In the event it has to be de-crewed, can I suggest we send Elon up in a Tesla to house-sit for a year or two?
Russia inches closer to launching a crew again while NASA waits for a delivery from Germany
It was another busy week in space as Russia notched up a second Soyuz success, China conducted its 32nd launch of the year and NASA awaited the arrival of its first service module for Orion. Russia: Two Soyuz launches down, one to go The Russian space agency, Roscosmos, sent a GLONASS-M navigation satellite into orbit atop the …
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Tuesday 6th November 2018 15:09 GMT Anonymous Coward
H&S
How on earth were the staff allowed to pose for that picture? From the ladder in the background, the platform is at least 1m above the ground. I would have expected the safety regs to require everyone to hav full fall protection harnesses, high-vis vests, hard hats, etc. Or was the picture taken at NASA, in which case we'd expect at least some of the same overbearing safety regs.
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Tuesday 6th November 2018 16:06 GMT Paul Crawford
Re: send the Orion-ESM combo beyond the Moon to check it out
Its a real-world (or real-space) test doing what it is supposed to do, in the sort of sequence it is supposed to follow.
You would not drive a new design of car around the bock a couple of and then declare it fit to compete in a rally, would you?
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Tuesday 6th November 2018 16:11 GMT I ain't Spartacus
Re: send the Orion-ESM combo beyond the Moon to check it out
Are conditions different on the other side of the Moon? Are you serious?
The cheese levels alone are potentially deadly. And we don't have the technology to lift sufficient supplies of chutney, crackers and port to counterract them properly.
Also, have you not seen those documentaries about the Clangers? Soup Dragons can get mighty feisty if you annoy them.
Oh, and that Mr Spoon is a right menace.
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