A crew of four passengers — led by a cryptocurrency billionaire — is set to launch aboard a SpaceX capsule that will carry them over the Earth’s poles, marking the first time humans have flown such a mission.
A crew of four passengers — led by a cryptocurrency billionaire — is set to launch aboard a SpaceX capsule that will carry them over the Earth’s poles, marking the first time humans have flown such a mission.
Why is this news? Unless it explodes, who cares?
You want people to die?
I hope their life insurance is paid up.
Hope it’s one way!
Brave or stupid? His last couple of rockets turned into expensive fireworks.
This is a Falcon. They’re actually really safe. The Starship is the POS
I were wouldn’t trust anything made by his company’s. Even his trucks are falling apart.
Used the wrong glue to attach the fuel tanks
Ha
Elon getting rid of the competition.
Hoo boy.
No one cares. He's stealing from you.
You own crypto?
Should we know who that guy is? I’m terrible when it comes to notable people…
Chun? No. Not unless you are a space nerd and knew about the mission and his hints prior Kenny? He’s not notable
Gotcha, nope, not a space nerd, just a generic jack of all trades master of none nerd.
envious, but still spam in a can. very rich spam.
are they boarding the techies
Death wish? Too many recent explosions for my taste even if I could afford it!
They’re not flying on a test article. They’re flying on Falcon 9 which is the most reliable rocket ever developed with over 400 missions
There’s a lawless fascist in the White House. I don’t care if a billionaire is launching a damn rocket!
Explosion.
No
I would never …. Sometimes it is a huge advantage to live with quite small funds. 😅
Thoughts and prayers
Uh first time humans have flown over the poles? Cnn is getting dumb now
Yes in orbit. There’s never been a crewed polar mission before
What could go wrong? 😂
Many things. Spaceflight is hard That’s why they’ve spent the best part of a year training and are flying on the most reliable rocket ever developed
JFC with their track record why would any human climb aboard one of their flying sticks of dynamite
They’re not flying on a test article. They’re flying on SpaceX’s actual operational rocket (Falcon 9) which is quite literally the most reliable rocket ever developed. This will be SpaceX’s 17th crewed mission and 4th flight of this particular spacecraft (C207 Resilience)
Can the crew take part remotely so it’s just the crypto dude we shoot into space?
You do realise the crypto is a means to an end right? It’s an investment to DO OTHER THINGS
Crypto value is based solely on its ability to convince people it has value? I have no problem with people trying to make $$ from it, hey you know there’s risk. I’m against my gov looking at crypto as a means to fund the gov
Literally all money or anything with value works like that Also this has no relevance to this mission
Every company he owns should be boycotted
Wow, around the poles! Mars any day now!!!!! bsky.app/profile/nowh...
according to elmo..there was to be a manned starship on Mars in 2024....what happened to the hype and billions of tax payer dollars elmo????
According to NASA there will be people on the moon in 2024
Stick with the program moron...this is not about NASA...musk has made ludicrous claims for ten years using billions of taxpayer dollars to enrich himself......his Mars manned project was/is/will be impossible...
None of SpaceX’s contracts are for Mars dumb fuck.
Hey DUMBFUCK.....elmo has stated publicly he was going to have a manned crew landing on Mars and the moon prior to 2025....I don't give a shit about the contracts you are a fucking moron...elmo is a grifter and a liar and you are too stupid to know the difference....
And NASA said publicly that they’d fly crew around the moon by 2017 and launch Webb in 2011 Everything is delayed in spaceflight sweetheart.
Ignore the obvious dipshit...elmo stated multiple times he would have a manned flight to Mars in 2024, dearmoon flight for 2018 delayed, cancelled in 2023...a liar and grifter using billions of taxpayer funds and investors not named musk......
DearMoon’s date was stated VERY clearly as a NET date. Not a target/expected date It was also cancelled because the Maezawa lost half his net worth and couldn’t afford it
And if you claim is that Musk making guessed dates of things far off in the future makes him a liar then care to explain why you aren’t giving that same energy to NASA? Or do they get a free pass because they’re 100% taxpayer funded?
Another thing too. You do realise that not only has SpaceX saved the gov billions over the past decade but all of the programs they got paid for by the gov are in full swing
You are a fucking moron...musk is a liar...a thief...con artist and fraud...nothing you write has any worth just a bunch of fan boy fawning bullshit...... continue to defend a piece of shit you loser...
