"We really did not have the budget for two companies at the time," said #PhilMcAlister, the #NASA official at the agency's headquarters in Washington overseeing the Commercial Crew program. "No one thought we were going to award two. I would always say, 'One or more,' and people would roll their eyes at me." #SpaceX #Space
In the room where it happened: When NASA nearly gave #Boeing all the crew funding
https://arstechnica.com/features/2024/09/in-the-room-where-it-happened-when-nasa-nearly-gave-boeing-all-the-crew-funding/
Jeff Bezos's New Glenn:
New Glenn's upper stage conducts its first static fire.
New Glenn's first stage is a reusable methalox booster, while the upper stage is a hydrolox expendable stage.
There is a reusable version of the upper stage in development under the Project Jarvis.
Crew Dragon "Freedom" now vertical for Crew-9 mission.
Crew-9:
- Nick Hague 🇺🇸
- Aleksandr Gorbunov 🇷🇺
- 2 seats reserved for the stranded astronauts from Boeing Starliner
#Space #Astrodon #SpaceX #Falcon9 #CrewDragon #ISS #ElonMusk #Boeing #Starliner
A plummeting birth rate in the Western world and east Asia and an excess of births in the shithole countries with sub room temperature IQ savages. And right in the center of the second image is a peculiar country who has managed to reverse its declining birth rate problem. Care to guess what the solution was?