Midnight In The Desert with Dave Schrader

[BillW50]

GravitySucks!

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[GravitySucks]

Hi Bill

[Spookcat]

Congrats on your 100th episode on your other show.

[Spookcat]

What ever you are doing on the moon, you just stay away from the Lunasquatch!!!

He's on sabbatical and needs his rest before heading back to the desert.

It will supposedly be in lunar orbit on April 4th.

[GravitySucks]

Why such a long flight time?

Because the remaining Saturn V rockets are on static display.

[Exile]

Actually, according to the conspiracy folks, this is a seekrit mission to mars!


To deliver the new Alludium Q-38 hyperexplosive space modulator.

We are DoooMeD!!

[Dyna-X]

Because the remaining Saturn V rockets are on static display.

Best comeback of the day!

Better than talking about phasing orbits and giving a page of equations.

[Spookcat]

Where do astronauts leave their spaceships?


At parking meteors.

[GravitySucks]

While this is certainly an achievement for Israel, I believe they are overstating the accomplishment.

Yes. They built the satellite.

No. They didn’t launch it.

It was launched as a secondary payload on a SpaceX rocket.

I am not sure the world powers would allow Israel to launch their own rocket capable of reaching the moon. That would open the door to allowing Iran to test their ballistic missile technology. (Which is probably North Korean).

[GravitySucks]

Where do astronauts leave their spaceships?


At parking meteors.

Where do astronauts drink?

[Spookcat]

While this is certainly an achievement for Israel, I believe they are overstating the accomplishment.

Yes. They built the satellite.

No. They didn’t launch it.

It was launched as a secondary payload on a SpaceX rocket.

I am not sure the world powers would allow Israel to launch their own rocket capable of reaching the moon. That would open the door to allowing Iran to test their ballistic missile technology. (Which is probably North Korean).

    22 February 2019: Beresheet launches
    17 January 2019: Beresheet ships to Florida
    13 December 2018: Beresheet name announced
    3 October 2018: NASA retroreflector announced
    10 July 2018: Launch updated  to December 2018
    05 April 2018: Lunar XPrize contest concludes with no winner
    26 November 2017: SpaceIL asks for $20 million to avoid project termination
    30 August 2017: Integration begins
    24 January 2017: SpaceIL qualifies as XPrize finalist
    7 October 2015: SpaceIL announces launch contract with Spaceflight and SpaceX, second half of 2017
    2011: SpaceIL formed
    2007: Google Lunar XPrize announced

[Spookcat]

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[BillW50]

Where do astronauts drink?

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[Exile]

Dave,

Move just a few inches to the right please.

Thank you!

[Dyna-X]

While this is certainly an achievement for Israel, I believe they are overstating the accomplishment.

Yes. They built the satellite.

No. They didn’t launch it.

It was launched as a secondary payload on a SpaceX rocket.

I am not sure the world powers would allow Israel to launch their own rocket capable of reaching the moon. That would open the door to allowing Iran to test their ballistic missile technology. (Which is probably North Korean).

The capability of building a powerful enough rocket to launch something to orbit or be able to pay someone to launch it is about 95% of the hurdle to any nation or company that wants to launch something into space.

The second principle is once you are in orbit you are half way to anywhere.