Ah, Sidney Blumenthal's son being a little scumbag as usual. Fucking hate him so much.
we should offer a program to illegals where if they sign a consent form to be survival testers at the moonbase they can gain citizenship. it's like what russia did with the dogs except the dogs have more value to society.
I'M SICK OF THE FAGGOT LIBERAL MEDIA NOT LETTING US HAVE A MOON BASE.
NO WE ALREADY LET THEM TAKE OVER MINNESOTA I DON'T WANT A BUNCH OF SOMALIANS ON MY FUCKING MOON BASE.
My unwavering response as always is that you are gay as fuck.
Fuck yes, John Madden moonbase!
like that's pretty cool and all but i can't afford a home and my money is inflating away
Have you tried eating less avacado toast?
HERE COMES ANOTHER CHINESE EARTHQUAKE ABRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBR
This would seem to mean that either the Lockheed Orion or the SpaceX Starship is being scrubbed from the moon mission. One of the primary uses of Gateway is for an Orion crew to transfer to a Starship for the actual lunar landing. No Gateway means no crew transfer. Since SpaceX still hasn't figured out how to refuel Starship, I'm thinking it's SpaceX that's getting cut. (Starship delays, Orion @ NASA).
Uhh, I would be very interested to see how they plan to accomplish this because current nuclear rocket tech involves blasting radiation out in a manner which would irradiate all debris and craft behind it within low Earth orbit. They would have to make a rocket which reaches interplanetary space first and then uses nuclear, which at that point makes nuclear useful for deceleration to achieve an orbit around Mars. At that point it would technically be the first successful nuclear rocket, however cost/benefit wise it doesn't make too much sense. The research for a reliable rocket was finished back in 1972 with the US nuclear engine program ending in 73.
You mean they are finally declassifying our moonbase, probably due to the ongoing bear problem.
I have no interest in space colonization and would prefer that the hundreds of billions which would spent on such a project (for no gain!) would instead go towards building up our passenger rail systems among other infrastructure projects.
You're thinking of open-cycle nuclear thermal rockets