/sci/ - Science & Math

>>15000661
Is race and gender really the only thing you can think of? Can’t you just enjoy the art? It’s a positive message where everyone can explore space if they put in the grit and hard work.

People say Starship testing is slow but it’s still fun

I would trade my life for a chance to cross the Karman line

>>14581482
Yeah. Figure, the dude is born in 1920
>26 during the Yeager days
>41-42 during the Mercury days
>44-46 during the Gemini days
>50-52 during Apollo
>61-62 during the start of the shuttle
An epilogue could feature our 100 year old protagonist watching SN8 fly as if to say “it’s time to rest; pass on the torch”

>>14561432
How do you make these?

NASA is shit at PR. They think the public fears failure, but the public actually doesn’t mind failure as long as there’s inspiration. SpaceX still wins hearts and minds despite blowing up a dozen Starships because they have a dream, and we’re a part of it too. NASA wants to put 2 people on Mars who are not you and me. SpaceX wants average people to be able to go to space. That’s NASA’s issue. If NASA set out to build a reusable rocket say, 20 years ago, and promised that all of us could go, I guarantee people wouldn’t be so disillusioned with them

On that note, aside from starship-style, what reusable rocket designs could actually work? Dolphin-sex shuttle?