Mrkawfee@lemmy.world to SpaceXEnglish · 4 months agoHere’s why a Japanese billionaire just canceled his lunar flight on Starshiparstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up152arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up149arrow-down1external-linkHere’s why a Japanese billionaire just canceled his lunar flight on Starshiparstechnica.comMrkawfee@lemmy.world to SpaceXEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square10fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareTangentismlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down7·4 months agoOh FFS! It could have been like OceanGate but in space!
minus-squareburble@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·4 months agoAs a side note, it’s actually easier to build a pressure vessel to deal with space than the deep sea. 1 atm is about 15psi, vs 6000 psi at the Titanic.
minus-squareAwesomeLowlander@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·4 months agoNot really, given there would have been test runs approved by NASA first
minus-squareburble@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·4 months agoAnd the Polaris Program flight! We’ll see if that one or the first crewed HLS mission end up happening first.
Oh FFS! It could have been like OceanGate but in space!
As a side note, it’s actually easier to build a pressure vessel to deal with space than the deep sea. 1 atm is about 15psi, vs 6000 psi at the Titanic.
Not really, given there would have been test runs approved by NASA first
And the Polaris Program flight! We’ll see if that one or the first crewed HLS mission end up happening first.