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    1. savuporo on

      People like Katya Echazarreta, Emily Calandrelli, Sara Sabry got incredibly lucky to fly on this, before it got shut down.

      Commercially, it never made sense, unless the flights were very high cadence with a constant revenue stream, e.g. weekly or even daily, with minimal turnaround costs. Alas, it wasnt to be

    2. Wbino on

      We’re going to need the threat of another nation attempting a Mars mission before we focus on Mars.

    4. itijara on

      Maybe a hot take, but I like the Blue Moon concept more than Starship HLS. I don’t like how they interfered with the bidding process, but that is another matter.

    5. Decronym on

      Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

      |Fewer Letters|More Letters|
      |——-|———|—|
      |[HLS](/r/Space/comments/1qrhger/stub/o2op0jp “Last usage”)|[Human Landing System](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_program#Human_Landing_System) (Artemis)|
      |[LCH4](/r/Space/comments/1qrhger/stub/o2oixkm “Last usage”)|Liquid Methane|
      |[LEO](/r/Space/comments/1qrhger/stub/o2ob6h5 “Last usage”)|Low Earth Orbit (180-2000km)|
      | |Law Enforcement Officer (most often mentioned during transport operations)|
      |[LOX](/r/Space/comments/1qrhger/stub/o2oixkm “Last usage”)|Liquid Oxygen|
      |[NS](/r/Space/comments/1qrhger/stub/o2ol2ig “Last usage”)|New Shepard suborbital launch vehicle, by Blue Origin|
      | |Nova Scotia, Canada|
      | |Neutron Star|
      |[SLS](/r/Space/comments/1qrhger/stub/o2op0jp “Last usage”)|Space Launch System heavy-lift|

      |Jargon|Definition|
      |——-|———|—|
      |[apogee](/r/Space/comments/1qrhger/stub/o2oea7f “Last usage”)|Highest point in an elliptical orbit around Earth (when the orbiter is slowest)|
      |[cislunar](/r/Space/comments/1qrhger/stub/o2odi52 “Last usage”)|Between the Earth and Moon; within the Moon’s orbit|
      |[cryogenic](/r/Space/comments/1qrhger/stub/o2oevsj “Last usage”)|Very low temperature fluid; materials that would be gaseous at room temperature/pressure|
      | |(In re: rocket fuel) Often synonymous with hydrolox|
      |hydrolox|Portmanteau: liquid hydrogen fuel, liquid oxygen oxidizer|

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