We can’t do things today that were accomplished in the 1960s.
The P51 Mustang went from sketch pad to mass production in less than six months. Today it would take eleven years based on industrial methods, regulations and requirements in 2023.
Once again, I RECOMMEND http://www.behindtheblack.com.
Robert Zimmerman is a great author, reporter, commentator, etc. The new lander is an experiment, a proof-of-concept for this company. Just like SpaceX and the Falcon 9. It failed until it did not. The return and reuse of the rockets did not work at first. The landings at sea definitely took a while to get it right. Now, SpaceX is like a regular airline, and sooo much less expensive than anything else. SpaceX is so reliable and inexpensive, Amazon has hired them!
Wonder if the ashes of Guy Williams in on the ship. He will truly be lost in space.
humm. what our best, brightest, and bravest people did in the 60’s and 70’s apparently isn’t that easy to duplicate with just robots. hope they can ‘work a solution’ with their robots from the ground.
The next American on the moon (if there is one) will be a scientist of Indian extraction working for the Chinese.
Looks like the Navajo council of medicine men and spirit wind talkers put a whammy on the mission.
Why did we even waste the tax dollars on a pointless mission to the moon from a restored shuttle? Just to show NASA is worth all that money?
Personally, I believe the USA should shift NASA into just a support organization for visionary space companies. How is it that Musk and his people envisioned and accomplished re-entry re-usable rockets that can even land on a floating platform in the ocean? Where were all the rocket engineers, astro-physics guys, and others at NASA that no one came up with such a cost effective and obviously workable concept.
We all know. NASA went woke. May be one of the reasons they can't get their lander solar panel to face the correct direction. What a shame, NASA was once the cutting edge of space exploration. Jeeze, we've been using Russian rockets to place our satellites for years.
Or a cover up and it is not what they say it is, and was not meant to actually go to the moon. Now it is in orbit around earth as a satellite as planned.
The US In Space! NASA Can Douche!
Ronald Reagan. (I'm from the government and here to help). I'm 74 and have seen wonderous accomplishments from original government programs. Unfortunately, they mostly all turn to crap later on.
from another article:
NASA: “What we have learned from our commercial partners is if we have a high enough cadence, we can relax some of the requirements that make it so costly, and have a higher risk appetite.”
Me: translation from buzzword jargon into vernacular English: technical requirements and testing known to work cost really big bucks, so we’ll try flying a bunch of junk and hope something makes it ... maybe that will be less expensive than doing it right in the first place ... [plus, we can spread the dough around to more places and get more kickbacks and campaign “donations” that way] ...
NASA: “And if they fail, the next one is going to learn and succeed.”
me: IOW, as usual with all rocket “science”, we’ll blow shit up until something finally flies ...
One big Grift. To the time of 19 billion dollars a day. Enjoy!
“Launched in 1977, the Voyager 1 and 2 probes were both cutting-edge pieces of technology for their time. The computers at the heart of their operations consisted of three systems, each with dual-redundancy, that worked together to enable the probes to journey to Jupiter, Saturn, and beyond: the Computer Command System (CCS), the Flight Data Subsystem (FDS), and the Attitude and Articulation Control System (AACS).
What is amazing is that even after four decades of traveling through the harsh, sometimes unpredictable, environment of space, both probes continue to function and call home with new insights and data.”
“There are three different computer types on the Voyager spacecraft, two of each kind, sometimes used for redundancy. They are proprietary, custom-built computers built from CMOS and TTL medium-scale CMOS integrated circuits and discrete components, mostly from the 7400 series of Texas Instruments.[34] Total number of words among the six computers is about 32K. Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 have identical computer systems.”
They can’t even tell the difference between a woman and a man. And they want to send something to the moon? ROTFLMFAO!!!
They ain’t got the “goods” nowadays....
way to go Bill Nelson.
For $108 million you would think they could locate the sun and have stop leak in the fuel tank.... : )