SpaceX completes the first launch in 2022
Capitalism in space: SpaceX today successfully launched 49 Starlink satellites, thus completing the first launch in 2022.
The first stage landed safely, completing its third flight.
It appears SpaceX alone could have as many as five launches in January, suggesting that 2022 will get off to a very fast start.
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Capitalism in space: SpaceX today successfully launched 49 Starlink satellites, thus completing the first launch in 2022.
The first stage landed safely, completing its third flight.
It appears SpaceX alone could have as many as five launches in January, suggesting that 2022 will get off to a very fast start.
The support of my readers through the years has given 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. Four years ago, just before the 2020 election I wrote that Joe Biden's mental health was suspect. Only in this year has the propaganda mainstream media decided to recognize that basic fact.
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. Even today NASA and Congress refuse to 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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Bob – slight error – its 2022 :-)
Jason Rose: Thank you. Habits die hard. All fixed.
Russia’s Baikonur is having Kazakh problems…or vice-versa. Abandoning national assets could make this Putin’s Afghan pull-out. Maybe the unrest was behind the recent UAE deal.
The UAE may deal with Israel with smiles-or maybe Kazakhs are their North Korean proxies–all of a sudden…R-7 looks even more like a minaret…if not the tallest spire of the Iron City of Dis bursting out of the Earth.
We all love the living god Elon Musk for his exploits and technical daring (see current developments in Boca Chica). But it is very good for your own mental health to make fun of Musk (not only for fanboys!) when you get the chance. This funny video offers the opportunity again!
“Elon Musk Invents UNDERGROUND Traffic Jam!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JDCBSNqZg8
Questioner: You will cease the name-calling, now. I am tired of you referring to anyone who expresses admiration of Musk and his effort as a “fanboy”. It is insulting, and inappropriate, especially on this site. Those who comment here have made it quite clear that they admire him for rational reasons, and are also aware of his faults.
Similarly, just because Edward rationally disagrees with you about labeling the U.S. as an empire does not justify suggesting he is now “bordering on madness.”
You will stop. You will treat those you are debating with respect. Do it again and I will suspend you for a week.