Von Braun Class Station
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Von Braun Class Station
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Re: Von Braun Class Station
#2>"The Gateway Foundation was formed to build the first spaceport. To do that we must first build a few smaller structures. One of the most important projects is the Von Braun Class of rotating space stations. This will likely be the first commercial space construction project in history."
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#3Maybe we should stop naming things after a man who was not only a nazi, but a uniform-wearing member of the SS? A future-looking project should leave such things in the past.
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#4Maybe we should stop naming things after a man who was not only a nazi, but a uniform-wearing member of the SS? A future-looking project should leave such things in the past.
Von Braun Station is a technical type/design, not the project's own name. Using designers' names normal with space designs.
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#5Maybe we should stop naming things after a man who was not only a nazi, but a uniform-wearing member of the SS? A future-looking project should leave such things in the past.
You merely point out a very small subset of where he was from and his employer of the time, yet zero attention to his ideals and life legacy.
https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/history/vonbraun/bio.h...
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#6Maybe we should stop naming things after a man who was not only a nazi, but a uniform-wearing member of the SS? A future-looking project should leave such things in the past.
You merely point out a very small subset of where he was from and his employer of the time, yet zero attention to his ideals and life legacy. https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/history/vonbraun/bio.h...
"His employer of the time" is doing a lot of work for voluntarily joining the Nazi party, later misrepresenting that fact, voluntarily joining the SS, getting promoted a bunch of times, and regularly wearing his SS uniform to work.
Lots of terrible people have accomplished great and useful things. Good for them! I'm not taking that away from them. Just leave them & their names in the past where they belong. This is standard practice in medicine, a field with its own share of past nazis.
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#8Maybe we should stop naming things after a man who was not only a nazi, but a uniform-wearing member of the SS? A future-looking project should leave such things in the past.
You merely point out a very small subset of where he was from and his employer of the time, yet zero attention to his ideals and life legacy. https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/history/vonbraun/bio.h...
> zero attention to his ideals and life legacy.
the one's ideals and legacy are worth less than nothing if it is built, with the one's full awareness and willful participation, by concentration camp slaves dying in droves from malnutrition, physical abuse and the hard labor while building those ideals and legacy.
> employer of the time
that defense line of "i was just carrying out the orders" was explicitly addressed at the Nuremberg trials.
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#9Sounds like some great ideas for SpaceX to implement.
... don't get me wrong, this is really great, but I have doubts whether this company will be able to financially accomplish this without an already-established revenue stream and no previous projects accomplished yet.
Who knows, maybe they will be able to accomplish this, but if SpaceX's success teaches us anything, doing so probably requires someone at the helm with a stomach for huge financial risk as well as unique financial and engineering savvy. It also requires a clear roadmap involving smaller, revenue-generating wins.
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#10Maybe we should stop naming things after a man who was not only a nazi, but a uniform-wearing member of the SS? A future-looking project should leave such things in the past.
You merely point out a very small subset of where he was from and his employer of the time, yet zero attention to his ideals and life legacy. https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/history/vonbraun/bio.h...
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