Upcoming Launches Include Space Tourism Flight
Dates and times subject to change without notice. And remember: no wagering.
December 1
Launch Vehicle: Falcon 9
Payloads: 53 Starlink broadband satellites
Location: Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
Time: 6:20 p.m. EST (2320 GMT)
Webcast: www.spacex.com
December 1/2
Launch Vehicle: Soyuz ST-B/Fregat-MT
Payloads: Galileo 27 & 28 navigation satellites
Location: Guiana Space Center
Time: 7:31 p.m. EST (0031 GMT on Dec. 2)
Webcast: https://www.youtube.com/c/arianespace
December 5
Launch Vehicle: Atlas V
Payloads: U.S. Space Force LDPE-1 space tug; STPSat-6 technology demonstrator with NASA Laser Communications Relay Demonstration payload
Location: Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
Time: 4:04-6:04 a.m. EST (0904-1104 GMT)
Webcast: https://www.ulalaunch.com
December 8
Launch Vehicle: Soyuz-2.1a
Payload: Soyuz MS-20 crewed vehicle
Location: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazahkstan
Time: 2:38 a.m. EST (07:38 GMT)
Webcast: www.roscosmos.ru
Cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin and space tourists Yusaku Maezawa and Yozo Hirano will lift off on a 12-day mission to the International Space Station.
December 9
Launch Vehicle: Falcon 9
Payload: Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer
Location: Kennedy Space Center
Time: 1:00-2:30 a.m. EST (0600-0730 GMT)
Webcast: www.spacex.com
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1/2 a trillion dollars and we now are at rich guys/gals in space
Wonderful…isn’t it?
it might be but my inclination is that its not.
the entire “yes it might” rest upon a rather convoluted (at least in my view) logic that air transportation in the country started with first the rich participating in it and then the prices started going down as the clientele grew larger and more diverse.
sometime ago I this left the “space is the new aviation” theory. to me its not. in so many ways. first it really was the “middle to lower class” that did the fun rides. The movie the Great Waldo Pepper captures a bit of this. the barnstormers who came to town and took people for rides…
the “rich” did not go into flight so much for celebrity as they did to travel faster then others had from established points to other established points. this trend did continue for sometime…it was the jet age that opened up air transportation to the middle class…but the 377 era etc was all about the wealthy going from A to B to go there faster. not to flaunt their celebrity because “I fly”
second. the American people paid a lot for this station on the theory that it was a bridge to a new world of resource use…go read Ronald Reagan’s speech…and really NONE of that has matured.
to be blunt the station is in that regard a failure. its simply not doing things that have changed people’s lives
so now we are about rich people going and being cool essentially on the taxpayer dime
I dont see how that is a plus for other future projects. it almost is he worst possible PR.
I agree…space flight is not aviation. But the space industry grows larger every year. And that growth will mean more and more people going to space. Rich folks do not get rich without a vast network of people supporting their efforts. The same will apply to space travel in ways we haven’t even thought up yet. Why so relentlessly negative?
this is one of those things that I will be happy when proven wrong. but I dont think that the “rich people in space” thing is moving the ball forward one bit. I just dont think it is. it is like everything else that is going to be “the killer app” it comes and fizziles quickly because in the end, there is no value for what is being done that comes anywhere near its cost
Bezos has all but admitted he cannot sell seats at a rate to justify the cost, I4 I suspect was a bust in terms of generating now business…
I just dont see the upside for it. except it sticks it in the face of ordinary people that they paid for it. and makes what is done there seem useless