Monday, June 24, 2024

ORBITAL SCRAP

 It must be hard to accept that something you gave years of your life to is little more than very polished and near infinitely kinetic orbiting scrap. Not helped by the fact that it’s in a decaying orbit sharing space with a lot of other orbiting scrap.

It has been a very long time since NASA’s human flight group have given us anything to cheer about. I wish they had detoxed the Agency after their Shuttle debacle but they did not and the same kind of enterprising minds called the shot to launch a trouble plagued system again. It didn’t have to be this way and everyone familiar with SpaceX knows it. When SpaceX put people into a spacecraft and launch them it will be only after they are satisfied that all the bugs and troubling issues have been resolved and flight tested. Somehow NASA, Boeing and ULA lost sight of that. 



5 comments:

Michael said...

So much for made in America space craft, solid US Dollars and a Military that is getting defeated by men in sandals.

As a history buff I never wanted to see the Weimar Republic fall as a German in 1939, but here we are despite Aesop's we will DEFEAT those Russkies BS.

Got trusted friends, far more valued than money in the bank when things go weird(er).

Anonymous said...

Michael, don't forget also that the Navy in which I once proudly served has been chased away by the same sandal-wearers.
The Houthis don't even have an actual navy, but they made an aircraft carrier depart the area, having suffered damage.
--Tennessee Budd

Tom said...

Sandals are leather.Flip flops are plastic. My understanding is Elon launched 60 rockets last year. Lockheed / Boeing 4. Bring on the F-15’s.

Anonymous said...

Tom Elon is from South Africa and not under the direction of our Clown World Gov.com.

He would move his business to any country that gave him a better deal.


Michael

Tom said...

I worked for Lockheed for 44 years and I worked with Boeing for 15 years, Everything is process and slow..No vision, no results. Respectfully Tom