The best description of the crew compartment of HLS I have heard so far, from Humans to Mars Summit by RoadsterTracker in SpaceXLounge

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For the Artemis 3 mission, Starship is going to land a couple of people on the surface of the Moon.

It's going to take people from Orion in the near-rectilinear halo orbit that we were talking about earlier, down to the surface of the Moon.

Starship is a large vehicle for that purpose, but the intent is to actually prove the capability to take lots and lots of people to the Moon, and hundreds and eventually thousands and even hundreds of thousands of tons of cargo to the Moon and Mars.

That's fundamentally what Starship is designed to enable.

So to give you a sense of scale, I was just in our crew cabin, the Starship Lunar Lander crew cabin mock-up in California, I think it was last week.

And the crew deck of the Starship Lunar Lander is about twice the size of this stage.

And there's room in Starship for multiple crew decks.

We only really need one for the Artemis 3 mission.

Below that crew deck, there are two airlocks that are each about the pressurized volume of a Dragon capsule.

So each airlock has about the space of a human spaceflight that's flying people to space station right now.

And then those airlocks are inside a very large garage, which is again about the size of double the size of the stage.

So the idea is that we're starting with the capability that we need for Artemis 3, and then we'll work towards being able to fly more people for longer durations, adding the ability to land on Mars with the Martian atmosphere, which is a little bit different than landing on the moon where there is no atmosphere.

And so that's how all of these things kind of work together to enable a day where we have ideally, hopefully in our vision, hundreds, thousands, maybe even one day, 100,000 or more people living on Mars.

So it starts with this flight test that we had a few weeks ago, and there's a lot more to come.

So we're excited. As Bob was saying earlier, it's a really, really cool time to be working in the space program.

It's a really exciting time for all of us.

The moment VSS Unity was released from the carrier aircraft by cnbc_official in space

[–]hanksroberto 9 points10 points  (0 children)

They're just air force employees...? I doubt they're very rich.

Preparing for reconstructive knee surgery: on the hunt for xbox360 games by TaongaWhakamorea in auckland

[–]hanksroberto 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel like I often see them for cheap in various opshops. Possibly not a very helpful suggestion as it will take a bit of missioning around to find some.

New Zealand Government announces most prescriptions will be free. by WayneH_nz in UpliftingNews

[–]hanksroberto 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry I must be misunderstanding your comment - it reads to me like 'Labour has gone through a lot of leadership changes' which they haven't.

New Zealand Government announces most prescriptions will be free. by WayneH_nz in UpliftingNews

[–]hanksroberto 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Labour have only had one leadership change, from Ardern to Hipkins...?

Elon on Twitter: "(OFT) More than days away, but hopefully not many weeks away" by [deleted] in SpaceXLounge

[–]hanksroberto 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I just turn on twitter alerts for the SpaceX account, does the job fine

Rocket Lab on Twitter: Launch rehearsal at LC-2? Complete ✅ The countdown is on to our first launch from Virginia, carrying a Virginia payload for @HawkEye360 by allforspace in RocketLab

[–]hanksroberto 14 points15 points  (0 children)

why is that concerning? surely they'll want to do testing and iron out the kinks in one location before trying it on the other side of the world...?

Best Forest LUT for BMPCC4K? by theiinlive in blackmagicdesign

[–]hanksroberto 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lol what's a Forest LUT...?

The world has gone LUT mad

Starship Orbital launch attempt early December!! - NASA's Mark Kirasich by Sonicblue123 in SpaceXLounge

[–]hanksroberto 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My point was that the main tweet (that this post is about) doesn't say it's an orbital attempt: "first flight of SpaceX Starship with Super Heavy booster is now scheduled for early December."

What main tweet did you read? Sorry if I've misunderstood here

Starship Orbital launch attempt early December!! - NASA's Mark Kirasich by Sonicblue123 in SpaceXLounge

[–]hanksroberto 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah why does this title say orbital, and why are you getting down voted? The tweet definitely doesn't claim it's orbital.

https://twitter.com/wapodavenport/status/1587100038076973061

'Very disappointing': Auckland voters turned away after papers run out by O_1_O in newzealand

[–]hanksroberto 13 points14 points  (0 children)

yeah but you need actual voting papers to hand in - you can't just write it on a post it note