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Spacex To Take 2 To Moon; Rocky Start To Trump-russia Probe 10 Things To Know For Tuesday

... has to say as Republicans remain at odds over dismantling The Affordable Care Act. 4. FORGET OSCARS SNAFU AND FOCUS ON 'MOONLIGHT' WIN, ADVOCACY GROUPS SAY. Sarah Kate Ellis, president & CEO of the LGBT advocacy group GLAAD, says "Moonlight" won out with its strong message of diversity. 5. WHEN SPACEX PLANS TO FLY 2 PEOPLE TO MOON. Tech billionaire Elon Musk - the company's CEO - says plans are on track to  send two people in orbit around the moon by the end of 2018. 6. JUSTICE DEPT. NO LONGER OPPOSES TOUGH TEXAS VOTER ID LAW. It's a dramatic break from the agency's position under President Obama, who argued the  state's voter ID law was intended to disenfranchise poor and minority voters. 7. TRUMP RUSSIA PROBE IS OFF TO ROCKY START. The Republican committee chairman, Rep. Devin Nunes, says he's heard no evidence that anyone in  Trump's orbit was in contact with Russians during the presidential campaign. 8. HOW CUSTOMERS COULD BENEFIT FROM CELLPHONE ...

An Inside Look At The Differences Between Life At Nasa And Spacex

... greater success with each passing year. Earlier this month, we stumbled across a thread on Quora asking if it’s better for engineers to work at NASA or Space X. Of course, the question itself was a bit misleading because it’s not as if one company is superior to the other. Without question, some of the smartest minds on the planet can be found at both. Still, there are a number of interesting differences between the work environment at NASA and Space X that are worth highlighting. Tackling this issue, an engineer named Andre Lavoie — who has spent significant time at both companies — details a number of fascinating differences between life at NASA and Space X. Not surprisingly, the fact that NASA is a government agency, as opposed to a private company like Space X, impacts the work environment in both positive and negative ways. While Lavoie points out that the work-life balance at NASA is a positive, the work there can sometimes be encumbered by “an institutional ...

On Second Attempt, Spacex Launches Rocket At Nasa's Historic Pad

... to land right back on a platform on Earth. Shortly afterward, the Dragon spacecraft it was carrying detached as planned from the rocket. While there's nothing particularly rare about the 5,500 pounds of cargo strapped into that spacecraft — which is destined for the International Space Station — the pad it took off from has quite a backstory: Launch Complex 39 A was the site that sent the first humans to the moon in the 1969 Apollo 11 mission. It was the pad for a number of NASA's most important missions — from its early days sending people to space, to the three decades of the space shuttle program. A Liftoff Deferred: Space X Mission From NASA's Historic Launch Pad Delayed. Now the pad, which hadn't been used since that program ended in 2011, is getting dusted off for a new era "as a spaceport open for use by public — ...

Spacex Moves To Launch First-ever Private Mission To The Moon

... broadcast a message back from the moon at Christmastime. So in some ways, you could say, well, so what? We've already done it. But we haven't done it in 45 years. SHAPIRO: (Laughter). GREENFIELDBOYCE: And if you want to start going back out into space, you've got to start somewhere. And going around the moon and back is actually - you know, as space missions go, it's, quote, unquote, "easy" compared to, say, landing on the moon or going to Mars or going to an asteroid. SHAPIRO: So bottom line, do you think humans will return to the moon next year. GREENFIELDBOYCE: Next year, that would be a pretty ambitious deadline. But you know, with both NASA and Space X having the same goal to do a mission around the moon, in the next few years, I wouldn't bet against it. SHAPIRO: NPR's Nell Greenfieldboyce, thanks. GREENFIELDBOYCE: Thank you. (SOUNDBITE OF BONOBO SONG, "KERALA"). Copyright © 2017 NPR. All rights reserved. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at __link__ for further information. NPR transcripts are created on a rush ...

Spacex Aborts Launch To The Iss Seconds Before Liftoff, But Might Try Again Tomorrow

... just finished looking at Space X’s potential to ferry humans to the ISS. The report, released on Thursday, detailed concerns over some cracked turbine fuel pumps—an old issue, already being fixed. But that’s not likely to soothe anyone with lingering concerns that this company is struggling to overcome technical difficulties. In the short term, the only real indication will come on Saturday, when the Falcon 9 leaves behind either a swirl of smoke or a smoldering heap of metal. Late last summer, Space X had been riding high on its back to back (to back to back) Falcon 9 barge landings. It was planning to increase its launch tempo, up to two rocket launches a month, and hoped to do a test flight of its anticipated Falcon Heavy rocket. CEO Elon Musk was even billed to speak at a fall conference about his long term ambitions to start a colony on Mars. But the September 2016 explosion, which destroyed a $200 million satellite, put a limp in Space X’s swagger. The company paused all launches (and landings) to ...

