Elon Musk is sending a car with a spaceman into space tomorrow.

Its called space junk for a reason

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The car is equipped with a flamethrower in case he runs into any aliens.

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I’m pretty sure a flame thrower would the very worst weapon you can possibly bring to space. Not only will it not work in outer space, but if you use it indoors, the whole place will explode.

I remember this image from the Heavy Metal movie.

Elon Musk is a huckster who has tricked the OT into believing every last bit of bullshite he spews.

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On the most powerful rocket ever.

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Saturn V is still the all-time champ.

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Saturn V is still the all-time champ.

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I really don't understand why they just don't send the Saturn V back to the Moon for an anniversary trip. Plus all the hardware could be literally a millionth of the size it was back in the 60s and 70s. If Trump does this, he's secured my vote.

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The load is whats astonishes me.

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I am not sure why they did so to begin with, either

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Using pure oxygen allowed them to keep the cabin at a much lower pressure and still maintain the partial pressure of O2 required in the cabin to keep the astronauts alive. The lower the cabin pressure you have to contain in the vacuum of space, the lighter the cabin can be and still withstand the loads. Further, mixed gas systems required additional weight in sensors, mixing equipment, valves, tanks, etc. that would reduce the payload to the moon. Finally, at the normal operating pressure in space of 5 psia there isn't enough oxygen in the spacecraft to support a flame that gets wildly out of control before the astronauts could snuff it out.

The problem with the Apollo 1 disaster is that on the ground the spacecraft was NOT at 5 psia; it woudl be at around atmospheric pressure. Further, during the test that killed the Apollo I crew, they were making sure everything was built and working correctly, so the cabin was pressurized above atmospheric pressure to simulate the 5 psi differential between the inside and the outside that would occur during a mission. That kind of pressure in a pure oxygen environment means that the easily handled fire you'd get at 5 psia is now a full-on blowtorch, as they tragically learned. NASA continued to use pure oxygen at 5 psia in space through the rest of Apollo, though, because they couldn't afford the weight or time penalties of redesigning the spacecraft to use mixed gas throughout the mission and still make Kennedy's schedule.

After Apollo 1, when the spacecraft was on the ground, NASA would basically just fill the cabin with a safer mixed gas atmosphere. However, they still needed the atmosphere in the cabin to be pure oxygen at 5 psia by the time they got to space. The spacecraft's initial design already would normally bleed gas overboard during ascent as the outside pressure dropped until the cabin reached 5 psia; you'd start with 15 psia or so of pure oxygen and open up the valve during ascent and basically just let it go until the gauge read 5 and close the valve. With a slight change to the design of the spacecraft to continually feed oxygen into the cabin to replace most of the mixed gas that was bleeding out, NASA was able to convert the atmosphere to pure oxygen at the same time they were dropping the pressure as the spacecraft rose to preserve the lightweight pure oxygen design while still providing for a safer mixed gas environment for the parts of the mission when the pressure in the spacecraft was too high to safely use pure oxygen. They didn't really have to worry about the crew during this process, either, because the crew were breathing pure oxygen from their own separate oxygen supplies inside their spacesuits during launch. If there were any problem with the gas mixture when they got to orbit, they'd just never climb out of their spacesuits and abort and come home.

The Soviets always used mixed-gas for the entire mission in the Soyuz and after Apollo, so have we.

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The car is equipped with a flamethrower in case he runs into any aliens.


I’m pretty sure a flame thrower would the very worst weapon you can possibly bring to space.

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I'm pretty sure this was a reference to the batteries in the Tesla 3 that have a tendency to spontaneously combust.

But I could be wrong since nine geniuses up-voted you.