Moon Base
(Graphic h/t Frank) Are we within two years of a manned landing on the Moon again?
Artemis I: The uncrewed test flight of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft was successfully launched on November 16, 2022.
Artemis II:
The first crewed mission around the Moon is scheduled to launch in April 2026.
Artemis V: Docking with the European Space Agency’s ESPRIT, Canada’s Canadarm3, and NASA’s Lunar Terrain Vehicle, planned for early 2030.
Artemis VI: Docking, which is expected to integrate the Crew and Science Airlock with the Lunar Gateway station, is scheduled for early 2031.
I harbor concerns over Boeing’s involvement. It’s not that I’m anti-Boeing, but they seem to have a problem doing the most minor things and are paid thousands of times what they are worth. They’ve struggled since Boeing embraced DEI as job one and canned many people who made them great.
While NASA is moving ponderously toward the Moon, with SpaceX involvement, SpaceX is more focused on putting an American on Mars and returning them safely to Earth, paving the way for a permanent presence on another planet.
In Search of Enlightenment
The Seven Seas Secret Society is a secret club where members must urinate in every sea on Earth to gain full enlightenment. The universe’s secrets will be revealed mysteriously after their world urination tour. Because it’s a secret society and I’m not a member, I can’t share the code words, handshakes, and other stuff (like which brand of beer they prefer) with you here on this blog. I can’t imagine having a urination society that doesn’t favor Fosters, Guiness, or some other brand over the many available. Their motto: Wherever ye be, let yer pee flow free has sort of a pirate cast to it
I was silently ticking off bodies of water where I’ve contributed to the volume, and I’m still missing a few, which is why I’m not fully enlightened. This may be it if you seek a bucket list worthy of honorable mention. You can have it carved into your tombstone. Check it out: Here Lies DRJIM, who pissed in every ocean… It’s big. (Note: URT conceived of this particular bucket list – promising it as the path to enlightenment as a 2025 April Fool’s joke — but we here at VM take it seriously all the same.) Enlightenment is everyone’s business.
Bullet Points:
** President Donald Trump has pardoned Navy veteran Thomas Caldwell, whose sentence already was commuted for his convictions stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021, protest at the U.S. Capitol. I know Tom Caldwell and read the indictment when the US Attorney initially issued it. I reported on it here at VM. Caldwell was entrapped, for want of a better word, by the FBI in this matter. The pardon was completely appropriate. Tom isn’t a friend, and I haven’t seen or communicated with him in thirty years. One of his attorneys is a personal friend. Hopefully, the culture of the FBI will change with new leadership.
** DOD Review – The memo ordering the review, released by Defense Department officials on Monday, calls for a redefinition of combat arms occupations and non-combat roles. It lists three military specialties “requiring heightened entry-level and sustained physical fitness.” For ground combat operations, standards must include “the ability to carry heavy loads, endure prolonged physical exertion, and perform effectively in austere, hostile environments.” For special operations forces, the standards will incorporate “advanced swimming, climbing, parachuting, and the ability to operate in extreme environments,” as well as “sustained peak physical performance.” And for specialized operations, the memo calls for a focus on “proficiency in those unique and demanding tasks such as aquatic rescue, repair, and demolition.” “All entry-level and sustained physical fitness requirements within combat arms positions must be sex-neutral, based solely on the operational demands of the occupation and the readiness needed to confront any adversary,” the memo states. It continues, “In establishing those standards, the secretaries of the military departments may not establish standards that would result in any existing service member being held to a lower standard.” Can women in the US Military meet these standards, or have they been fudged (gun decked – as we say in the Navy) for the sake of DEI?
** Even though the vast benefit of an open Red Sea goes to Europe, no European is to be seen. Keeping the sea lanes open for Europe is seen (by Europe) as solely an American task. Why is this?
** (link) Military service academy alumni are working to try and keep trannies in military leadership roles. The Trump Administration has made trannies nervous in the service with many of them having been involuntarily separated. VM considers having trannies in leadership or other roles in the US Military to be an abomination – just so we’re clear on where this blog stands. “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” was the policy that banned gay, lesbian, and bisexual troops from serving openly and was repealed in 2011. Before 2011, homosexuality was a cause for involuntary separation. The Trump Administration has not sought to overturn that policy.
