What’s the human development part of this?
Reusable rockets? SpaceX got there years ago with Falcon 9. An orbital class launcher.
Reusable capsules? SpaceX got there last year with Crew Dragon. An orbital class capsule.
Space tourism for the super rich? Dennis Tito would like a word.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 12:28,
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One guy hitching a ride on government rockets
might be technically space tourism, but it isn't exactly a budding space tourism industry.
Falcon 9 is not completely reusable.
Everything we make is human development, you do realise? Your house... the leisure centre down the road. How is this ever not human development?
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Yes, but how many of the things we build actually count as milestones?
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 13:07,
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Are we including or excluding actual milestones?
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 15:10,
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1st commercially reusable tourism rocket
is not an unreasonable milestone.
I mean, it definitely took much more effort to do that, than paving 1 mile of road.
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Like I said...
that other one is not entirely reusable. Some parts of it need to be rebuilt between flights.
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Virgin Galactic?
Not sure which bit of that system needs rebuilding between flights, but I doubt that Blue Origin would just restack and refuel without performing extensive maintenance checks.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 16:55,
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Virgin Galactic
uses sub orbital space planes, with rocket engines, but they're not rockets, and it's debatable if they actually even go into space.
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OK, so the Space Shuttle wasn't a rocket. Got it.
I don't understand why you're so wedded to the need to describe this pointless irrelevance as a milestone, while simultaneously so determined to ignore the other pointless irrelevance that successfully beat it to an arbitrary definition of space. It's like trying to argue that Charlton Athletic are the best football club in London because Leyton Orient only play in the second division.
Have you got tickets or something?
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 19:24,
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The space shuttle wasn't a rocket.
It was also a space plane, which used a pair of independent rocket boosters to get it close enough to space for it to fly independently.
I didn't say the other things weren't milestones or even suggest that. I pointed out how they were different, and so were not THIS milestone.
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hey, we get it
you've got a boner for bezos
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 22 Jul 2021, 5:05,
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I'm surprised at you.
You don't usually surrender with this few moves. Even benny lasted longer than you.
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it's ok to have a man crush
you don't need to justify it
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 23 Jul 2021, 6:43,
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And they need to replace the engine each flight, I think.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 19:26,
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I know they use a solid propellant,
so I guess they'd have to have some kind of replacement cartridge at the very least. As stated above though, I'd expect them to have to go through an exhaustive series of maintenance checks between each flight anyway, so I don't see that as much of a handicap.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 19:39,
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You clearly haven't seen my house.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 15:13,
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Let's just see if the Vulcans spotted him
and land to make first contact with him tomorrow.
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