Deranged Rhino Posted February 27, 2017 Share Posted February 27, 2017 And it's sending two private citizens/space tourists on a week long jaunt to the moon... http://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-moon-mission-elon-musk-2017-2 http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/technology/os-bz-spacex-announcement-20170227-story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/02/27/elon-musks-spacex-plans-to-fly-two-private-citizens-around-the-moon-by-late-next-year/?utm_term=.d4a1b311fa9a Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted February 27, 2017 Share Posted February 27, 2017 Only if they're willing to risk killing their Muskonauts. There's no way the Falcon Heavy is man-rated by 2018. Hell, the Falcon 9 FT it's based on has critical problems inhibiting man-rating, and won't be man-rated this year (cracks in the turbine blades in the LOX HPTPs. SpaceX insists "It's okay, the engines are designed so that if the blades crack, it's not a problem." The government argues "So you're telling us that turbine blade failure is a design feature, not a flaw? Nuh-uh." I'm siding with the government on this one.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deranged Rhino Posted February 27, 2017 Author Share Posted February 27, 2017 Only if they're willing to risk killing their Muskonauts. There's no way the Falcon Heavy is man-rated by 2018. Hell, the Falcon 9 FT it's based on has critical problems inhibiting man-rating, and won't be man-rated this year (cracks in the turbine blades in the LOX HPTPs. SpaceX insists "It's okay, the engines are designed so that if the blades crack, it's not a problem." The government argues "So you're telling us that turbine blade failure is a design feature, not a flaw? Nuh-uh." I'm siding with the government on this one.) That's great branding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted February 27, 2017 Share Posted February 27, 2017 That's great branding. What else do you call them, really? SpaceXtras? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Jack Posted February 27, 2017 Share Posted February 27, 2017 Only if they're willing to risk killing their Muskonauts. Someone, probably hundreds or thousands, are willing to take the risk to be the first person/people back on the moon. Except the Nazis have been there since WWII, and will be coming back to earth next year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mead107 Posted February 27, 2017 Share Posted February 27, 2017 No thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deranged Rhino Posted February 28, 2017 Author Share Posted February 28, 2017 Someone, probably hundreds or thousands, are willing to take the risk to be the first person/people back on the moon. Except the Nazis have been there since WWII, and will be coming back to earth next year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Augie Posted February 28, 2017 Share Posted February 28, 2017 (edited) I'm betting Wile E. Coyote is one of the first two passengers. Edited February 28, 2017 by Augie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saxum Posted February 28, 2017 Share Posted February 28, 2017 I am hoping retirement colonies exist on the moon by time my health has weakened although at that point no idea how I will be able to handle travel acceleration there. I do like the ideas in some books of a "space elevator" which means you would get out of worst part of gravity well slowly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chef Jim Posted February 28, 2017 Share Posted February 28, 2017 Someone, probably hundreds or thousands, are willing to take the risk to be the first person/people back on the moon. Except the Nazis have been there since WWII, and will be coming back to earth next year. Holy crap! Where can I see this movie? It's not on Netflix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saxum Posted February 28, 2017 Share Posted February 28, 2017 Holy crap! Where can I see this movie? It's not on Netflix. Amazon Prime https://www.amazon.com/dp/B009KHCT94?ref_=imdbref_tt_wbr_aiv&tag=imdbtag_tt_wbr_aiv-20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Jack Posted February 28, 2017 Share Posted February 28, 2017 Holy crap! Where can I see this movie? It's not on Netflix. It used to be on Netflix, that's where I saw it sometime last year. There's another equally bad one, Nazis At The Center Of The Earth.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chef Jim Posted February 28, 2017 Share Posted February 28, 2017 Amazon Prime https://www.amazon.com/dp/B009KHCT94?ref_=imdbref_tt_wbr_aiv&tag=imdbtag_tt_wbr_aiv-20 But I have Netflix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dpberr Posted February 28, 2017 Share Posted February 28, 2017 If SpaceX pulls that off without casualties or calamity, it'll be like what the Internet was to the 90s in terms of technological frontiers. It'll also make NASA and its insistence on low orbit nothingburger shuttles for 30 years look small. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chef Jim Posted February 28, 2017 Share Posted February 28, 2017 It's the world of tomorrow! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saxum Posted February 28, 2017 Share Posted February 28, 2017 But I have Netflix. Hopefully Amazon will buy Netflix so you can see it, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PromoTheRobot Posted March 1, 2017 Share Posted March 1, 2017 Your in-flight movie: Apollo 13. Enjoy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted March 1, 2017 Share Posted March 1, 2017 Your in-flight movie: Apollo 13. Enjoy. But FAA regs prohibit showing space disaster movies in a spacecraft, so instead they see the alternate cut where the astronauts get stuck on a broke-down bus in the middle of Utah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante Posted March 1, 2017 Share Posted March 1, 2017 No one is going to the moon. Including Musk's outfit. They can barely get their glorified fireworks off the launchpad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PromoTheRobot Posted March 1, 2017 Share Posted March 1, 2017 (edited) No one is going to the moon. Including Musk's outfit. They can barely get their glorified fireworks off the launchpad. They already supply the space station and have successfully relanded a rocket. Edited March 1, 2017 by PromoTheRobot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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