** The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) issued evacuation orders for Rafah, the southernmost city in Gaza, and surrounding areas on Monday. A military spokesperson said that IDF forces are “returning to fight with great force to eliminate the capabilities of terror organizations in these areas.” The move followed the IDF’s expanded ground operations against Hamas in Rafah over the weekend. About a fifth of Gaza is now covered by evacuation orders, as Israel resumes operations in the enclave in the wake of the collapsed U.S.-brokered ceasefire and hostage release deal.
** Secretary of State Marco Rubio estimates he’s revoked about 300 student visas. “They’re visitors to the country. If they’re taking activities counter to our foreign –to our national interest, to our foreign policy, we’ll revoke the visa,” Rubio said to reporters last week. They haven’t gotten around to Chinese students attending universities in the US who are spies – yet. I hope that will be forthcoming.
** (h/t Claudio) Denmark is acquiring naval mines to prop up its defenses (more here). It’s a good start, but purchasing a few hundred or so sea mines is, at best, an anemic thrust. While a contract for the mine-laying system is still pending, the new sea mines will likely be deployed from the local company SH Defence’s modular minelayer, fitted aboard the Royal Danish Navy’s future patrol ships. Defending approaches to Denmark will require thousands of naval mines.
** The GOP-led states of Idaho and Missouri removed nearly 300,000 registrations from their voter rolls after finding inactive, ineligible, or deceased voters, duplicates, and voters who moved. Non-citizens ineligible to vote under those states’ laws have also been removed.
Small Arms News
Recently released – and they’re flying off the shelves.
You’re a Pee-in (European) Enlightenment
“So here we are again. A single judge trying to decide the fate of the leading candidate in a forthcoming election. A first instance court judge in Paris immediately banned Marine Le Pen from public office for five years. She cannot run in the next presidential election unless Le Pen gets this verdict overturned before 2027. We hear this kind of news from Russia and, more recently, from Turkey, but it is also increasing in the EU.
In Romania, the constitutional court also banned the leading candidate. Le Pen can’t appeal this ban, only the verdict itself. The ban is provisional because a final ruling has to confirm the verdict after the appeals process, which could conclude after the 2027 elections. The provisional ban thus has political consequences even if she were to be cleared in the final ruling.
Marine Le Pen now has a choice: to go along with the process, hoping that the constitutional court or her appeals process will clear her in time for her run for president in 2027. Or she could turn this into a constitutional crisis. If it were me, I’d go for the crisis. Never let a good crisis go to waste. They could JFK/RFK/Epstein/Patton/Foster/Rich her – there is ample precedent. It was tried with Pres. Trump but failed – they could miss. Before 1815, Napoleon had conquered most of Europe and was on his way to being the King of the Eastern Hemisphere, but he was ultimately defeated. Afterward, Napoleon was sent to a private prison island, Saint Helena, where it’s still debated what ended him. I think the British did what they often did – some call it the Clinton Gambit.
If it weren’t so disgraceful, it would be humorous—these frigging EU countries, slandering Pres. Trump, calling him a dictator and then, like the progressive Dems in the US, take a popular candidate off the ballot? Are they using Colorado as their example? She is a threat to these French authoritarian socialists. She is much like Pres. Trump, and they are terrified of her. Nice job, France. Maybe we should return the Statue of Liberty since you don’t believe in democracy or liberty.
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Identify the Aircraft
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462 built – hint – referred to by some as the “flying jock strap.” Does that mean that only a jock can sit in the cockpit? I take no position on that. It is what it is.
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Parting Shot
Luxury feel, like you’re on vacation in Florida at an affordable price –
Gator population in the US
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I just learned that the actor Val Kilmer passed away yesterday (1959-2025). I heard that he’d been ill for some time. RIP – I enjoyed his acting/art.
A fine actor. He was the best Doc Holiday.
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May he rest in peace.
Sad to hear about Kilmer, a good actor.
Barrett is now owned by Nioa Trading the same Australian gun company I mentioned on Sunday. They had shares and bought 100% in January 2024
They retained the brand name. Take a long look at that graphic.
Saw that…but today is the 2nd, otherwise known in Denmark as “Extended April Fools Day”. The Danes, anything for a party.
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But the release date was April 1
Typo – January 23
Identify the Aircraft:
1. Saab Safari
2. Finnish UC-35A
3. Finnish Pilatus PC-12
4. Finnish RUAG Ranger
If they made a floatplane version, would it be the Surfin’ Safari?
