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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 9 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Long as we have to depend on chemical propellants, the moon is as far as we'll ever get

[–] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Well the solar panels all deployed and are charging, but yeah using chemical burns isn’t good for much beyond orbital movement

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Still need a reliable method to convert the power gained from solar into propulsion with enough force so that it won't take a decade to get anywhere

[–] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

The nuclear reflection engine is still our best bet, I feel like it may take actual zero G experiments to solve but I think we can achieve fusion

[–] GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 31 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

This seems like a pretty big deal, why am I only now finding out about this

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 8 points 8 hours ago

Probably because all the horrible shit trump does takes up all the space.

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 8 points 9 hours ago

I don't know, we need to do a better job of advertising this stuff if a lot of people don't know about it. This is one of the few decent things the U.S. is doing.

[–] Xell22@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

I caught it through NPR maybe a couple weeks before it happened, and some science YouTubers were hype about it, but other than that I caught very little coverage. Not a lot mentioned on here that I saw til the day of or the day before. Not that it wasn't talked about here before that, but just what I noticed.

[–] melfie@lemmy.zip 9 points 10 hours ago

SLS has gotten a lot of well-deserved hate for being an expendable money pit. All that aside, damn, it lifted off with humans in it and off to the moon! There’s no other currently available rocket that can do that, including Starship.

[–] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 10 points 15 hours ago (4 children)

I wonder how Flatearthers are going to explain this one.

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

I've already seen "it's AI generated".

[–] capt_wolf@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Same way moon landing deniers do.

"The whole thing is staged! Nobody actually flew anywhere! They just put some guys in costumes and filmed them on a sound stage in Hollywood!"

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Yet another legacy sequel.

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[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 9 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Please don't let it be cancelled and returned early because of a toilet That would just be too much. This is the first thing that has made me legitimately excited since having to unexpectedly say goodbye to my soul-dog last month. I need this, dammit.

[–] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

How exactly do you think they'd return prematurely? Hit the reverse button?

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 hours ago

Its the entire reason they did a full orbit before firing the lunar injection burn, so that if something was wrong they could jettison the service module and perform a deorbit burn for an early splashdown in the pacific.

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