Space and Science BS Thread

For those still living and wanting, Bezos should comp them all a sub orbital.

 

This doesn’t seem like typical Rogozin-style bluster
https://twitter.com/ap/status/1551904298195451904?s=21&t=D7C2WE-Ds__qhetPU9KkhQ

Why go forward w the seat swap?

https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/1551917308519612416?s=21&t=D7C2WE-Ds__qhetPU9KkhQ
I guess Elon’s not a fan:
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1551958919140048898?s=21&t=D7C2WE-Ds__qhetPU9KkhQ

https://twitter.com/stationcdrkelly/status/1551959771007184901?s=21&t=D7C2WE-Ds__qhetPU9KkhQ

 

Artemis I flight path:
https://twitter.com/nasa_sls/status/1551978506569089027?s=21&t=lwYFqIr3X7vBzJwe8H2oAg

 

"Bye felicia"

 

I mean, if successful starship is 90% the volume of the ISS... After 2024 the ISS will start to look like a dingy when compared to what's possible. Meanwhile Russia's current rocket sends astronauts up in a sardine tin.

 

And that’s what the Chinese modeled theirs after

I would expect Russia to be second fiddle in any future station.

 

This is something that I was wondering about the other day. Isn't the human usable volume only about a third of the ship? If that is the case, is it still 90% of the volume of the ISS? Or is that claim based on the entirety of Starship including the prop tanks?

 

Per Wikipedia, the claimed payload volume is 1000 m^3. You’d lose a lot of that if you turned it into “people” space, but one starship would still be a large fraction of the internal volume of ISS.

 

I just read, per Wikipedia, that the ISS has 915.5686 m^3, so I guess that checks out.

 

@My Name is Rahl , I think you overpaid just a bit
https://twitter.com/reuters/status/1552217239667048448?s=21&t=rc5SMkgOACLXM9SDznKi3Q

 

Not if it contains heretofore undiscovered bits of moon magic!

 

That's just payload volume. If you wet workshop the fuel tanks it's more than 3X the volume of the ISS.

 

Reminds me of a scifi series I read that used spent orbiter external tanks as the basis for the new space station.

 

Sounds a bit like Skylab.

 

Kim Stanley Robinson used that in Red Mars, at least. Definitely a product of early Space Shuttle era optimism, but absolutely worth a read. On a related note, it's really interesting how the launch technology of the time affects what is portrayed as being possible 20-30 years in the 'future' in sci-fi. Plot points in The Martian around launch scarcity don't hold up in the Falcon 9 era, for example.

 

I can't remember the name of the books, but I think it was suggested in here as a series Elon might have read as inspiration for SpaceX. Basically, a rich woman gets concerned about asteroids hitting earth and basically single-handedly creates space exploration in the late 90's to early 00's. Everything from education on up to space construction and micro-gravity manufacturing.

 

Wild stuff:
https://twitter.com/nasamoon/status/1552010650116816896?s=21&t=IKGJCNCB_D_kHH5Rj9pHng

#BoringCompany

 

63ºF ain't bad. That's shirt sleeve weather!

 

Some years ago, NASA was studying the lava tubes in the Mojave Desert (along the Mojave Road). The idea was that there may be similar natural structures on the moon that can be used as astronaut housing.