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Posted on 4/1/26 at 10:51 pm to RollTide1987
This has probably been posted already, but it’s worth another look.
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Posted on 4/1/26 at 11:05 pm to JoeyP239
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Guarantee the quality of American life would go up if you put the billions wasted on NASA into say building more gasoline refineries
I have a feeling I'm pissing up a rope here, but you do realize that they refine at the pace they do on purpose? There's not a shortage of oil, gasoline, or refining capability.
Regardless the US government isn't in the oil business and wouldn't build refineries.
Posted on 4/1/26 at 11:10 pm to The Pirate King
Man leave him alone. Even ignoring my reply, he revealed his ignorance with “gas refineries” as if there’s a single refinery in existence that specializes in gas as opposed to simply breaking down crude to its constituent parts.
I can only imagine the only hell he and his ilk would bring up if the craft burned kerosene like the Saturn V
I can only imagine the only hell he and his ilk would bring up if the craft burned kerosene like the Saturn V
This post was edited on 4/1/26 at 11:12 pm
Posted on 4/1/26 at 11:16 pm to MoarKilometers
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This shite has been in the works since W 86ed the shuttle program.
Not altogether. Artemis is sort of a Frankenstein. It took the shuttle SRBs, and added a segment. It took the External Tank 'platform' and added an LH2 Barrel section and beefed-up some of the longerons, used the RS-25 shuttle left over engines, and Orion from Ares. Ares was to be the shuttles successor. It was cancelled by Barry Soetoro.
Posted on 4/1/26 at 11:18 pm to JoeyP239
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$4.00 gas is a bigger issue than sending anyone to the moon.
Had Artemis just launched a few weeks earlier would you be less vexed?
Posted on 4/1/26 at 11:36 pm to AlwysATgr
The shot of the sun illuminating the far side of earth is pretty awesome.
This post was edited on 4/1/26 at 11:37 pm
Posted on 4/1/26 at 11:42 pm to The Boat
Posted on 4/1/26 at 11:45 pm to Stat M Repairman
Toilet fixed!
Sounds like they needed to prime it
Sounds like they needed to prime it
Posted on 4/1/26 at 11:49 pm to AlwysATgr
quote:Kind of. Ares / Constellation was supposed to be capsule-based using shuttle launch tech to go to the moon and beyond low Earth orbit. The x-33 and the larger VentureStar were supposed to be SSTO low Earth orbit replacements for those type of shuttle functions as well as passenger space flight.
Ares was to be the shuttles successor.
VentureStar would have used linear aerospike engines (test fire video is on youtube), a new thermal protection system to replace individual tiles (reducing maintenance between flights), and helical carbon fiber fuel tanks that fit the design. That program was cancelled without a test flight because all three techs weren't complete and ready to fly together.
If I remember correctly, the engines were too heavy b/c of cooling, but advances in material sciences within a few years would have addressed that issue. And the helical fuel tanks leaked too much, although NG engineered more traditional tanks within a few years that could have worked for a test flight.
Posted on 4/1/26 at 11:52 pm to CrazyTigerFan
Posted on 4/2/26 at 12:23 am to Stat M Repairman
The highest crewed non-lunar earth orbit is 870 miles and these guys are 32,000 miles above earth right now.
Posted on 4/2/26 at 1:36 am to The Boat
I have a feeling this is only the start of late nights for me. It looks/sounds like they nailed the docking practice. A toilet not working is always a bad thing but I think it's awesome if that's the worst thing over these 10 days. Again, really impressed with the pilot's manual flying this far into their day.
Posted on 4/2/26 at 2:55 am to Volvagia
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A shortage of refining capacity isn’t the cause of the high gas prices you dumb frick. In
It absolutely is. There hasn’t been a gasoline refinery built in over 30 years.
We have all the oil we need right in the US. We don’t have the refining capacity to drive prices down
Posted on 4/2/26 at 3:00 am to AlwysATgr
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Had Artemis just launched a few weeks earlier would you be less vexed?
No, but reading this thread shows me why the US is trillions in debt. You got idiots excited to burn money on something that benefits nobody.
That’s how you spend money you don’t have, on stuff you don’t need. You geeks should be embarrassed you support this shite.
Posted on 4/2/26 at 5:47 am to MSUDawg98
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A toilet not working is always a bad thing but I think it's awesome if that's the worst thing over these 10 days
Posted on 4/2/26 at 6:30 am to TheFonz
So toilet fixed and everything going smooth to this point.
I need to look up, but when do they make final pass and slingshot out?
I need to look up, but when do they make final pass and slingshot out?
Posted on 4/2/26 at 6:31 am to JoeyP239
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No, but reading this thread shows me why the US is trillions in debt. You got idiots excited to burn money on something that benefits nobody. That’s how you spend money you don’t have, on stuff you don’t need. You geeks should be embarrassed you support this shite.
The idiocy here is amazing.
Posted on 4/2/26 at 6:37 am to Lsut81
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I need to look up, but when do they make final pass and slingshot out
TLI burn is scheduled for 7:12 PM tonight central time.
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