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SpaceX Announces First Private Trip into Deep Space: Next Year

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Wow, this is a total surprise, but really amazing. Frankly, it's quite shocking. I'm beyond excited and impressed. Ad Astra Per Aspera.

See the official statement below:

"We are excited to announce that SpaceX has been approached to fly two private citizens on a trip around the moon late next year. They have already paid a significant deposit to do a moon mission. Like the Apollo astronauts before them, these individuals will travel into space carrying the hopes and dreams of all humankind, driven by the universal human spirit of exploration. We expect to conduct health and fitness tests, as well as begin initial training later this year. Other flight teams have also expressed strong interest and we expect more to follow. Additional information will be released about the flight teams, contingent upon their approval and confirmation of the health and fitness test results."

SpaceX to Send Privately Crewed Dragon Spacecraft Beyond the Moon Next Year | SpaceX
 
This will be fun, Im interested, aa lately I have been watching all these "conspiracy" theories, so I am curious to see how this is/works out. The biggest question is the discussion of the High Radiation, from the Van Allen Radiation belt. So if this was just "propaganda" and we have left "earth" orbit, Man this will be SOOO awesome!!!!
 
Sherman123 said:
Wow, this is a total surprise, but really amazing. Frankly, it's quite shocking. I'm beyond excited and impressed. Ad Astra Per Aspera.

See the official statement below:

"We are excited to announce that SpaceX has been approached to fly two private citizens on a trip around the moon late next year. They have already paid a significant deposit to do a moon mission. Like the Apollo astronauts before them, these individuals will travel into space carrying the hopes and dreams of all humankind, driven by the universal human spirit of exploration. We expect to conduct health and fitness tests, as well as begin initial training later this year. Other flight teams have also expressed strong interest and we expect more to follow. Additional information will be released about the flight teams, contingent upon their approval and confirmation of the health and fitness test results."

SpaceX to Send Privately Crewed Dragon Spacecraft Beyond the Moon Next Year | SpaceX
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Worth following.
 
Exactice said:
This will be fun, Im interested, aa lately I have been watching all these "conspiracy" theories, so I am curious to see how this is/works out. The biggest question is the discussion of the High Radiation, from the Van Allen Radiation belt. So if this was just "propaganda" and we have left "earth" orbit, Man this will be SOOO awesome!!!!
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What? We've been around the moon before.
 
And if it weren't for that "wasteful NASA spending" they would not be attempting this in the first place, keep that in mind next time conservatives whine about taxes for "useless purposes"
 
chromium said:
And if it weren't for that "wasteful NASA spending" they would not be attempting this in the first place, keep that in mind next time conservatives whine about taxes for "useless purposes"
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The NASA spending people complain about is not the spaceflight spending.
 
Moderate Right said:
What? We've been around the moon before.
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Thats the crazy conspiracy....... Nasa in their videos have stated we have NOT left the Van Allen belts..... while back in the 60's we went to the moon outside of earths low orbit. So um if Nasa says we havent left, how did we go to the moon? Its all satire..... but thats the fun conspiracy...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDBBUwdyz4I
 
Sherman123 said:
Wow, this is a total surprise, but really amazing. Frankly, it's quite shocking. I'm beyond excited and impressed. Ad Astra Per Aspera.

See the official statement below:

"We are excited to announce that SpaceX has been approached to fly two private citizens on a trip around the moon late next year. They have already paid a significant deposit to do a moon mission. Like the Apollo astronauts before them, these individuals will travel into space carrying the hopes and dreams of all humankind, driven by the universal human spirit of exploration. We expect to conduct health and fitness tests, as well as begin initial training later this year. Other flight teams have also expressed strong interest and we expect more to follow. Additional information will be released about the flight teams, contingent upon their approval and confirmation of the health and fitness test results."

SpaceX to Send Privately Crewed Dragon Spacecraft Beyond the Moon Next Year | SpaceX
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https://www.debatepolitics.com/brea...-spacex-says-fly-2-people-moon-next-year.html

You're slow man.
 
Jack Hays said:
The NASA spending people complain about is not the spaceflight spending.
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Not true at all. Plenty of people think all space travel and research should be left up to the private sector.
 
Deuce said:
Not true at all. Plenty of people think all space travel and research should be left up to the private sector.
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I know of no strong push to end NASA spaceflight. I'm aware of advocates who want NASA out of the Earth science business.
 
