Litwin
Platinum Member
Muscovy is becoming more and more "Nigeria in snow" , how fast Musk kills Muscovite all space programs? which left of them ...
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Musk´s "commercial space exploration"
ok, whats about "commercial space exploration"? will Musk change rules of the game in "commercial space exploration"?Don't get me wrong ... I'm no Luddite. I grew up during the Space Race. I watched every launch, every landing. I scrapbooked hundreds of newspaper articles. I built every model and bought every toy. I chose a career in technology and got my pilot's license because I wanted to be ready for the eventual colonization of space. As I grew up, I stayed a fan of the various Treks and Wars and waited with eager anticipation for my turn go where only a few men had gone before.
I watched the American space program die. I watched Americans playing golf on the moon instead of laying the groundwork for any future exploration. I watched as the infrastructure of space turned into a rusting pile of ruins in a Florida swamp. I watched NASA transform to 'Go for the Moon' to a climate change cheerleader.
The reasons for the failure of the Space Program are many but the largest was money. It's the most expensive things humans can do.
The Apollo Program spent more than 20 Billion dollars for 12 men to walk on the moon and bring back a few hundred pounds of rocks that sit moldering in various museums. We left nothing in our wake but footprints and some of our discarded space craft.
Musk's publicity stunt isn't anything new. It's the same rocket technology that put Sputnik into orbit 60 plus years ago and it still comes with a staggering price tag of $1,600 per KG of payload to Low Earth Orbit ... only slightly less than the $2,000 per KG of the 1960's vintage Saturn V for the same orbit.
ok, whats about "commercial space exploration"? will Musk change rules of the game in "commercial space exploration"?Don't get me wrong ... I'm no Luddite. I grew up during the Space Race. I watched every launch, every landing. I scrapbooked hundreds of newspaper articles. I built every model and bought every toy. I chose a career in technology and got my pilot's license because I wanted to be ready for the eventual colonization of space. As I grew up, I stayed a fan of the various Treks and Wars and waited with eager anticipation for my turn go where only a few men had gone before.
I watched the American space program die. I watched Americans playing golf on the moon instead of laying the groundwork for any future exploration. I watched as the infrastructure of space turned into a rusting pile of ruins in a Florida swamp. I watched NASA transform to 'Go for the Moon' to a climate change cheerleader.
The reasons for the failure of the Space Program are many but the largest was money. It's the most expensive things humans can do.
The Apollo Program spent more than 20 Billion dollars for 12 men to walk on the moon and bring back a few hundred pounds of rocks that sit moldering in various museums. We left nothing in our wake but footprints and some of our discarded space craft.
Musk's publicity stunt isn't anything new. It's the same rocket technology that put Sputnik into orbit 60 plus years ago and it still comes with a staggering price tag of $1,600 per KG of payload to Low Earth Orbit ... only slightly less than the $2,000 per KG of the 1960's vintage Saturn V for the same orbit.
ok, whats about "commercial space exploration"? will Musk change rules of the game in "commercial space exploration"?Don't get me wrong ... I'm no Luddite. I grew up during the Space Race. I watched every launch, every landing. I scrapbooked hundreds of newspaper articles. I built every model and bought every toy. I chose a career in technology and got my pilot's license because I wanted to be ready for the eventual colonization of space. As I grew up, I stayed a fan of the various Treks and Wars and waited with eager anticipation for my turn go where only a few men had gone before.
I watched the American space program die. I watched Americans playing golf on the moon instead of laying the groundwork for any future exploration. I watched as the infrastructure of space turned into a rusting pile of ruins in a Florida swamp. I watched NASA transform to 'Go for the Moon' to a climate change cheerleader.
The reasons for the failure of the Space Program are many but the largest was money. It's the most expensive things humans can do.
The Apollo Program spent more than 20 Billion dollars for 12 men to walk on the moon and bring back a few hundred pounds of rocks that sit moldering in various museums. We left nothing in our wake but footprints and some of our discarded space craft.
Musk's publicity stunt isn't anything new. It's the same rocket technology that put Sputnik into orbit 60 plus years ago and it still comes with a staggering price tag of $1,600 per KG of payload to Low Earth Orbit ... only slightly less than the $2,000 per KG of the 1960's vintage Saturn V for the same orbit.
Unless he can change the law of gravity, there is no commercial space exploration.
It costs what it costs to put people and equipment into space with chemical rockets.
All the publicity in the world isn't going to change that.