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Checkout "We are Legion (We are Bob)" by Dennis E. Taylor.

I have a feeling if a mushroom based lunar colony was built, it’d be somewhat like this;

https://youtu.be/Hv6RbEOlqRo

https://youtu.be/1B488z1MmaA

Anything by Isaac Asimov, Arthur C Clarke. To lighten the mood try Hitch Hikers guide to the Galaxy. Fantasy and comedy so may not suit, but high on ethics, The disk world series by Terry Pratchett.

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I was using the current SpaceX Falcon Heavy sales spec sheet, and given the amounts to LEO, GEO and Holman Mars transfer window kg hasnt changed from the April 2017 SpaceX website to today, it kinda follows. Now the turn around time per booster reuse has improved markedly with the newer blocks, but the fully disposable mode kg to optimal falcon apogee has not changed since they shifted focus to starship in the beginning of 2018. SpaceX abandoned the falcon platform improvements for the next Gen starship in 2018. If you can show me where on SpaceX’s site or elsewhere the fully disposable kg to LEO/GEO/solar/mars has changed since April 2017, I would be interested why SpaceX hasn’t updated the Falcon Heavy website but gladly concede your point that Falcon could deliver 26,000kg in 3-4 days to TLI.

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Ur in a foreign country, I'd give a kidney to do that. Read when u get home, go out and explore! Experience what books describe

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It was otherwise a routine mission but it had the added dimension of having a non-professional astronaut school teacher on board. She was supposed to do live lessons from space or something. There were school activities planned. It was a huge nationwide thing.

Shuttle missions were routine by then but this one had much MUCH more attention paid to it and it was played live in schools across the country.

I was in 5th grade and I remember getting my first early lessons in physics in the days before the launch.

Our chemistry teacher would always bring up this definition in the first few weeks of class but it makes sense from an astronomical standpoint

Not sure how not calling the results before you have the actual data is clickbait. I'd say that's unusually responsible journalism.

I remember watching this in school. They wheeled in the TV for everybody to watch. The teacher just kind of stared at the TV for a few seconds before turning it off and telling us there was some kind of accident.

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I was in 5th grade.

I live on the west coast so it was all finished by the time school started.

At line-up in the yard before school I noticed all the teachers were talking and some were visibly upset. I asked a kid what happened.

He said, "A teacher blew up!" To a fifth grader that's a funny joke. Obviously teachers don't just blow up. I cracked up laughing and said, "She BLEW ALL THE WAY UP?"

Half a dozen teachers turned to stare at me and my teacher grabbed my arm and told me how unfunny that was. I got detention. This teacher never got mad and never touched a kid but she was hurting then and this really sent her to the stratosphere.

That's how I remember that day.

Nope. Can’t stop. If anything, it would drive it further.

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Anyone else notice the word "brainchild" being used more and more in articles like this?

...kinda digging it tbh.

Dealing with a quick event that kills astronauts is akin to an aircraft accident. We haven’t had to deal with stranded astronauts slowly dying with no way to reach them in time. That becomes more likely the further we venture. But exploration has high costs and always will.

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I really don't know many exoplanets so I'd have to go with Kepler 22-b because of the King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard song lol