllers say ‘we are on the surface’ as Intuitive Machines’ craft makes first US moon landing since 1972

amp.theguardian.com

Purely down to cost. The Apollo program took place at the height of the Cold War, and the Soviets had beaten the US in every other space demographic up to that point, first satellite, first man in space, first spacewalk, fist woman in space and first to land a probe on the moon (which they managed multiple times). The propaganda coming back from the USSR was that they were primed to land humans on the moon, and with the ongoing war in Vietnam going so badly LBJ poured a huge percentage of US GDP into getting to the moon first (and fulfilling JFK's promise). No coincidence that as soon as Nixon got the Presidency budgets were slashed and Apollos 18, 19 & 20 were all cancelled. NASA's new, relatively meagre budget was then focused on the reusable low-Earth orbit Space Shuttle instead. Many Apollo veterans were appalled by this and (rightly imho) bemoaned the lost opportunity to build a base on the moon and head on to Mars. Hopefully next year's Artemis program will reignite public interest and we'll finally get back on track, 50 years later than scheduled!

 

[chrismpw]

That's a new way of measuring. lol

Not my quotation, but a beauty of a caption for this: "the Americans will use anything other than the metric system."

 

[Bishop Thumpety-Thump]

Success! Though it remains to be seen if it's landed in an awkward position like the Japanese probe, fingers crossed all is well;

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/science-environment-68349490

 

[trueblue84]

That's a new way of measuring. lol

Maybe it's an attempt to get more women interested in science?

 

[Pootsy]

Purely down to cost. The Apollo program took place at the height of the Cold War, and the Soviets had beaten the US in every other space demographic up to that point, first satellite, first man in space, first spacewalk, fist woman in space and first to land a probe on the moon (which they managed multiple times). The propaganda coming back from the USSR was that they were primed to land humans on the moon, and with the ongoing war in Vietnam going so badly LBJ poured a huge percentage of US GDP into getting to the moon first (and fulfilling JFK's promise). No coincidence that as soon as Nixon got the Presidency budgets were slashed and Apollos 18, 19 & 20 were all cancelled. NASA's new, relatively meagre budget was then focused on the reusable low-Earth orbit Space Shuttle instead. Many Apollo veterans were appalled by this and (rightly imho) bemoaned the lost opportunity to build a base on the moon and head on to Mars. Hopefully next year's Artemis program will reignite public interest and we'll finally get back on track, 50 years later than scheduled!

Bloody Russians getting there first

 

[Wizard]

Success! Though it remains to be seen if it's landed in an awkward position like the Japanese probe, fingers crossed all is well;

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/science-environment-68349490

Sounds like all the instruments are working fine but unfortunately the robot is on it's side so not sure how much it's actually going to be able to do.

 

[Arteta2391]

do aliens play sports?

 

[Tommy Chong]

Sounds like all the instruments are working fine but unfortunately the robot is on it's side so not sure how much it's actually going to be able to do.

Hopefully it’ll find water to sustain a future lunar base.

I just hope they don’t drill and find oil!
That’s a story that won’t end well.

 

[Sarnia Kevin]

SpaceX Starship is in orbit! Successful launch and stage separation and orbital insertion. Unfortunately the booster landing burn failed and the booster was lost in the ocean.

 

[Pootsy]

SpaceX Starship is in orbit! Successful launch and stage separation and orbital insertion. Unfortunately the booster landing burn failed and the booster was lost in the ocean.

Booster appears to have hit the Gulf at just over 1000km/h. Nice soft landing. Not sure the payload opened completely as it wasn't meant to close until T28:00

 

[Pootsy]

Looks like it didn't make re-entry but thats the longest flight yet so much more data to process for Elon then he'll go again. They need Payload doors open to gain funding for delivering payloads to space. Getting the craft back is essentially for Human travel obviously

 

[SerenityNigh]

That's a new way of measuring. lol

show us yer washing machine