Zwei private Astronauten unternahmen am Donnerstagmorgen einen Weltraumspaziergang – ja, es war historisch | „Der heutige Erfolg stellt einen riesigen Schritt nach vorne für die kommerzielle Raumfahrtindustrie dar.“

Commercial space industry, what a sentence. Meanwhile on earth several problems still exist

I love space, utterly adore it with every fiber of my being but truly we must focus on making earth better. The inflation we are paying for is lining the pockets of rich guys going to space. I’m in Business Financials and if we let billionaires space travel on our extorted dime then space travel will only ever be for the elite.

Yea, normal ppl with normal problems dont care what private billionaires, who got their wealth by causing those problems for said normal people, are doing. How can you have any pudding if you havent eat your meat.

Wow, this sub is cranky this morning. At worst, this is a capabilities expansion for the world’s most reliable launch system. In theory, the ability to do spacewalks from Dragon could allow for repairs to other satellites like Hubble (though my understanding is that NASA has said no to that idea for the time being).

The fact that it’s being funded by a billionaire just means our tax dollars are being saved. It’s hard for me to see this anything but a resounding success.

If you’re wondering why people are having a hard time getting excited about this, it’s unfortunately pretty simple: the company is owned by one of the biggest shitstains on Earth. SpaceX has achieved absolutely incredible things and is a US national treasure, but as long as it is associated with the king of creepy, it will be tainted. 

We have a poem here, it’s called “Whitey On The Moon”
It was inspired by some whiteys on the moon
So I wanna give credit where credit is due

A rat done bit my sister Nell
With whitey on the moon
Her face and arms began to swell
And whitey’s on the moon
I can’t pay no doctor bills
But whitey’s on the moon
Ten years from now I’ll be payin’ still
While whitey’s on the moon
The man just upped my rent last night
Cause whitey’s on the moon
No hot water, no toilets, no lights
But whitey’s on the moon
I wonder why he’s upping me?
Cause whitey’s on the moon?
Well I was already giving him fifty a week
With whitey on the moon
Taxes taking my whole damn check
Junkies making me a nervous wreck
The price of food is going up
And as if all that shit wasn’t enough:
A rat done bit my sister Nell
With whitey on the moon
Her face and arm began to swell
And whitey’s on the moon
Was all that money I made last year
For whitey on the moon?
How come I ain’t got no money here?
Hmm! Whitey’s on the moon
Y’know I just ’bout had my fill
Of whitey on the moon
I think I’ll send these doctor bills
Airmail special
To whitey on the moon

This is huge, pretty soon we might see private missions to the Moon.

I really hope this is possible for normal people in <30 years