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General discussion / Re: SSMS2 ?

« Last post by Pappolus on December 30, 2020, 04:30:50 AM »

Hello everyone. Would it be possible to have an end-of-the-year update, or maybe, being a bit cheeky here, some sort of "New Year's resolutions", for how things currently stand? At least to wrap up this nasty 2020 on a positive note. I hope it will be, but otherwise, wishing everyone a happy 2021 or at least better than what 2020 was (shouldn't be too difficult), maybe it will bring us a very welcome and long awaited surprise

Pappolus

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Real NASA Space Shuttle Missions / Re: Going to the moon

« Last post by Forrest White on December 15, 2020, 07:20:20 PM »

SpaceX has hidden the producing Dragon spacecraft for 18 months, maybe the preparation stages for a mission back to Moon are also hidden to be ready to 2024 without empty promises as always.

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Space Shuttle Mission Simulator (tm) / Re: Goodbye Space Shuttle

« Last post by Forrest White on December 15, 2020, 07:16:04 PM »

Everything comes to the end soon or later. The shuttle mission created the road for space exploration development.  This leads to the first in space history cargo spacecraft and reusable manned rockets made by SpaceX.NASA awards commercial companies thus encouraging them to proceed in the space colonization process.

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Real NASA Space Shuttle Missions / Re: What after the shuttle?

« Last post by Forrest White on December 15, 2020, 06:56:14 PM »

The USA, Canada, Great Britain, Japan, Australia, Italy, Luxembourg, and the United Arab Emirates have signed an international agreement on the exploration of the Moon. All the countries make their contribution to the mission - the USA is responsible for spacecraft for manned flight, Great Britan takes care of Getaway station and the part of Orion rocket. Besides, the UK has also different satellites for Earth-observation, third stages for cargo delivery, and Skylark Micro rocket. The new agreement defines the principles according to which the study of space objects should proceed in the future. According to the agreement, space research has a peaceful purpose - there shouldn't be any space race or war.  Countries defined an obligation to provide mutual assistance in the event of an emergency, the registration of space objects, the opening of access to scientific data, the protection of historical heritage, the proper use of lunar resources, conflict avoidance, and space debris.

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General discussion / Re: SSMS2 ?

« Last post by Cygnus on December 10, 2020, 12:07:59 AM »

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Real NASA Space Shuttle Missions / Re: SpaceX Falcon 9 "go for launch"

« Last post by OliverTk on December 09, 2020, 12:49:16 AM »

SpaceX is not the only company producing rocket for the world market - the is a new-born company in the UK that makes different launch vehicles for LEO such as Skylark L which can be used for microgravity experiments  https://www.skyrora.com/skylark-l.

You do realise the comment is 10 years old right?

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Real NASA Space Shuttle Missions / Re: SpaceX Falcon 9 "go for launch"

« Last post by Forrest White on December 08, 2020, 03:46:19 PM »

SpaceX is not the only company producing rocket for the world market - the is a new-born company in the UK that makes different launch vehicles for LEO such as Skylark L which can be used for microgravity experiments  https://www.skyrora.com/skylark-l.

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Real NASA Space Shuttle Missions / Re: SpaceX Readies First Dragon Spacecraft

« Last post by Forrest White on December 08, 2020, 03:18:20 PM »

How it is to know that for 2020  Dragon is the only cargo spacecraft in the world that returns cargo from the ISS to Earth. Since 2010, the ship has been launched 22 times; In total, Dragon ships delivered about 43 tons of payload to the station and returned about 33 tons to Earth. So the supplies of ISS totally depends on SpaceX company, not even NASA.

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Real NASA Space Shuttle Missions / Re: Space X is Go

« Last post by Forrest White on December 08, 2020, 03:10:18 PM »

SpaceX's most notable accomplishments include a liquid-propellant launch vehicle (Falcon 1) that delivered a payload into low-earth orbit, Dragon spacecraft that was successfully launched into orbit and returned to Earth, the first private spacecraft docked to the ISS, the first in history landing of the first stage on the ground, performed after the launch of the payload into low-Earth orbit.

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Space Shuttle Mission Simulator (tm) / Re: Newcomers, please log in here :)

« Last post by Orbit_Monkey on December 08, 2020, 10:14:16 AM »

Hello.  I have been painstakingly accomplishing all the missions in this great sim.  Great tips on this forum as well.  I finally got past STS-125.  This sim is absolutely stunning.  I love the visuals of the orbital sunrises and sunsets.  Absolutely beautiful game.  Love the challenges in each mission also. 

Still crossing my fingers for SSM2.....