Posted on 08/21/2022 2:29:23 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Whoops, mid-morning on Monday, August 29th.
“I used to work with one of those guys. There was NO CONVINCING him otherwise.”
I am “one of those guys”.
Nice to meet you.
;-)
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The best book on this subject from “one of those guys”:
https://www.amazon.com/One-Small-Step-Great-Dominate-ebook/dp/B07NB2QL13
Nice to meet you too!
You’re not gonna change my mind, and I’m not gonna change yours on this subject, but there are a thousand other subjects we probably do agree on.🙂
there are lots of ways to watch a launch, not just on NASA tv, me personally i watch at Nasaspaceflight.com youtube channel. lots of other place on youtube to watch.
no seat cup holders should have speakers on the roof just because
My son designed key rocket technology for this system. He’s got us front row seats at the launch site and we’re heading down there in a few days.
This will be fun!
Will be watching from my backyard.
Pretty soon no one will be able to duck the full meaning of,
“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”
Go big or go home. Secrets of the universe-level stuff. 🙂
If the government spent as much money on the space program as it has on welfare over the years, we would probably have bases on the Moon and Mars by now. Now THAT’S being progressive, instead of flushing it down for the past 60 years.
While NASA claims differently, throwing money at it could not have fixed deep systemic management problems (including wokeness of various kinds).
It quickly became a bloated bureaucracy (as we typically see with mature government agencies).
Private manned space exploration is going to be the future in the US, and I would expect China (and perhaps Russia) to also have bases on the moon and eventually on Mars.
Imho the US private ventures will also fail unless they fully decouple from government funding and government control. That may be easier said than done since Con-gress loves to use regulation to cripple private industry.
Eventually the private ventures may be forced off-shore to locations where they can focus on the missions without pesky outside interference.
I can’t disagree with the word you’ve written, Government is the 800 pound gorilla that the private space companies have to deal with.
I totally agree with the foreign space programs, too.
I would not be surprised to see SpaceX do that, at least partially.
I rather enjoyed this article, esp. the descriptions of the 3 mannequins going on the ride...
https://www.theverge.com/23321544/nasa-artemis-sls-orion-explained
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