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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Real vs imagined human spaceflight.
He gets it. This was the same problem the Russians discovered when they were operating Mir.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
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.