C'MON MAN! YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO ASK ME WHAT FLAVOR I GOT!
Posted on 08/30/2022 2:58:38 PM PDT by BenLurkin
On Monday, NASA failed in its first attempt to launch the uncrewed Artemis 1 mission, with engineers struggling to resolve an engine cooling issue. It’s a wholly unsurprising result, given that NASA was unable to complete a single wet dress rehearsal, of which four were attempted earlier in the year. The space agency appears to be winging it, with the botched launch attempt effectively serving as the fifth wet dress rehearsal, in what is a troubling sign.
NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) was supposed to take flight on Monday morning, but instead we’re left wondering about the state of the program as a whole. NASA will provide more updates about the rocket later this evening, including whether a launch on Friday or Monday might be possible, or whether the 322-foot-tall (98-meter) rocket will have to make its now-familiar 4-mile (6.4-kilometer) trek back to the Vehicle Assembly Building for repairs.
The unflown SLS megarocket is critical to NASA’s Artemis program, which seeks a permanent and sustainable return to the Moon. For the Artemis 1 mission, an uncrewed Orion rocket will be sent on a multi-week mission to the Moon and back. A successful integrated test of SLS and Orion would set the stage for a crewed Artemis 2 mission in roughly two years, and a crewed mission to land on the lunar surface later this decade.
A launch on Friday seems unlikely, and not just because of the grim weather forecast. NASA’s launch attempt on Monday came nowhere near to succeeding, with the countdown clock proceeding no further than T-40 minutes. An “engine bleed” issue prevented one of the rocket’s four RS-25 engines from reaching the required ultra-cold temperature for liftoff, resulting in the scrub.
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“53 years ago, we landed men on the moon...Today, we can’t even launch an unmanned vehicle...”
By ‘WE’ you mean NASA, right?
Space X has put at least 10 men into space in the last several years.
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I can only imagine social media during the Apollo program.
The Constellation program was fine, but Zero wanted NASA for muzzie outreach and to dump the high-profile Bush-era program. Artemis is just yet another warmed-over Shuttle-derived vehicle, in fact, a warmed over Constellation program, and hence, 12-13 years late.
Meanwhile, SpaceX just carried out its 130-somethingth Falcon 9 landing, and by June had carried out more launches than it had done in all of 2021, which was the most they'd ever done.
SpaceX isn't going to wait for NASA, the return of humans to the Moon will be by SpaceX. SpaceX will also put the first humans to Mars (and maybe back, if it's not a landing mission).
NASA is just another stupid federal bureaucracy, and should forego any more systems construction (which is done by private contractors anyway).
Well, that is true...On the ISS platform...254 miles up...
Blame congress they demanded a shuttle derived launch vehicle using as much shuttle components as possible
It’s no wonder just look at the goofball idiot that runs nasa now
No, we can't. Neither of them has a Moon capable manned rocket. The job might be doable with Falcon Heavy, but it's neither man-rated, nor big enough to do the job in one launch. Nothing else is close.
If all you want is LEO, Falcon 9 + Crew Dragon is currently your best bet.
You lucky skunk ... I'm looking at next year ...
Well you have identified the problem, Congress. NASA is nothing more than a political tool to spread money. Like Amtrak, NASA will never be really successful because of politicians controlling it.
98 billion budget for 40 year old technology and it still doesn’t fly.
Give Elon Musk that budget and stay out of the way and he would more likely be on the way to Mars by now.
They better have an accident review board available on launch day. I have a bad feeling about this.....
What we have here is another Apollo 1 disaster in the making.
Light the candle.
I was actually offered a beat tester position but had to decline as we could not, with our home based businesses, work through the outage issues...
Nevertheless waited two years.
Happy customer, used to pay $90.00 per month for 5 MB download.
Hooked up a client who waited two years as well. His only provider was a satellite system that had a looooong latency time and was $300+ per month. Finally got him hooked up with the 150’ extension cable and was two days away from installing the conduit for the underground travel then WHAM. He mowed the cable!
I gave him my 150’ cable and we got him up 100%.
My replacement cable just arrived and I hope to have it installed next week (using the included 75’ cable as a temp.)
It’s a good system and the app just keeps getting better!
Best!
“The Russians laughed then said, “We just use mechanical pencil”.”
I believe the entire quote is:
“We just use mechanical pencil, then capture squrriell and keil moose!”
1493, Spain...
Columbus, you’re such a laugh!
Gold and silver!
(Science Fiction Fantasy)
Tobacco, indigo, cotton, squash, beans, corn, tomatoes, potatoes...
(Science Fiction Fantasy plants)
New lands that 100s of millions of Europeans will call home....
(Not the place to raise your kids, it’s hot as hell)
Learn about new peoples, lands, amazing wildlife, mountains, rivers, forests...
(To learn what?
The things we can get to are dirt and rocks,
whatever else is out there is too far away from Spain to matter.)
But the "Great Society" was more important as well as other "social" interests.
They’ll spend a trillion dollars if it gets the first black woman on the moon
This is what happens to countries and empires that rebel against G-d.
Isaiah 14:12 declares:
“Hell from beneath is moved for you to meet you at your coming: it stirs up the dead for you, even the chief ones of the earth; it has raised up from their crypts all the kings of the nations. They shall speak and say to you “Have you also become as week as we are? Have you become as one of us? Your arrogance is brought down to the Grave, you and your celebrations of your pride. Now the worm comes up to you from below, and the worms cover you. How are you fallen from the Heaven, oh Lucifer, Son of Morning! How are you cut down to the ground, you, who once shook the nations! For you have said in your heart ‘I will ascend into Heaven, I will exalt my throne above the Stars of God: and I will sit upon the mountain of the Congregation, in the utmost North: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, and I, I will be like the Most High!’ (Now listen to the word of the Lord:): YOU shall be brought down to Hell, to the very depths of the Pit..” America: repent, or …die.
Then again the OLD NASA hired people based on 'best and brightest' not sexual kink, skin pigmentation and political party.
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