You are the only one insistent of bringing the guy up. I couldn’t care less for him But you very clearly have a hate boner you need to stroke. You can watch the fucking announcement yourself and clearly hear how the date was an over optimistic estimate to simply have a target
Money does not buy sense.
But it can fly you a ride on the best crew vehicle flying
Shame they didn't just get the $35 tickets from Frontier, then. They sure didn't buy the best...
What could go wrong? 🤔
They could return.
It's very good for the environment I'm sure. Best make sure I get my recycling done and use public transport for everything.
You want people to die?
I'm not....because Elon won't be on board. When he is....THEN I'll be thinking it!
When I first read it I didn’t see crypto in front of billionaire and I thought it said led by the billionaire (meaning elon) wouldn’t that be nice just him getting shot into space and never returning. He’s too much of a pussy to go into his own space rockets tho
True. That motherfucker will never be farther from the earth's surface than the cruising altitude of a private jet.
Oh yeah? Where’d he get the money for that?
Crypto investments in China. As it states Those were a means to an end for the guy
The question is “why?” Disney World is still open, isn’t it?
You can’t research the poles from Disney.
In two minds about this. Not that I wish them any harm at all, but... this has a few too many 'deep sea submarine tourism' vibes about it.
It has literally nothing to do with that shitty submersible
Which one? The Titanic one, the Maldives ones, the Barrier Reef ones, the Hudson Canyon, the Bahama Banks...? No matter, they are all super wealthy joyrides with little or no regulation with a 'go at your own risk' clause that, in the end, give me the fear.
This mission is regulated and isn’t a joyride
So, a Malta-based billionaire who funded the whole thing, a Norwegian Director, a German robotics researcher, and an Australian 'adventurer'... These are not tourists ? Good to know.
No. They’re not. I don’t think you know what a tourist is
Ooookkkaaaayy. I think I'm happy that tourists are people who travel for pleasure, interest, or culture. My initial point was that I felt that Musky's track record of setting things on fire gave me a sense of dread - for people who decided to travel in orbit for what is, essentially, their own good.
Falcon 9 and Dragon are incredibly reliable Falcon 9 is actually the most reliable rocket ever developed
Something bad is gonna happen
No
Interesting new flight path, indeed. Led by a crypto billionaire. Have to watch this.
Elon’s rockets constantly blow up. Are they nuts?!
These blow up. Don’t they know that?
They don’t. Falcon is literally the most reliable rocket ever developed
So why did they blow up?
Falcon 9 has blown up 3 times over the past decade. Once because of a contractor selling below spec alloys, once because of an unknown failure mode with the COPVs and once because of a design fault on a sensor In the meantime they’ve also flown over 400 missions with no issue.
I hope they have wills and insurance. A lot of insurance.
Spacegate
No
The oligarchs are preparing to create Elysium.
American tax dollars at work!
No
Yes "In 2024, SpaceX received at least $3.8 billion in U.S. government contracts, marking a record high for the company, with a majority of the funding going to NASA and the Defense Department. "
No. This mission is privately funded This contracts are for specific services. $1.2 billion is for NASA missions to ISS and back as well as the U.S. deorbit vehicle and small launches. $2.6 billion is for DoD missions such as Starshield and NSSL Phase 3
Those are separate to this mission
Stop simping for Elon, he wouldn't exist without tax dollars. "Elon Musk's companies, particularly Tesla and SpaceX, have received significant government funding through contracts, loans, and other forms of support, totaling at least $38 billion."
Contracts. Contracts are an exchange for services chief This is like saying your taxi driver wouldn’t exist without your money. Like yeah because you are PAYING FOR THEIR SERVICES
In 2015, Musk's growing Tesla empire separately benefited from about $4.9 billion in government subsidies. Estimated using a compilation of grants, tax breaks, factory construction, discounted loans and environmental credits the company can't sell, as well as Tesla buyer tax credits and rebates.
the $4.9 billion figure appears to includes money Tesla Motors received from the ZEV program.
Although the author mentioned that the money is coming from other automakers and not tax payers, he failed to explain that the government is not actually forcing automakers to finance Tesla through the program
Sure but we all know SpaceX wouldn't exist without tax dollars.
