Well bezo just blew up one launch pad. Have bezos pay for a bigger one
1crazyarchitect on
At least NASA is building Project Aero, a big indoor attraction.
depredador93 on
KSC was built around occasional flagship launches. The next era looks more like an industrial port with multiple super-heavy vehicles competing for the same range, roads, workforce, and recovery infrastructure.
Emotional-Amoeba6151 on
Let the billionaires build it if they want to launch.
This seems like the NFL/MLB etc stadium situation. Every team owned by a group of billionaires wants taxpayer money for their stadium. Then they want all the revenue too…
cameron4200 on
Sounds like it’s time to get cracking then yeah? World’s first trillionaire can surely foot the bill since he wants Mars so desperately?
97GeoPrizm on
>SpaceX has told NASA it plans to launch Starship every eight days from Kennedy.
*Snort!* Sure you will, Elon.
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Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
|Fewer Letters|More Letters|
|——-|———|—|
|[BO](/r/Space/comments/1ucyc90/stub/ot7poph „Last usage“)|Blue Origin (*Bezos Rocketry*)|
|[KSC](/r/Space/comments/1ucyc90/stub/ot7qadj „Last usage“)|Kennedy Space Center, Florida|
|[LEO](/r/Space/comments/1ucyc90/stub/ot7wzay „Last usage“)|Low Earth Orbit (180-2000km)|
| |Law Enforcement Officer (most often mentioned during transport operations)|
|[LOX](/r/Space/comments/1ucyc90/stub/ot7vxuk „Last usage“)|Liquid Oxygen|
|[N1](/r/Space/comments/1ucyc90/stub/ot83wxf „Last usage“)|Raketa Nositel-1, Soviet super-heavy-lift („Russian Saturn V“)|
|NRHO|Near-Rectilinear Halo Orbit|
|[NRO](/r/Space/comments/1ucyc90/stub/ot7y0yu „Last usage“)|(US) National Reconnaissance Office|
| |Near-Rectilinear Orbit, see NRHO|
|[Roscosmos](/r/Space/comments/1ucyc90/stub/ot80g5k „Last usage“)|[State Corporation for Space Activities, Russia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscosmos_State_Corporation)|
|[ULA](/r/Space/comments/1ucyc90/stub/ot81tjj „Last usage“)|United Launch Alliance (Lockheed/Boeing joint venture)|
|[WDR](/r/Space/comments/1ucyc90/stub/ot7vxuk „Last usage“)|Wet Dress Rehearsal (with fuel onboard)|
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Well bezo just blew up one launch pad. Have bezos pay for a bigger one
At least NASA is building Project Aero, a big indoor attraction.
KSC was built around occasional flagship launches. The next era looks more like an industrial port with multiple super-heavy vehicles competing for the same range, roads, workforce, and recovery infrastructure.
Let the billionaires build it if they want to launch.
This seems like the NFL/MLB etc stadium situation. Every team owned by a group of billionaires wants taxpayer money for their stadium. Then they want all the revenue too…
Sounds like it’s time to get cracking then yeah? World’s first trillionaire can surely foot the bill since he wants Mars so desperately?
>SpaceX has told NASA it plans to launch Starship every eight days from Kennedy.
*Snort!* Sure you will, Elon.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
|Fewer Letters|More Letters|
|——-|———|—|
|[BO](/r/Space/comments/1ucyc90/stub/ot7poph „Last usage“)|Blue Origin (*Bezos Rocketry*)|
|[KSC](/r/Space/comments/1ucyc90/stub/ot7qadj „Last usage“)|Kennedy Space Center, Florida|
|[LEO](/r/Space/comments/1ucyc90/stub/ot7wzay „Last usage“)|Low Earth Orbit (180-2000km)|
| |Law Enforcement Officer (most often mentioned during transport operations)|
|[LOX](/r/Space/comments/1ucyc90/stub/ot7vxuk „Last usage“)|Liquid Oxygen|
|[N1](/r/Space/comments/1ucyc90/stub/ot83wxf „Last usage“)|Raketa Nositel-1, Soviet super-heavy-lift („Russian Saturn V“)|
|NRHO|Near-Rectilinear Halo Orbit|
|[NRO](/r/Space/comments/1ucyc90/stub/ot7y0yu „Last usage“)|(US) National Reconnaissance Office|
| |Near-Rectilinear Orbit, see NRHO|
|[Roscosmos](/r/Space/comments/1ucyc90/stub/ot80g5k „Last usage“)|[State Corporation for Space Activities, Russia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscosmos_State_Corporation)|
|[ULA](/r/Space/comments/1ucyc90/stub/ot81tjj „Last usage“)|United Launch Alliance (Lockheed/Boeing joint venture)|
|[WDR](/r/Space/comments/1ucyc90/stub/ot7vxuk „Last usage“)|Wet Dress Rehearsal (with fuel onboard)|
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The original design for launch complex 39 included two further identical pads to the north, and the crawlerway was built with that in mind.
This is I think partly protected wetland now, but I wonder if there’s something to be done there? It was in the original plans!