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Here’s why a Japanese billionaire just canceled his lunar flight on Starship (arstechnica.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Feed bad for Everyday Astronaut :(

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Feed bad for Everyday Astronaut :(

Yeah, this really sucks for him. He's posted some of his thoughts here: https://x.com/Erdayastronaut/status/1796760324055404627

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Jesus Christ I hate opening a Twitter link and seeing a massive ass wall of text. Give it to me in 160 characters or less.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't really understand the decision to cancel it. Whether it's in 1 year or 10, I'll drop whatever else I'm doing for a trip around the moon. Maybe Steve Aoki disagrees. This has to be devastating (and maybe a little bit of a relief?) for Tim Dodd.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

He said it’s interfering with his ability to plan his future. He’s probably talking about plans that involve commitments to other people.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Oh FFS! It could have been like OceanGate but in space!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

As a side note, it's actually easier to build a pressure vessel to deal with space than the deep sea. 1 atm is about 15psi, vs 6000 psi at the Titanic.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Not really, given there would have been test runs approved by NASA first

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

And the Polaris Program flight! We'll see if that one or the first crewed HLS mission end up happening first.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

In recent months it became clear that if Maezawa's mission happened, it would not occur until at least the early 2030s—at least a decade after the original plan.

The original target was 2023, so is Berger saying he already had inside information that it wouldn't fly before 2033?

If, yesterday, you'd told me 2027, I'd have believed you!

We might actually find out, because there was a 2nd circumlunar tourist trip planned. If that's still going ahead, maybe it'll just be promoted to the 'slot' that was previously allocated to Dear Moon?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

The Dennis Tito mission, for those who didn't know about it:

https://www.spacex.com/updates/#starship-second-moon-flight