[raygun]

These guys were suprised at the cramp quarters of the lunar lander? I couldn't imagine being cooped up in that sardine can of the command module for six stinkin' days with two other guys.

[raygun]

ping

[markman46]

i guess it was roomy enough for a few astro to get spece sick!!!

[martin_fierro]

i so silly.

[RightWhale]

Some make it sound like they are putting a fresh coat of paint on old Apollo hardware and charging $20 billion.

[Gator101]

NASA is borrowing ideas from the Apollo

That's who I would have borrowed from as well. Starbuck may have been the better viper pilot but he was too much of a loose cannon.

[Jake The Goose]

Here is one of my problems with NASA:

"what they hell are they doing up there on the space station?"

- Has anyone seen a press release or a news report that says, "hey gee - look at what NASA is doing on the Space Station" ????

All that money - and I cannot find a single person who can tell me what NASA is doing up there - OF VALUE thank you very much.

[Yo-Yo]

Have you ever seen a Mercury capsule? Have you ever seen a Gemini capsule? Even the Apollo capsule is very cramped. Definitely not for the claustrophobic.

By comparison the Lunar Lander was very roomy. The Space Shuttle is absolutely enormous.

[AbeKrieger]

Imagine the concept, actually mounting the flight vehicle ABOVE the fuel tanks, making it nearly impossible for foam, or chunks, or launch debris to damage the passenger compartment.

Remembering, of course, that space flight is a risky venture in itself and many more people will die trying to accomplish the dream... we will reach beyond this planet.

[gridlock]

As an old engineer, this story does my heart good. I have had about enough of these know-nothing modern engineers who have not a clue about anything unless their computer tells them the answer.

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

The new Ares rocket will be bigger and more powerful than the Saturn V. Early designs of the Ares capsule, which will carry a maximum of six astronauts, closely resemble the old three-person Apollo gumdrop design. And chances are the new lunar lander will bear a resemblance to the spider-legged lunar module that Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin landed on the moon on July 20, 1969.

[The Great RJ]

Note the Apollo moon rockets NEVER failed and were probably the best engineered space vehicles ever. The shuttle booster is a perfect example of a project designed by a committee with everyone having their own ideas about what it should do and how to do it.

Note the foam insulation that caused two catastrophic shuttle failures did not fail on earlier missions as it was made with CFC. After the foam was redesigned to use CO2 in a PC, ozone saving, environmental change did the breaking off problem emerge. Ditto with the rugged ablative heat shields of the Apollo missions were ditched for fragile silicon tiles ...a poor engineering choice when a reliable and rugged technology could have been retained.