Does anyone else sense the wrongness here? What exact reason is given for risking the lives of three men and a woman in something as pointless as a manned loop around the moon? The only new thing in all of this is that a woman is going to the near vicinity of the moon for the first time and that seems to be the sum total of the missions scientific purpose/achievement and let's be honest, sending pioneering women along for the ride has not proven all that wildly successful the past.
I can see the point if it was landing on the moon. That way leads to science but repeating a simple trick we've done successfully 9 times seems utterly unnecessary. We are risking lives of people who are in all senses of the word, passengers and there doesn't seem to be any reason for it. I see the risk but not the reward.
When I think of going backwards 40 years in science and engineering why does NASA spring to mind?
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It's an dry run....to see just how badly DEI has screwed up NASA. If I was one of the astronauts I'd double check to make sure my life insurance covered this trip. Because odds are good things won't go well.
When was the last manned moon launch? We got stupid and know we get to recreate the wheel
nasa needs something to keep itself, and it's insanity, funded. I grew up watching gemini and apollo in awe. But between telling us how helpful muzzies were to space travel nad now the dei bs. nasa is just another govt boondoggle.
One of the comments I recall from the Challenger "mishap" investigation was the sheer idiocy of using SRBs to launch humans into space. We are still doing it 40 years later and with a brand new piece of junk spaceship designed from those parts that worked most poorly on the original ships. I don't think they can get any coverage except from the government.
Not really, because I believe there is still one team out there that knows exactly how to put together a sane and well designed engineering and build team that leads to success and I'm not sure if ANY of the Dragon guys are on Team NASA...It is the getting into orbit that counts for 99% of the design and reliability is the hallmark of systems and life support that persists effectively for a couple of weeks without failure.
Sadly, I 100% concur. It literally takes just one single soft-in-the-head DEI type in the wrong spot to fuck it up for everyone and I think NASA is still stuffed with DEI people who got there based on nothing but their color or deviancy.
Alas, I can only concur. NASA has destroyed itself.
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