Saturday, September 30, 2017

Images of the Day: SpaceX Reveals Its Updated Mars Vehicle...

An artist's concept of SpaceX's Big F(reakin') Rocket, or BFR, launching from the surface of Mars.
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Yesterday, SpaceX founder Elon Musk unveiled his revised plan to begin building a new rocket and spacecraft next year that could lead to human landings on Mars by 2024. This rocket—which was initially called the Interplanetary Transport System but is better known by its colorful nickname BFR [for Big F(reakin') Rocket]—would still be designed to carry 100 people during a single launch into space...

All I can say this, Musk is a very optimistic visionary if he thinks that the chances of another Challenger or Columbia tragedy taking place drops to zero by the time the BFR becomes operational. Anyways, here are some neat illustrations of the BFR in operation...

An artist's concept of SpaceX's BFR docked to the International Space Station.
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An artist's concept of SpaceX's BFR releasing payload into low-Earth orbit.
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An artist's concept of SpaceX's BFR on the surface of the Moon.
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