And NASA wouldn’t have the capability to operate the ISS as they do without the contracts those tax dollars went to. Or they’d be paying 4-10x as much
I also understand that SpaceX is cheaper but NASA could have been as well if it hadn't been gutted and it's contracts turned over to SpaceX years ago
You do realise that SpaceX was only funded BECAUSE the NASA program wasn’t cheaper
It also wasn’t gutted. The constellation program literally existed to keep shuttle lines open and prevent talent from moving to the private sector It failed. Failed so hard the Obama administration themselves cancelled it
Come on man, don't be simping for apartheid Clyde. It is well documented that space x was built off fat govt contracts paid with tax dollars to a private Corp unlike NASA. Tesla couldn't have survived without ev subsidies to purchase cars, it's all well documented.
You are the only one who keeps bringing him up chief. Aldo you do realise those “fat gov contracts” were half their competitors and 1/4th historic contracts and GIVEN BY NASA FOR SERVICES? XD Maybe if you stopped fantasising about musk you could come back to reality and stop misrepresenting
Bwahahahahaha. Maybe if you got off his dick you'd realize that neoliberalism is dystopian as fuck and your embracing it, even arguing for it. Your grandchildren will remember you for strapping the corporate yoke around their necks.
ISS existed long before spacex
Yes. And they used Shuttle (which was $1 billion a launch) and the Russians to access it Now they use Dragon. Which is cheaper, more capable and more reliable than Soyuz and Shuttle and has more on orbit time than Shuttle
Tax payer money
No
Elon musk needs to be onboard
Remember when #elonmusk said he would be on the next launch? Whatever happened to that?
You fell for a fake screenshot
He said “next lunch”
I'll be praying that none of them survive. 🙏
Kaboom is 54321 mazel tov
I predict a fatal accident
Your prediction was so bad that not only did it not happen but you made your prediction after it had already launched
My bad!
Looking forward to seeing it crash and burn, much like crypto.
Those people are effing crazy to trust anything musk's hands are in.
I wouldn't get in one of his exploding ships with Trump's body ..
I can't help but think of all the things that could be done to help humans here on earth with the money that is being spent on an unnecessary flight of questionable scientific value.
This mission does have scientific value and that money does get spent on Earth.
I pray the capsule
It’s amazing that those billions are doing something NASA did 50 years ago
NASA have never flown a crewed polar mission
Anyone else hoping for the outcome that will be best for the whole world?
"Fram2 stands out because no humans have traveled directly over the Earth’s poles from space, which requires a flight path that’s far more fuel-intensive than chasing orbits closer to the equator." The key words are "from space." It has been done by airplanes.
Ok? Like yeah it’s been done by aircraft. But that’s till doesn’t undermine that this is a historic first for spaceflight
Not really historic. As Dr. Christopher Combs said, flying a human spaceflight mission around the poles is “a notch above gimmick, but not exactly a groundbreaking milestone.”
Chris Combs is wrong frankly. And he is well know in the spaceflight community for being wrong because he frankly is a bit of a Boeing fanboy.
He’s not an unbiased source to base your opinions on when he quite literally compared the most reliable rocket ever developed and a spacecraft build to NASA specifications to a shitty submersible built with known failure modes
This mission is historic. Never before have crew launched to a polar orbit before or conducted the research they are doing such as X-rays on orbit for the first time. Launching polar increases the complexity of the mission too.
oceangate v.2
No
Major Tom, get up there
Too bad Musk isn't joining them.
Yay! All subsidised by the US taxpayer.
Boom! Seems to be space x record of late.
SpaceX operates the most reliable rocket ever developed. They not flying on a prototype my guy
What a waste of money. This should be reported to doge. May their trip continue indefinitely .
No
So are we taking bets on how quickly it explodes?
I’ll bet you $100 it splashes down safely in the pacific and the crew return home fine
Why is everyone here wishing death? What is wrong with you people…
Because one of the guys is rich and therefore he’s deserving of death and so are the other 3 apparently For people claiming to not be Nazis they sure do love drawing swasticas and calling on random people to die
Pray these passengers don’t turn into a firework over the skies & end up an article on this page
They’re not flying on a developmental prototype
The last one exploded so that would be a hard no for me👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻
May it turn out to be a spectacular light show…
You want people to die?
Here's hoping more billionaires follow them up. And stay there.
But not Elon? Pussy.
rip
Hmmmm. Y’all remember when them rich ppl took that submarine down and it imploded???!?… Sounds like the same thing gonna happen here.
