Real vs imagined human spaceflight.
Real vs imagined human spaceflight.
He gets it. This was the same problem the Russians discovered when they were operating Mir.
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Engineering problems need to be solved by engineers.. and you really need to pay them. I may be wrong, but I don’t think the MarsOne folks are up to that stage yet (and may never be).
Tune into The Space Show today at 2pm PDT (5pm EDT) to hear Bas Lansdorp give an update.. call in to ask him if he’s crazy :)
Sorry I mean tomorrow, Friday, May 10, 2013.
No way I’d trust engineers to solve engineering problems in a vacumn (pun intended). You have to include people who will use whatever is to be built, preferably with experience. Where I work, the techniks force “upgrades” upon us and foul everything up, largely because they look down on us end-users as not worthy of their time. The idea of asking us peons whether some new software or hardware is needed would never occur to them. Often a simple phone call would reveal a serious problem before time and money is spent. The dumbest thing I’ve seen was when the geeks bought new room scheduling software and refused help to program it. As a result, a class was literally scheduled in a phone booth.
Space flight will never be common place until they just hire custodians and janitors for the maintenance tasks on board space stations.
Seriously, they do not have NASA engineers changing light bulbs and air filters at any NASA facility. When will they just accept that so called normal people can go into space and work a normal job? Or do we want our plumbers to have a six year degree in engineering and hold a jet fight pilot status.
They have GOT to get over their own self importance.
Imagine comes before real. Then experience takes over.
Experience should guide imagination.