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ZehPowah19 karma

You are described here, in a post about the last players online, as

Detenn <---- This retard needs to learn some manners

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ZehPowah17 karma

What future roles will you have now that you know you look like Bruce Willis?

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Check out the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS). We're going to start sending small payloads to the moon in 2021. The later landers in that program start to get neat. Astrobotic's lander for the VIPER would be 450kg in 2023. That's solid.

The real game changers are the Artemis Human Landing System (HLS) landers. SpaceX's Starship, Blue Origin's Blue Moon, and Dynetics' ALPACA are targeting 2024, and those could actually land habitat pieces.

As far as bases, Sierra Nevada is working on their inflatable "LIFE" habitat that would be pretty cool for the Lunar surface.

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Nanoracks have some really cool plans for turning spent upper stages into habitats. They're also launching an airlock to the ISS later this year, so they're definitely serious.

Relativity Space is planning to do fully 3D printed rockets at a pretty solid size. If that works, they could introduce some really cool capabilities.

Astrobotic is really cool. They have 2 different lunar landers contracted through NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS).

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Check out the Starship development from SpaceX. That seems like the most imminently accessible means of cheaper trips to space for crew and cargo within the decade.

There aren't any seriously planned stations to use Starship's capability, but a free-flying one could essentially be a hotel on its own. Axiom Space started to build their private station to host science and tourism, but it's scaled more like the ISS than a space hotel. That should start flying modules within 5 years.