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What a spectacular mission this was. The most amazing space mission for me. Too bad I could not watch it because I was too young. But it certainly was one of those events in space flight to turn blue at lift off due to holding the breath.

Never heard of it 🤷‍♂️😅 NASA always writes "pressure vessel" below photo descriptions.

Boring 😜 Remember that Starliner carries special emergency equipment on its test flight. That's what a spacecraft should look (and sound) like: 🥰 Soyuz is very special anyway, due to it's orbital module. I really love that design. That's what I expect a trip in space to be like...

That was my first thought. It's due to the limited volume budget. Do you mean the "pressure vessel"? STS was a big game changer in many ways I guess. Its waste collection system was very nice. Although privacy was limited even there, since you only had a privacy curtain. But do you really need...

ISS must be a junk yard then... Being surrounded by equipment is one of the reasons why I am interested in scientific space flight. I think the approach of Dragon is more like offering space tourism. I guess the privacy during use of Dragon's waste management system is quite limited. I don't...

I'm not so sure about Trump. Afaik he was/is in favor of Moon landings. Would fit his agenda of make America great again... NASA was a giant sandbox back then I think, with very supportive parents that would buy their kids literally everything they wanted to have. The Golden Age of space flight.

Yeah. It's amazing when you think about the actual reason for this: because of a 58 cm metal sphere that could actually do nothing but just send a continuous "beep beep beep beep..." for three weeks. And the resulting launch schedule of the US space program was awesome. 31 manned missions within...

Yeah. The sad news is, that things keep moving basically due to the ISS in orbit and the Commercial Crew Program going on. But other than that, the manned US space program lost its focus I think. Politicians and people have to understand that one needs to gain experience and progress, in order...

Absolutely! I think this is due to SpaceX's Dragon. SpaceX/Elon Musk focused a lot on the design, so that it looks like science fiction movie props became reality (also their launch and entry suits look like scifi movie props). I personally prefer Orion and Starliner. Somehow looks more like...

Good for Suni and Butch. They certainly enjoy their stay.

I don't think the program makes sense if it continues like that.

I love James Burke. And he is still with us (y) He did a perfect scene/shot during the launch of Voyager 1...

The funding is, and the administration. But going into space technically is pure engineering, science and exploration. The people working at NASA and in the aerospace industries around the globe, will do whatever you want them to do politically or in a corporational context, because R&D is...

Since we are all equal, I don't think an astronaut's skin color matters. I do not think of the Apollo astronauts as "white men only" or "Americans only". I think of them as humans and explorers. Also, afaik, the current astronaut corps consists of 20 women and 28 men. So diversity for gender...

Ronnie Tutt. Sadly past away a few years ago. I think he was among the best drummers. His timing was like a machine... I don't know if it was due to drugs/pills or if it was just his nature or a combination, but damn I really love the humor Elvis had 😂

I think the political driver in the U.S., for funding NASA, is to be the leader in aerospace and space flight technologies, offer and keep jobs and maybe get economical benefits. While the mission of NASA is to explore the secrets of the universe for the benefit of all and to give the U.S. space...

Yeah. It's just one of those zeitgeisty things imho. Advertising for starry-eyed idealism: "Hey, we are woke at NASA!" It's like that LGBT thingy going on at NASA TV recently as well. It's not that I am against it. But it is really annoying. Space flight is about science and exploration. Please...

I didn't think about it when I looked at the pictures. But yeah. Well, it was 10 manned flights with the Saturn V within only 4 years! Followed by one more to put Skylab into orbit, only 5 months after Apollo 17! For the SLS it's one manned flight maybe three years after the first, unmanned...