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#COTS* #spaceflight
"Business models will likely shift from a few, very expensive and bespoke solutions to higher volume, lower cost, and more #standard offerings. #Robotics has advanced significantly over the years, allowing the creation of more capable and versatile robotics 🤖 systems for #SpaceExplorationhttps://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/industry/aerospace-defense/future-of-space-economy.html

* Commercial off-the-shelf https://termaviation.com/what-is-cots-in-aviation/

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Bill Nelson claimed in his opening statement to have always supported commercial space. Nelson was not always as enthusiastic about commercial #spaceflight. In 2010 the then-senator proposed zeroing 0️⃣ out the commercial crew program https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/550148-bill-nelson-is-a-born-again-supporter-of-commercial-space-at-nasa/

#SpacePolitics

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A color that ought to be sinister, but instead just underlies a striking and vivid sense of wonder. My own nebular artwork, "Red sky at night, spacer's delight".

#art #digitalart #digitalpainting #painting #spaceflight #spaceart #nebula #scifiart#scifi #sciencefiction

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Hopefully this won’t change our mission to the ISS to study the effects of zero gravity on crown tapper and wearability.

“‘Possibility of a catastrophic failure’: Inside the space station leak problem that has NASA worried…”

#spaceexploration#space#nasa #spacetravel #spaceflight #astronaut #spacecraft #rocketlaunch #spacestation

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/15/science/international-space-station-leak-nasa-russia/index.html