SpaceX launches Polaris Dawn crew on daring excursion into Earth's radiation belts
Source: CNN
CNN
SpaceXs latest mission a bold and risky trek into Earths Van Allen radiation belts by a four-person crew of civilians who will also aim to conduct the first commercial spacewalk just took flight.
The mission, dubbed Polaris Dawn, lifted off at 5:23 a.m. ET.
SpaceX livestreamed the event on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter that SpaceX CEO Elon Musk purchased in 2022.
As the capsule entered Earths orbit, ground controllers, led by SpaceX launch director Frank Messina, offered words of encouragement to the Polaris Dawn crew, which includes the first SpaceX employees ever to venture to space.
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2naSalit
(94,087 posts)That there isn't a major solar flare while they're up there.
jimfields33
(19,382 posts)Lets hope this company is better than that other one.
sakabatou
(43,377 posts)ArkansasDemocrat1
(3,213 posts)Gave up on fools years ago. They beat you with experience at their level and don't care about yours.
Buzz should punch more of their CT addled faces.
AZ8theist
(6,607 posts)The worst are the moon landing deniers. They piss me off.
I was alive back then and watched every single moon mission. I was obsessed with it.
We have pictures of the landing sites from the LRO, and routinely bounce lasers off the reflectors left there, yet the flat heads say it was all "faked".
My great fear is that with AI, some asshole will make a video of Neil Armstrong denying we went there.
Some people are just so fucking stupid it's beyond belief.
ArkansasDemocrat1
(3,213 posts)and holler "fuck Karma, I'm sick of idiots! I'll climb the hill again!" and start swinging. Did you know his woods are made from scraps saved from the trunk of the Bodhi Tree?*
*Not really. I can make up stupid shite too.
AZ8theist
(6,607 posts)But I'm sure it was pretty funny!
C0RI0LANUS
(2,326 posts)Ursus Rex
(300 posts)Even the SpaceX suits looks like the FF's spacesuits in some renditions...
Orrex
(64,431 posts)All we've got is Elon, whose superpower is his unsurpassed masturbatory exhibitionism.
prodigitalson
(2,977 posts)Voltaire2
(15,008 posts)And just leave them up there.
ArkansasDemocrat1
(3,213 posts)slightlv
(4,635 posts)Man, if so, I wouldn't want to trust going up into one of his capsules. Isn't there anyone else involved in the space race that has a better reputation? We're trusting space future to a nazi???
EX500rider
(11,646 posts)AZ8theist
(6,607 posts)It has been amazingly successful, far more than Boeing at this point.
As much as I hate the fascists guts, he is something of a visionary when it comes to spaceflight.
That being said, the government should force him to divest from Starlink, as those satelittes have been manipulated in Russias favor in the Ukraine invasion. He even admitted to such manipulation, I beleive. He's a national security risk.
But alas, he's filthy rich, so nothing will happen.
slightlv
(4,635 posts)I don't think he's a visionary. I think he find and borrows any visions he has, and then monetizes them via his father's inheritance. I don't trust he's thought anything through far enough to make it a success.
In truth, I'm old school, I guess. Private corporate money going into everything means cost cutting at the worst possible spots. I don't trust it. I've seen what it does to our DoD in real time. Our citizen workers for government... giving their all for everyone in the United States with diminishing returns, but dedicated to the goal of the Constitution and our Democracy. Show me where Elon has these goals as his foremost important issues, and maybe you can convince me otherwise.
AZ8theist
(6,607 posts)But he has been successful with SpaceX.
My SIL worked there for awhile. Lousy pay, but interesting work.
At Tesla, I know people who worked there. Anti-union and treats workers like shit.
Oligarchs are ASSHOLES. Been that way for 10,000 years. He's just the most recent manifestation.
I think he long ago finished parlaying his daddys weath into successful businesses. But he certainly never abandoned his Fascist roots, that's for sure....
slightlv
(4,635 posts)LudwigPastorius
(11,265 posts)Good luck to the astronauts.
lefthandedskyhook
(1,122 posts)Tesla was a good engineer. Elon is an economic opportunist. Go ahead and kill this thread. Monsters not site owners