tater

Apparently there was just a launch.

I would assume so, clearly they're not going home in a capsule. Course anything in orbit has to get their at least in part propulsively. I'm a little unclear on moving the hab things around, or why the habs are so tiny vs just using a SS deck or two.

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20230013972/downloads/CrewLogistics Lander for Common Hab Architecture.pdf

Feed dropped. NSF captured a screen shot of the landed booster

5 min 4 min

If bone wants stimulation down the long axis (walking), or from muscle use, bedridden patients are a poor model. Would be worth experimenting at 0.38g with mammal studies. I'd say it's not definitive—but the experimental path is clear. Another reason I'm not a Mars colony guy, this needs to be demonstrated as long term safe or it's a nonstarter.

Possibly. There might be a value at which bone health is preserved that is <1g. The experiment needs to actually be done.

Zero g does—but we don't have data on reduced gravity I think... all there years, and we've yet to do that experiment.

Space combat in babylon 5 was good til it jumped the shark near the end. You'd see a Narn ship fire a particle beam. Cut scene. Centauri ships coming around the limb of a planet in orbit—that get cut in half by beam. Ships implied very far apart.

The guys at LANL were playing with a tunneling device. Unlike the offering from the Boring Company, the LANL one was nuclear powered... it was designed to MELT regolith as it drove forward. The resultant glass then seeps into the surrounding regolith forming a glass tube. https://patents.google.com/patent/US3693731A/en https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/4687637 Their civil engineering guys did a paper on this for the Moon and Mars I saw presented in the 90s.