Sherman123 said:
Wow, this is a total surprise, but really amazing. Frankly, it's quite shocking. I'm beyond excited and impressed. Ad Astra Per Aspera.

See the official statement below:

"We are excited to announce that SpaceX has been approached to fly two private citizens on a trip around the moon late next year. They have already paid a significant deposit to do a moon mission. Like the Apollo astronauts before them, these individuals will travel into space carrying the hopes and dreams of all humankind, driven by the universal human spirit of exploration. We expect to conduct health and fitness tests, as well as begin initial training later this year. Other flight teams have also expressed strong interest and we expect more to follow. Additional information will be released about the flight teams, contingent upon their approval and confirmation of the health and fitness test results."

SpaceX to Send Privately Crewed Dragon Spacecraft Beyond the Moon Next Year | SpaceX
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Whoa! A trip of a lifetime! Now that'd be something!
Napoleon said:
I'd love to see the liability paperwork.
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Err. Yeah. 'Cause one screw up in space, that far from home and support, it's generally fatal. Apollo 13 - Wikipedia got lucky. Very lucky. There are far more deaths in space, as the Russian space program and the US shuttle will attest.
 
Exactice said:
Thats the crazy conspiracy....... Nasa in their videos have stated we have NOT left the Van Allen belts..... while back in the 60's we went to the moon outside of earths low orbit. So um if Nasa says we havent left, how did we go to the moon? Its all satire..... but thats the fun conspiracy...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDBBUwdyz4I
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NASA didn't say any such thing.

The Apollo mission flew around the worst areas. The idea that they would have been exposed to lethal radiation in a mere six hours exposure in the outer edges of the Van Allen belts is comical. This radiation dosage is less than the annual limit designated for nuclear powerplant workers.
 
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Exactice said:
Thats the crazy conspiracy....... Nasa in their videos have stated we have NOT left the Van Allen belts..... while back in the 60's we went to the moon outside of earths low orbit. So um if Nasa says we havent left, how did we go to the moon? Its all satire..... but thats the fun conspiracy...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDBBUwdyz4I
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oh you're one of those... do you believe that the earth is flat too?
 
Deuce said:
NASA didn't say any such thing.

The Apollo mission flew around the worst areas. The idea that they would have been exposed to lethal radiation in a mere six hours exposure in the outer edges of the Van Allen belts is comical. This radiation dosage is less than the annual limit designated for nuclear powerplant workers.
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I know.....im just joking..... it popped up on my Youtube recommendations the other night so i had to watch it. It was pretty funny if you ask me.

HenryChinaski said:
oh you're one of those... do you believe that the earth is flat too?
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Wait the world is not Flat?????



Seriously, Super excited, its been so long since space travel has been done, the fact that we are pushing to private options means that the tech is moving to "consumer" available means. I mean it was only 20 years ago we watched "Contact" and a trillion dollars, was the going rate......who knows tech may advance so fast and space travel will be commercialized to an affordable rate..... how cool would that be!!!! Seriously!
 
chromium said:
And if it weren't for that "wasteful NASA spending" they would not be attempting this in the first place, keep that in mind next time conservatives whine about taxes for "useless purposes"
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Oh come on now. There is nothing that NASA did that could not be done now - given enough money.

And it is TOTALLY IMPOSSIBLE to know if anything that was invented for the trip to the Moon would not have been invented by now anyway.

And never forget - the ENTIRE Apollo program was designed and built by the private sector...NOT NASA. NASA gave a guideline and got the dough. But the private sector designed, engineered and build almost everything that NASA used to go to the Moon.

It is not NASA that should be thanked - but the private contractors that built the things that got Americans to the Moon.


And NEVER forget that it was NASA's pathetic go fever that was primarily responsible for getting three astronauts killed on the launch pad during the fire in their early attempts to get to the Moon.

'Gene Kranz called a meeting of his staff in Mission Control three days after the accident, delivering a speech which has subsequently become one of NASA's principles.[49] Speaking of the errors and overall attitude surrounding the Apollo program before the accident, he stated: "We were too 'gung-ho' about the schedule and we blocked out all of the problems we saw each day in our work. Every element of the program was in trouble and so were we."''

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_1#Program_recovery

Just like their GO fever was primarily responsible for getting got 14 other astronauts killed in the two space shuttle disasters.

