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Monday's SpaceX launch was a success with both the landing and with the booster recovery. Unfortunately, the second launch mentioned in that story had to be delayed:
Moldy Mouse Food Postpones SpaceX Launch:
SpaceX has postponed its cargo launch to the International Space Station until Wednesday after mold was found on food bars for a mouse experiment bound for the orbiting outpost, NASA said.
[...] Some 40 mice are part of the experiment aimed at studying the effects of microgravity in the immune system.
The launch will be the 16th for SpaceX, as part of an ongoing contract with NASA to send supplies to the astronauts living at the space station.
Some 5,600 pounds (2,500 kilograms) of food, experiments and other gear is packed onto the unmanned Dragon cargo ship, which will blast off on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Launch is scheduled for 1 hour after this story goes live.
The launch will be live-streamed on YouTube starting approximately 15 minutes before launch time.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 05 2018, @08:35PM (5 children)
Why are we infecting space with our virus?
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday December 05 2018, @09:50PM (1 child)
For the same reason PCs come pre-infected with Windows: Profit!
If you eat an entire cake without cutting it, you technically only had one piece.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 06 2018, @08:00AM
Provided one acts in a morally permissible way at all times then there is literally never anything wrong with doing anything for profit.
No morally permissible transaction occurs which isn't believed at the time of the agreement by both parties to be beneficial to them.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by khallow on Wednesday December 05 2018, @11:39PM
Because there is no better outcome. There's no point to leaving space pristine nor is there value to leaving life trapped on Earth.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 06 2018, @05:08AM
Pristine nature has no value except the joy/pleasure/utility/&c it facilitates in conscious life, and that only insofar as it could not be put to better use to the same end. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.*
*final sentence from https://www.desiderata.com/desiderata.html [desiderata.com]
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday December 06 2018, @02:21PM
Because it's the only place left. We've already made significant progress on the oceans.
If you eat an entire cake without cutting it, you technically only had one piece.