Seems that if a nation has gotten to the point of needing to send people to a whole different nation due to prison overcrowding. Then it really should be a crucial time to change laws on shit that exist to feed the prison industrial complex. But I am not shocked that the nation that was shipping people to Australia originally for the same reasons is falling back on doing it. Though I am kind of shocked that they aren’t just funding the US complex to build prisons here to send them to.
I hope they release a video of the return. That is something I wish the CNSA and gov would do with their launches/landings. I know a major reason is to keep the US/the West as in the dark as possible (and to keep any failures more hidden to avoid giving the West shit to make fun of). But seeing launches is always fun to see, and even only seeing the successful landings would be cool.
Though I will say that I was hoping that SpaceX being so wildly open about sharing the explosions/failures would lead to other space orgs (private and national) lean into showing similar. As they are able to show progress over time, and that can be inspiring to the public and more specifically younger folks. Shows that mistakes/errors (or even just really bad luck with weather) are not the end of things as long as something is learned and new things are tried. It is like the only thing that I have liked about Musk with regards to SpaceX.
Basically all other private for-profit companies and government agencies panic about it and don’t attempt stuff as often. Which leads to shit like the Boeing Starliner being less real world testing (and even more embarrassing). At least gov orgs I can understand due to extra fear of tax payers freaking out about costs. But the costs wouldn’t be as bad if so much more fucking money is put into the military industrial complex (in the US at least). Tax payers wouldn’t be anywhere as upset about space failures if more of that mic money was also used for helping real people.
I just want to see as much footage from all nations and launch companies as possible. It would be awesome to see what they are all trying these days. With the SpaceX boosters showing that reusable options can very much work. The others are able to more easily push for making their own. The moment that the first Falcon landed successfully, it showed that the massive waste of so much money on SLS and how playing it “safe” via bloated companies like Boeing really was. If any nation is likely to really move fast, then China would be the one to close the gap (and hopefully get ahead as it would force the US to actually fund wild ideas).