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SpaceX moon flight
News conference on Monday will give more details. Alain Fournier |
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On Friday, September 14, 2018 at 9:30:58 AM UTC-7, Alain Fournier wrote:
News conference on Monday will give more details. Alain Fournier SpaceX says its BFR will fly someone around the Moon; we have questions: "On Thursday evening, without any advance notice, SpaceX tweeted that is had signed the world’s "first private passenger to fly around the Moon aboard our BFR launch vehicle." Moreover, the company promised to reveal "who's flying and why" on Monday, September 17. The announcement will take place at the company's headquarters in Hawthorne, Calif. There were only two other clues—tweets from Elon Musk himself. Was the rendering of the Big Falcon Spaceship in SpaceX's tweet new? Yes, Musk said. And was he the passenger? In response to this, the founder of SpaceX simply tweeted a Japanese flag emoji. This would seem to be a strong clue that the passenger is from Japan. Or maybe Musk was enjoying the epic Seven Samurai movie at that moment. By announcing this on Thursday, and waiting four days to provide more details, the company has set off a big guessing game as to who will fly. Of course that is an interesting question, but we have many other questions that we'd like to see answered before that. We've included some of those questions below, along with some wild and (slightly) informed guesses. Musk even answered one of them for us." See: https://arstechnica.com/science/2018...ave-questions/ |
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News conference on Monday will give more details.
A trip to the moon on gossamer wings? |
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Le sept./15/2018 Ã* 00:18, William Elliot a écritÂ*:
News conference on Monday will give more details. A trip to the moon on gossamer wings? The customer is Yusaku Maezawa, a 42-year-old Japanese billionaire. An interesting point mentioned at the news conference is that they are already bending metal for BFR. Musk said the first cylinder section of the BFR has already been built. Alain Fournier |
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I don't see this happening before 2025, if ever. But cool anyway.
"Alain Fournier" wrote in message news Le sept./15/2018 à 00:18, William Elliot a écrit : News conference on Monday will give more details. A trip to the moon on gossamer wings? The customer is Yusaku Maezawa, a 42-year-old Japanese billionaire. An interesting point mentioned at the news conference is that they are already bending metal for BFR. Musk said the first cylinder section of the BFR has already been built. Alain Fournier |
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On Tuesday, September 18, 2018 at 7:26:15 AM UTC+2, William Elliot wrote:
BFR? Bare Foot Rocket? Without visiting the SpaceX website, and drawing on my more juvenile side, I rather suspect the acronym is more in line with the BFG from the original Doom computer game. And no it wasn't a Big Friendly Giant, or a Big Friendly Gun. Take care regards Frank |
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On 18-09-18 04:48 , Alain Fournier wrote:
... An interesting point mentioned at the news conference is that they are already bending metal for BFR. Musk said the first cylinder section of the BFR has already been built. For BFR it's bending carbon fiber, not metal ... :-) -- Niklas Holsti Tidorum Ltd niklas holsti tidorum fi . @ . |
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