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Rand Simberg
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Rand Simberg
@Simberg_Space
Space policy, technology and business analyst and consultant
Jackson, WY Katılım Mart 2012
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@BlackApple @TheOldManPar @Simberg_Space I don’t see how that’s a rescue. The capsule they used to get up there was docked to the ISS for their entire stay up there.
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SLS is officially in dire straits.
Sawyer Merritt@SawyerMerritt
NEWS: NASA is planning a bigger @SpaceX Moon mission role using Starship, in a massive blow to Boeing. With the new proposal, Boeing's SLS would no longer be used to boost Orion close to the moon. Instead, Starship and Orion would dock in Earth orbit, giving Starship the pivotal role of propelling the capsule to the moon’s orbit, before taking astronauts down to the surface. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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@OfMikeAndMen Yes, except they're still maintaining the fiction that only Orion can go to the Moon, so since they have to launch it on SLS anyway (not that they really do, of course, it's another fiction), they send it up with astronauts in it.
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@Simberg_Space This sounds very promising, but if SLS is only being used to ferry astronauts to and from low Earth orbit, would Falcon and Crew Dragon work just as well? Or is that the part they aren't saying out loud yet?
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In other words, they're no longer pretending that SLS can (or ever could) deliver Orion to the Moon.
Sawyer Merritt@SawyerMerritt
NEWS: NASA is planning a bigger @SpaceX Moon mission role using Starship, in a massive blow to Boeing. With the new proposal, Boeing's SLS would no longer be used to boost Orion close to the moon. Instead, Starship and Orion would dock in Earth orbit, giving Starship the pivotal role of propelling the capsule to the moon’s orbit, before taking astronauts down to the surface. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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The homeless industrial complex of SF is the best funded in the world (per capita), and consequently it is producing more homelessness. If social problems could be solved by spending more, SF would have solved them.
Citizenj17 ✝️🇺🇸@citizenj17
San Francisco spends $141,852 per Homeless Person on Average which is almost be same as the median household income for 2025. Let that sink in.
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If you took $200 billion from the top 5 most expensive school systems in the country and spent it on bombing Iran you would improve both countries.
Jon Favreau@jonfavs
Sorry, no money left for schools in America, we needed it all to bomb schools in Iran.
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@spacemafia @SpaceNews_Inc They've had a paywall for many months.
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Hey @SpaceNews_Inc what's the deal with the paywall? I can suddenly read some of your stories. Then it disappears behind a paywall. I notice a lot of Voyager ads as well. Interesting.
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I've said for years that once committed to Starship as the HLV there was no rational reason to keep using SLS. Ultimately you don't need Orion either.
The concept noted below, preceded by the earlier changes in Artemis missions, are increments on that path.
Sawyer Merritt@SawyerMerritt
NEWS: NASA is planning a bigger @SpaceX Moon mission role using Starship, in a massive blow to Boeing. With the new proposal, Boeing's SLS would no longer be used to boost Orion close to the moon. Instead, Starship and Orion would dock in Earth orbit, giving Starship the pivotal role of propelling the capsule to the moon’s orbit, before taking astronauts down to the surface. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Trump was also not alive yet on Pearl Harbor Day, Jake. This was a joke about the importance of keeping surprises in war. As everyone with a functional brain recognized.
Jake Tapper 🦅@jaketapper
FWIW Prime Minister Takaichi was born 20 years after Pearl Harbor
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about 20 years ago, in August 2005, Thacker did a hit job on me for my criticism of work by climate "scientist" Michael Mann, a pal of Daszask, Fauci and Hotez. At the time, Thacker uncritically relied on statements from their milieu as being authoritative. I wrote about my experience with them at the time. climateaudit.org/2006/04/13/tha…
There was much contemporary interest in the controversy - the National Academy of Sciences commissioned a report; the House Energy and Commerce Committee held hearings (at which I testified); correspondence of Mann and his associates was later released in the Climategate emails. The affair lingered on in Mann's lawsuit against Mark Steyn, filed in 2011 and heard in 2024. The case lingers on as Mann is appealing costs awarded against him.
Walter Kirn@walterkirn
If you want to know exactly how it lies about real journalists when they threaten it with too much truth (by "it" I mean "the science") here is a vivid case study.
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Oh no, not more changes to my video. I can’t do this anymore 😭 luckily we did already touch upon this scenario in the video, but now it needs to change language from “they could” to “looks like they’re going to”
Sawyer Merritt@SawyerMerritt
NEWS: NASA is planning a bigger @SpaceX Moon mission role using Starship, in a massive blow to Boeing. With the new proposal, Boeing's SLS would no longer be used to boost Orion close to the moon. Instead, Starship and Orion would dock in Earth orbit, giving Starship the pivotal role of propelling the capsule to the moon’s orbit, before taking astronauts down to the surface. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Anybody that thinks this footage was faked in the early 70s is not credible
Mike Constantine@Moonpans
Apollo 15 Lunar Rover Footage Upscaled and Interpolated to 60 FPS Incredible upscaled footage from onboard the Apollo 15 Lunar Rover captured by Jim Irwin using the 16mm DAC camera. This footage has been upscaled and Interpolated to 60 FPS and synchronised to the mission audio by Moonpans Original footage source: Apollo Flight Journal Full video in comments
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I hate when people say @SpaceX is simply handed government contracts. No, SpaceX earns those contracts. They offer the lowest price, the best product and they execute.
The Pentagon said last year that SpaceX has saved the government over $40 billion. One SLS launch costs billions, while one SpaceX launch costs ~$75M.
SpaceX is an example of great American innovation, something that all Americans should cheer on.
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Ethanol mandates are in direct conflict with feeding the world, have no impact on American energy security, and are at best neutral for climate (probably negative). Kill them with fire. Sink them with the Jones Act.
Nicholas Decker@captgouda24
About five percent of the total caloric production of the world goes to making ethanol, which doesn’t even reduce emission! Learn why we should get rid of the Renewable Fuel Standard here: nicholasdecker.substack.com/p/get-rid-of-t…
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Some people will be so angry about this... And I love it.
Sawyer Merritt@SawyerMerritt
NEWS: NASA is planning a bigger @SpaceX Moon mission role using Starship, in a massive blow to Boeing. With the new proposal, Boeing's SLS would no longer be used to boost Orion close to the moon. Instead, Starship and Orion would dock in Earth orbit, giving Starship the pivotal role of propelling the capsule to the moon’s orbit, before taking astronauts down to the surface. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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@Pinboard It's actually a lot more than that. That's just marginal cost, and doesn't include the standing army, which can be ended when we stop flying the stupid thing.
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@Simberg_Space Four billion dollars to launch Orion to low earth orbit every two years is quite a mood
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@SawyerMerritt @SpaceX SLS is like a grandparent, its (shuttle) where you came from but now its old and sitting in a retirement home, they hardly get up, and when they do it's to take a leak, and overall they just cost you ALOT of money... Time for SLS to be retired and for the grandkids to take over!
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First ballot inductee into the Experts Say Hall of Fame
Fusilli Spock@awstar11
Yup, they’ve got us on the ropes
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