The Antares rocket lifted off from Virginia Beach on Cygnus' first commercial mission. In doing so, Orbital Sciences joins SpaceX, which has already launched several cargo spacecraft to the space station
Orbital Sciences' Antares rocket launch on January 9, 2014 followed by the launch at the Wallops Space Center, Virginia on a supply mission to the International Space Station on the Cygnus spacecraft. Photo: NASA
The private Anthras launch vehicle lifted off Thursday (Jan. 9) at 13:07 p.m. ET in Virginia carrying the Cygnus cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station on a second private mission in one week (previously, rival SpaceX launched a Thai satellite).
This launch was part of NASA's $1.9 billion contract with Orbital Sciences and after a previous test flight, this is the first commercial flight of Orbital Sciences' self-developed Cygnus to the space station.
"Today's launch provides us with the ability to launch payloads that will enable the functioning of the space station," said Frank Culverstone, Senior Vice President and CEO of Orbital Sciences' Advanced Space Flight Division. "We managed to meet the budget."
Following the extension of the life of the space station until 2024 by the Obama administration, the importance of the supply spacecrafts of Orbital Sciences and SpaceX, in collaboration with NASA, has increased. This is to enable the equipment of the station and increase its scientific capacity.
Cygnus is busy with scientific experiments mainly for NASA but also for about 20 students from schools across the USA.
The launch of the two-stage, 40-meter-long rocket provided a celestial spectacle that, thanks to clear skies, could be seen from large parts of the US East Coast from the Carolinas to Connecticut.
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It seems that you suffer from the PLC syndrome which stands for Permanent Lost Case
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The time replays you use are so obsessive that they end up eating away at your mind. You may enter an irreversible fixation and pay an irreversible cognitive price for it and you will not know why. If you don't want to end up in Nietzsche's situation at the end of his life, let it go.
Dear Mr. B, how can I explain to you? . .
Humanity is the resource of the other intelligence, it created you, and it is not certain that it will share it with you, because I saw that it erases this magical knowledge by returning time. Good day and another good day
Despite the hypothetical question "what will happen if and when humanity meets an alien civilization", nevertheless the question that is taking center stage is the question of the distribution of resources.
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The question is, will humanity control all natural resources or another civilization?
Following the lifetime hosting of the space station typo
The more humanity progresses, the more the question of the distribution of resources (and produce) arises.
The road to space opens up to humanity.
In a little while there will be a colony on Mars and then human colonies everywhere in the galaxy.
And the question:
Who will control these enormous resources.
Will these be the ones with arms as has been customary since the dawn of history until today?
Or there will be a different kind of division.
Maybe finally the distribution of resources will be according to the contribution to society and not according to the ability to take them by force of arms?