Eagle cam or it didn’t happen
On a serious note I’m interested to hear what the measured boil off vs calculated was for their propellant load. Depending which direction it is could mean a huge difference to the Artemis plans.
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I still just cannot wrap my mind around how we could get people there, and then all this time later have lost that ability. What happened?
Part of it is cost: In the mid sixties, NASA was about five percent of the federal budget. Another part is safety: Apollo was extremely dangerous. There were a lot of single points of failure, three astronauts died on the ground, three more were very very narrowly saved over the course of only about ten missions. One of the reasons the program was cut short was the political worry after Apollo 13 of having astronauts…
> five percent of the federal budget.
It's impressive to compare five percent and some small fraction, but the total budget also expanded a lot since then. While in constant dollars the current NASA budget is indeed smaller than it was then, it is only about half.
At the end of the day, the kinds of things they spend that budget on make sense to me for a research organization, and it makes sense to me that retracing the moonshot steps happen in the private sector.
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The post you're replying to is just pointing out that the quoted amount (they THEY were replying to) is missing the "million" abbreviation on the end. So it looks like the original claim was India did it for US$74.00. ;)
I heard they did it for $3.50
No, you're thinking of a Scottish entity; we're talking about India.
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Until we successfully land people on the Moon again we by definition haven’t surpassed the Apollo program. And don’t latch onto just this one example. Read the book. There are a thousand more things like that there.
The reason NASA's current plan is taking a bit longer is it is considerably more ambitious than the Apollo program. If they were only trying to replicate Apollo it would be far easier to do. Smarter Every Day had a rather interesting video on his concerns with the program. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoJsPvmFixU and they were more about a program design that requires over 15 fueling launches for every trip to the…
The proof is in the pudding. The pudding is that NASA of 2024 has no human space flight capability at all.
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#76https://twitter.com/Int_Machines/status/1760838333851148442
> After troubleshooting communications, flight controllers have confirmed Odysseus is upright and starting to send data. Right now, we are working to downlink the first images from the lunar surface.
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-india-moon-landing-cost-...
The post you're replying to is just pointing out that the quoted amount (they THEY were replying to) is missing the "million" abbreviation on the end. So it looks like the original claim was India did it for US$74.00. ;)
Reminds me of that South Park episode where they go to Mexican counterpart to NASA and get quoted $200 to haul something to the moon.
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#79https://twitter.com/Int_Machines/status/1760838333851148442 > After troubleshooting communications, flight controllers have confirmed Odysseus is upright and starting to send data. Right now, we are working to downlink the first images from the lunar surface.
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#80https://twitter.com/Int_Machines/status/1760838333851148442 > After troubleshooting communications, flight controllers have confirmed Odysseus is upright and starting to send data. Right now, we are working to downlink the first images from the lunar surface.
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It’s not a jab. There were suspicions that it landed sideways because communication was lost then became very faint right after touch down.