Endeavour successfully launches four astronauts to ISS
Capitalism in space: SpaceX’s Endeavour capsule early this morning successfully launched four astronauts to ISS,
Both Endeavour and the Falcon 9 first stage had flown once previously. The first stage landed successfully on the drone ship in the Atlantic.
The leaders in the 2021 launch race:
11 SpaceX
8 China
6 Russia
2 Rocket Lab
The U.S. now leads China 15 to 8 in the national rankings.
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Capitalism in space: SpaceX’s Endeavour capsule early this morning successfully launched four astronauts to ISS,
Both Endeavour and the Falcon 9 first stage had flown once previously. The first stage landed successfully on the drone ship in the Atlantic.
The leaders in the 2021 launch race:
11 SpaceX
8 China
6 Russia
2 Rocket Lab
The U.S. now leads China 15 to 8 in the national rankings.
Readers!
Please consider supporting my work here at Behind the Black. Your support allows me the freedom and ability to analyze objectively the ongoing renaissance in space, as well as the cultural changes -- for good or ill -- that are happening across America. Fourteen years ago I wrote that SLS and Orion were a bad ideas, a waste of money, would be years behind schedule, and better replaced by commercial private enterprise. Only now does it appear that Washington might finally recognize this reality.
In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
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why is there never a video shot from the landing pad in the ocean, showing the 1st stage booster, first as a dot in the sky, coming closer and closer until touchdown?
Here is a 360 degree view of a landing on a drone ship; look up, you can see it as a dot and all the way down…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDK5TF2BOhQ
R.P. – that is excellent!. Thanks for sharing.
Hey, I don’t know if this is bull or not as it comes from the Sun but is posted elsewhere. Has anyone heard of this UFO or near collision?”
https://www.the-sun.com/news/2770635/spacex-starship-near-miss-ufo-astronauts-prepare-crash/
A small milestone – pretty sure this is the first time since the Shuttle that more than three astronauts have been launched at once in the same vehicle.
Andi: By jove, I think you are correct. I missed this entirely but it is definitely true.
Highlights nicely the superior capabilities of SpaceX’s Dragon capsule design.