So presumably all these commentators will eat crow when they land safely and the program continues irrespective of their hair-on-fire takes? Ill have to check back here after that. This is one of the most remarkable cases of the media hyping an event as bad that isn’t even remotely as bad as they’re pretending.
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SpaceX has 0 experience with EVA suits, they only have IVA suits. Its like step 2 out of 20, a full EVA suit needs a lot more than even SpaceX’s prototype EVA suit needs. Just because its SpaceX doesn’t mean its better and that everything else is “from the 60s”
The SpaceX lander is whats holding things up. Its delaying to 2026-2028. SLS is ready to go.
Notably, in CA (and WA and OR in addition to others) that practice is actually illegal- everyone must make min. no exceptions
For context also- the west coast has no “tipped minimum” in that restaurants are not allowed to pay below state minimum wage like in other states with the assumption of tips. Its not a living wage, but its not like doing this in a state where the staff is otherwise making like $2/hr or something.
Despite the hype from media, this actually isn’t going badly. Crew Dragon had several thruster failures during its demo missions and like Starliner, they did not threaten the success of the mission.
Extending the mission is done when they have confidence in the spacecraft, not when they do not. Crew Dragon’s demo…
At least try and hide your pro-SpaceX agenda a little better... its becoming kind of obvious contrasting that company’s treatment vs. every other space company/program.
We need to do it now. We no longer have the luxury of waiting for the optimum solution to happen and even if we started today, it will take longer to decarbonize than it will take before more serious issues become apparent. Its nice to want us to decarbonize in a “pure” way but we dont have that kind of time anymore,…
This is not the case. This is a breakdown in management of the project- the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy developments were done also in this manner, but more professionally and with all due diligence- they never had holdups like this because they filed their paperwork on time.
Only really Frank Oconnor, the Halo team designers and artists stayed at Bungie.
I’m glad that no matter how much things change and how much the world moves on, you’re still here fighting your crusade against astronauts for mostly bathroom-related reasons. Consistency!
Yes, these rockets were built and assembled by (at the time) Orbital Sciences who was the one who bought the parts that failed on those missions. However they did find that other faulty aluminum had made its way into other NASA projects over the years, though with much less catastrophic results.
No, it was SpaceX who decided not to pursue it. There was the certification issue (legs through the heat shield) that SpaceX was going to have to pay for itself. There also may or may not have been control issues with its configuration as well, but in the end, terminating the powered landing capability was SpaceX’s…
About 75% of it is funded or more. Voters have passed about every one of the bonds put to them.
As someone who works with the industry, its nowhere nearly as bad as you’ve heard. If there is any redesign, its likely to be limited to the one subsystem, not a redesign of the whole vehicle. There are also additional not-yet-public issues with Crew Dragon that need to be resolved (like Boeing, important to fix but…
You just don’t hear about any BFR news, good or bad until they deem it worthy, much less getting any good reports of success. SLS still has 3-4 other missions in addition to the two cores- but they’re waiting to commit until they finish integrating the first core stage. The “overbudget” and “disaster” takes are way…
Yeah, it’d be nice if there was a wider-available set of products for this.
Philips seems to make TVs that have it built-in.
Considering how much they paid these companies for it (and the United Space Alliance in the STS era), that argument could be applied to the Shuttle’s later flights as well. Which is a pretty dumb argument to make.
Sadly DM-2 is slipping into 2019 along with Starliner’s first crewed mission. If we’re lucky, we’ll still get both unmanned missions this year though!