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drozycki · 2 years ago

What about Texas? There’s the Johnson Space Center (“Houston we have a problem”), plus I thought SpaceX had a Starbase there too.

ianvorbach · 2 years ago

Fair point! SpaceX has their site at Boca Chica, but its really only capable of demonstration launches that can thread the needle between Florida and Cuba. Frequently operating rockets need a wider range of orbits you can reach, and so you really need a site on the coasts.

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emsign · 4 years ago

Musk needs the working class in space or else his utopia on Mars won't even begin. This is yet another push to bring a work force of non-astronauts to space, showing off that anyone from the internet is going to be able to control a SpaceX vehicle at one point with minimal training.

ianvorbach · 4 years ago

I would say this is more an excellent marketing tool or a way to make space seem more approachable to a broader audience

ianvorbach commented on Saving the shuttle simulator–“It was an artifact that needed to be preserved” arstechnica.com/science/2... · Posted by u/rbanffy

ianvorbach · 4 years ago

This is awesome. Back in 2014, Bezos ran an expedition to recover Apollo engines from the Atlantic and restore them too: https://www.bezosexpeditions.com/updates.html

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Causality1 · 4 years ago

The purpose of NASA is not only to explore but inspire. In light of that, I'd be fully supportive of using a Starship launch to bring Hubble home.

ianvorbach · 4 years ago

That's a fun idea! I don't see how you would execute that unfortunately though. Hubble wasn't meant to be re-mounted after deployment. Starship wouldn't be able to just gobble Hubble up and have it rattle around in its fairing during re-entry

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hulahoof · 4 years ago

Very interested to hear from any AU space companies that are hiring ;)

ianvorbach · 4 years ago

Gilmour Space comes to mind: https://www.gspacetech.com/

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