KiwiThinker (@kiwithinker) - STEMGeeks

KiwiThinker

New Zealand

Interested in all things space related. In particular SpaceX and their missions to the Moon and Mars.

2 days ago

Going to the Moon doesn’t make Mars easier A lot of people say going to the Moon makes Mars easier. It doesn’t. Not automatically. Not the way that sentence usually gets used. There are a

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3 days ago

Rocket Lab GAO-protests NASA’s Mars telecom award to Blue Origin Rocket Lab just GAO-protested NASA’s Mars telecom award to Blue Origin. Not a minor issue. NASA gave Blue ~$700M firm-fixed-price to desi

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3 days ago

TECH MAP covers Project DAMS - my Detachable and Modular Starship concept Wow. YouTuber TECH MAP just did a video with a long section discussing Project DAMS, my Detachable and Modular Starship concept - a key reason I got started on X. ![youtube-thumbnail-maxres.jpg](

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4 days ago

Nova B2 vs Starship: price per kilo to orbit Both Stoke Nova B2 and Starship are fully reusable, so how does price per kilo to orbit compare? Falcon made ~$4,000-4,500 per kilo to LEO feel normal. Nova Block 2 a

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5 days ago

My take on the new Stoke Space Nova Block 2 My take on the new Stoke Space Nova Block 2. It is really a three stage rocket now. Stage 1 and stage 2 come home. The last stage does not.

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5 days ago

The Isaacman Effect - Week 34 The Isaacman Effect - Week 34 Space Academy commission convenes its first meeting, Isaacman rallies Iowa students for Moon Base ambitions, and urgency defines the second space…

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5 days ago

When you look up, you’re not seeing the universe now When you look up, you’re not seeing the universe now. You’re seeing a stack of different pasts. Light is fast - about 300,000 km a second - but space

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5 days ago

This clock has a proper name now: Coordinated Stardate KiwiThinker's log, Coordinated Stardate 3439.0622. This clock has a proper name now. It was just Stardate. It had a problem. People hear it and thi

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12 months ago

New NASA Astronaut: Yuri Kubo New NASA Astronaut: Yuri Kubo Bio Yuri Kubo, a native of Columbus, Indiana, graduated from the Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics, and Humanities in 2004. He earned…

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12 months ago

New NASA Astronaut: Lauren Edgar New NASA Astronaut: Lauren Edgar Bio Lauren Edgar, born in Washington, D.C., considers Sammamish, Washington, her hometown. She is married and enjoys backpacking…

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