The "year in space" was not a year long, which is sort of funny.

You need energy to create anti matter, it is essentially a really Fanny battery.

What do you think a ground based solution is?

Because an orbital tug is definitely not ground based.

It will be 30 years old at the time of decommissioning, it already has several permanent leaks.

We totally should fund commercial leo though so that replacements are up by 2030, but this budget request asks for no additional funding for that.

Are you for real?

Genius, now we only need to get all the other guys onboard.

Let me check, China, Russia,India, France...

Yeah, no problems there.

UN frameworks are adhered to in the vast majority of cases. The Kyoto protocol f.eks. was actually overachieved by everyone that didn't leave it.

ULA has already sold over 40 launches to Amazon.

Costumers are not an issue at the moment.

You are seriously overestimating the number of Russian ASAT ca0able missiles.

See it like growing up, as a Kid we are unseprable from our mom, but as we grow it we move on.

We still love our mom, and we will visits, and make phone calls, but one day, without really noticing, 'Home' becomes where we are, not where we came from.

Earth will always be special to us, but that does not mean we can't or shouldn't grow beyond her.

94 books? That's a lot isn't it?

If the US reformed their healthcare system to one like Germany, they would be able to spend more, not less money on defense.

So far the US are the only Nation to make Outer Solar system probes.

You can say many things about it, but the US has done more for planetary science than the rest of the world combined.

I thought this was going to be the Sattelite :(

But that is the ESA announcement, he was the best qualified applicant for the para-astronaut position.

Representation is more media fluff, him being disabled was a criteria for the job.

Both is true, ESA wants to investigate how different disabilities affect people in space, and so they set out to find people with physical disabilities that were best suited for Astronaut work.

We gotta learn from somewhere, and as Spacetravel becomes safer, we can send people with less narrow requirements than traditional Astronauts.

It used to be that Astronauts couldn't wear glasses, but now they can.

If we make it to an interplanetary civilization we will make it to an interstellar one aswell, i am sure of it.

Once you have a big enough spin habitat ain't nothing stopping you from acellerating it somewhere new.

Of course, the Reason people don't want uncontrolled rocket reentries is because of the evil Amerikansky Military Industrial Complex.

Priviet Comrade, take your little red book and continue to spread the good word.

Valid criticism of China not doing the Bare minimum for Safety with their rockets is apparently demonizing these days.

A 3 hour long Mastodont of a slow burn that will leave you wondering just how many recordings of dustdevils are necessary to understand that arabia is a desert.

The mammoths were not flashfrozen they just froze to death normally, usually in ditches.