Posted on 04/16/2021 1:52:06 PM PDT by Shadylake
Yeah, You are right. Dual Dual Degrees from University of PA. Looked it up.
Mars is another planet; the moon is, well, just the moon. Plus the journey would be much longer
How have those clever folk in Alabama done with SLS? After $20 billion they have just about gotten an existing 30 year old engine to work.
Will the government apply the “United Cockpit Crew Diversity Test” to Musk’s team?
I think the big thing with landing on Mars would be the possibilities for colonization. Now THAT would be a big deal - and just getting humans to Mars (like you said) would go a long way to the idea of colonization.
In my earlier post I was imagining going to the Grand Canyon or something on vacation. “Yep - pretty much like the travel brochures show it.”
Strangely, Musk’s Dragon crew capsules are the only way to get to the ISS from a US craft. The people with the degrees managed to build nothing, their buddies at Boeing managed to build a capsule that crashed and burned.
Think about that. ALL the other options have failed but Musk’s. Pretty good for someone with ‘no engineering knowledge.’
I would not be disappointed. They should have Joe, Dr. Biden and Hunter come up for a “spacewalk”.
Space X owns a Huntsville, AL office of over 200,000 sq feet. They have many engineers in Huntsville.
Musk’s total ownage of Boeing is something to go down in history. At best Boeing’s Starliner will be 2nd fiddle and possibly not even needed at all. The ISS might be gone before another 5 years, and there’s the chance that Axiom can split off from it into a commercial hub. But that sure won’t need Starliner and Dragon. LEO’s short term future isn’t looking that good. Lunar orbit and Mars are looking very good.
But they all mean nothing if Musk knows nothing about engineering, you implied.
Boeing’s got office space in Huntsville too. They have many engineers - but the company started run by a guy who has ‘no engineering knowledge’ keeps running circles around them and kicking their arse.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Lunar_Exploration_Program
Might want to check what they’ve been doing. They’ve successfully deployed a landing stage, a lunar rover, and a sample return mission.
The fact remains that between China and the US, if humanity were required to put a man on the moon right now, China is more likely to be able to do that today. We don’t have the lift capability - yet.
He has a large Huntsville, AL staff plus office complex.
“Some of those poor sheep jumping in the hole are NASA, JAXA, ESA and military program leaders, engineers and astronauts; including the four astronauts launching to ISS this week. lol”
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Well, the four astronauts were successfully launched to orbit (on a reused rocket and capsule) and are maneuvering toward the ISS now. So they’re not sheep jumping into a hole.
All of which we did over 50 years ago. Plus sent 6 landed missions to the moon, landing 12 men on the moon as well.
Right now, we are going to put men on the moon again before China does.
What's your point?
I don't know how you keep coming up with this nonsense.
Um, we have had the Saturn V rocket, going back to 1969. That Saturn V rocket that sent Americans to the moon 50 years ago.
You may also want to look up the Falcon Heavy rocket from SpaceX, which will send the NASA Gateway components to moon orbit.
We don’t have any functional, flyable Saturn V rockets, we do not have the facilities to build another and while Falcon Heavy can *probably* do the job, none have ever been flown in a lunar lift configuration.
Point is, they’ve put stuff on the moon more recently than we have. And NASA plans to do things like return to the moon have gone awry/been cancelled more than once over the past two decades.
That's like saying we don't have a a B-47 in the US Air Force today so we can't build one if we wanted to. Of course we can. Main reason we don't is because technology has moved on, and we have much better alternatives. Get back to me when the Chinese actually put a man on the moon, something we did over 50 years ago,
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