[ExI] NASA: go Go GO back to the moon

Adrian Tymes atymes at gmail.com
Sat Feb 25 18:34:49 UTC 2017


On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 11:23 PM, Giulio Prisco <giulio at gmail.com> wrote:
> So was Apollo ("flags and footprint"ish). But it inspired a whole
> generation of dreamers, scientists and engineers who built great
> things, including the internet.

Apollo as a whole did.  Apollo 1 just inspired better safety measures.
I'm not saying the whole SLS series should be unmanned; I'm saying the
first full mission should be.

>
> Then the dream faded and we got 140 characters, useless apps&scams
> instead of flying cars and cities on the moon, as Peter Thiel wisely
> noted.
>
> Sometime you need flags and footprints to keep dreams alive.
>
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 8:11 AM, Adrian Tymes <atymes at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Eh...Trump administration aside, putting a live crew on the maiden
>> voyage of any new rocket seems kind of "flags and footprint"ish.
>>
>> That said, this is assuming they do manage to actually launch SLS next
>> year.  If not, it doesn't matter what was supposed to go on it.
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 10:35 PM, Giulio Prisco <giulio at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Reuters: "The Trump administration has directed NASA to study whether
>>> it is feasible to fly astronauts on the debut flight of the agency’s
>>> heavy-lift rocket, a mission currently planned to be unmanned and
>>> targeted to launch in late 2018."
>>>
>>> "Engineers are assessing hardware changes, schedule delays, additional
>>> costs and increased risks of flying a two-member crew on the first
>>> flight of the Space Launch System rocket, which is about four times
>>> bigger and more powerful than any current U.S. booster."
>>>
>>> http://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-nasa-idUSKBN1632B2
>>>
>>> NASA: "NASA is assessing the feasibility of adding a crew to the first
>>> integrated flight of the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and
>>> Orion spacecraft, Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1). NASA is building new
>>> deep space capabilities to take humans farther into the solar system
>>> than we have ever traveled, and ultimately to Mars."
>>>
>>> "During the first mission of SLS and Orion, NASA plans to send the
>>> spacecraft into a distant lunar retrograde orbit, which will require
>>> additional propulsion moves, a flyby of the moon and return trajectory
>>> burns. The mission is planned as a challenging trajectory to test
>>> maneuvers and the environment of space expected on future missions to
>>> deep space. If the agency decides to put crew on the first flight, the
>>> mission profile for Exploration Mission-2 would likely replace it,
>>> which is an approximately eight-day mission with a multi-translunar
>>> injection with a free return trajectory."
>>>
>>> https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-kicks-off-study-to-add-crew-to-first-flight-of-orion-sls-as-progress-continues-to-send
>>>
>>> Of course the plan will be criticized and demonized because it comes
>>> from the Trump administration. But I think this mission could revive
>>> our enthusiasm for manned space exploration and prepare the way for a
>>> magic decade, the "roaring twenties" inspired by the magic sixties.
>>> There are of course safety concerns, but if I were a candidate
>>> astronaut I would sign up without thinking twice.
>>>
>>> In 1968 the Apollo 8 Christmas mission around the Moon was the best
>>> Christmas gift to our generation. Please NASA, give us and the next
>>> generations an awesome Christmas gift next year.
>>>
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