– Kle.
Groan
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1. Saab MFI-17
2. Bombardier Learjet 35
3. Pilatus PC-12
4. RUAG Ranger, Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (TUAV).
The Seven Seas Society being somewhat impractical for most folks, how about a Seven Politicians Graves Society instead? “See America First” and all that. LBJ immediately comes to mind, maybe Feinstein, Wilson and FDR. Better ideas welcome. I suppose the list could be updated as certain living candidates well deserving of the honor naturally assume room temperature in the coming years. Seven may not be enough……….
> assume room temperature
Why wait until then?
The only problem is that a few of them might like it.
And it would be ENTIRELY wrong to come up with a list of persons whose names begin with the letter P. I would have to repudiate and disavow someone who was so tasteless as to say something like “Paul Pelosi, Pete Buttigieg, Jared Polis, …” and so forth.
Most of them would indeed enjoy it, Mike; you have correctly identified the problem with an early start.
>a manned landing on the Moon again?
AGAIN? Are you sure we EVER landed on the Moon?
I jest, I make the japes, but considering how much of what I was taught (in a top tier public skool system, yet) is … other than true, as the song “Kodachrome” goes:
When I think back / On all the crap I learned in high school / It’s a wonder / I can think at all
But remember, kids: the “Civil War” was fought to free the slaves; the Crusades were totally unprovoked Christian aggression against peace-loving innocents; Sirhan Sirhan was just a crazy Palestinian who acted entirely alone. Which brings us to the next thing.
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>They could JFK/RFK/Epstein/Patton/Foster/Rich her [Le Pen]
Did anyone give her a gold pager (totally not a power move/threat) or anything like that as a warning? I picked up a copy of “Killing Patton” at the used book shop the other day. Likely to be my inflight read Friday. I’m not necessarily a Patton fan, but damned if the man wasn’t right about at least a few things. (And I’m very curious to see how Kratman/Ezell/Watson move forward in their Alt History series where the Romanovs are NOT all murdered. Patton is introduced – as a character – in the second novel. It’s always interesting to see how people handle the fact that the Russian Revolution was not really led by Russians. Speaking of “crap learned in high school”.) And as far as the Kennedys go, I was always put off by the “Camelot” bullshit [1], and the “ask not” speech [2], but the more I learn about JFK and RFK, the more favorably inclined I am toward them [3].
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>If it were me, I’d go for the crisis.
Yes. Better to attack than defend, in this sort of thing. Le Pen repudiated her father and political mentor, presumably to appease certain extremely powerful elements. As the famous line from Dodgeball goes, “It’s a bold strategy, Marine. Let’s see if it pays off for her.” There can NEVER be enough appeasement. So why bother?
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[1] Camelot from a married guy who was boinking various women-not-his-wife in the White House. When I was younger I cared much more about “moral propriety” on the part of our rulers. These days, I don’t give a crap if DJT banged Stormy Daniels or not, so long as he is competent in his actual job. That said, I still (perhaps naively) hate HYPOCRISY. I particularly despise anyone who claims to be weak and oppressed and thus deserving of special protected status when the truth is that they are powerful and themselves the oppressors. Also, I now find it funny that the Philomena Cunk bit on King Arthur might have better applied to JFK.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joliQvfCCqg
[2] “Ask not what your country can do for you”. Yeah, I get the rhetorical device, setting up the next line, but to my ear it’s like going to a restaurant for dinner and hearing the manager say “Don’t think of taking the silverware home.” Meaning I never even THOUGHT of asking “what can my country do for me.”
[3] Same with RFK Jr. I still don’t know what to think of the guy, but enough people I KNOW I don’t care for hate and fear him, so he’s good for at least that. (And his story of hitchhiking home after a party as a 15-yo and being given LSD by some kid who picked him up is weird/wild. Is there a curse on the Kennedys? Or is it that Some People have a hate-boner for them?)
Perfect Mike. Me as well…never even think of what my country can do for me…doesn’t ever cross my mind other than national security. But Dems/LibsLeft…they do…wake up everyday prepping for their next angst-driven protest at [fill in the inane blank]…gotta maintain the power and freebie tofu gravy train at all cost. R’s shower once or even twice a day, head to work without thinking so much about government, assuming that’s even possible anymore.