You clearly know nothing about this vehicle
💥
Buh bye
One pissed off worker and you could have real problems and I cant imagine there is no pissed off workers under Elon
Is this a GREEN space flight? Kill more of our planet.
‘A notch above gimmick’ While a human spaceflight mission has never passed so close to Earth’s poles, experts who spoke with CNN said that there may not be a huge scientific draw to such an effort.
What could do this have to with population reduction? Just asking….
It doesn’t
¡A ver si se convencen de una vez de que la Tierra es redonda! bsky.app/profile/cnn....
It's sad SpaceX's leader is so toxic space travel isn't even exciting anymore.
Yeah it was so exciting when the puppy and dandelion frolicking Von Braun ran it Maybe, idk, stop obsessing over one fucking guy
Even a "good" CEO would still be a negative. NASA should do this alone instead of providing logistical support to an expensive private entity
SpaceX is literally the opposite of expensive.
SpaceX is many things but 'expensive' is really not one of them, they're the cheapest space program in history by a lot.
that's because they're using technology we paid for already
Perhaps, but ULA could’ve easily done the same thing earlier to corner the market and didn’t.
They did. They had a defacto monopoly until SpaceX (who had to sue to even compete) entered the scene
Gee, I hope everything goes OK
Let's see. SpaceX explodes monthly. Let's add humans, maybe that will fix it.
Falcon 9 is the most reliable rocket ever built. They’re not flying on test articles
The Muppets said it first: Pigs in Space!
Good luck ! You can’t get along on earth , what you gonna do in space with the rocks? I can see the failure of the SpaceX , it’s an Elon thing . Why travel on it ?
Falcon 9 is the most reliable rocket ever developed
Everybody being polite in how they say it... I hope it explodes, or better yet... flies out of control and irreversibly leaves orbit.
You hope people die?
Billionaires are dragons hoarding wealth, not people.
Not how wealth works. Also you have literally called for the deaths of 2 researchers and a videographer So do they deserve to die?
Don't fly with dragons.
Stop being a nazi
LOL, okay bro. I'm sure your little, social media speech will make me rethink that billionaires are anything but inhuman dragons. But good on ya for having hope... you keep that in your heart, baby.
I think you’re just a bigot who doesn’t like Chinese people
I think you're retarded.
Projecting again
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Word salad
I can measure Evil as fast as you measure money.
Your pfp is AI generated
I can measure you.
No one cares
Billionaires joyriding to space on the back of the poor, and you defend them. Evil is your nature.
This isn’t a joy ride and isn’t on the backs of the poor
What the actual fuck is wrong with you
Go suck inhuman billionaire dick elsewhere, you slobbery sucker.
I’m not even a fan of billionaires? 😭😭 I just like SpaceX. Also wishing death on random people is cool here? It’s just on Bluesky and nowhere else in terms of space.
Again, we're not talking about people. We're talking about wealth hoarding dragons.
That’s not what those people are and you know it.
Why do you wish harm on people?
Billionaires are dragons hoarding wealth, they are not people.
The entire crew isn’t billionaires. So you’re wishing harm on innocents who aren’t deserving of harm
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I won't wish them bad things, but if something bad happened, I'm not sure I'd be sad. Or joyous. Or fist pumping.
Can we strap Elon to the outside of the rocket?
He said two weeks ago that he would join the next manned flight to prove how safe it was. Of course he lied.
Pretty certain there has been space tourism before. If you don't believe me go ask William Shatner. CNN needs to stop gushing over Musk. The fascists are going to eat CNN under all circumstances. Perhaps CNN should consider maintaining some shred of journalistic integrity in the meantime.
This isn’t tourism
K bye
Can Elon go too (hoping for a fiery start)
se calhar vai avariar, não?
Did they not see what happened to the submarine with the richest?
This isn’t oceagate
Oh HELL no.
Fingers crossed.
All this will stop when they kill people!
Let’s crowdfund an extra booster rocket and send them into outer space
Talk about pollution. All my family's waste since the dawn of time. Will it become regular? Giant rocket pollution for the wealthy, of course.
Spaceflight emissions are 1/140th of videogames alone.
And there are 140,000,000,000 video games.🙃
Ok?
Burn baby burn…
You want people to die?
No, but space travel will kill people! It is a total unnecessary energy gobbling hobby that will bring us all down! Ever heard of climate change? About biodiversity, collapsing ecosystems?
