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Not really design … just manufacture. Design is usually done in-house as far as I know

It sounds as if you have your own definition of space station that differs from NASA’s and that’s fine. When I was a NASA contractor I didn’t get to interact with folks like you but everyone I knew who did had their own stories.

"Hey, you. You’re finally awake. You were trying to cross the border, right? Walked right into that Imperial ambush, same as us, and that thief over there."

> So "size" in this context means radius of the star vs. planet, not the mass, area, or volume.

Thank you. It was so obnoxious that it didn't explain that.

Crew Dragon isn’t meant for moon flight and Starliner hasn’t really done a convincing job of staying in orbit, so let’s not start making assumptions it’s going to keep a high rate while Starship fails.

Certainly with cost factored, Starliner and SLS don’t look to be economically viable. Just like Shuttle. Partially because of Shuttle parts they just can’t rid themselves of, culturally at least. Nothing about Shuttle should be repeated. It was a failure in many of its core design concepts and never was inexpensive nor very reusable, with thousands of parts needing refurb in the boosters, the tank being lost and the shuttle providing no capability that a capsule and a supply rocket couldn’t provide; and a lot less expensively.

The cost is going to kill SLS eventually.

That is great to hear, it would really be nice to see our expansion into space finally become a everyday reality and not a hobby

just found out Buzz Lightyear was named after Buzz Aldrin!

too cool...

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

|Fewer Letters|More Letters| |-------|---------|---| |CST|(Boeing) Crew Space Transportation capsules| | |Central Standard Time (UTC-6)| |HLS|Human Landing System (Artemis)| |N1|Raketa Nositel-1, Soviet super-heavy-lift ("Russian Saturn V")| |SLS|Space Launch System heavy-lift|

|Jargon|Definition| |-------|---------|---| |Raptor|Methane-fueled rocket engine under development by SpaceX| |Starliner|Boeing commercial crew capsule CST-100|

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Artimes is supposed to make this happen. They want to establish a moon base sometime after the landings. They will also want to build a lunar orbital station called Gateway which will be used as a gas station for reusable landers & visiting spaceceaft. Constellation program was supposed to lay down the groundwork for a permanent moon base but was axed for both political & bugetary reasons mostly.

No, it was not a space station it was a converted module of an Apollo launcher. If you want to call that mold infested thing a space station you go right ahead but even the astronauts that were on it wouldn't say that. Look at the plans von Braun had originally drawn up and then tell me how Skylab is a space station, it's basically an orbiting toilet

no no no ... It's one of those pesky balloons.

Yup, Jupiter and Venus are the only two bright things visible in the sky so I was pretty interested ins wring what those two dots were, pulled out my phone and realized it was Jupiter and venus

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> Skylab wasn't really an orbiting space station

It was literally an orbiting space station, just not as sexy a station as you would have perhaps liked. If you wanted to say 'didn't build a rotating Clarke wheel' or something, then say that, but you said space station and that's what that other poster was responding to I think.

Is the brighter planet Venus or Jupiter?

Skylab wasn't really an orbiting space station it was just one module off of Saturn 5. The project that was designed was nothing like Skylab. I was alive at the time as I said in the earlier comment, there was a lot of people saying that Sky lab was a joke at the time and has become more of a joke overtime.

My favorite Skylab story, is that one of the crews got fed up with the work schedule and staged to work stoppage for a day. I don't remember which one of the Skylab Cruise it was, I think there was only three so I'm going to randomly choose three

I'm using speech to text I'm surprised it didn't misspell more words, I think there's quite a few people at nasa that know what a disaster Skylab was and that it had nothing to do with the international space station, but you believe whatever you want to

Fascinating. Can't wait to see what happens when SgrA* wakes up.

I get annoyed when the aliens angle is immediately dismissed in favor of equally outlandish natural explanations simply because they are goal seeked to fit the data.

Its not a real annoyance, Id just like to hear more serious thought given to aliens when it makes sense, because its fun.

That’s not an assumption. SETI isn’t assuming aliens are broadcasting for our benefit. They are hoping to either detect messages intended for something else or signals that are naturally generated by technology.

Yeah a bit, but also at that time we knew far less about the environment of the moon. There was speculation that the dust may be so deep and soft that it’d engulf the lander. There was little way of knowing how the suits would do out in that environment, and radiation is a real threat when there’s no atmosphere or magnetosphere. Being first could have been a suicidal test for all we knew, so in some ways being first was definitely notable.

My question is: how much to get my own?

You are annoyed they put in the time to actually figure out wha the signal is vs lying and just saying it’s aliens?

They aren’t inventing these explanations.