I would like my country to PAVE THE GODDAMN ROADS for me,
since I pay them to do that.
– Kle.
That smacks of white privilage. I’m sure the roads you’re discussing are traversed by white people.
Non, non, no…that tax money you pay in for “county services” none of us normals have access because we wouldn’t…things like mental health services for trans people, bike lanes in under served areas like colleges, food island funding, etc. You know, important stuff like that. But properly paved roads? Pfft, that’s too much to ask.
Seven Seas Secret Society…so why did I immediately hear Julie Andrews “Climb every mountain” in my head…the tune just fits.
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Denmark will never go for the crisis approach, they are too busy celebrating Extended April Fools/Liberation Day to be bothered with something this important, like national security when surrounded by water access.
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Speaking of important, the Dems spent 92 million for ONE Wisconsin SC seat…they know, and we know what they will do: a corrupt bunch of scumbags. The Commie in a Black Robe won, by 13 points…while seven R-heavy counties ran out of ballots, following the AZ election tactics. Stolen? Would anyone be surprised? This is the newly enhanced tactic of “activism from the bench” to maintain power from the basement upwards. The France thing is infuriating…in the old days that judge would be…well…nuf said….but the cheaters will do anything…are doing everything…to cheat.
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Heard the news of Val Kilmer as well..65, my age-ish…way too young. Had struggled with throat cancer for a while. RIP Val, your scene in Maverick was spot on and we all appreciated the effort.
The Seven Seas Secret Society; I nominate the local brew ” Shiner Bock” SPOETZL from Shiner Texas. My appentency is to somehow be found worthy of a V.M. challenge coin. How could I die better than to be implored on here by y’all to be living fearlessly against overwhelming odds?
Once you’re enlightened, you get a coin? It would provide an incentive to become enlightened.
Seven Seas Society ? If that is just Oceans , Hell I may be a “member at large” , if it includes all Seas , nope , too many seas, my travel agent and gross tonnage wouldn’t allow that .
I know boats…you’ve pissed more salt water than we’ve sailed over.
I take it that flying over them while using the lav at an appropriate time wouldn’t count. The older planes with relief tubes should surely qualify though.
No, that would be cheating.
And I was thinking OldNFO….
Pictured T shirt reminded me of Izod brand using an alligator emblem on T-shirts, socks, key fobs and probably underwear to identify it’s preppy products in the 70’s. Became very popular items worn by “want-a-be”preppies trying to move into the white collar ranks at our company’s headquarters.
Being a Red Neck, I Ioved the “make fun of Izod” movement that started shortly afterward. It had a dead alligator, belly up, tongue hanging out of it’s mouth embroidered over the left chest. Bought several and wore them to out of office employee functions. Needless to say I was treated like the skunk who showed up at a banquet, but I loved every moment of it.
We do have 1 gator in Idaho at Miracle Hot Springs. Can’t wait to piss on Jane Fonda’s grave.
Don’t just piss on Fonda’s grave. Pour Roundup on it.
Might even be flammable too…then salt it.
“…I can’t share the code words, handshakes, and other stuff…” Maybe it’s not the hands they’re shaking. Just saying.
That’s disturbing, but you need to shake the anaconda if for no other reason than good hygiene.
Artemis presents big problems. A single SLS (Boeing’s monster) launch is over $4 billion, while a Falcon Heavy lifts about half the payload but costs a little more than ONE of the four Space Shuttle Main Engines on an SLS. A ride to orbit on a Falcon Heavy costs roughly $180 million while the SSMEs are closer to $140 million each – over half a billion just for the engines.
How do they get around that? It would take a lot of rework to get the Orion capsule onto the FH, but it seems like it has to be simpler than starting over. The problem is they keep dumping money into SLS and I’ve got to believe if DOGE looked into it they’d find a lot of that $4 billion per launch gets funneled back to certain politicians. It looks like China gets the to the moon before we get back.
If you’ve peed in one ocean, you’ve already peed in them all.
Honestly, if you’ve peed almost anywhere, you’ve already peed in all the oceans.
I will leave the math on the time delay to completion to some of our learned
participants.
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I confess I am not nearly man enough for a .50BMG AR. I’d be happy to watch
from a safe distance, though.
