"Firefly is the prime contractor for lunar delivery services using Blue Ghost landers." Cool! Now we can start cluttering up the moon with garbage, too!
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Firefly ‘Blue Ghost’ lunar lander touches down on the moon
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Re: Firefly ‘Blue Ghost’ lunar lander touches down on the moon
#32Here are the pictures it has taken so far: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fireflyspace/albums/7217772031... There's also a cool lunar flyover video taken during final deorbit.
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#33Hell yeah! It would be very cool if we are able to properly colonize the moon in my lifetime. Even if we don't have humans living there like in Futurama (as cool as that would be), it would be unbelievably cool if we have constant back-and-forth trips to the moon. Or we could just blow it up, which might be fun in its own right: https://youtu.be/GTJ3LIA5LmA
There is no reason for humans to ever return to the moon. The cost and risks are not justified. Drones and robots can do anything that needs to be done. They don’t need to breathe, they don’t need to sleep, or eat.
But if we are to go more interesting places... shouldn't we have down breathing, eating, and sleeping on the moon so well that it isn't much of a cost or a risk? It's inherently a good testing ground for things we need to do reliably much further later.
Imagine if we never built ISS because putting a space station in Earth's orbit was a solved problem...
Re: Firefly ‘Blue Ghost’ lunar lander touches down on the moon
#34Here are the pictures it has taken so far: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fireflyspace/albums/7217772031... There's also a cool lunar flyover video taken during final deorbit.
Flickr? Moon landing? What year is it?
Re: Firefly ‘Blue Ghost’ lunar lander touches down on the moon
#35Truly incredible!
Re: Firefly ‘Blue Ghost’ lunar lander touches down on the moon
#36Congrats to everyone involved! I planned to watch the live stream but wasn't able to. The moment of successful landing was quite modest, only a mostly-static screen with telemetrics was shown to the public, but it absolutely felt magical. It feels like the moon is well within humankind's reach by now. Coincidentally, I found a copy of Uchu Kyodai (by Chuya Koyama) in my local library, and started reading it recently.…
> It feels like the moon is well within humankind's reach by now. It has been for the last 65 years. ;)
Yeah that's true, but I haven't really experienced the Apollo era personally. After the "gap" between the old space race, and the new race inspired by private space agencies, I do feel we are getting closer, to the moon at least.
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#37Anyone know if they flew over the site of the Apollo 11 lunar module landing? Surely they'd do it just for the publicity and ability to shut up Joe Rogan and the other nutjobs that consider that landing fake.
Theres no level of evidence they will accept. They have thought terminating cliches for everything.
Re: Firefly ‘Blue Ghost’ lunar lander touches down on the moon
#38Congrats to everyone involved! I planned to watch the live stream but wasn't able to. The moment of successful landing was quite modest, only a mostly-static screen with telemetrics was shown to the public, but it absolutely felt magical. It feels like the moon is well within humankind's reach by now. Coincidentally, I found a copy of Uchu Kyodai (by Chuya Koyama) in my local library, and started reading it recently.…
> It feels like the moon is well within humankind's reach by now. It has been for the last 65 years. ;)
It's now within reach for a medium sized corporation, largely ignored by humankind.
That's huge progress!
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#39Horray!
Also:
- Wow but the moon is 3D. Like, when we see shots of Earth, the ground always looks so flat, but the depth of the craters and the heights of the ridges is really, really amazing to see
- ...KSP did a really good job mimicking the real thing
Re: Firefly ‘Blue Ghost’ lunar lander touches down on the moon
#40Horray! Also: - Wow but the moon is 3D. Like, when we see shots of Earth, the ground always looks so flat, but the depth of the craters and the heights of the ridges is really, really amazing to see - ...KSP did a really good job mimicking the real thing
insert flat-moon comment here