so i’m sure you guys know boeing at this point the airplane company that keeps having doors fall off their planes and other wacky events
well a lot of people don’t know that Boeing is also a space company and has launched things into space
and now they’re working on the first crewed flight test of Boeing Starliner, which is a new vehicle meant to take people to the International Space Station
let’s go over a brief history of Boeing Starliner because it is the worst crewed spacecraft since Apollo 13
the first flight test of Starliner occurred in 2019, it didn’t have people on it and was just trying to get to the ISS It was almost ready to approach the ISS and then MISSED
the second test, also with nobody on it, went fine a few years later keep in mind that Boeing wanted people on Starliner in 2018. It’s now 2024 and a crewed flight test is just now about to happen
istg if Boeing kills a bunch of astronauts I think that’ll just be the end of the company the first company to kill someone in space let’s hope that doesn’t happen
time to perform ritualistic sacrifices to Artemis, Selene, Chang’e, Chandra, and whatever other moon gods i can think of for the successful landing of the VIPER rover sometime this year dear god this thing needs to succeed we aren’t sending humans back to the moon without it
the tin can (starship, the most powerful rocket ever built that will eventually send humans back to the Moon and to Mars) hopped (launched successfully, reached orbit for the first time, we are so back, humans will be back on the moon before the end of the deacde)
here's something interesting I found https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtdcdxvNI1o an interview with Neil Armstrong about what being on the Moon was actually like (what the sky was like, could they see stars, what did the surface look like, etc) interesting stuff
ofc the saddest part was when he said that he expected to have lunar bases in the near future 50 years later and here we are not even the most pessimistic people about space wouldve guessed that we wouldnt have had a base on the Moon by now
luckily we have the Artemis Program now at least and China doing shenanigans on the Moon
lots of news about china’s plans to put people on the moon today
1. their Chang’e 8 mission (launching 2028) plans to use lunar material to build bricks in preparation to build a larger base on the moon
2. China’s spacecrafts they’re planning to use to send people to the Moon now have names, Mengzhou (the thing they will use to go to the moon) and Lanyue (the lander)
things are happening dont be surprised if china sends people to the moon before 2030 my guess is 2029 or 2030 for chinese crewed moon landings things are about to get fun
IM-1 IS ON THE MOON THE FIRST AMERICAN MOON LANDING IN 52 YEARS THE FIRST LANDING OF THE ARTEMIS PROGRAM (which will eventually put humans back on the moon AND create a permanent base there)
so a few things 1. china has a series of moon missions called Chang’e that have been landing on the moon (only robots, not people yet) 2. Shackleton is a crater on the south pole of the moon that is unique because it possesses huge deposits of water ice, making it the best place on the moon to establish a permanent human colony 3. China currently has plans to establish a base on the moon, and they do have the capability to do it
china’s 7th chang’e mission is targeting a landing near Shackleton because of shackleton’s potential, this is definitely more than a just a science-focused mission
thing is the usa also has interests of landing people near shackleton crater
yeah the outer space treaty isn’t gonna help lmao because 1. you don’t need to claim land to establish a colony, just build something there and say “this building is mine, and due to safety concerns there is a radius 50m around said building that belongs to me” which is completely allowed under the outer space treaty because you technically didn’t claim any land The Artemis Accords is (i think) the only law that even talks about this and they say (i think) that a country can claim a 10m area around their habitats for safety. Only thing is China hasn’t signed the artemis accords and so isn’t subject to that number
2. the outer space treaty was never meant to be permanent space law, it’s considered to just be a placeholder until something more serious gets put in place, so i don’t expect it to hold any weight for much longer
3. even if people took the outer space treaty seriously there’s no way to enforce it, and a law without a way to make sure people follow it isn’t really a law
4. China has been known to take a… unique viewpoint on laws. They’ve literally built islands in the ocean and said “hey look since I own this island my border actually extends out to here, not the internationally recognized one” and i find it extremely likely they’ll do the exact same thing on the moon (“hey look, i built another storage facility here, my colony borders are actually here”)
5. The outer space treaty says nothing about private companies, so countries could just get companies to build stuff for them and then eventually take over (british east india company is a nice example of this from the past that i could see something similar happening with the moon)
…but, but, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty "[precluds] any country from claiming sovereignty over outer space or any celestial body", so nothing bad can happen 'cuse there's paper….