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It would be nice if the FBI became less treasonous, and I think executions would
encourage it.
– Kle.
Re the European suppression of inconvenient candidates in the name of “democracy”: reminds me of the Tom Wolfe quote about “one of the great unexplained phenomena of modern astronomy: namely, that the dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in Europe.”
I had two gators in an adjacent property(600 acres) in a 15 acre pond in Southern Alabama. I had a 10 acre goat farm which included a butchering station for people to process their purchase. I would have the customers dump the offal in a wheel barrow and then I would take that back through a man gate back to the pond. As I approached the pond I would observe where the gators where and if on the other side I would dump the barrow at the edge of the pond, if not it got dumped on the trail and I would hoof it back ricki tick to my gate like I had jet turbines on my boots… It was nice to have a garbage disposal close by, sure beat digging holes to bury or have a rendition(smelly as hell) bin on site. I had to be sure my back fence was stout and secure because of them.
Big reptiles do view you as nothing more than protein.
Wait. Are we talking big reptiles or Big Finance?
Can I pee in a jar and have it sent to every ocean (7 of them) to be dropped into and certified. Would I still be a member, get a secret handshake and a cool shirt?
Enlightenment requires that personal touch. It’s like trying to get to heaven on roller skates (you roll right by those pearly gates).
Ya gotta have skin the game…
That sounds like getting to close to the jar….
I’m still twelve inside…or as the bad joke goes, “I have the heart of a small boy…and I keep it in a jar by the door.”
There is supposed to be about 300 alligators in the Colorado San Luis Valley at a hot springs site near the Great Sand Dunes. Never visited the tourist trap-not something that interests me.
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How soon will Israel take out Iran’s nuclear facilities? Will the USA B-2’s participate? I see pundits on YouTube saying it will cause war in the Middle East/Southwest Asia. That would be different than the current situation, how?
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Lots of YouTube traffic in the upcoming Canadian elections and possible Alberta independence. That Alberta Premier, Ms. Smith, seems to have a Margaret Thatcher vibe.
I might visit the tourist trap to find something new to blog about. – ok, no, it’s outside Denver. That’s more driving than I’m willing to do to photograph myself feeding feral cats to gators.
Near Alamosa, CO
Reference Moon Base: Boeing’s biggest problem isn’t DEI, it is that the bean pushers from McDonnel Douglas took over Boeing after Boeing purchased McDonnel Douglas. In the fight between quality equipment based on great engineering and better returns on stocks and bonds, the bean counters won. That was the end of innovation, quality and good equipment for Boeing.
SiG linked to a detailed article concerning the problems that the Starliner had prior to reaching the ISS.
There already is a moon base established by SHADOW, so the only problem for the US is getting to the moon.
Reference Idaho cleaning voter rolls: That is eye wash as students voting at their college and in their home city is not viewed as a problem. Additionally, when you look behind the curtain, you will find that all three branches of Idaho’s government is corrupt and would rival Chicago during Capone’s reign.
Reference Denmark and sea mines: Just ask the USAF to lend a hand. The BUFFs are fantastic at laying on time, on track, on target sea mine fields. They have a large stores capacity and a formation can place the field in short order. As a plus, the AMMO teams, planners and crews need the training.
Musk will get to the Moon. He may not beat the Chinese.
Boeing started going down hill when the engineers got replaced by beancounters in the front office, and they moved HQ from Everett to Chicago. We are now seeing the ‘results’ of that, and you are correct!
Having worked for both Boeing and NASA, I doubt either could keep a schedule or budget. I wouldn’t trust Boeing and NASA bogs itself down with bureaucracy and internal regulations.
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The whole SLS thing is ass-backwards and just plain stupid. First launch a small station to lunar orbit. Then launch an Orion capsule (max carry 4 people) to circle the Moon and come back. Then launch another Orion to dock with the ‘Lunar Gateway’ and launch a SpaceX Human Landing System (a finless Starship with landing feet and landing engines that should be able to carry 150 tons from Earth orbit to the lunar surface and up to 40 people same same. Two astronauts then leave the station and go into the very empty giant HLS that can carry 150 tons and 40 people and then land said HLS and they get out, say “We’re here, we’ve landed!,” get back in, go back to the station, go back to Orion, Orion leaves lunar orbit and comes back to Earth. Meanwhile the HLS leaves the station and comes back to Earth orbit.
