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It will be. Shuttle-derived boosters aren't being entered for the advanced booster competition (for Block II onward), the RS-25s are being simplified for expendable use, and the tank structure is almost completely different due to the forces being applied in different areas.

Any number of concepts from the 80s onwards, from Shuttle-C to Ares to Liberty. This does officially include SLS, even if it's going to end sharing little more than a tank diameter and one engine model.

That wouldn't have been much benefit to the astronauts, unless they were very short.

PLUTO was tested. NERVA was tested. A hybrid of the two would be a major, major step beyond either in terms of systems engineering.

You probably wouldn't have Curiosity without Viking, and certainly wouldn't with Pathfinder and MER. Any planetary probe is a masterpiece of systems engineering and technological hardening and miniaturisation; if you try to produce a complex one right off the bat with a small, inexperienced planetary community, you will fail. That's the mistake the Russians keep making.

Looking at the logs, the wiki page was either blanked by the original author or they asked for it to be deleted. Not a good sign...

At that kind of distance, the relative velocity would be high enough that it'd be difficult to get more than a blur from any of the instruments. Even if that wasn't the case, it'd make it extremely difficult to image all of Ceres at the required resolution before the end of the nominal mission-and with the reaction wheel issues, there's unfortunately very little chance of Dawn remaining operational for more than a few months after the nominal mission.

Since Dawn entered orbit, it's now moving further away from Ceres. We won't be getting better images until some time in April.

What? Comets emit jets through vents, what he's expecting is exactly like a giant comet.

Monkeys tend not to make for great pets even down here.

Yes, if the animals are allowed to mate freely. In practice, we pick which ones mate and neuter the rest-we even perpetuate breeds which can't naturally mate at all.

Evolution through natural selection isn't going to happen in domestic animals; the traits that predominate are the ones that we choose, regardless of how deleterious they would be in the wild.

The idea of Russia seizing the ISS is about as credible as the guff a few years back about China claiming the moon. It's actively embarrassing.

In light of recent events, I would very strongly recommend not buying a Lenovo anything.

Given the size of it, Kuaizhous payload is going to be under a ton. It's not CNSA btw, anymore than Atlas V is a NASA rocket; it doesn't even perform CNSA launches.

This is hardly unprecedented... it's not even the first sat of this specific type to explode.

Jurisdiction and control is not the same as land rights, or else you could annex a ship.

No. Clue's in the name, it's latin for 'whiteness'.

The idea that 40% albedo means something isn't 'white' is completely ludicrous. Have you looked at the moon lately? 14% albedo.

It would be breach of contract, but I'm pretty sure that's about it. The ISS isn't land, and even if it was stopping people from crossing your territory to enter it a bit isn't the same as annexation. Of course this is academic anyway, as cosmonauts would have no real clue how to maintain the US segment and the RUOS isn't self-sufficient.

There's a JAXA and ESA module each, although each are legislatively american. ESA, CSA and JAXA astronauts go up every so often; again, they're legally treated as US crew members. JAXA provides HTV in return, CSA Canadarm, and ESA used to provide ATV and is going to provide the Orion SM is return. Also people can occasionally, when the schedule allows, pay for short visits; these people are legally russian crewmembers, though none so far have actually been russian citizens.

That wasn't a ground failure. Progress docking is usually autonomous, but in this case they were testing a system for manual control from the station.

Given this means an official abandonment of the VShOS plan, they could just keep visiting it with Soyuz from Baikonur. NEM and the node module are the only new systems strictly required for the station.

Even if node 4 were to be launched, what purpose could it possibly serve?

Was any work actually done bringing node 4 to flight status?