MauroPantin
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Hi folks!
Just wondering if anyone else here is interested/excited/curious about this topic in particular. Thought I'd start a thread to discuss news and all that, since I couldn't find anything around in the forum and a lot of great advancements are being made in this area.
There are several relatively new rocket companies, like NZ's RocketLab, some more experienced players like SpaceX and, of course NASA, are all aiming for different targets. It all seems incredibly exciting to me. I'm 33 right now, and have always felt a little envy for my parent's generation because, as crude as it was, they got the chance to watch people walking on the moon live.
The events of Apollo ushered a lot of sci-fi literature and pop culture, films that we love, etc... and then that momentum kind of stopped. It was the turn of the millennium and all we had were pop boy bands and a cultural worry of computers not being able to handle 4 digit dates... Not what was promised, at all. It seems great to me that things are looking like they are "back on track" in that sense. Just this morning SpaceX blew up another Starship test vehicle in the middle of a fog haze, which made it visually boring but sonically... oh boy. That was a great source for sound design booms.
It seems nuts, but things are looking like in a decade or two space tourism and travel will become much more accessible (still prohibitive for the common man, perhaps, but not a crazy idea). I am very much looking forward and excited to seeing that version of the future.
Just wondering if anyone else here is interested/excited/curious about this topic in particular. Thought I'd start a thread to discuss news and all that, since I couldn't find anything around in the forum and a lot of great advancements are being made in this area.
There are several relatively new rocket companies, like NZ's RocketLab, some more experienced players like SpaceX and, of course NASA, are all aiming for different targets. It all seems incredibly exciting to me. I'm 33 right now, and have always felt a little envy for my parent's generation because, as crude as it was, they got the chance to watch people walking on the moon live.
The events of Apollo ushered a lot of sci-fi literature and pop culture, films that we love, etc... and then that momentum kind of stopped. It was the turn of the millennium and all we had were pop boy bands and a cultural worry of computers not being able to handle 4 digit dates... Not what was promised, at all. It seems great to me that things are looking like they are "back on track" in that sense. Just this morning SpaceX blew up another Starship test vehicle in the middle of a fog haze, which made it visually boring but sonically... oh boy. That was a great source for sound design booms.
It seems nuts, but things are looking like in a decade or two space tourism and travel will become much more accessible (still prohibitive for the common man, perhaps, but not a crazy idea). I am very much looking forward and excited to seeing that version of the future.