Okay........it's got 40' on it.........but there was a SLASH DOWN!!!!!!! We haven't had a splash down since Apollo-Soyuz. Orange and white main chutes, giant flotation collars, naval vessels of some kind, helicopters..............the whole nine yards.Saturn V was much larger
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Okay........it's got 40' on it.........but there was a SLASH DOWN!!!!!!! We haven't had a splash down since Apollo-Soyuz. Orange and white main chutes, giant flotation collars, naval vessels of some kind, helicopters..............the whole nine yards.
With regards to space exploration I would rather be where we were 40 years ago than where we are now. The STS was a waste of money and 40 years of engineering talent. NASA has languished in low earth orbit for too long. Now that the private sector can do that work, NASA's manned space flight should get back to what they can do best.So we're almost where we were 40 years ago....
NASA's manned space flight should get back to what they can do best.
Yes, exactly that. Instead of funding useless wind and solar programs that cannot be scaled to make a dent in our energy needs or redundant social programs that do nothing to better lives but make their constituents feel good or bailing out large banks. Exploration is something Government should be doing. From Lewis and Clark to Apollo. Who knows what will be discovered in science, engineering and medicine ect………….in designing the mission and machines to get there to what we might find on the way. But we’ll never know unless we try.To what end? Spending hundreds of billions to let some guys walk around on Mars for a few months? I don't get it.
To what end? Spending hundreds of billions to let some guys walk around on Mars for a few months? I don't get it.
Okay........it's got 40' on it.........
Okay, I'll throw you a bone.And several million pounds...
The common perception is that the space program has stalled since the Apollo program. What most people don't realize is how lucky we were that we made even made it to the moon; they seriously were "just winging it". The gap in engineering and technology required to go beyond putting landers and men on the moon is enormous. The technology and knowledge that has been obtained from messing around in LEO for the past 40 years was absolutely necessary before we could even begin to start planning any serious missions beyond the lunar scope. We need to fully understand the complex problems of microgravity, radiation, isolation, logistics, communication etc. of longterm spaceflight before we can seriously consider extended human exploration of the solar system. Unless we're all cool with one way suicide pioneering to Mars, we're still really, really far away from putting men on the red planet.
As expensive as the shuttle program was, we still did get hubble out of it.