Posted on 11/25/2018 3:05:13 PM PST by DFG
If you study the history of NASA’s Apollo program in the 1960s, one thing you come to realize is that the tight timetable to reach the moon by the end of the decade meant that NASA didn’t have time to ossify into a bureaucracy, and they did things (i.e., took risks) in those days that would never be permitted today.
But you knew NASA had slipped into the maw of the administrative state when President Obama told NASA administrator Charles Bolden in 2010 that “Muslim outreach” should be a primary mission for the space agency.
Well now it appears NASA doesn’t even want to go to Mars even if it could go to Mars. Gizmodo offers an account of recent panel discussion about Mars hosted by Lucianne Walkowicz, the NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology, and you have to read this, not to believe it, because of course the real problem with going to Mars is that it would represents “colonialism.” No, seriously, that’s what the thinking is:
(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...
GHW Bush implemented the Mission to Planet Earth in 1989 but that wasn't solely his responsibility. Today that is known as NASA Earth Sciences Division and there is a large fleet of satellites that study the earth.
Other nations also launch and operate these satellites and sometimes they are joint ventures like the recent IceSat 2 which is France/USA.
The first dedicated earth observing satellite was TOPEX/Poseidon which measured sea level and ocean topography and was launched in 1992. It was replaced first with Jason 1, then Jason 2, then Jason 3 in 2016.
Also back in those days congress passed the legislation(1990) which was the basis of the global warming study released Friday. Also back in those days the US ratified the UN Global Warming treaty(1992).
“That was when they gave up on space in favor of pretend accomplishments.”
Most rockets that could launch a satellite cost under $100 million. The Saturn V was only $100 million or so, itself.
The lousy Shuttle program cost over $1 billion per launch. There was zero savings as promised by the Shuttle program.
The Shuttle was a total pretend accomplishment.
Uninhabitable.
“NACA/NASA used to be primarily made up of engineers and support folks”
There has been a vast influx of bean counters into the industry. Engineers who know how to design a schedule but can not perform to it.
The industry supply chain is drying up; not enough money to be made supplying space qualified parts. We have lost the edge.
There is practically no oxygen, atmosphere, or water. It’s extremely cold and there is no magnetic field to keep off cosmic rays. And that’s only the beginning.
NASA problem in a nutshell!
https://www.airspacemag.com/daily-planet/nasas-new-mission-and-the-cult-of-management-155873900/
And it’s truelove all government funded technical efforts!
I worked with them some in the late 1980s. They were no great shakes back then either.
To me, some of the greatest accomplishments of Yesteryear’s NASA was the bringing together of brilliant minds that devised and streamlined the various error-correcting digital communications links that made receiving clear artifact-free images from deep space using impossibly small signal strengths over billions of miles possible. The Golay Code and Mariner 9 mission comes to mind. Cell phone technology exploded with a technique called Viterbi decoding first used on space probes; the developer going off to start a little company called Qualcom for example.
That is NOT the beginning.
The beginning is... the astronauts would be dead before they got to Mars due to radiation.
Are you sure because it sounds to me like an violent invasion.
“Viterbi decoding first used on space probes;”
Actually, convolution decoding predated Viterbi. His algorithm was perhaps one of the most popular. I used a Viterbi decoder on a space system designed in 1968. I’ve used other convolution decoders dating before that.
Of course convolutional coding predated the decoder.
Appendix F:
https://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/51-l/docs/rogers-commission/Appendix-F.txt
NASA shouldn’t send people to Mars (yet) and it has nothing at all to do with this muslim BS.
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/07/06/tuesdays-intriguing-people-18/?hpt=T2
Calypso Louie’s mothership....
They used to make those parts in house
I had to backtrack. I thought you were talking about morphing libertarian’s colon.
July 29, 1958.
#45 and no resorts to go fishing and boating.
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