Recent content by steve_foston

I think deorbiting the ISS to Earth is the wrong strategy, instead its should either be placed at the L2 point or moved to the surface of the moon. Apart from the pollution it will cause it is an important historic artefact and should remain in place for future generations to study

It is sensible that NASA have more than 1 way for the USA to get there and back to the ISS so I wish Starliner well for the future. However is it sensible that the spacesuits for both vehicles are incompatible surely this needs sorting out - its like the air filters on A13 were a makeshift...

Maybe we are barking up the wrong tree - anti matter and matter contact does create a lot of energy but perhaps a different approach may be more successful to get to the stars. I was just wondering whether in the future we could learn how to control and manipulate gravitational waves, after all...

Another twist to come, perhaps, the Doctor's grandchild Susan settled on Earth in the 1960's and presumably she is from Gallifray too - he storyline has been very quiet about her and her own children

Maybe the original question was about time i.e. when in the future the end of solar system will be? The Earth is likely to be consumed by the Sun in 5bn years but what about the outer planets and maybe by then we can engineer the orbit of planets to move the Earth and the inner planets to suit...

I have a suggestion - why not open this mission up to commercial space based companies participation through a fixed price contract rather than trying to develop the mission in-house by NASA? Maybe SpaceX or Blue Origin can do it cheaper

Yes fusion power of Earth will be a gamechanger but as recent experiments have shown you can beam power to Earth from space so why not use the biggest natural fusion reactor (The Sun) we will ever have available to power the Earth cleanly in the future. A few more experiments to work out the...

A similar idea has actually already been mooted as the power source of the Tardis in the BBC Dr Who series maybe they are onto something - we just need the Time Lord technology to be able to use it.

If the ISS is going to be deorbited then place it on the surface of the moon - I agree with FJ it should be turned into a museum as it is the largest man made object ever created and as such it is an important historical artefact. Imagine the pyramids being destroyed! As the space tourism...

This all makes sense to me

Perhaps they should give it to SpaceX for their Starship launches to stop them blowing a hole into the concrete

Perhaps 1bn years ago the Venusians were as stupid as humans appear to be today and started the runaway greenhouse effect.

Personally I think it a great shame that this splendid historical artefact (ISS) will be plunged into destruction in the ocean. Far better, but probably more costly, would be to deorbit the structure to the surface of the moon where it can be used for future study and may eventually provide a...

Well we may as well use Uranium/Plutonium for something useful like space travel rather than nuclear bombs, etc. Russia, Chine and the USA has plenty of material that it would be good to get rid of. We are coming up to the limits using chemical propellants in rockets if we really do want to...

What an excellent idea, Hubble could have a useful life well into the future - I'm sure an upgrade to the optics is also on the cards. It gives scope too to think about the long term retirement of the instrument, previously I have suggested deorbiting it to the surface of the moon as a future...