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Get that?
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Launch a station, probably using a Falcon Heavy.
Launch Orion with 4 people on it to dock to station.
Launch a finless Starship-based Human Landing System to Earth orbit, refuel, send to lunar orbit to connect to station.
HLS leaves station with 2 people (that’s like using a Liberty ship to carry two people with no crew on a day excursion around a port.)
HLS lands, 2 people get out, get back in, leave the Moon and connect to lunar station.
Orion comes back to Earth with 4 astronauts and hopefully the heat shield works (no, seriously, serious issues with Orion’s heat shield, NASA says, “Eh, good enough.”
HLS boosts from Moon, passes Orion (since HLS is faster, bigger, meaner, and cooler looking) and parks in Earth orbit.
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Anyone else see an issue with this?
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My Landing on the Moon would be…
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1. Make a lunar orbit station with all sorts of instruments and such and a constellation of communications/observation satellites to encircle the Moon.
2. Load all that junk and stuff on an HLS (remember possible up to 150 tons of cargo?) and a bunch of astronauts (or have astronauts come up in a separate Starship and transfer after the fuel loading (#3 below.))
3. Launch to Earth orbit and refuel.
4. Boost to lunar orbit, launch the orbital station and constellation of satellites.
5. Drop down to lunar surface. Maybe even drop a moon buggy or stuff off while they’re there for the first time.
6. Come on home, maybe leaving 2 or 4 astronauts in the monitoring station.
7. Park in Earth orbit, transfer remaining crew to a Starship to bring back home.
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No need for Orion. Really no need for Lunar Gateway except as a science station (which, come to think of it, could be totally unmanned and basically the keystone of the lunar constellation. No need for anything else. One Starship HLS, there and back again. One regular Starship (or a bunch of Dragons..) That’s all. For 4 billion (the cost of a lunar SLS launch) SpaceX could provide the HLS, the refueling flights, the in LEO crew/cargo transfer Starship, the constellation of satellites, and whatever else needs to be there, including the crews’ pressure suits, space EVA suits, lunar EVA suits.
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There is no need for SLS. There is no need for Orion (which, quite frankly, is just a tad safer than Boeing’s Starliner. Which is basically taking a Yugo on an F1 racetrack.)
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Oh, yeah, forgot to say…
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NASA has no space EVA suits available. They have lunar EVA suits. None of them will be ready before 2028. At a cost of up to a billion per suit.
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SpaceX’s pressure/flight suits are $200k. SpaceX’s first gen EVA suits are $300k (and were about as usable as 1st gen space suits used in Gemini program.) SpaceX hasn’t really announced what changes have been made for the 2nd or 3rd gen space EVA suits nor their version of a lunar EVA suit.
NASA designs everything by committee, with each decision reviewed by half a dozen more committees. It’s about being risk averse. Welcome to the suit they make for you no matter the cost.
And then shitcans what they’ve been working on for 4-8 years because some new administration comes in and totally changes the focus of NASA for that administration’s duration.
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We had the Ares program during Bush II. Which would have worked, and, yes, was based on variations of shuttle components, kind of like SLS, but better designed and cheaper. Which got cancelled by the Obamanation. And then a whole new POS derived from shuttle components, the vaunted SLS, was born later in the Obamanation.
As to that .50 AR pattern rifle, a 14.5″ barrel? That’s gonna lose a lot of the power of the round, won’t it? Admittedly it’s probably made to have a suppressor on it, but, still, .50BMG out of a 14.5″ barrel? Can anyone say “I’ve just marked my position in such a way as to allow someone in orbit to visually pick up my shot?”
They could see it from orbit. They could also hear your scream from the recoil.
The decline of Boeing makes me sad. Yes, DEI had something to do with it, along with buying out older, experienced people that knew a lot of things that are very difficult to pass on to others.
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No, I haven’t peed in all Seven Seas, just the Pacific.
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A 14″ barrel on a 50BMG rifle? I thought April Fool’s dat was yesterday….
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Yes, very sad about Val Kilmer. I enjoyed hi acting, too.
I’m no expert but there seems something Naval about this interesting post.
The navies of the world made the ocean what it is today. Frothy, saline, etc.
Senior Service aside, there’s this: https://youtu.be/Bng6P118R48?si=PVLJzFy_c4KmViCu