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

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Feed bad for Everyday Astronaut :(

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[-] Tangentism@sh.itjust.works -1 points 5 months ago

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

[-] burble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 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.

[-] awesome_lowlander@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 months ago

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

[-] burble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 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.

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