There’s going to be a moon landing a week from now. I stumbled across a SpaceX launch video, otherwise I would not have known.
It’s a supply payload, but it is going to land on the moon. One thing they’re sending on ahead is a device to suck up samples. It’s called the “PlanetVac”. It saddens me they didn’t call it the “LunarRoomba”.
I know the U.S. wasn’t the first to land a spacecraft on the moon, or the last, but it’s nice to have another televised lunar event to look forward to.
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If only the corporation launching it weren’t affiliated to the dude stealing our data and firing a lot of fairly necessary federal employees (y’all, they forgot to exempt nuclear weapons experts and bird flu experts from the “fire all employees of this maybe-legally-firable class of employees” bulk orders, and now are having to try to get them back after having fired them and terminated their email addresses, which, uh, oops).
KC – I know. Hard to reconcile my love of space with my dislike of the man involved.