Recent content by Cehunt

Dr Joe: When do you think humanity will make first contact with aliens?

If you could test your idea on a small scale, and it works. Then you could scale up your test model. Investors or governments are not to invest in an unproven concept.

Hi: Only time will tell who is right. The first SLS mission goes up next month. The first crewed SLS mission next year. I think Gateway will be in lunar orbit no later than Nov 2024. Gateway will be launched via a Falcon 9 Heavy rocket. Ref: https://www.nasa.gov/gateway/overview With Gateway...

Okay Maxi, send me a link that indicates that the Chinese are now building a rocket capable of a return trip to the Moon. I want to see the pictures as well.

I don't see the Chinese landing on the Moon first. You just don't develop a heavy lift rocket overnight. Back in the '60s, it took NASA 9 years to develop and certify the Saturn 5 rocket for the Moon launches. The first test flight for the SLS will be in two months IF everything checks out.

Finally!!!! Clive

I hope that the propeller heads at NASA have the wisdom to do the hardware checkouts in LEO (low Earth orbit) before giving the go ahead for JWT to proceed to the L2 point.

So Captain Kirk is going up in a rocket? Why doesn't he just say, "Beam me up, Scotty?"

That's what I have read too. A test flight with a trip around the Moon.

Hey before you send an email, read it. Braking News should be, Breaking News. Cehunt

As far I am aware, the only way to provide artificial gravity is to spin the body of the spaceship. Given that the human body readjusts itself to gravity again, weightlessness may be the lesser evil than radiation poisoning and running out of oxygen. What rate of spin would generate artificial...

Here's the definition of Astronaut according to Dictionary.com "A person engaged in or trained for spaceflight. " As I understand it, prior to flight, all of these passengers undergo training in emergency procedures and piloting in case the autopilot goes haywire. I would say at this early...

Nothing is a vacuum. An empty void. Clive

Ha, I am afraid you are WAY TOO LATE!!! Save your breath. The cows have left the barn Clive

Did you not read the information contained on the ESA website? Launch is scheduled for the year 2025. How to dispose of the debris? Burn it up in the earth's atmosphere. And the bigger stuff? Send it towards the sun. Clive