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Hydrogen leak derails second attempt to launch Artemis moon rocket
CBS ^ | 9/3/22

Posted on 09/03/2022 1:11:37 PM PDT by Pollard

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1 posted on 09/03/2022 1:11:37 PM PDT by Pollard
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To: Pollard

Hindenburg?


2 posted on 09/03/2022 1:13:01 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: Pollard

Where’s Matt Damon when you need a rocket scientist?


3 posted on 09/03/2022 1:17:30 PM PDT by blackdog
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To: crusty old prospector

NASA 2022 motto

“Repeating what we did 50 years ago but with wokeness, gender diversity and equality..and shuddup about the cost”

Anybody think the best and the brightest are at NASA like the Apollo program?


4 posted on 09/03/2022 1:17:54 PM PDT by ground_fog ( My God this was from today!S)
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To: crusty old prospector

Hindenburg?


Next time ...


5 posted on 09/03/2022 1:18:39 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Pollard

probably going to roll back to the VAB to check out the leak, awaiting the nasa presser


6 posted on 09/03/2022 1:18:59 PM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!you)
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They messed up. Everyone knows that hydrogen is a small molecule and sneaks out through the smallest hole. Should be even worse in space, with zero external air pressure.


7 posted on 09/03/2022 1:20:28 PM PDT by I want the USA back (9/1/2022. 8 PM. Herr Joseph Von Biden's insane Gates of Hell speech goes down as a day of infamy. )
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To: Pollard

They should have just lit it off, I’m pretty sure it would have been fine.


8 posted on 09/03/2022 1:22:24 PM PDT by Sarcazmo ("Sarcasm is the highest form of wit" ~ O. Wilde)
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Couldn’t send a nerd up there with some epoxy and duct tape?


9 posted on 09/03/2022 1:23:57 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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They’ll spend a trillion dollars if they have to to get the first black woman on the moon


10 posted on 09/03/2022 1:24:44 PM PDT by butlerweave
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I think this is pretty to the point on NASA:

https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=246840


11 posted on 09/03/2022 1:25:14 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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Do they have some kind of quality control problem?
Seems like NASA has a habit of ignoring warnings from engineers.


12 posted on 09/03/2022 1:26:00 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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I detest the “wokeness, gender diversity and equality” but not sure what they have to do with a leaking seal in a quick-disconnect fitting.


13 posted on 09/03/2022 1:26:35 PM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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I detest the “wokeness, gender diversity and equality” but not sure what they have to do with a leaking seal in a quick-disconnect fitting.

Wokeness etc calls into question the quality of the design, build, maintenance and operation personnel.

14 posted on 09/03/2022 1:28:35 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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Big space fan here, but I can’t help wondering whether 30 years of carrying out all those boring zero gravity plant growth experiments might have been better spent trying to figure out how to PREVENT A DAMNED HYDROGEN LEAK!!!


15 posted on 09/03/2022 1:31:56 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: Captain Peter Blood

https://www.revolver.news/2022/08/will-affirmative-action-nasa-ever-get-back-to-the-moon/


16 posted on 09/03/2022 1:33:32 PM PDT by Pollard (Worm Free PureBlood)
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To: ground_fog
Anybody think the best and the brightest are at NASA like the Apollo program?

No, not today. The engineers that are chosen on merit are the equal and superior to those of the past. Those that have their positions not based on merit are inferior.

Ben Carson a black pediatric neurosurgeon is at the top of the game in skill. John Hopkins thought so. As my children are now grown it is not a subject. If I needed a neurosurgeon for them when children I would have wanted Ben Carson. His color means nothing to me. His skills mean everything to me.

ps
Dad worked on Apollo. He was working with the escape rocket system if a launch failure occurred. Most fortunately never needed. This lack of such was a fatal flaw in the Shuttle Launch System.

17 posted on 09/03/2022 1:34:20 PM PDT by cpdiii (CANE CUTTER-DECKHAND-ROUGHNECK-OILFIELD CONSULTANT-GEOLOGIST-PILOT-PHARMACIST)
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Should’ve let Spacex do it.

CC


18 posted on 09/03/2022 1:34:22 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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Engineers made three attempts to properly "seat" a suspect seal in the 8-inch fitting...

O-rings again?

-PJ

19 posted on 09/03/2022 1:36:31 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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It could in an overall, general way but it’s a stretch to apply that reasoning to the fitting, which is supplied by a contractor who will consult and handle defects or anomalies.


20 posted on 09/03/2022 1:40:28 PM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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