Comment on First Flight of the Vulcan Rocket Sends an American Lander Toward the Moon
TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
Commercial space launches are gonna be chockablock full of stuff like these ridiculous Celeste craft huh?
Great that Vulcan worked well, though, its good if there’s more launch vehicles, but shame about some of the missions.
It was the maiden flight. First flights don’t always go so well, so it is not at all surprising that it wasn’t carrying a space telescope, or the like.
Still, the next flight will be carrying the first flight of a vehicle designed to resupply the space station, if that makes you feel any better
wahming@monyet.cc 8 months ago
I see that as a good thing. Being able to commercialise space launches will provide the infrastructure we’re going to need to really get into space.
TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
Yeah, just wish it was for useful stuff instead of sending human remains to the moon or space tourism.
wahming@monyet.cc 8 months ago
This will get us to the useful stuff! Every new technological field was unlocked as toys for the rich first, this is no different.