Comments on: Ispace signs agreement with lunar mining startup https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/ispace-signs-agreement-with-lunar-mining-startup/ Fri, 13 Dec 2024 16:53:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Milt https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/ispace-signs-agreement-with-lunar-mining-startup/#comment-1536914 Fri, 13 Dec 2024 16:53:18 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=110692#comment-1536914 Have they hired Homer Hickam (cf, his novel Back to the Moon*) as a consultant?

*Possibly one of the most memory holed — and never talked about — Sci-Fi novels in history, and NASA wished that no one would ever read or think about such disturbing things. God, no. (Cancel culture and shadow banning apparently were happening back then as well.)

]]> By: Joe https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/ispace-signs-agreement-with-lunar-mining-startup/#comment-1536795 Fri, 13 Dec 2024 03:37:00 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=110692#comment-1536795 I hope they have learned their lesson and actually put the landing legs on struts instead of right on the bottom of a top heavy spacecraft. Seeing the first one turtle was something.

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