Do you know how little spaceflight actually emits? Here’s a better question. Should video games be banned?
Or AI !
Global AI used less than the emissions of video games last year too
I never ever play video games. Why should one?
Here’s what we want to know: When is the vile nazi rawdogging America going to quit?
Personally, I try not to actively embrace things that may do me harm. Snakes. Toxic waste. Exploding unproven rocket travel Any life insurance company stock suddenly go crazy, cuz these 4 gonna die….
I hope it doesn't blow up. But hey, SpaceX is not a good record. Like going to the bottom of the ocean in a mini submarine with an X box handle. Not my thing.
SpaceX has a good record. The only vehicles they blow up are test articles The vehicle they are flying on (Falcon 9) is literally the most reliable rocket ever developed and most flown U.S. launch vehicle in history
Hope they crash. Stupid is as stupid does.
You hope people die?
Mission name: Pole Dance
Wishing them a happy Oceangate.
You want people to die?
You want 2 researchers and a videographer to die because rich man bad? Idk I’m starting to get the impression you guys are just sinophobic
:-)
Hopefully it takes off, flies, and lands without any problems at all... then Krasnov, Vance, Musk, and Miller (assuming we can only have four) decide it's safe enough to give it a go... and then... Challenger 2.0. What? No, I'm never giving up my dream of Elon's hubris getting them all killed.
This isn't access to space, for which our show is all about. This is just shifting the billions to other billions.
This is a BS waste of time
No
BFD, help the hungry children of our world.
Gross
No
Taxpayer-money joyride!
No
Wtf, cnn??? You put Dugin on air??? Are you high????
I support shooting billionaires into outer space.
How far above the earth does jurisdiction go?
Especially cryptocurrency billionaires!
More billionaires should go into extreme environments in unreliable vessels, at least like ten a month I think
Let’s stop 🛑 child abuse together brothers and sisters do what you can to save the generation
Mission??? It is like a charabanc taking pub regulars on a day out to the seaside (circa 1920s Gt. Britain).
No
Recommend a detour to Uranus
Good riddance. Stay over there.
Oh hell yes
fingers crossed it explodes
You want people to die?
Is this a Fantastic Four tie-in promotion?
No
Imagine wasting all that imaginary money.🤷♀️
Why are you calling it a “Mission” if it’s basically a tourist ride for a crypto bro ?
It’s not. That’s just the guy funding it. There are 3 researchers onboard and 22 research studies including the first xrays on orbit. Like this is the furthest from a joyride as you can get The crypto stuff is also a means to an end for the guy.
Are they gonna skip integration tests with these too? I heard about how the guys currently heading those Space X test flights skip those integration tests as a money saving measure, with predictably bad results.
Probably not
God speed.
The fact you guys keep trying to make this parallel shows how pitifully little you understand about Spaceflight
you’re inferring that it’s more dangerous to go to the bottom of the ocean then it is to go to space? How many of Elons rockets have blown up??? Oh, that’s right… Over 50% How many submarines have imploded??? ONE since 1900. And that was in 2023… With a billionaire at the helm… FACTS… 🤣
It is. It is way more dangerous to go to the bottom of the ocean than space. Also no. 50% of SpaceX’s rockets have not blown up. You are thinking of starship development which consists of prototypes
Falcon 9, the model of rocket they’re launching on, is the single most reliable rocket ever developed with 453 missions and 3 failures. Giving it a 99% reliability and it holds the longest streak ever for an orbital rocket with over 300 consecutive successful missions
For reference the next best is Soyuz with only 112.
But really you don’t actually care. You think it’s dangerous therefore it is because you can’t get Musk out your head for some reason
He's not going to fuck you.
You are the only one who keeps bringing the guy up. Stop projecting
Maybe if he didn't tweet or xeet or whatever the fuck it is called a thousand times a day,force everyone on the platform to see it because of his attention whoring algorithm,and run around like a dipshit so he's always in the news we could forget about him. Also muted you don't get to respond now :)
Evil=Greed*Intelligence^Choices No religion needed to measure Evil. I can do it as fast as you measure money.
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It really undercuts your anti-Musk message when you get so many things explicitly wrong.
Does that matter here though. I mean it’s one big circle jerk so they get likes regardless Xd
Evil=Greed*Intelligence^Choices No religion needed to measure Evil. Your choices are visible here.
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