@GravitySucks channel your inner Richard C. Hoagland. He hasn’t worked for Walter Cronkite in 50-years.
I was bored to tears the other night when Dave was doing the space interview. It was billed as a “future in space†interview and Dave kept asking questions about the past. The guest, even though he has written several books about the history of the space program, didn’t seem well versed when asked questions about past programs. For example, there was a question from Dave about whether we had purposely crashed something into the moon. The guest talked about really old probes that had impacted but didn’t mention the one that Dave was probably talking about which was the LCROSS impactor or even the MIP impactor India launched a few years before that.
I didn’t give a crap about STS-27. I worked on that and all the other DoD missions. I wanted to hear his thoughts on where he saw us heading. There was very little of that compared to where we had been. I blame that on Dave. He either didn’t prepare for what the website advertised as the topic or he took too many questions from the audience on social media which were off topic.
When are we going to have a multigenerational space colony and where will it head? Who will build it/fund it?
What’s the latest on commercial asteroid mining?
I was really disappointed in the guest’s answer on the space elevator. He wasn’t very well versed on it.
The show might have been interesting to someone that never worked in the space program or never followed the space program but I was disappointed.
I would like an hour or two with a guest like that over a nice dinner to pick his brain on future stuff.
@Dyna-X could have provided better answers to most of the past program questions.
#MoreWooLessWhatHaveWeDone
