Space and Aerospace

[GravitySucks]

@GravitySucks Any thoughts on this Artemis deal? Will we have people on the Moon in 2028 or is it going to be a goat screw?

I’ve been against this entire architecture since Bush announced the SLI.  There were only about 16 SSMEs left after the shuttle program ended. So you design a completely different space launch vehicle using 4 SSMEs instead of 3 on the shuttle. Which means all types of software and hardware changes and completely new math models. Then you add a segment to the SRBs. More of the same. New launch crawler. New design of the hydrogen tank to now mount directly to the main engines. And you only have enough engines for 4 launches.

Then design a new space capsule and launch abort system and you have yet to define what the objective is for the system after Obama tried to cancel the whole thing but Congress put it back in the budget.

I started working on the systems engineering for the Orion capsule in 2006.  I moved to a different assignment when Obama was trying to cancel it in 2008 or 9. I don’t know what the avionics/computing architecture ended up being but if it’s based on the 2007 requirements they are pretty antiquated and hopefully they at least have faster CPUs than we did then.

I worked 33 years in the space program after I got out of the Air Force. Orion was not my favorite assignment by a long shot. Lockheed Martin sure made a lot of money on it though.

[Up All Night]

[TigerLily]

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The new most iconic photo of Earth. Taken by the crew of Artemis II. The white line showing along the edges is the Sun
Can't wait until they get to the far side of the Moon and snap pictures of the Alien Bases and the Soul Regeneration Machine

[Smokin Hot Bob]

Can't wait until they get to the far side of the Moon and snap pictures of the Alien Bases and the Soul Regeneration Machine

If Noory or Hoagland is not going to help us out with this stuff we will have to dig it up for ourselves.

Inquiring minds need to know.

From the veritable Galactic Federation:

As per the agreement we had made with your kinds’ representatives in the year 1972, your kind were forbidden to go to the moon until the year 2022. Exactly 50 years’ time would be required for us to move completely from moon base to saturn base. This is one of the reasons why during this period of time there have been no manned moon infiltrations from your planet.

https://samtheillusionist.com/session-17

What would happen to you when you would go there? Well you would be harvested you would be put back on a lower density incarnation on earth. You couldn’t escape earth. Nothing bad would happen to you, but they would put you back on earth, you couldn’t escape. And this technology was very difficult to neutralize. It was in the hands of the Nebu on the moon and the galactic federation has been trying to get their hands on it for so long. Then in February 2021 the Galactic Federation liberated the moon and had this machine found and dismantled. So this doesn’t exist anymore.

https://galacticanthropology.org/2022/02/01/dismantlement-of-nebus-forced-reincarnation-machine-on-the-moon/

[TigerLily]

Yow! I didn't know there was a time limit on the Prison Planet! We're free! So is this why there doesn't seem to be any concern for ecological necessities? Screw the polar bears. We're done here anyway

[Up All Night]

https://apnews.com/article/nasa-moon-artemis-astronauts-85bd7e2d77284c3d53ca2a38cf7dee13

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[PolkaDot]

This is great! The orbits are all crazy interesting- and the math that goes into all this is insane. I have an inlaw that is very upset that physicists rely on computers so much that they no longer know how to do the actual calculations to make it all happen. If the computers go down , we’re back to the dark ages.

[PolkaDot]

https://apnews.com/article/nasa-moon-artemis-astronauts-85bd7e2d77284c3d53ca2a38cf7dee13

Lol- the bathroom is always a problem. It makes me think about how the male astronauts would rather have urine leaks in their suits than admit they needed a small or medium sheath on their urine collectors. 

[JUAN]

No dark ages for me.  I still have a slide rule.

[PolkaDot]

No dark ages for me.  I still have a slide rule.

Wow! Do you know how to use it?
*she asks innocently *

[JUAN]

Wow! Do you know how to use it?
*she asks innocently *

Maybe

[Uncle Duke]

Lol- the bathroom is always a problem. It makes me think about how the male astronauts would rather have urine leaks in their suits than admit they needed a small or medium sheath on their urine collectors. 

Reminded me of the US sending huge condoms to the Soviets through Lend-Lease in WW2.  They were packaged as "size, US small."  Damn commies.

[GravitySucks]

Lol- the bathroom is always a problem. It makes me think about how the male astronauts would rather have urine leaks in their suits than admit they needed a small or medium sheath on their urine collectors. 

During the space shuttle program, one of the training systems in the shuttle mission simulator building was the toilet trainer. No shit.