DIE?
Parent-facilitated autodidactism is where it's at.
Two reasons:
1) The missions now are unmanned. Too much reliance on automation and software and...
2) S#!t happens
What you mean “We”, BBC?
Who is we? NASA had failures and disasters before they finally got it right.
The Japanese are new to the game.
The recent U S attempt mentioned was a private company new to the game.
One reason is because Modern engineers don’t learn anything useful in school. They don’t learn how to think critically. Just look at Boeing.
Who the hell is “we” BBC?
The early space program had enormous talent to draw on in terms of pure flying talent. Some of the early astronauts made it as far as the shuttle program, like Joe Engle from the X-15 days who landed STS-2 by stick and rudder.
Computers instead of slide rules. No rounding up which gives a margin of error.
“So why all the recent mission failures?”
DIE protocols in hiring?
Yep, not enough white guys.
We? Japan is not NASA. No one is perfect but the 60s Saturn program and moonlanding was an incredible accomplishment.
They faked it in 1969. Fake it till you make it! (BTW…we still can’t figure out how to get astronauts through the Van Allen Belts and beyond because of high cosmic radiation levels
You need a lot of fuel to land on the moon. No atmosphere to slow you down.
I wonder that about some of the technology we use in everyday life.
I am not a STEM person, so I can’t even begin to get my head around how complex and difficult it is to pull off a lunar landing. It is kind of like Mark Twain’s comment about a dog that can walk on its back legs: the marvel is not that it’s done well, but that it’s done at all.
I remember reading a rumor that the Soviets attempted a lunar landing before we made it, and the spacecraft flew past the moon.
Space X has a manned lunar landing scheduled this year
Yes.
Yes, because most of these young gun engineers don’t know how to use a slide rule.
Also, had less bureaucratic oversight and more actual testing at all levels.
Now cost and schedule trump adequate testing.
And, my favorite, Uploading the proper software AFTER LAUNCH.
I think we’re worse at nearly everything than 50 years ago.