NASA is a near-useless organization with the blood of 17 brave, dead astronauts on it's hands that is staggeringly wasteful and should be disbanded immediately.

The private sector can do ANYTHING NASA can do - but far more efficiently and not costing taxpayers one penny.

Just as Space X is proving.


And I am neither con nor lib.
 
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DA60 said:
Oh come on now. There is nothing that NASA did that could not be done now - given enough money.

And it is TOTALLY IMPOSSIBLE to know if anything that was invented for the trip to the Moon would not have been invented by now anyway.

And never forget - the ENTIRE Apollo program was designed and built by the private sector...NOT NASA. NASA gave a guideline and got the dough. But the private sector designed, engineered and build almost everything that NASA used to go to the Moon.

It is not NASA that should be thanked - but the private contractors that built the things that got Americans to the Moon.


And NEVER forget that it was NASA's pathetic go fever that was primarily responsible for getting three astronauts killed on the launch pad during the fire in their early attempts to get to the Moon.

'Gene Kranz called a meeting of his staff in Mission Control three days after the accident, delivering a speech which has subsequently become one of NASA's principles.[49] Speaking of the errors and overall attitude surrounding the Apollo program before the accident, he stated: "We were too 'gung-ho' about the schedule and we blocked out all of the problems we saw each day in our work. Every element of the program was in trouble and so were we."''

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_1#Program_recovery

Just like their GO fever got 14 other astronauts killed in the two space shuttle disasters.

NASA is a near-useless organization that is staggeringly wasteful and should be disbanded immediately.

The private sector can do ANYTHING NASA can do - but far more efficiently and not costing taxpayers one penny.


And I am neither con nor lib.
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Every nation that doesn't invest in a technology falls behind on it. Eventually private companies would reach this point, but without *someone* investing and taking the risk, whether taxpayers and astronauts in 1960s-70s or profiteers in the 2000s, this would be happening down the road. Those private contractors were exactly that - contractors - doing it for $ using taxpayer $ that would have otherwise never happened, because there was no RoI in moon trips back then, duh. Stop giving credit where it's not due. It was public spending and pure research taxpayer spending that got us to this point

It's just private companies now leeching off that investment, as they do, but the point is if conservatives, yes like you, had their way, the space program wouldn't exist and it would be those private companies footing the research costs and finally launching this "mission" 10 years from now. Corporations don't take risks until they're certain there's a profit, which they are now, once again, thanks to the "wasteful spending" of the past
 
DA60 said:
The private sector can do ANYTHING NASA can do - but far more efficiently and not costing taxpayers one penny.

Just as Space X is proving.
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Let me know when the private sector lands people on the moon, sets up a GPS constellation, puts robots on Mars, etc.
 
Deuce said:
Let me know when the private sector lands people on the moon, sets up a GPS constellation, puts robots on Mars, etc.
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It certainly proves that eccentric billionaires can do amazing things. At this stage though I'd have to agree with your sentiment. There's so much risk and too little return on investment that it's hard to imagine a private sector corporation pursuing those goals.
 
I hear that the astronauts are Paul Williams and Tracy Ulmann.

Should be entertaining.
 
Jack Hays said:
I know of no strong push to end NASA spaceflight. I'm aware of advocates who want NASA out of the Earth science business.
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I agree with that. NASA should turn Earth orbit stuff over to private companies and concentrate on things outside Earth orbit.
 
chromium said:
And if it weren't for that "wasteful NASA spending" they would not be attempting this in the first place, keep that in mind next time conservatives whine about taxes for "useless purposes"
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There is something useful about ferrying rich people around the moon?
 
fmw said:
There is something useful about ferrying rich people around the moon?
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yeah it helps pay spaceX to continue their research into interplanetary capable rocketry
 
fmw said:
There is something useful about ferrying rich people around the moon?
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Useful enough to have two people put a lot of money down for the opportunity to do so. Private money not government,
 
fmw said:
There is something useful about ferrying rich people around the moon?
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True, but there's also corporate investment now into things like mining asteroids for resources. Most of the objections, all of them from the right wing, to any public spending is when it doesn't lead directly and instantly to for profit gains.

Also none of this would be happening now if not for the missions of NASA in the past. All of these ventures also mention building off the work of ISS. Everything builds from something, it's just that the something is usually stolen from the private sector by the private sector instead of tax funded. But space is too unknown and too costly to not use taxes at first
 
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