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Dalty wrote:Modern fighter pilots!
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He's back!
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I now have two favourite Falcon spaceships....

https://www.theguardian.com/science/201 ... ida-launch
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There's your flying car, by the way.

Well, falling with style.
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I....guess?

Not just that, but a flying car in space! Just like my main man Centauri from The Last Starfighter.

Kinda. But not really.
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But have to wonder, how is the paint job gonna stand up to the harsh environment of outer space? Hard vacuum, extremes of temperature, cosmic and solar radiation. Micrometeoroids! :o

Hope they installed that TruCoat at the factory.
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This was interesting: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg ... -to-space/

For years I've been seeing space vehicles in science fiction take off from the ground and rocket into orbit without an apparent fuel source--in stark contrast to actual rockets, which are about 80-90 per cent fuel. I always figured, "ah well, perhaps someday, someone, somewhere will invent a super-efficient-fusioney-plasma-thingy-type engine that can do just that." Plasma-ion drives are frequently invoked as a likely propulsion system for use in deep space itself, but it now seems that we may see them replace chemical rockets here on Earth.
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I've been following this guy's vlog for awhile now. He seems pretty knowledgeable and has a cool shirt collection.

NASA's new Space Station:

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This isn't strictly "Space News", but it is about 3-D printing as it applies to industrial design and construction--and concludes with a 3-D printed rocket fuel tank and engine test for NASA.

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Virgin Galactic just keeps chugging along...

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They've been trying to get this exact concept off the ground since the Superman Returns days, right?
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Pretty much.

In fairness, you have to understand their reasons. They want to build a passenger-based business with impeccable safety and reliability. They're not going to be launching professional astronauts or replaceable satellites; they're going to be launching dentists and lawyers and actors and upper-middle-class suburban homeowners. Everyday people, more or less. Successful everyday people.

They have to get it right, even if it takes a bit longer. Or it will all be for nothing.
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Even to a guy like me, that's cold.:

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Here's a pretty amusing exchange between Elon Musk and Existential Comics:

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I guess the headline here is, libertarians shouldn't worship Elon Musk.
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Not actually news, but a good retrospective on what might have been, once. I remember being really into the X-33/Venture Star story while it was unfolding, twenty years ago. It seemed like a sure thing, killed off by politics. Looking back I think it might have been too far ahead of it's time--much as the Shuttle itself, frankly.

Cool-looking ship, though.

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Who else remembers the 80's?

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It was acceptable in the 80s. It was acceptable at the time.
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Well, we had the best cartoons back then. fact
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Oh, and Calvin Harris.
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Not actually space news, but relevant to Space Tycoon's interests (i.e., Where's my damn flying car!!):
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One step at a time.
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That doesn't have anything to do with flying cars. I just wanted to post it.
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Man. Time flies.

Even if cars (currently) don't.
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