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After leading NASA’s mission to Pluto, Alan Stern flies to space himself (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/space
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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/8492861

Interesting tidbit:

Some assessments have shown the cost of doing research on a suborbital human spaceflight vehicle, like the ones flown by Virgin Galactic or Blue Origin, is about one-tenth the cost of flying a fully automated science payload on a conventional suborbital sounding rocket.

I wouldn't have expected that human spaceflight could be cheaper than non-human spaceflight in some cases.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait, so… he didn’t use a spaceship?!?! He just flew his ass up by himself like supermans?!?!

[–] tuxtey 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Back in my day we didn't have fancy spaceships. We had to walk to space, uphill, both ways.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Sho’nuff.