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Pilot and Flight Engineer Victor Glover performing central nervous system experiment within Columbus laboratory module, Expedition 64.
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Pilot and Flight Engineer Victor Glover performing central nervous system experiment within Columbus laboratory module, Expedition 64.
You know what I love most about the Apollo program? I have NO IDEA what companies NASA contracted to get it done. None! I don’t know and I don’t care. Boeing? Northup-Grummond? Lucky and Marvin? Acme? Who gives a shit!
I wish we could go back to the days before companies became characters we’re expected to root for. I don’t give a shit about SpaceX; it is a soulless corporate conglomerate owned by a soulless corporate shill who would bring back apartheid if it’d earn him a few extra bucks. SpaceX the company didn’t do anything today, the engineers did. And for that matter, Elton Monk certainly didn’t do anything either. He doesn’t get to claim victory just because he owns the rocket that did it. The privatization and commercialization of spaceflight is a horrifying new frontier for unchecked capitalism.
A new frontier, but not the final one.
Oh no, it will get so much worse before it gets better.
Flight Engineer Kate Rubins examines radishes growing aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 64.
Flight Engineer Victor Glover attached to Canadarm2, discarding an antenna cover towards Earth on spacewalk, Expedition 64.
Pilot and Flight Engineer Victor Glover installs research gear inside the Japanese Kibo module of the International Space Station, Expedition 64.
NASA Astronauts Victor Glover and Michael Hopkins perform spacesuit maintenance in Quest airlock, Expedition 64.
NASA Astronauts Victor Glover and Michael Hopkins complete final spacewalk preparations, with Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergey Ryzhikov posing in background, Expedition 64.
Flight Engineer Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Commander Sergey Ryzhikov of Roscosmos conduct spacewalk rehearsal in Orlan spacesuits, Expedition 64.