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childintime | on: SpaceX catches the Starship to end Flight 15
How many years until the next milestones?

- in orbit refueling

- moon landing

- Mars rendez-vous

- Mars landing

- humans on Mars

Nah, the game is to put data centers in space. Plus the Space Force dreams.

mlh496 | parent | next
It's important to be able to set aside cynicism, even if for a single hour, to enjoy technological achievements like this.
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trothamel | parent | next
In orbit refueling is likely next year. The goal is to have two shots at a moon landing in 2028.

And a nuclear ion rocket scheduled for 2028 as well.

The current NASA administrator is doing a good job getting rid of all the things keeping NASA from doing things. (And at least after Artemis II, both parties in congress seemed to be on his side.)

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loehnsberg | parent | next
Launches, Starlink, military provide cash. SpaceX needs to be profitable at least to some extent.
drivebyhooting | parent | next
Those exploration dreams can only exist via the bankrolling of government contracts and riding bubbles.

Google is only able to fund Waymo, Quantum Computing, etc because of their questionably moral ads cash cow.

runarberg | parent | next
All I want are bigger and more cleverly located space telescopes, a couple of more probes and orbiters around other planets and asteroids, and I want those Mars samples that Percy has been pooping over the Mars surface returned to Earth and studied in a lab. And maybe a probe to Alpha Centauri or exo-planet viewers that use the Sun’s gravitational lensing in the next 5 or 6 decades.
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consensus1 | parent | next
I don't know how long it will take, but I'll be here watching you seethe as they hit each one and you post another list.
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shoobiedoo | parent | next
What actually is the point of all this? I'm not trying to be a snarky contrarian, I've never had any interest whatsoever in space, star trek, "what's out there?", so I genuinely don't get it.

I'm not trashing people's interests, obviously I am the odd man out in not giving a damn, I just don't see what we're trying to achieve when there are so many issues we can't even figure out on earth.

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DivingForGold | root | parent | next
Perhaps you don't have any clue that earth and it's inhabitants are very, very likely to be the only one, - - or, of the very few planets in our known universe, with such a sequence of events over millions if not billions of years that allow us to be living beings, evolving - - while out in space is a vacuum, intense radiation, no oxygen, no food or water for many hundreds if not thousands of light years distance away. Incredibly few of our species grasps this fact and actually appreciates it ...
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oceanplexian | root | parent | next
If you don’t get it, nothing anyone says is going to convince you otherwise.

The people who “had an interest” in pursuing the unknown built the entire modern world that you exist in, since so many things have some connection back to the space program, including ironically the very device you’re using to express your opinion. So it’s probably worth paying them a little respect.

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origini | root | parent
So we did the moon landing btw.

Shouldn't you be able to articulate a proper answer without any issues?

Is it an engineering feat? Yes.

But i would bet James Webb Telescope and Moon landing were a lot bigger?!

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jddkj | root | parent | next
Well considering we gave SpaceX a contract to get us to the moon and for that to happen it needs to do something ridiculous like 20+ in orbit refueling yeah it's a pretty important thing to criticize.
philipwhiuk | root | parent | next
What's the point of heating sand - we barely have enough food to feed our pre-industrial society.
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Rover222 | parent | next
That's your reaction to watching this? Pretty sad.
bluecalm | parent
I mean, you need to get money from somewhere to fund your dreams. If it's datacenters in space then let be it. They are pretty cool as well. It seems a lot of people don't like them on Earth.
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