Canopus

I’d say i’m just realistic not pessimistic. What SpaceX has accomplished is impressive and they certainly have the good engineers, but the jump from a semi-reusable launch vehicle that operates for ours at the most to this Pulp style rocketship is unfeasible. I’m looking forward to be proven wrong but i suspect it will take a decade or two though.

disposable super heavy lift rockets and a crew vehicle like orion have existed. But a completely reusable heavy lift launch vehicle were the second stage doubles as a planetary lander and an interplanetary Spacecraft acommodating a crew of 40 for months or even years? How can you compare these two? And how are people so ready to buy into this BFR craze?

If you want to expose hardware to conditions like in those found in interplanetary space, LEO is not enough. Can‘t compare the two at all, One is a modular spaceraft as demonstrated in LEO, operating in an environment that has been visited by manned Spacecraft already, and well the other is just a big bag of promisses that will either not work as advertised or come 15 years too late.

„Is there any reason for manned Space travel or exploratory probes?“

To be fair the BEAM module is 3 by 4 meters. Still just a station module and nothing free flying.

There is definitely use in maintaining a manned Space station in both LEO and a deep Space Environment. Now they wouldn't have to keep the ISS around if something like the Bigelow 330 was demonstrated and available. But as everything in commercial Space, this might take more time than everyone thinks.

The gateway operates in a totally different environment. Gateway experiments could not be conducted, and experience not be gained by just using the ISS.

Why would this be a good reason to cancel the gateway?

It is called "Universal Stage Adapter" in the SLS block 1b and 2 https://www1.grc.nasa.gov/space/usa/

Time and Altitude

Livestream: http://www.arianespace.com/mission/vega-flight-vv12/ Showing Football?

@tater i think everything but the Spacecraft models was really used in production.

went to the Deutsches Filmmuseum Frankfurt (Museum on Cinema) for an Exhibition on 2001. Saw some cool stuff. https://imgur.com/gallery/GP8N3UU Edit: forgot that imgur albums aren‘t working on here anymore.

Yeah but thinking BO is going nowhere while SpaceX is going to have Mars commuter flights in 5 years?

The Musk Meme Machine seems to work wonders

Roemy Lemdon Astronautics or something like that.

Or maybe they shouldn‘t.

He is right about the screenshots. You take them with F1

I'm a little bit sad that this was the last of the stubby Ariane 5's. They look so cute.

All in all this really doesn't change that much of the overall schedule. When em-2 was supposed to fly with the LOP/G propulsion element, they weren't supposed to arrive in Lunar orbit at the same time and wouldn't have done a rendezvous. They basically split the mission, and now it's possible to fly the Block1b unmanned before putting people on it.

RTLS is completely incompatible with the SLS design. It‘s core will be extremely fast and high when it is deactivated. The only thing i could imagine working would be a smart style engine only recovery.

All these Organizations will likely contribute small parts to an upcoming Lunar mission infrastructure. Arianespace in the end likely more then some mentioned by you. They are just not hyping it up as much

The Starliner carrying Atlas is designated as N22.

I'd be in favor of CST-100 launches to be discussed on the ULA thread, as lauches of any other ULA payloads are.

http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/about-us/137-physics/general-physics/particles-and-quantum-physics/810-does-quantum-entanglement-imply-faster-than-light-communication-intermediate