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1 hour ago, EladDv said:

either way you wont send people in that little can for 8-9 months

And even if you would: is Orion capable oft doing a propulsive landing on Mars, ascend and going back to earth again? The magazine showed a SLS/Orion-only design...

Funny thing: today there was a TV show, one part was about Elon Musk. Well, he created SpaceX as a competitor to NASA...

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19 hours ago, fredinno said:

Well, you can, as long as you dock fuel from numerous launches together.

Well, Falcon Heavy can take a manned Dragon V2 to Mars, no problem. You'll just die enroute...probably from carbon dioxide poisoning, if nothing else kills you first. 

But even if you did miraculously survive and land on Mars in the Dragon (the final aspect of which, I must point out, is totally workable)? Good luck getting off-planet, let alone back to Terra. 

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Also, they say that Musk has already been "testing" the Falcon Heavy "spacecraft" since 2011 or something. Neither of those things make sense. 

It's called the Dragon V2, not the Crew Dragon, because it will replace the current Dragon for unmanned cargo launch. Moreover, the launch abort system has been pad-tested but not flight-tested, something the author seems completely uncertain about. Further testing is not to "make sure passengers are completely safe"; it's to test the damn system in action. 

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6 hours ago, sevenperforce said:

Well, Falcon Heavy can take a manned Dragon V2 to Mars, no problem. You'll just die enroute...probably from carbon dioxide poisoning, if nothing else kills you first. 

But even if you did miraculously survive and land on Mars in the Dragon (the final aspect of which, I must point out, is totally workable)? Good luck getting off-planet, let alone back to Terra. 

You can fill the SM with life support, then go on a high-speed trajectory to Mars via chemical propulsion with multiple launches docked together.

At least your carcass gets to Mars. It's still you.

5 hours ago, sevenperforce said:

Also, they say that Musk has already been "testing" the Falcon Heavy "spacecraft" since 2011 or something. Neither of those things make sense. 

It's called the Dragon V2, not the Crew Dragon, because it will replace the current Dragon for unmanned cargo launch. Moreover, the launch abort system has been pad-tested but not flight-tested, something the author seems completely uncertain about. Further testing is not to "make sure passengers are completely safe"; it's to test the damn system in action. 

No, the Dragon V1 was awarded for CRS2 because it has a larger cargo berthing port, which Dragon V2 lacks.

7 hours ago, lugge said:

And even if you would: is Orion capable oft doing a propulsive landing on Mars, ascend and going back to earth again? The magazine showed a SLS/Orion-only design...

Funny thing: today there was a TV show, one part was about Elon Musk. Well, he created SpaceX as a competitor to NASA...

SpaceX was never to be a competitor to NASA. Otherwise, it would be testing X-Plane -esque vehicles.

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6 hours ago, fredinno said:

SpaceX was never to be a competitor to NASA. Otherwise, it would be testing X-Plane -esque vehicles.

You don't say? ;-)

Well, thats what our media was saying, not me...

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8 hours ago, YNM said:

Landing on Jupiter is a good laugh though. Maybe they (writer, editor) should be the one to do it !

That reminds me when people could land on Jool in KSP. Can one do a 0 altitude KSP Jupiter Mission in RSS and back?

That would likely make Venus in RSS look easy.

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On 3/3/2016 at 8:01 PM, Spaceception said:

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

 

Well NASA has a super top-secret technology known as "ginormous super-feet (otherwise known a teenage mutant ninja clown shoes), which allows them to walk on the thoroughly amorphous surface of Jupiter.

 

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