9/18/18

Big F...ing Rocket Gets Japanese Boost

A Japanese billionaire has bought all of the seats aboard a Big Falcon Rocket trip around the moon. That will help pay for construction of the rocket that should occur in the next three to five years. That's a venture capitalist time paradigm that ought to be emulated by N.A.S.A., who decided not to finance the Space X BFR.

What N.A.S.A. could chip in  would be a realistic study of building a Mars Gateway that is something like the moon gateway it has a a present project. The mars Gateway could be constructed on Phobos or simply orbit and should have next-robotic assembly and 3-d printing.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/09/nasa-isnt-going-to-pay-for-the-bfr-so-musk-charts-a-new-course/



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