Hacker News with Generative AI: Space Travel

Willy Ley was a prophet of space travel (nytimes.com)
During his life, Willy Ley predicted the dawn of the Space Age with remarkable accuracy. How did his remains end up forgotten in a co-op on the Upper West Side?
Space Travel, History
27 points by Stratoscope 4 days ago | 9 comments
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin flop is bigger than Katy Perry (theverge.com)
Turns out “you go girl” feminism wasn’t enough to save this stunt trip.
Space Travel, Business, Celebrity Culture, Gender
7 points by abacussh 6 days ago | 0 comments
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin flop is bigger than Katy Perry (theverge.com)
Turns out “you go girl” feminism wasn’t enough to save this stunt trip.
Space Travel, Business, Celebrity Culture, Feminism
9 points by 01-_- 8 days ago | 13 comments
Four private astronauts launch on first human mission to fly over the poles (arstechnica.com)
Four adventurers suited up and embarked on a first-of-a-kind trip to space Monday night, becoming the first humans to fly in polar orbit aboard a SpaceX crew capsule chartered by a Chinese-born cryptocurrency billionaire.
Space Travel, Private Spaceflight, SpaceX, Cryptocurrency
14 points by perihelions 24 days ago | 0 comments
Overtime Pay for 9 Extra Months in Space? Nope (nytimes.com)
If your eight-day work trip was unexpectedly extended by nine months, you might expect to rack up some overtime pay.
Space Travel, Labor Laws, Employment
6 points by gpi 36 days ago | 0 comments
Scenes of joy as stranded US astronauts moved a step closer to returning home (businessinsider.com)
SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft successfully docked at the International Space Station on Sunday, clearing the way for stranded US astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to return home after more than nine months in space.
Space Travel, Space Exploration, NASA
19 points by gnabgib 40 days ago | 7 comments
SpaceX's Crew-10 mission arrives at ISS to relieve Starliner astronauts (space.com)
SpaceX, ISS, Space Travel, NASA, Crew Missions
7 points by saikatsg 41 days ago | 0 comments
SpaceX Starship Lost (smh.com.au)
Elon Musk’s SpaceX lost contact with its Starship rocket in space on Friday (AEDT), dooming a satellite deployment demonstration in the company’s second consecutive Starship failure this year.
Space Travel, SpaceX, Elon Musk
11 points by adampwells 50 days ago | 1 comments
The Expanse's Epstein Drive (2019) (blogspot.com)
The Epstein drive technology allows for >250 ton spacecraft to accelerate for several hours at 5g with bursts of up to 12g, achieving a deltaV of 4000km/s, while not having any radiators and a tiny propellant fraction.
Science Fiction, Space Travel, Technology
12 points by EA-3167 79 days ago | 0 comments
FAA grounds SpaceX's Starship, reports property damage on Turks and Caicos (cnbc.com)
SpaceX, Space Travel, Government Regulation, Accidents, Property Damage
5 points by ironyman 98 days ago | 1 comments
SpaceX loses Ship 33 during Starship Flight 7 (twitter.com)
SpaceX, Starship, Space Travel, Rocketry, Accidents
9 points by LorenDB 99 days ago | 7 comments
Starship Flight 7 (spacex.com)
On its flight to the International Space Station, Dragon executes a series of burns that position the vehicle progressively closer to the station before it performs final docking maneuvers, followed by pressurization of the vestibule, hatch opening, and crew ingress.
Space Travel, SpaceX
678 points by chinathrow 100 days ago | 723 comments
Predictions Scorecard, 2025 January 01 (rodneybrooks.com)
This is my seventh annual update on how my dated predictions from January 1st, 2018 concerning (1) self driving cars, (2) robotics, AI , and machine learning, and (3) human space travel, have held up. I promised then to review them at the start of the year every year until 2050 (right after my 95th birthday), thirty two years in total. The idea is to hold myself accountable for those predictions. How right or wrong was I?
Predictions, Future, Technology, Robotics, Space Travel
243 points by timr 106 days ago | 185 comments
Starship's Seventh Flight Test (spacex.com)
On its flight to the International Space Station, Dragon executes a series of burns that position the vehicle progressively closer to the station before it performs final docking maneuvers, followed by pressurization of the vestibule, hatch opening, and crew ingress.
Space Travel, SpaceX
44 points by grecy 112 days ago | 14 comments
Bi-elliptic transfer orbit maneuver (johndcook.com)
The most efficient maneuver for transferring from one circular orbit to another circular orbit of roughly the same size is the Hohmann transfer orbit.
