Recent content by Ed Marineves

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    SpaceX gets permission to deploy 7,500 next-generation Star satellites

    Not that I'm against them, but I do wonder if the tables were turned and thousands of Chinese or Russian satellites started showing up over my country, not unannounced but uncalled for... Would I be concerned or merely put out? Nobody consulted ME about my night sky...
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    SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft lands at Chicago museum ahead of exhibit

    The Museum of Science and Industry (MSI) is one of the world's great treasures, and I'm so happy to hear the capsule will be joining its collection. An awful lot of people will be gazing at it with their imaginations on fire, and dreaming of the future.
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    NASA's Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft leaves moon's orbit to head home

    I too noted it's a long travel time for a crew, and due to air, food supplies they probably will use a different trajectory when manned. But this reply expresses some misinderstandings that are worth dispelling. No, they didn't build a spacecraft that only has a gas pedal that goes down...