Impressive if you’re a Cheela, though.
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The reason I didn’t even notice that quote was the Disney rehab and a character called Professor Von Drake based on Von Braun.
SS Sturmbannführer Von Braun and other war criminal nazis win the space race for USA isn’t exactly the good propaganda.
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Russia’s ISS Multipurpose Laboratory Module launches after years sitting on a shelf, immediately runs into issues
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In the '80s, satellite comms showed promise – soon it’ll be a viable means to punt internet services at anyone anywhere
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Russia’s Pirs ISS module scheduled to fall away, much like Moscow’s interest in the space station
Russia’s space agency spent the weekend trying to get one module to the International Space Station and deciding to ditch another.
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Plumes of water vapor on Ganymede have been spotted for the first time in the atmosphere of Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon.
Astronomers have studied the Solar System’s largest planetary satellite for decades, though have lately only managed to detect water vapor rising from its surface, using the Hubble Space Telescope. The findings were published on Monday in Nature Astronomy; a preprint version is here.
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The International Space Station is getting mobile robot “space avatars” controllable by the public from Earth, courtesy of a joint project between the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and ANA Holdings’ telepresence start-up avatarin.
The project will create a virtual remote space tourism experience aimed at those who can’t afford to hitch a ride with Jeff Bezos or Richard Branson.
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Bezos offers to knock $2bn off his bill to NASA to stay in the running for Moon contract
Blue Origins supremo Jeff Bezos has offered NASA a $2bn discount to keep his dream alive of transporting the next American man and first woman to the Moon’s surface.
Earlier this year, the contract for the Human Landing System (HLS), the craft that will put a crew on the Moon as part of NASA’s lunar Artemis program, was solely awarded to SpaceX. Blue Origin and Dynetics complained to the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) that this was unfair: in their mind, NASA was reneging on a promise to keep the process of selecting a lander competitive by just defaulting to SpaceX.
NASA later retracted its decision to side just with Elon Musk’s SpaceX. Blue Origin essentially wants to stay in the race to produce a lander for the Moon mission, and has made a bunch of offers to NASA to make that happen.
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Which was foreseen by Robert Forward way back in 1980.
The cheela are still one of the most realistic depictions of very very non-humanoid aliens in sci-fi.
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If the guys at NASA wait till the Black Friday, they could get a better bargain.
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No escape, people.
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