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Not only did Boeing get 62% more than SpaceX, they got an additional $287.2 million in 2019 from NASA when they considered cutting their losses. That brings their total to $5.1 Billion vs SpaceX's $3.1 Billion. AND on top of all that they're charging nearly 2x per seat than SpaceX - $90 million...

Good grief, if Boeing spent just a fraction of the budget they have for PR and Congressional lobbying on actual engineering, they wouldn't need to be doing all this PR and Congressional lobbying! :p

Shielding for long-term habitation on orbit is a tough one, no doubt, but Kemmer does mention toward the end of the article: "My dream is to have a city on the moon before I die," Kemmer said. "So I look at this like, this is going to be the habitat, the structures, that are going to go inside...

How awesome Josh! She, like me, is a huge "Star Trek" fan, though she likes "Star Wars" more, and she is the one who finally made me sit down and watch the movie "Galaxy Quest," which I now know is an absolute masterpiece. Yeah, she's a keeper! Congratulations to you both!!!

Sounds like we have the right company to design the drill! One would assume and hope they studied every bit and byte of data from the Insight lander to understand why the Mars Mole drill failed there - and that was relatively warm (for Mars!), dry soil. Drilling through ice potentially as...

It's a challenge to be sure and definitely the time to discuss and make agreements is now as things are moving fast. The biggest challenge will be getting nations like China & Russia on board who as of late are making their own plans and are not interested in discussions with the rest of the...

I was holding off on commenting. Unfortunately Ms Pultarova has what appears to me to be an extreme dislike for Musk, SpaceX and Starlink based on her previous articles with similar critical viewpoints, especially of Starlink. I have yet to see an article of hers with genuine concern about...

Good grief. Not sure even where to begin with your remarks. I'm guessing you've only just started following commercial-related space topics? It doesn't matter to you that were it not for SpaceX we'd still be 100% reliant on Roscosmos for ferrying astronauts to/from the space station? That...

"Following that second test flight, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) identified 17 corrective actions for SpaceX to take before the next flight: 10 on Starship and seven on the Super Heavy booster." Sorry, this is incorrect. SpaceX, not the FAA identified the 17 corrective...

It was a letter from the FAA. It's been mentioned on other space news sites but none had a direct link to it either. I did a decent amount of searching on the FAA website and most recent news in this regard is the Sept investigation closure from the April launch. They apparently haven't...

Sounds like fun! I've been looking for a good moon base building sim that was grounded in more "present-day" technology and realism - even pixel-based graphics would be fine as long as it tried to stick to the realism. I was disappointed there wasn't further development and expansion with...

Thanks for such an excellent write-up of your experience Josh! Fantastic photos too - I particularly love the shot with the star trails! You are so lucky to have witnessed it and I'm so jealous! :grinning: If all continues going to plan there will be more and more opportunities for folks...

TO BE CLEAR, this is a fission reactor, not a fusion reactor, as the article claims. No doubt we will one day utilize fusion reactors for our future energy needs but we are still decades away from that being a reality (both practical and actual). Still, Rolls-Royce is doing some pretty...

TO BE CLEAR, the FAA itself did not create the 63 corrective actions. SpaceX did. It would be helpful to read what former SpaceX mission director Abhi Tripathi tweeted out this afternoon to explain the process: I've seen dozens of "Twitter experts" misunderstand this (often time by adding...

This sounds like it would be a great citizen science project, ie: Zooniverse, especially as they refine their AI models. Perhaps they can even collaborate with other supernova type projects that already exist there like Superluminous Supernovae & Bursts from Space: MeerKAT