Space News thread

[Takeovers]

Apologies if posted before ...

These are mostly in the On to Mars thread. Not sure about this one, there are many different ones.

SpaceX - On to Mars

Many explosions in that phase of the test campaign. It made NASA confident enough to give SpaceX the Artemis Moon lander contract, intended to bring people back to the Moon. Including the first women to the Moon. Artemis is the sister of Apollo in greek mythology.

[Takeovers]

An interesting video about work of Russian Cosmonauts on a spacewalk, cutting into insulation to locate the hole in a Soyuz orbital module. The hole they later blamed on a female US astronaut they said was mentally instable.

A NASA interpreter translated Russian dialog.

Ground Control to the Cosmonaut saying something like "We know you are frustrated, but try to stay calm" while he hacked away on the insulation layer.



I think it is time for NASA to think about how to operate the ISS without the Russians. They are increasingly erratic and error prone, their equipment is breaking down.