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Then you know nothing of NASA and it's history
NASA hired private companies to engineer and design their early rockets? I thought Wernher von Braun engineered the Saturn V rocket after NASA borrowed him from thew Nazi's
These days NASA doesn’t even build the payloads.
I need to jump on this rocket company spacewagon. Claude, make me a space rocket. Using only lisp, if and regex statements.
You didn't add "make no mistakes" so that first test burn will probably blow up the pad, but now you know.
This mission is an orbital science mission studying Mars' atmosphere, not the same objective as SpaceX's long-term goal of sending large cargo and eventually humans to Mars. So I think the title might be taking the piss just a smidge.
I don't assume "Mars mission" to necessarily mean cargo for settlement or humans. In fact, that all seems quite distant at this point, so I ignore it entirely unless specific concrete actions occur. So for many people like myself, the title is perfectly reasonable. The world does not revolve around SpaceX and its purported plans.
This mission is an orbital science mission studying Mars' atmosphere, not the same objective as SpaceX's long-term goal of sending large cargo and eventually humans to Mars. So I think the title might be taking the piss just a smidge.
"NASA picks Eric Schmidt's rocket company for Mars mission" comes no where close to implying it was a manned mission while absolutely being accurate in it's a rocket company being selected for a mission going to Mars. You're reading into it a manned mission.
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> a spacecraft to house a suite of scientific instruments
Second sentence of the article.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_V Manufacturer: Boeing (S-IC), North American (S-II), Douglas (S-IVB)
This is a disingenuous statement. The Saturn V[f] is a retired American super heavy-lift launch vehicle developed by NASA under the Apollo program for human exploration of the Moon. NASA is not developing Relativity Space's rocket. "On Tuesday, NASA said it hired the company to build a spacecraft to house a suite of scientific instruments, launch it into space, and fly it to Mars." Plus, George Mueller, who managed t…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mueller_(engineer)#NASA...
> Borrowing from the US Air Force Minuteman program, Mueller formed the Apollo Executive Group, which consisted of himself and the presidents of Apollo's main contractors.
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I don't assume "Mars mission" to necessarily mean cargo for settlement or humans. In fact, that all seems quite distant at this point, so I ignore it entirely unless specific concrete actions occur. So for many people like myself, the title is perfectly reasonable. The world does not revolve around SpaceX and its purported plans.
By that logic the Russians won the space race pretty completely.
Russia were first to almost every other milestone, first orbit, first man in orbit, first woman in orbit, first EVA, first moon orbit, first (unmanned) moon landing, and many others.
Edited "Russians" to Soviets because lot was done by non-Russian parts of the union, my original reply just mirrored the OP use of Russians.