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Did you know that Winchell Chung is on the forums? @nyrath

I know NASA gets that 19 every year, but its spending is not all for space, and used less efficiently than SpaceX. They also are required to spend that amount every year.

Oops...it actually 21 billion! http://money.cnn.com/2017/07/27/technology/business/spacex-valuation-21-billion/index.html

The BFR was launched successfully, but instead of visiting the ISS, as planned, a navigation error made it rendezvous with the old agena target vehicle(this just happened to me) Page 20!

We have sent a radiation detector on the curiosity probe during transit and on the Martian surface. We also have astronauts who have been exposed to the same amount of radiation. Also because NASA is partially a jobs program, and unlike SpaceX, which manufactures most of its own parts, NASA is reliant on shipping parts from contractors and subcontractors around the country.

Not in 5 years from now. Anyway, I can't see the future, so lets just wait until 2024 and see what happens. SpaceX has been evaluated at 15 billion. NASA's budget is 19 billion. EDIT: Oops... its actually 21 billion!

I'm also using a min-mag drive in my book

SpaceX is a company, so it doesn't have a reason to sent robots places. That is the one important part of NASA- doing scientific missions that a company would have no reason to do. SpaceX can also launch rockets for 10% the cost of NASA.

Still, SpaceX is currently doing more than NASA, with 75% of its budget. I don't think he is wrong about the lack of radiation danger though. In the study that keeps popping up in the news every few months, the mice were given a Mars equivalent dose all at once instead of over the period a mission would last. There is a huge difference between being exposed to extremely high radiation for an hour and modestly high radiation for 2 years.

I guess Robert Zubrin was wrong then.

That graph shows the percentage of the federal budget, not the actual amount. While the percentage has gone done a lot, that is mostly due to the increase of the federal budget.

Actually, not until January

"We will talk about colonizing the sun. Not Mercury or a dyson swarm, but the actual sun itself." Um... WHAT? Did he watch this video? Seriously though, what was he talking about?

On Titan, could you build a plane that ran off of tanks of compressed air and intaked methane from the atmosphere?

If NASA can't get this launched before Spacex does its lunar tourism flyby, its hardly a space agency anymore. I mean, SpaceX has had delays, but they've usually been minor and the result of improvements(Falcon Heavy was supposed to be in 2013, but it wouldn't have been reusable). 16 years to get an unmanned lunar flyby is excessive, given that adjusted for inflation, they still have the same budget as during the apollo program.

Children of a Dead Earth. It is a realistic space combat game where you can make your own engines.

Great! When I first started watching, I thought it was in Orbiter 2010...

Like the engine editor in COADE?

If 1% of raindrops from now on were equal volume raindrops of osmium(they magically get turned into osmium when they start falling), what would happen?

Correct. Venus's upper atmosphere doesn't have any problems with temperature regulation, nitrogen availability, gravity, or radiation. The disadvantage is, unlike Mars, it is very hard to have a reusable SSTO. I can see your point, however, orbital colonies might be more practical. You can make controlled environments with huge surface areas. Tiny phobos, if mined and converted into cylinder habitats, could have a far greater surface area than Mars.

What is the earliest version compatible with 1.2.2?

Yes yes yes!!! Maybe make a Rama analogue(from clarke's book)?

Its a bielliptical transfer.