Spaceception

Ding Ding Ding, we have a winner! But seriously, if ANYONE can provide links to a possible Manned Moon landing (Or at least flyby) with SpaceX, that would be amazing.

Astronaut Scott Kelly returned to Earth this week from his yearlong stay aboard International Space Station, but that's not it for space missions in 2016. NASA and the European Space Agency have planned missions to explore Jupiter and Mars, respectively; private agencies such as Virgin Galactic and Blue Origins will continue to test their space tourism initiatives throughout the year; and SpaceX has slated launches for the Falcon Heavy rocket and the Crew Dragon capsule. ___ Here are six space missions to look forward to this year: Juno Spacecraft — After five years of travel, the Juno spacecraft will finally reach the fifth planet in our solar system. NASA expects Juno to reach and land on Jupiter by July 4. Juno will stay on the gas giant for 20 months, studying the planet's atmosphere, magnetic field and gravitational field. The Juno spacecraft was created by NASA's New Frontiers program and is a cousin of the New Horizons probe that flew by Pluto last summer. ___ OSIRIS REx — NASA is not only looking to explore planets; it also wants to study asteroids. On Sept. 8, the space agency will launch its OSIRIS REx spacecraft, which will land on the asteroid 1999 RQ36 in 2018. Once OSIRIS has reached the targeted asteroid, it will collect some samples and map the surface of the space rock. NASA expects the spacecraft to return to Earth by 2023. This will mark the first time asteroid samples are carried back home via probe. ___ Crew Dragon Capsule — SpaceX's "space taxi" is ready for in-flight abort testing. The company, created by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, will test the capsule in December. The Crew Dragon will eventually carry NASA astronauts to and from the ISS. SpaceX already successfully demonstrated the abort system works, but it also wants to ensure that passengers will be completely safe when aboard. ___ Falcon Heavy — Prior to the Dragon Crew tests, SpaceX will test flight its Falcon Heavy rocket in September. This is the first time the agency is launching the massive vehicle, which is essentially three Falcon 9 rockets combined. SpaceX eventually wants to use this rocket to take people to the moon and Mars. CEO Ellon Musk has been testing the spacecraft's since 2011, but he's certain it'll take flight this year. ___ ExoMars — The ESA will be the first to launch this year with the ExoMars mission on March 14, which will consist of sending three exoplanetary spacecraft to Mars in hopes of finding traces of alien life. The ExoMars spacecraft will also test out new technologies on the Red Planet that could be used for future space exploration. The ESA partnered with Russia's Roscosmos to make the mission possible. The first to spacecraft to launch will be the Trace Gas Orbiter and the Schiaparelli EDM, which are expected to land in October. The first will study the atmosphere and the second will test technologies on land. The third rover will land sometime in 2018. ___ Space Tourism - Want to go to space? Well, these private agencies have been trying to make your desire a reality. Virgin Galactic will be testing sub-orbital vehicles all year in order to one day be able to take humans to the edge of space. Blue Origin — owned by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos — is also trying to offer a similar service and it's calling it the "Astronaut Experience." The company has already executed launches, landings and re-launches, but it still has several more tests to run before it sends humans on brief excursions. I missed that! But no.

You are only allowed to give 25 likes per day. You cannot give any more likes today. No, its the info the article provides.

Nope, I hadn't noticed that though.

Can anyone figure out what's wrong with this article (Spaceflight wise?) http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/6-space-missions-rocket-tests-2016-article-1.2550711

Thanks, I'll update it Again, thanks, I also couldn't find much info on it. The Nova rocket! Which I would've loved to see be built.

The Soviet manned Lunar progrLK-1am, had 2 concepts to get Soviet Astronauts to the Moon The N1 rocket, which never really worked at all, except for the 4th launch that went pretty well (It lasted over 100 seconds); Until they shut down the 6 core engines, and the fuel lines exploded due to the still hot engine, if the had separated the first stage early, and started the second stage, the launch probably would've worked, and the Soviets may have actually gotten to the Moon sometime in the late 70s early 80s (Which also probably would've kept the space race going). One really bad design (Other than the number of engines), was that, although it was more powerful than the Saturn V (10,200,000 lbs thrust vs 7,500,000) it was much less efficient (I bet you can guess why), and thus couldn't take as much to the Moon _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ The UR-500k which was the better choice for the Soviet lunar program as it had much less engines, (And eventually turned into the Proton rocket family class we all know), I don't have much other info on it, so you'll have to dig stuff up yourselves _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ The LK, which was the landing spacecraft for the N-1, which LK-1 held 1 person. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Then there was the spacecraft LK-1, for the UR-500k which was a Lunar flyby spacecraft, and the spacecraft for both, and had 4 modules The crew module which could hold 2 people The ADU emergency engine unit PAB equipment rocket system block (Service module) And the RB Translunar injection stage. Then the LK-700, which was the lander part of it which was a direct ascent lander. (There's not a lot of other info) So what do you guys think the odds are that the Soviets could land humans on the Moon if they separated the first stage in the 4th flight properly or used the UR-500k instead of the N-1?

Moon of Jupiter 6/10, I doubt that the gov't would let you screw around on the internet at Area 51.

It's awesome, but it contains words that violate rule 2.2. I'm not reporting it, but the video will likely get taken down soon.

Terrible question, it's bad and you should feel bad! Why can't I yell at youtubers through the computer screen?

6/10 You have a overused joke Oh who am I kidding, 10/10, it's still funny

This is exactly like this topic here: Except that it's for nerds/geeks instead of KSP I'll start; I haven't seen Star Wars the force awakens yet

I hope they do that, what's better, taking a bit of money from certain programs with unbuilt spacecraft or cancelling a (Near) perfect lander that's already (Mostly fully built?

=/= it isn't the same (At least in the times I've seen it being used) No flipping clue.

Oh good. Btw, your post to like ratio is ridiculous, do you spend most of your time in the lounge?

Yeah, I think they recently finished the final season

Yeah, I was so excited when I went on his channel and saw that, I hope he shoots for Laythe

I put a dwarf gas giant in, with one moon, but it's well outside of the HZ Btw, everyone, I updated the system to have 5 planets (In order: hot desert, warm terra, cool ice world, dwarf ice giant, and frozen ice world), and 1 moon (cold ice world. Working on the first chapter now.

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THE KRAKEN IS EVERYWHERE!!!!!!! RUN!!!!!

There's 2!

Hello, I'm one of the participants of this subject, but I wanted to continue this discussion with my thoughts anyway I'd think; Would war 1 would be the war that see's missiles Shortly after or before ww1 there would be a man in orbit using steampunk rockets Shortly before of after ww2 there would be satellites in orbit still likely with steampunk By 1969 we would have colonies on the Moon, Aurora, Mars, Bellona, and Venus, as well as orbital colonies (Normal rockets at this point) We would use Nuclear pulse propulsion, Nuclear thermal rockets, and Solar electric propulsion to traverse the solar system We may even see space based Solar arrays in orbit, beaming power to Earth By 2000 most the world would be at peace, and more than 70% of countries have the ability to launch humans to the Moon.

I'd love to, but I hope it won't have weapons.

Hey, you're in the 1000 rep group