Thread: Sanctions on Russia: Facts and end-resultsd

Originally Posted by bytemare

Certainly not much evidence that NASA is "falling apart." They've done quite a job with the Mars Curiosity thing (unless of course, you don't believe that has taken place)

I've been all over the Curiosity rover since the launch and I'm always watching for new discoveries. I was also watching the Messenger mission when it discovered ice under organic compounds in craters on Mercury.
I'm also waiting for the New Horizons mission to do the Pluto flyby and I've been all over the Cassini-Solstice, Kepler Space Telescope, and International Space Station discoveries too. Btw, Kepler 186f is Earth-sized and in the habitable zone.
This summer the new Angara heavy-lift rocket will be test launched at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome and Voyager 1 has reached the Depletion zone of the Heliosphere. It's 127.8 AU from the sun right now.

Back to NASA. They're still using Atlas V rockets since the space shuttle program failed. Next they wanted to build the Ares 1 and Ares V rockets, under the Constellation Program, for near-earth and deep space missions. That got dropped so now they wanna build a new SLS heavy lift vehicle to support the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle (rewind to Ares 1).
But mostly they just wanna let commercial companies build the rockets now and they totally did change up their format.
That's what I call falling apart.
NASA - NASA Plays Key Exploration Role In New Administration Space Policy

Originally Posted by bytemare

Ukraine could have no gas as their main supply is about to be cut off. Gas is what most of the population uses for heating, cooking, and hot water. So I don't know why it would be such a huge surprise to hire a Yale trained lawyer who is an expert on international law. Heck the CEO of one of the largest banks in Russia is an American.

When somebody has to publish a whole article to try and prove they didn't do anything wrong... something did something wrong.

Originally Posted by UhOhXplode

Kepler 186f is Earth-sized and in the habitable zone.

reminds me of Kepler 62f; pity 62f and 186f are somewhat heavier then our beloved earth and hence likely to have an unihabitable dense He athmosphere...
pity the 500 lightyears distance - not easy to have it checked out in a rush