That's exactly what he said. You just reframed the answer.

Forgot about stardust mission. Spot on.

Depends on the meaning of returned. If passing near earth counts, then I would think it would be Cassini.

If the meaning is come back to earth's surface, that would be the Apollo missions. Manned mission that is LOL

Keep your eyes on this young man. Brilliant mind. Here's his concept in keeping cosmic rays away from space craft.

https://electroscience.osu.edu/news/2015/05/markus-novak-among-nasas-gcr-challenge-winners

Musk told reporters, it seemed like Bezo's retired to: “Turns out Besos [sic] retired in order to pursue a full-time job filing lawsuits against SpaceX …"

There are other suits he's done, but failed.

I don't really care, but I think it was a stupid decision on NASA's part, to accept 2 billion "donation" and then award the contract to Bezo's, who hasn't even achieved orbital flight yet.

More on some of his other suits against Musk. https://www.business-standard.com/article/international/jeff-bezos-retired-to-file-lawsuits-against-spacex-says-elon-musk-121082700846_1.html

One would think so. Bezo's has been using his fortune to sue NASA at damn near every turn, setting back science missions for years to come. NASA having to spend their funds to fight litigation is insanity. But Bezo doesn't care. He wants a cut of the pie, even if he isn't ready to do anything.

The water serves two purposes. One to help keep the tower and such cooled. The other use is for sound suppression. Rockets are loud, and water dampens that sound pretty well.

Not an exact copy, there were several versions of the shuttle design, before the final was settled on. Burt Rutan was consulting with NASA then, and told them, this thing is going to get people killed.

Actually they put jets on it too, and flew it around like a plane LOL.

https://youtu.be/2ifMPiPpxKo

https://youtu.be/g_MjTjEXi7I

Gun will work in space. The Russians took an aircraft cannon to space and fired it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwUQXVk6nY8

FFS, the moon wobbles like the earth. PLEASE learn some physics.

When you fall into a black hole, you die, you become a noodle, stretched over millions of miles. You can't live like that. Imagine getting too close to one, and your head up facing it, suddenly your head starts getting longer, faster than your feet are, your dead at this point, and now you just keep stretching out, but always moving towards the black hole.

One would think you were dead, if not, you'd most likely be blinded by nothing but light.

Guess this answer didn't solve your issue?

Same as the Shuttles, they were all designed to do it.

They are a certain size, to help identify later, the exact distance from the camera.

Cheers

Too bad NTRS is all buggy now. Young man put up a way to make an electromagnetic field out in front of a space craft, essentially a force field. Mark Novak dreamed it up. Just tried to find it on NASA technical release server, to no avail.

Cheers

In our lifetime, we will not be able to do interstellar colonization. Maybe Mars at best.

The earth will be here a long long time. We'll just keep adapting to what we are doing to it.

Artemis is confirming a new type of orbit about the moon. A type of orbit they didn't do with any Apollo mission.

Moon was crazy. Well worth the watch.

Not to mention that air from earth is even found on the moon in very small amounts.

If the FAA would allow him to text his Starship in orbit. So far they have done nothing but hold him back, so much so, he's having to build a new launch tower at Kennedy where he's already approved for testing.

hahahhaha, you don't know about airgap hacking LOL.

I only used it, long long ago. Netscape beat it out though. Now I use Opera.

The US military still uses windows XP, and pays Microsoft for updates, ONLY they get.