[Centraal] Ruimtevaart / SpaceX #80 Falcon Heavy on it's way to Europa

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Elon Musk tonight on overregulation:

"I got a bunch of nutty stories. SpaceX had to do this study to see if Starship would hit a shark. And I'm like... it's a big ocean. There are a lot of sharks! It’s not impossible, but it’s very unlikely. So we said, 'Fine, we’ll do the analysis. Can you give us the shark data?' They were like, 'No, we can’t give you the shark data.'

Well, then, okay, we’re in a bit of a quandary. How do we solve this shark probability issue? They said, 'Well, we could give it to our western division, but we don’t trust them.' I’m like, 'Am I in a comedy sketch here?!'

Eventually, we got the data and could run the analysis to say, 'Yeah, the sharks are going to be fine.' But they wouldn’t let us proceed with the launch until we did this crazy shark analysis.

Then we thought, 'Okay, now we’re done.' But then they said, 'What about whales?'

When you look at a picture of the Pacific, what percent of the surface area do you see as whale? If Starship did hit a whale, honestly, it’s like the whale had it coming, cause the odds are... so low. It’s like Final Destination: Whale Edition.

And then they said, 'What if the rocket goes underwater, then explodes, and the whales have hearing damage?' This is real!

Elon Musk holds Pa. town hall, talks free speech and right to bear arms after awarding $1M

It happened! SpaceX's Big Win the billion contract after Starship flight 5 Over ULA...

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SpaceX has secured a major U.S. military contract, further establishing its lead over competitors.
Although many organizations are concerned about Elon Musk's dominance in this field, it is undeniable that SpaceX's launch services offer outstanding benefits to its customers. Despite competitors' efforts, they have not been able to keep up with SpaceX's rapid development.

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SpaceX Crew-8 astronaut hospitalized but in ‘stable condition’ after splashdown, NASA says

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Three NASA astronauts and one Russian cosmonaut were unexpectedly transferred to a medical facility in Florida rather than returning to their home base in Houston after their splashdown early Friday morning aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule.

One of those astronauts remained in the hospital Friday afternoon with a “medical issue,” while the three others flew to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston after a health evaluation at Ascension Sacred Heart Pensacola, a hospital near the crew’s splashdown site in the Gulf of Mexico.

NASA did not provide any further details about the crew member who remained at the medical facility.

“To protect the crew member’s medical privacy, specific details on the individual’s condition or identity will not be shared,” according to a Friday afternoon statement from NASA news chief Cheryl Warner.

“The one astronaut who remains at Ascension is in stable condition under observation as a precautionary measure,” the statement said.

The four-person crew, which spent nearly eight months aboard the International Space Station before landing in the Gulf of Mexico at 3:29 a.m. ET Friday, had a “safe splashdown and recovery,” NASA said Friday morning.

However, all four astronauts “were taken to a local medical facility for additional evaluation,” according to an update from Warner shared at 8 a.m. ET. The measure was taken for the entire crew “out of an abundance of caution,” according to NASA.

The four crewmates — including NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt and Jeanette Epps and Alexander Grebenkin of the Russian space agency Roscosmos — make up the staff of Crew-8, a routine mission to the International Space Station that Space X carried out on behalf of NASA.

All four astronauts were seen smiling and waving as they exited their Crew Dragon capsule and boarded a recovery ship during a live stream of their splashdown overnight.

Officials at NASA also did not offer any indication of medical issues during a 5 a.m. ET news briefing.

“Right now the crew is doing great. They are going to spend a little bit of time on the recovery vessel going through their medical checks,” said Richard Jones, NASA’s deputy manager of the Commercial Crew Program, at the time. “They’ll soon be on their way back to Houston after all of those are done.”

Crew-8’s return

Extensive medical checkouts are routine after long-duration missions to space. And Crew-8’s stay was a bit longer than most astronauts traveling to the space station.

Routinely trips typically last roughly five to seven months.

“(Crew-8 was) the longest duration in space for a US crewed vehicle at 235 days,” Jones said.

The Crew-8 team, which launched into space on March 4, faced repeated delays in their return home for a variety of reasons. Among the roadblocks were schedule changes related to issues with the Boeing Starliner spacecraft, which had carried two NASA astronauts to the space station on a test flight in June but was deemed too risky to return its crew back to Earth.

NASA ultimately chose to return the Boeing spacecraft home empty and moved Starliner’s astronauts onto the SpaceX Crew-9 mission, delaying that mission’s launch and thus Crew-8’s return.

Additional weather delays also pushed the Crew-8 astronauts’ return into late October.

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Op maandag 28 oktober 2024 21:52 schreef SymbolicFrank het volgende:
Het was cool, maar dat ze die boosters heel nauwkeurig kunnen laten landen hebben ze al vaak laten zien. Wat ik mij afvraag: wanneer kan Starship nou een lading in een baan om de Aarde brengen? En wanneer is dat 100+ ton op een baan naar de Maan of Mars? Volgens mij weten ze dat zelf ook nog niet.

Wanneer ze denken met Starship op de Maan te kunnen landen mag je daarom vast nog niet vragen. Of ja, de NASA heeft ze daar 3 miljard voor betaald en ze hadden er ondertussen al moeten staan, maar het wordt steeds uitgesteld. Volgend jaar. Elon time. Of in dit geval: op zijn vroegst in 2027. Als ze de 20+ tankers hebben gebouwd en gelanceerd.

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Op maandag 28 oktober 2024 21:52 schreef SymbolicFrank het volgende:
Het was cool, maar dat ze die boosters heel nauwkeurig kunnen laten landen hebben ze al vaak laten zien. Wat ik mij afvraag: wanneer kan Starship nou een lading in een baan om de Aarde brengen? En wanneer is dat 100+ ton op een baan naar de Maan of Mars? Volgens mij weten ze dat zelf ook nog niet.

Wanneer ze denken met Starship op de Maan te kunnen landen mag je daarom vast nog niet vragen. Of ja, de NASA heeft ze daar 3 miljard voor betaald en ze hadden er ondertussen al moeten staan, maar het wordt steeds uitgesteld. Volgend jaar. Elon time. Of in dit geval: op zijn vroegst in 2027. Als ze de 20+ tankers hebben gebouwd en gelanceerd.

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Op dinsdag 29 oktober 2024 09:59 schreef Puzzie het volgende:
Bekijk deze YouTube-video
Wat is dit nou weer voor iets raars

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Op dinsdag 29 oktober 2024 23:37 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:

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Wat is raar? Dat plaatje? Er is geen hap uit starship, dat is 1 van de elonerons.