As last module docks, China completes its space station
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#3For some pictures check
https://english.news.cn/20221101/9c24720a1d7e4a71ac112a69572...
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#4Last week I stood outside my apartment and watched Tiangong fly across the sky[0]. What an incredible time to be alive.
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#5Last week I stood outside my apartment and watched Tiangong fly across the sky[0]. What an incredible time to be alive. [0] https://james.darpinian.com/satellites/
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#7Now let's hope it will inspire more countries, or even companies, to launch their own!
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#8I hope mankind can move beyond building space stations as a handful of modular small cylinders, and start building space stations the way they appear in science fiction: dozens of rooms, cubical exteriors, hallways, human height doors that open and close, stairs, elevators, hangars, a nuclear reactor instead of solar panels, and modules that rotate around an axis to create artificial gravity. And a more diversified color scheme than all white, which is sterile.
I would like to see this:
https://media.istockphoto.com/photos/futuristic-architecture...
https://t3.ftcdn.net/jpg/04/77/75/80/360_F_477758033_1n2FBtz...
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#9I hope mankind can move beyond building space stations as a handful of modular small cylinders, and start building space stations the way they appear in science fiction: dozens of rooms, cubical exteriors, hallways, human height doors that open and close, stairs, elevators, hangars, a nuclear reactor instead of solar panels, and modules that rotate around an axis to create artificial gravity. And a more diversified c…
Some more recent launch providers are focusing on greatly lowering $/kg to orbit, which is an absolutely necessary step for such visions.
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the space race sent us to the moon. I'm grateful for the progress we have made and am eager to contribute my bit to the future