Recent content by penguin44

It was apollo 11. All the others were placed further away.

They aren't, and have not been for quite some time. They've been scheduled to come down on dragon and that was the plan the mkment sl ran into issues. That was also a backup plan before the launch.

Well Clipper launched in October so that will continue. I don't think it will be cancelled.

It was, since it was a test flight of a new version. You do know it's still in a test phase right?

They totally should. Look, I don;t like Musk and his personal policies and politics. However the man is brilliant and is on a great path with Falcon 9 and Starship. NASA is a great agency and should continue as such. However NASA has proved many times that it cannot build and maintain a space...

Interesting! Also don't forget that both Buzz and Neil have said a few times over the years that their flag was blasted over when the acent engine was lit.

"In 1969, we landed humans on the moon on Christmas Eve; in 2024, we are going to embrace a star," Nour Raouafi, project scientist of the Parker Solar Probe mission, told Space.com. We never landed on the moon for Christmas. We orbited in 1968 on Apollo 8 on xmas. Come on Space.com I thought...

On the Nasaspaceflight forums we all said this the day it happened. Audio feedback although my non serious guess was starliner crying.

Well first it's not nasa but SSL but supported by NASA. Second the mission to launch 2 sats for NASA is 79.8 million. Not a billion like you stated. These are 2 sats and only weigh 400lbs total. They are only about 2-3ft big.