Big Permanent Moonbase By 2021 Using Spacex And Bigelow Has Been The Obvious Non-corrupt Choice For Years

... a massive waste of money. The combined development cost of the SLS and Orion will be at least $30 billion - or about $3 billion a year spread out over at least 10 years. If you consider the operational life cycle of the program will be 30 years, similar to the Space Shuttle, then, assuming just one launch per year, the pro-rated cost is $1 billion a year. That's just for development - it does not include operating costs. Again at just one launch per year, the annualized development and maintenance cost of SLS - excluding any development costs for specialized cargo or Upper Stage components - would be at least $3 billion. And we're still missing the actual production costs of the SLS launch vehicle and the Orion capsule, estimates of which are around $1 billion each. Bloom points out that. If NASA ditched the Space Launch System and the Orion, it would free up three billion dollars a year. That budget could speed the Moon-readiness of Bigelow’s landing vehicles, not to mention Space X’s Falcon rockets and could pay for lunar enhancements to manned Dragon 2 capsules. In fact, three billion dollars a year is far greater than what Bigelow and Musk would need. That ...

Spacex Could Beat Nasa Back To The Moon

... on a crewed Dragon spacecraft, launched with a Falcon Heavy rocket, around the moon near the end of 2018. This would follow on the heels of the company's robotic and  crewed flights to the International Space Station , and an uncrewed Falcon Heavy moon trip. NASA's own mission, which would be the first crewed flight using the SLS and its new Orion spacecraft, is scheduled for 2021. NASA recently began an investigation into whether it could put astronauts on SLS and Orion's first launch, scheduled for 2018 — but officials have said that a crewed version of that launch wouldn't fly until 2019. Assuming Space X is on schedule, its fly-around would come first. [ Space X Falcon Heavy to Be Reusable (Video) ]. Space X going first "might change the acceptable-risk discussions NASA has with the ASAP [Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel]," Scott Hubbard, researcher in the Stanford University Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, told __link__. "I could imagine that if this independent entrepreneur has done it, and successfully identified the risk factors, it would be real information, not speculation.". "Others might then ask about [the] need for SLS and ...

Watching Spacex Make History At Pad 39a

... Amy __link__. For this launch, I was lucky enough to snag a coveted spot atop the VAB roof. As the largest single-story structure in the world, the VAB stands 525 feet tall (160 meters), and it's incredibly difficult to gauge how massive the building is until you are walking through it. The building was previously used to mate space shuttle orbiters with their boosters and external fuel tanks for before flight. Before the shuttle launches, the building was originally designed to assemble the stages of the 363-foot (110 m) Saturn V rockets that launched astronauts to the moon. A view of new SLS platforms being installed in the VAB's High Bay 3. Credit: Amy __link__. Once inside, I could feel the history and promise for the future as we passed by crews working to upgrade the building to support NASA's heavy-lift rocket — the Space Launch System (SLS) — and other future endeavors. About two-dozen journalists made the trek to the roof. First, we hopped on a service elevator that ...

Spacex Plans To Shoot Tourists Around The Moon

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Spacex Mission Highlights ‘golden Age’ Of Space Science Research

... space-flight market previously monopolized by NASA contractors Boeing Co. and Lockheed Martin. Only since 2015 has billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, who founded Space X 14 years ago, been able to snag lucrative government contracts after suing the U. S. Air Force for the opportunity to bid on them. Since then, Space X — the first commercial U. S. rocket maker to dock at the ISS and return reusable rocket boosters from orbit — has been handed several government jobs. The company can launch loads into orbit at a fraction of the cost of the legacy rocket builders. This mission is dubbed CRS-10 because it is Space X’s 10 th commercial resupply trip to the ISS on behalf of NASA, which has 10 more planned contracted deliveries through 2019 with the Hawthorne company. “It might be a commercial vehicle, but there is a lot of government and private science on board,” Shotwell said. “It is a hybrid launch — a government ...