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[Scia No.1636259]

Hello /sci/ what do you think of private spaceflight?

[­ No.1636276]

I think you should get in the flockdraw room

[Anonymous No.1636285]

You mean like ships with no windows?

[Scia No.1636307]

>>1636285
Windows are radiation hazards

[Anonymous No.1636314]

>>1636307
confired for troll

[Anonymous No.1636315]

>>1636285
that was pretty funny actually.

[Scia No.1636320]

>>1636314
Well they are

Not so much is LEO though

[Anonymous No.1636328]

>>1636320
still doesn't get it

[Anonymous No.1636330]

Oh look it's Scia again and his plans about space flight which were already disussed 60 years ago

also

>ship for space tourism with no windows
herp derp

[/a/nonymous No.1636342]

>Space tourism
>There's nothing to see at all because of the distances

[Scia No.1636399]

>>1636328
No I do not
Explain it to me

Im sure i will feel retarded afterwards

[Scia No.1636406]

>>1636330
Yeah that old plan

I kinda discarded that

[Anonymous No.1636409]

>>1636342

there's earth to be seen, from above.

[Anonymous No.1636417]

>>1636399
Private spaceflight? Can't see in the spaceship? Private? No windows?

[/a/nonymous No.1636423]

>>1636417
Behind closed doors?

[Scia No.1636732]

SpaceX plans on making flights to the ISS next year for 1/10 of the cost of the shuttle.

and its carries more mass to orbit

Fuck yeah SpaceX

[Anonymous No.1636956]

>>1636259
Inevitable.

[Anonymous No.1636969]

You fucking idiots.
This thing, if equipped with the passenger module, will carry the people aboard to an orbital platform which is basically a glass cylinder.

If you want a spaceplane with windows, check Virgin Galactic.

[Anonymous No.1636996]

Windows are actually more of a structural problem then a radiation problem... Or at least that is true of submarines.

Though I do hear that they want the crafts to be able to return at any angle so perhaps that's why there is no windows?

[Anonymous No.1637010]

>>1636732
the first important thing about private industry is that they horribly overstate their goals to get funding

[Anonymous No.1637016]

Space tourism won't go anywhere. There are only a handful of people on Earth that can afford it and would spend the money to go up there. Once those people go up there is no longer a market. Plus simple trips into LEO won't exactly colonize the solar system.

All hope for private space flight helping us colonize the solar system ride on space mining. However that won't be lucrative until we run out of non-renewable resources on Earth if at all. That means life will get a LOT more sucky on Earth before we ever colonize space.

[Scia No.1637028]

>>1637016
Its called driving down costs for access

and looks who is working on that
EVERYBODY

[Anonymous No.1637042]

>>1637016
I wish I lived in a Red Dwarf world...

[Anonymous No.1637065]

>>1637016
When LEO becomes normal it'll be easier to go above that... it's called taking steps.

[Anonymous No.1637073]

Private spaceflight will never be practical until NASA fully releases the specs for advanced power generation based on the Sun's true anatomy (it does not have a helium hydrogen core, predicted in the standard model).