John Charles

Semi-retired space biomedical management scientist, avocational space history buff.

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@jerry_brennan Lol

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@chris_saboburns @ChasingMoonBk Senatojake garb usuullgetsthtitl.

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@EmilyLCarney Four independent dudes and dudettes (2 and 2).

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@ISSarchaeology Yes, I saw this too. I’m anxious to see what they want with such a military outpost.

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@ISSarchaeology @brewsternorth Thanks for the reference!

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@ChasingMoonBk @paxr55 Also Aldrin, Cernan, Chaffee, Cunningham, and Schweickart.

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@BagdMilkSoWhat Imagine doing it and bragging about it. Sad!

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@dsfpspacefl1ght @MikeMongo @Taraustralis Without major excavation.

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@dsfpspacefl1ght @MikeMongo @Taraustralis Yes, I was in a lava tube in Hawaii, the floor is cluttered with debris. No way an inflatable lining will make it passable with major excavation. I agree that lava tubes are a really good idea until you actually study them. Then not so much. Possible but not easy.

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@dsfpspacefl1ght @SFRuminations @mjmackowski I’m available to discuss.

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@SpXfanboy @F_French Minimal added value, huge added expense. Good way to torpedo a Mars mission.

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@F_French Also: “While the actual amount of time that this flight might take could be longer, adding Venus to a Mars flight plan means that astronauts could return to Earth as much as a year sooner.” This makes no sense. Either the outbound or inbound legs—not both—could be shorter.

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@F_French A couple of things need mentioning. The article indicates the white paper authors noted that “ This NASA report released in April mentions "two-year Mars class missions" as a future goal” just means the NASA report writers were too lazy to write “two and a half year”.

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@JB_ND04_60 @harlsburg @MICHAELANTONIO @IngrahamAngle Don’t you mean “runned”?

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@USVeteran2 @EamonJavers @esaagar @realDonaldTrump @JoeBiden This is called projection. Projecting one’s weakness onto another. Biden talks just fine.

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@robreiner Until Election Day. Plus 74 more days until Inauguration Day. Total 208 more days until sanity returns. Sorry.

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@ChasingMoonBk And here we are 57 years later and we still don’t know who authorized someone to paint “Freedom 7-II” on Mercury spacecraft #15B.

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@daynutrition @WestWingReport Using all caps to type the stupidest words in your post does not make the post seem less stupid.

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@planet4589 @orbitalpodcast Thanks! I have been wanting a quick refresher on that history.

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@dsfpspacefl1ght Well, we certainly have lots of environment to study. If it doesn’t kill you first.