i wonder how close ive been to something classified in my life surely there has been one moment in my life where i was closer to something classified than any other point
the graphics are kind of low quality, but most of these pictures were taken hundreds of miles above the ground so its actually crazy how detailed it is also the controls are very finnicky so if you dont know how to move around on the moon ill help
it has come to my attention that my last post did not in fact contain the smaller screenshot of the mariner valley image like i wanted but in fact was the full 23,000x11,000 pixels
out of all the websites for that picture to work why planet minecraft
anyways don’t look at my last post it’ll lag your computer really badly (i can’t delete it for this reason it keeps lagging i’ve tried like 3 times)
this is honestly one of the funniest things i’ve seen in a while
so there’s a company called AstroForge that is planning to launch a spacecraft called Brokkr-1 to a near-earth asteroid
they want to go to the asteroid to mine it, to see if mining asteroids for valuables is possible (and profitable)
the thing is, they aren’t telling the public which asteroid they’re going to and by doing that they’ve annoyed a lot of space nerds with too much free time (including me)
so we’re gonna find their asteroid we already know a lot about it -the company has said it’s less than 100 meters wide, and is classified as a near-earth object (NEO) -it’s an M-Type (metallic) asteroid -they want to launch their mission in April 2024 -Brokkr-1 will take 11 months to get there
using this launch date and time itll take to get there, we can eliminate a large majority of the other NEOs because they’ll be behind the sun or other annoying places that make them hard to get to in april 2024 so, we’re looking for a small m-type asteroid that will be in a good location to launch to in april 2024 with an 11-month travel time
that leaves just 33 asteroids the company could be trying to go to, and we’re gonna individually research each of them to figure out the most likely target
we are gonna reveal company secrets and it’s so funny to see dozens of space nerds all working together like this
This is an image I made showing every major object in the Inner Solar System to scale. The Solar System is divided into two categories: Inner and Outer. The Inner Solar System includes Mercury, Venus, Earth, the Moon, Mars, and the Asteroid Belt, the largest member of which is the dwarf planet Ceres (the smallest object in this image)
All of the images you see are in true color, and what these worlds would actually look like if you were to visit them.
They're also accurately sized
Fun fact about the Inner Solar System: Earth is the biggest member by far. You could combine Mercury, Venus, the Moon, Mars, Ceres, and the entire asteroid belt and you wouldn't get a planet as big as Earth. Most people don't consider Earth to be that big in comparison to everything else in space, but it actually is pretty big.
You could combine Mercury, Venus, the Moon, Mars, the asteroid belt, and every dwarf planet in the solar system (Pluto, Eris, Haumea, Makemake, and literally dozens of other dwarf planet candidates) and you still wouldnt get a planet as big as Earth
The only way you would actually get something bigger than Earth is if you included all the moons of Jupiter
And of all this material, the vast majority of it would be Venus and Mars. Venus alone is 80% the mass of Earth, and Mars is another 10%. That means that nearly every other object in the solar system that isnt the Sun or a gas giant accounts for less than 10% of the mass of Earth. Earth and Venus are gigantic
TheSurfinBird
AbdulPlayz03
EpicBaller
ArizTheGamer
DaNussi
milology
sarith
Agandau
Alice Foxfire
TheCookieCat
![Kryptonite Tools Mod 1.3.2 [ModLoader] [WILL BE UPDATED] Minecraft Mod](https://static.planetminecraft.com/files/resource_media/screenshot/1243/2012-10-25_205706_3979337_thumb.jpg)
Strikerboy606
•10/28/12 11:35
![More Gems mod! 1.3.2[WIP] V10.5.1 [5100 DOWNLOADS] NOW WITH DIMENSIONS! Minecraft Mod](https://static.planetminecraft.com/files/resource_media/screenshot/1234/ModPic_3340605_thumb.jpg)
Legendary Soldier
11/16/12 1:19
• posted 6/19/12 11:18
Papa Enny
I feel sorry for the poor saps that are (hopefully) willingly boarding a potential flight of death…