Within the next 5 years the United States will be in possession

cool i guess

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The Orion capsule has already flown into space and is ready for its next mission

>>67074156
As much of an achievement as going to Mars would be, I think its a total waste of energy and resources.

There is nothing there. The oceans and deserts of Earth are far more inhabitable.

>>67074310
There is much to be learned on all levels by these missions

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It's actually 4 capsules

https://youtu.be/c7Q-IY9qhBs

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All the capsules will have unparalleled level of safety mechanisms built in

https://youtu.be/1_FXVjf46T8

>>67074386
Such as?

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Why all of the sudden did the US pump out more aerospace engineering than the rest of the world combined in the last 16 years ?

What prompted this?

>>67074480
Probably some new minerals and different kinds of isotopes that can't exist on earth.

>>67074578
It gives Lockheedsomething to do besides build Durka killing bombs

>>67074156
Best Korea won't allow it.

>>67074578
>Why all of the sudden did the US pump out more aerospace engineering than the rest of the world combined in the last 16 years ?
>What prompted this?
The US isn't doing it, we're just allowing private companies to do what they want to like we should have been doing all along.

>>67074612
Asteroid mining is a different story completely. We will never move materials from Mars to Earth in any considerable quantity with rockets. The technology is not capable of it any more than sailing ships are.

I dont think we will find any new minerals. Maybe we will discover asteroids that by some chance are pure platinum or something else we need. There might be opportunity there and a lot less gravity to prevent us accessing it.

>>67074156

And none of them will reliably work.

>>67074480
>sustainable energy testing
>provides an environment where we can conduct experiments that need as little outside interference as possible
>agricultural development(aquaponics, aeroponics, shit like that)
>potential solution to overpopulation
>insures that our species won't be wiped out by a stray asteroid
It's also easier to launch rockets from Mars, so if we want to mine asteroids we might be able to

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This is the world's largest welding tool.

It was recently built specifically to create the world's largest rocket.

>>67074980
I do not think any of that requires a trip to Mars.

Its a vanity project.

>>67075012
It doesn't require it no, but it's potentially within our reach. If investors think that it will be a worthwhile venture, I don't see any reason to stop them

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>>67074156
>Opinions?
Cool.

>>67074156
Blue Origin a shit though
SpaceX all the way

>>67074229
BIG
AMERICAN
ROCKETS

>>67075169
>muh meme man Musk

U S A
U S A
U S A

nobody cares lol there is nothing in space

>>67074409
That's really cool and all, but can the rockets even be [safely] reused after all that?

US taxpayers literally making god's job, god bless you all. Bad luck you have such an inefficient and bureaucratic agency such as NASA in charge of that.
Private ownership on interplanetary objects when?

>>67075473

We will find out in January.

SpaceX will launch a European satellite with a previously used rocket.

>>67075473
>but can the rockets even be [safely] reused after all that?
They're slowly figuring out what's going wrong when the boosters explode, but these things take time

>>67075551
NASA is basically serving as the FAA for space right now, I really fucking hope it stays that way

>>67074156
good job america
i wish us europeans were even half as successful as you, when it comes to space travel

>>67075940
Well you tried, but the last time Germans got their hands on rockets they used them on London.

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>>67076009
maybe we should do that again, after brexit

>>67074156
>US will be in posession
>bunch of private firms


bit authoritarian t.b.h.

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>>67076118

>>67076118
Freedom ain't free.

>>67076062
I wish you would. Within 45 minutes we would be free from London and the cancer killing Europe would be annihilated in an atomic hellfire.

>>67076203
>knows full well that Pakis are immune to radiation
Not this time Schlomo

>>67075012
Do you also think the Moon missions were a mistake?

>>67076275
We never did anything with the Moon after the 70s, it would have been different if we had gone ahead with our plans for a colony. Knowing the Cold War, that would have ended badly

Everything after that(GPS, weather satelites, etc) required much less powerful rockets.

>>67076431
Well, there's also this...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spin-off_technologies

>>67076275
Slovania? Son, this is AMERICA, here we speak AMERICAN, get your foreign bullshit out of here before i break your neck. ok dog bless

>>67076536
I'm not saying that they were completely useless, but more should have been done on the Moon.

>>67076203
isn't London like the most productive part of whole UK?

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I am already making plans to see the SLS launch for the first time.

I wasn't alive for the Saturn V, so I'm sure as fuck not going to miss this.

>>67077538

Video related

https://youtu.be/1uoVfZpx5dY

That's what the SLS will be like

>>67075940
It's because you guys spend your money on making common peoples lives easier, where we spend it on industrial-military projects.

Part of the reason were doing space stuff is because of the potential military applications.

>>67076561
Truly our greatest ally

>>67075497

Of the last 4 missions in this graph the only 2 that fully succeeded were the Americans.

Phobos was total failure , exomars was partial. The exomars lander slammed into the Martian surface at 300kmh

>>67076993
Cities are always the productive parts of every country, and lots of people living in one place and contact with the outside world makes people more open to other peoples and ideas.

Who's excited for US colonization of Mars within 10 years. At least, if musk is to be believed.