I want them to make it to the moon, and take along a true skeptic of the Apollo mission, and fucking show them Apollo 11's landing site. bUt ThE fLaG wAvEs
The first SLS rocket won't launch until 2021. That seems awfully aggressive to think we can be back on the moon by 2024. Am I thinking too much in the old Apollo way, or can things happen a lot faster now with all we're learning from the other NASA programs and SpaceX?
I mean things happened pretty fast in the Apollo era. Kennedy's "lets go to the moon" to Apollo 11 was only 7 years. We landed on the moon less than 9 years after we started designing any iterations of a Saturn rocket. And that was in the very early days where we understood much less about rocketry. The SLS is already under construction and in test; going to the moon in four more years is totally possible if it's what we want.
there's some awesome photos of it, but its been partly to mostly overcast where I'm at every evening. I've been thinking of taking the family out to Shenandoah National Park one evening to get away from the DC area's light pollution.
NEOWISE. Look near the Big Dipper just after sunset if it’s clear outside (closer to the horizon). It’s the best comet to view since The Great Comet (HALEBOPP) came here in the 90’s.
took my 6 year old son to see it last night. Trees were blocking the comet a bit, but we clearly saw jupiter and the ISS. He's been watching all the space-x launches with me and I want to encourage his interest in science. His is the generation that will colonize mars if we do.
That’s the best thing to use. We have a great telescope but binoculars are more effective here. Starting Sunday night it should be very visible in the North-west sky (Big Dipper territory) an hour after dusk on any clear night until August. And yes, have binoculars handy. It isn’t bigger than the moon like HALE-BOPP was. And it won’t be back for 6800 years.
It almost seems like a device you’d see in an 80’s movie about the future of 2009. “Retrieve it with giant catcher’s mitt!”
i saw that yesterday and thought that was CGI based upon the coloring of the parachute, fairing and net?
Nope, actual footage. "SpaceX’s fairing recovery vessel Ms. Tree catches a Falcon 9 fairing half after launch of SpaceX’s eleventh Starlink mission on August 18, 2020. The fairing used on this mission previously flew in support of SpaceX’s fourth Starlink mission."