21st century race for space

>>9154339
>space race

he wasted his time with a bunch of people that have only gone sub orbital and never done a single paying customer flight.

Musk is going to be on Mars by the time Blue Origin or Virgin Galactic are doing commercial flight.

>paying 300000 dollars for 15 minutes of weightlessness and seeing the Earth from above
It's hard to imagine why would anyone do this desu.

>>9154363
people paids tens of millions to fly to the ISS. and some how the USA and europe allowed it.

musk claims to have 2 people willing to pay hundreds of millions to fly around the moon.

>>9154363
Conspicuous consumption.

People spend money in all sorts of ridiculous ways to signal that they have that much money to spend.

Just finished it, was quite good, didn't even know they were doing this to be honest

>>9154339
dude, there isnt even any substitute to using fossile energy for spacetravel
hasnt been that since the 50s
all you have seen up till now is just "tech" thats being developed with knowledge we already knew decenia back

>>9154516
hydrogen

rocketry is one of the few legit uses for hydrogen as a fuel.

though current hydrogen production is from cracking methane. so the co2 is still produced and you still have to us ea fossil fuel.

though Musk is going to eliminate the middle man and just straight burn methane. since cryo methane has the best balance of specific thrust and energy density.

>>9154363
if i could id do it in a heartbeat

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>>9154339
>colonies on Mars

JELLO BABIES
JELLO BABIES
JELLO BABIES

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I don't get the current space plans for reaching Mars. Does the Musk really plan on traveling to mars in a ship with a smaller interior than STS, with no gravity, and no radiation shielding, for 18 months there and back? NASA's design isn't really that much better. It's still sitting in an Apollo capsule for a year.

When I was a kid the plans were for big ships that had to be built in orbit, spun end over end all the way there at 1 Mars G, had a refuge inside where all the food and water was stored for when the Sun burped, and had a plasma drive that only took four months to get there. Even the cheap model was two shuttle sized modules that spun around each other at the ends of a long tether, one for the trip there and the other for the trip back.

Now we're going there in a capsule like it's 1959.

>>9157251
?
You go there and stay there, the ship flies back empty
The fuck do you think you need gravity for

>>9154339
>21st century race for space
Spoiler alert: Space X won.

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>>9155789
instead of shitposting, why not think of a solution that doesn't involve sitting around with thumbs in our asses
I can think of one, but a dim fucker like you probably cannot

>>9154541
>cryo methane has the best balance of specific thrust and energy density
lol nope

>>9157251

Musk does not plan to use a capsule to go to Mars. Dragon capsule is for near Earth space only. Mars plan is to use ITS:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Transport_System

>'the animals' live to survive, we live to explore
factually incorrect

>>9159518
ONeil Cylinders

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>>9159923
>ONeil Cylinders
like the one they drop on Sydney during the one year war?
Operation British!

>virgin galactic

They're still alive?

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>>9154339
>Virgin Galactic, Blue Origin and Spaceport America,

Toy plane and toy rockets.

>>9157251
Big fucking rocket and the BFS are bigger.

Damn. Dennis got a hot wife.

>>9158407
>land on Mars with microgravity fatigue
Great. Great great great.