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TerraN_EmpirE
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Not Sure about Livid or quite Jealous, but he did respond
Elon Musk Calls Out Jeff Bezos on Twitter Over Rocket Launch
The SpaceX founder wasn't impressed when Bezos boasted about a "rare" feat accomplished by his rocket company, Blue Origin.
Musk wants to go to mars and Use a Reusable Orbital booster system. Blue Origin has made a impressive feat but they were still Sub orbital even at the 62 miles they achieved
Why you shouldn't compare Blue Origin's rocket landing to SpaceX
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- on November 24, 2015 05:11 pm
For a Mars manned Trip you need a Rocket that can be launched and orbited then land.
TerraN_EmpirE
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TerraN_EmpirE
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To put it in perspective the Falcon9 booster that landed yesterday is 2 meters taller in height to the Stature of Liberty in New York harbor @ 48 meters. The New shepard is equal to that same statures Knee @ 16 meters.
Well, what Blue Origin did is amazing and we should not discount it.
Just the same, it cannot really be compared to Space X And the Falcon 9.
Falcon 9 is lifting packages into true orbit, therefore it goes a lot higher and a lot faster. The booster is a lot taller and much hared to land.
I believe space X will ultimately do it...but what Blue Origin did was also amazing.
it looks similar to what Space X is trying to do...but the devil is in the details and they make Space X's tasks a LOT harder.
Either way, it is GREAT to see these private companies doing this stuff.
Now that one was the money shot. From about 32:20 on.
simply mazing that an orbital booster could be brought back and do this.
And were they happy? Oh yes, they were happy! Truly historic.
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and from the hight of spaceX the lows...
Basically the Russian Space Agency was so corrupt that Putin can no longer consider it solvent and he is now dismantling it and transferring it into the state owned corporation in hopes of more directly controlling and gutting the Graft. This is going to be extensive restructuring however meaning, that the Russians are placed in a position of simply maintaining programs and not launching ambitious operations for at least a decade or more. This could be good then again.... Good in that hopefully it will fix the Quality control issues we have seen with recent russian launches bad because it re-entrenches Russia into a government owned government run corporation with as Putin as Oligarch in Chief.
More and more It makes me wish the US could return to manned space flight.
but india is probubly a billiontimes better off then the Russian space program.ISRO's RLV-TD Project Likely to be Delayed
By Express News Service
Published: 28th December 2015 05:08 AM
Last Updated: 28th December 2015 05:08 AM
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Technical snags have forced the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to put off the first test on a scaled-down prototype of India’s futuristic space shuttle.
Sources said on Sunday that the Reusable Launch Vehicle-Technology Demonstrator (RLV-TD), under development at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) here at Thumba, developed a minor leak during a test, forcing the ISRO to postpone the mission. The ambitious RLV-TD, the first small step to building a ‘space shuttle’ which can return to earth after accomplishing space missions, is likely to be delayed up to April 2016. ISRO had originally planned a mid-2015 launch for the RLV-TD. It had later been postponed to January 2016.
VSSC Director Dr K Sivan said that some of the components had to be re-assembled. ‘’If things go as planned, we can launch the mission in the first week of February. Otherwise, the test will be conducted in the first week of April,’’ he said. ISRO has three missions lined up for January and March, which is another reason why the RLV-TD could be delayed up to April. ISRO plans to launch the three remaining IRNSS satellites - which will complete the seven-satellite Indian Regional Navigational Satellite System - by March 31. The first of the three is to be launched on January 20, and the remaining two in March using the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV). “The missions will be launched from the first launch pad, which is also to be used for the RLV-TD,’’ Sivan said.
The RLV-TD consists of a winged space plane-like part rigged atop a booster rocket. The rocket will go up to a height of 70 km and release the space plane portion which will glide down to earth.
In the first test, the space plane will glide into a landing in the Bay of Bengal. RLV-TD will be the first of a series of tests planned by ISRO before venturing to build the actual vehicle.
The Russian space agency Roscosmos will give up on manned flights to the Moon and related activities at least until 2025, the Russian Izvestia newspaper reported Tuesday, citing the updated version of the Federal Space Program (FSP).
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — According to the FSP for years 2016-2025, the Russian space industry will refrain from creating a lunar landing complex, a lunar orbital station, a lunar space suit and the system of robotic software for Moon flights, the newspaper said.
In 2012, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, who oversees the country’s space industry, suggested setting up space research base on the Moon, and pledged to personally control and manage all the processes related to its construction and functioning in the future.
Roscosmos also decided to suspend the project, and the Federal Space Program does not include expenses for it.
The suspension of the so-called Moon Program allowed to save the budget some 88.5 billion rubles ($1.2 billion at the current exchange rate), the newspaper notes.
Earlier this year, the Russian Space Agency Energia said that the the first Russian unmanned lunar mission would be performed by 2025, while a manned moon landing was planned for 2029.
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Basically the Russian Space Agency was so corrupt that Putin can no longer consider it solvent and he is now dismantling it and transferring it into the state owned corporation in hopes of more directly controlling and gutting the Graft. This is going to be extensive restructuring however meaning, that the Russians are placed in a position of simply maintaining programs and not launching ambitious operations for at least a decade or more. This could be good then again.... Good in that hopefully it will fix the Quality control issues we have seen with recent russian launches bad because it re-entrenches Russia into a government owned government run corporation with as Putin as Oligarch in Chief.
More and more It makes me wish the US could return to manned space flight.
TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
About time! Almost a four year hiatus since the last shuttle flight.