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Rocket Launch schedule: https://spaceflightnow.com/launch-schedule/

Rocket lab launch in ~2 hours or so, will it be cucked by wind yet again?

ETA /sfg/?? 20 years? 30??

Soon

>>10468771
4. Establish Mars surface base. See SpaceX plans for details. Here comes a crucial fork in our space colonization plans. Either Martian gravity is enough to support human life long term, including pregnancy and growing children. In which case Mars colonization will become the focus of our efforts at this stage. Or Martian gravity is not enough and then we merely establish a modest base on the surface and go to the next step.

5. Colonize Martian moons Phobos and Deimos. Put a spinning space stations around retrograde (for stability) orbits around them. Use local resources and ISRU as much as possible, especially for construction materials and radiation shielding. Availability of volatiles on these moons is a big question mark here.

>>10468707
4. Establish Mars surface base. See SpaceX plans for details. Here comes a crucial fork in our space colonization plans. Either Martian gravity is enough to support human life long term, including pregnancy and growing children. In which case Mars colony will become the focus of our efforts at this stage. Ir it is not and then we merely establish a modest base on the surface and go to the next step.

5. Colonize Phobos and Deimos. Put a spinning space stations around retrograde (for stability) orbits around them. Use local resources and ISRU as much as possible. Availability of volatiles on these moons is a big question mark here.

6. Colonize the asteroid belt (Ceres, Vesta, Pallas..), again with rotating stations in low retrograde orbits around the roids. Apply what we learned on Martian moons here, this time with plentiful volatiles available.

7. Expand to outer solar system, here you will probably need large rotating city-sized spaceships with heavy radiation shielding, or alternatively very fast propulsion systems. Now we are getting into real sci-fi territory and so I will cease to speculate further..

>>10367952
1. Early colony on Mars.
2. High quality VR is common.
3. AI assisted embryo selection for better health and intelligence is becoming available.
4. Global warming leading to storms, droughts and ethnic conflicts due to migration, but nothing we cant handle yet.

>>10271717
>aerospace company not a SFX company
pretty SFX is 90% of spacex' marketing strategy