Space Travel, Orbital Mechanics, Engineering
64 points by ColinWright 139 days ago | 25 comments
Self-eating rocket could help UK take a big bite of space industry (gla.ac.uk)
New developments on a nearly century-old concept for a ‘self-eating’ rocket engine capable of flight beyond the Earth’s atmosphere could help the UK take a bigger bite of the space industry.
Space Travel, Rocket Science, Technology, UK
8 points by bookofjoe 140 days ago | 3 comments
Astronauts tight-lipped about reason for hospital visit after 235 days in space (theguardian.com)
Three Nasa astronauts who were taken to a Florida hospital after returning to Earth from the International Space Station two weeks ago told reporters on Friday that they were all in good health following the medical ordeal – and that the agency was “still piecing things together” about what happened.
Space Travel, Health, NASA, Astronauts
60 points by mindracer 168 days ago | 7 comments
NASA Tells SpaceX to Focus on Safety After Astronaut Hospitalizations (gizmodo.com)
A NASA safety panel warned SpaceX to focus on crew safety for its commercial trips to the International Space Station (ISS) after four astronauts were recently hospitalized.
Space Travel, Safety, NASA, SpaceX
4 points by bookofjoe 175 days ago | 1 comments
Shenzhou-18 crew video on life and work in space aboard Tiangong Space Station (youtube.com)
Space Travel, China
7 points by abstractbeliefs 180 days ago | 0 comments
Astronauts return from nearly eight months on ISS after Starliner problems (theguardian.com)
Four astronauts have returned to Earth after a nearly eight-month space station stay extended by Boeing’s capsule trouble and Hurricane Milton.
Space Travel, Space Exploration, NASA, Delays
9 points by thunderbong 183 days ago | 0 comments
NASA's Crew-8 mission members return to Earth on SpaceX capsule (npr.org)
NASA’s Crew-8 mission members returned to Earth Friday — capping a nearly eight-month mission after their trip from the International Space Station was extended several times.
Space Travel, NASA, SpaceX
7 points by defrost 183 days ago | 4 comments
SpaceX grounds its Falcon rocket fleet after upper stage misfire (spaceflightnow.com)
SpaceX’s Falcon rocket fleet was grounded for the third time in three months after a second stage problem occurred Saturday following the successful launch of a Dragon Capsule carrying two crew to the International Space Station.
SpaceX, Rocketry, Space Travel, Space Exploration, Launch Failures
42 points by bookofjoe 209 days ago | 6 comments
SpaceX launches mission for 2 NASA astronauts who are stuck on the ISS (apnews.com)
SpaceX launched a rescue mission for the two stuck astronauts at the International Space Station on Saturday, sending up a downsized crew to bring them home but not until next year.
SpaceX, NASA, Space Travel
381 points by JumpCrisscross 209 days ago | 346 comments
Boeing Starliner astronauts speak out after capsule leaves without them (apnews.com)
Stuck-in-space astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams said Friday it’s been tough dealing with their Boeing ride leaving without them and the prospect of spending several extra months in orbit.
Space Travel, Boeing, NASA
11 points by howard941 225 days ago | 0 comments
Starliner departs space station and returns to Earth (arstechnica.com)
Space Travel, NASA, Spacecraft
5 points by ChumpGPT 231 days ago | 1 comments
Boeing Starliner, leaving its crew behind, lands in New Mexico (cbsnews.com)
Space Travel, Boeing, New Mexico
80 points by clessg 231 days ago | 75 comments
Stranded astronauts' capsule heads home without them (bbc.co.uk)
Boeing's Starliner spacecraft has completed its journey back to Earth - but the astronauts it was supposed to be carrying remain behind on the International Space Station.
Space Travel, NASA, Boeing
60 points by EwanToo 231 days ago | 59 comments
Radian Aerospace wants to reinvent the space rocket – as a space plane – CNN (cnn.com)
Space Travel, Aerospace, Startups, Innovation
8 points by rbanffy 236 days ago | 4 comments
Starliner crew reports hearing "sonar like noises" (arstechnica.com)
Space Travel, Spacecraft, News
120 points by areoform 237 days ago | 68 comments
NASA makes room on SpaceX trip to return astronauts stuck in orbit (theguardian.com)
SpaceX, NASA, Space Travel, Astronauts
6 points by tosh 239 days ago | 0 comments