by ThinkBeat
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- SpaceX is able to land spent rocket stages with precision.
Way back the space shuttle was able to land at a precise point,
(I read it was a nightmare to try to steer it)
Why are capsules still being dumped into the ocean?
Is there not a modern fancy way to make the capsules land on a runway?
I am pretty sure this is a dumb question for people wh know why
but I am curious.
- Named after the most successful polar exploring ship.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fram_(ship)
If you could admire a ship, this would be it. It is on exhibit in Oslo.
- I'm really surprised that "the first x-ray taken in space" has occurred this late in the game, given what we know about what being in space on the longer term does to you.
- I like how one of the astronauts just nonchalantly tweeted every 30 minutes or so, like he wasn't in space.
by decimalenough
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- It's surprising how little media attention this got. Sketchy Chinese crypto billionaire notionally resident in Svalbard with six passports of convenience charters a space mission for funzies, and nobody even notices, much less digs into who this guy is. The closest is this softball interview by the Times of Malta, one of his six passports:
https://timesofmalta.com/article/meet-chun-wang-first-maltes...
(Although to be fair, there have been a couple of other distractions in the news last week.)
by lupusreal
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- I had thought the Polaris Dawn mission did this a few months ago, but apparently that was ineptly named.
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