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Re: LOL, have we become jaded….SpaceX manned launch going on now - pRICE cUBE - 02-27-2023
I’m too lazy and uninterested why there is a launch. Is the payload something interesting or are they littering the sky with more Starlink?
Re: LOL, have we become jaded….SpaceX manned launch going on now - Carnos Jax - 02-27-2023
No, it was a manned launch.
Re: LOL, have we become jaded….SpaceX manned launch going on now - pRICE cUBE - 02-27-2023
Carnos Jax wrote:
No, it was a manned launch.
To accomplish what exactly?
Re: LOL, have we become jaded….SpaceX manned launch going on now - Carnos Jax - 02-27-2023
Transfer crew to the space station.
Not jaded — cynical. - RAMd®d - 02-28-2023
I don't see news much, mainstream or streamed, so there's that.
And with Musk bugging' as he is, I'm not much interested.
It's not fair to SpaceX, but there you have it.
Re: LOL, have we become jaded….SpaceX manned launch going on now - gadje - 02-28-2023
what happened to Blue Origin or Orbital Sciences, I know they launched some astronauts into space but they ever dock to the ISS and do they do regular manned missions to ISS?
Re: LOL, have we become jaded….SpaceX manned launch going on now - Carnos Jax - 02-28-2023
Neither have launched anyone to orbit yet.
Re: LOL, have we become jaded….SpaceX manned launch going on now - gabester - 02-28-2023
gadje wrote:
what happened to Blue Origin or Orbital Sciences
I follow this stuff quite closely. Currently only SpaceX has the ability to launch crews with impunity in their Dragon capsule.
The Boeing Starliner has finally completed its tests including a successful crewed mission to the International Space Station and they should be able to fly more regularly, but at 2x-3x the cost of SpaceX.
Blue Origin's New Shepard craft is a toy... and can't reach the altitude of the ISS. Their very large New Glenn rocket is nowhere to be seen, maybe we'll see a test launch next year or after... but it's not reusable like SpaceX planned Mars rocket "Starship" and its heavy lift booster vehicle, which may see a test launch in March.
Blue Origin is also supplying engines for United Launch Alliance's (ULA) Vulcan rocket - which I believe has as one of its expected payloads the Sierra Space's Dreamchaser manned spaceplane.
Orbital Science has been acquired by Northrop Grumman, owned by Lockheed Martin, who also owns a part of ULA. I think they have long since ditched manned craft; while they for a time ran resupply missions to the ISS I think they're now looking at space habitation modules.
Re: LOL, have we become jaded….SpaceX manned launch going on now - Carnos Jax - 02-28-2023
Wait, Starliner had a crewed mission?
Re: LOL, have we become jaded….SpaceX manned launch going on now - Ombligo - 02-28-2023
Carnos Jax wrote:
Wait, Starliner had a crewed mission?
not yet, the first 2 person test crew is planned for April