Comments on: Senate fails to fully fund manned lander for Trump’s 2024 lunar mission

By: Jeff Wright

Jeff Wright — Sun, 15 Nov 2020 07:53:55 +0000

The upper stage will be for outer solar probes to be orbiters instead of fly-by missions.

That is where SLS will shine, once bugs are worked out

By: Edward

Edward — Sat, 14 Nov 2020 17:29:12 +0000

janyuary,
I am confused by your puzzlement. My sentence and your point of view are equivalent.

By: janyuary

janyuary — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 10:57:25 +0000

Edward, I’m puzzled: “I’m going to take your story as meaning that you don’t think SpaceX will wait for NASA but will put together the best crews for their lunar missions.”

From my POV, putting together the best crew precludes considering a crew member’s sex as significant in such a mission.

eddie: excellent, isn’t elder wonderful

By: Edward_2

Edward_2 — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 10:09:04 +0000

My guess is that China will be putting humans on the Moon, next.

Alternatively Private (Musk/Bezos) will beat NASA and China to land humans on the Moon.

Musk will put a Tesla rover on the Moon.

By: eddie willers

eddie willers — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 05:37:24 +0000

“I have never been part of any women’s architect organizations, though I do belong to the major architectural associations. I have never seen what being a woman has to do with it. There is only one thing that’s important, and that is: are you a professional?”

A perfect answer. One that the very good Netflix series, “The Queen’s Gambit” gets into as well.

Larry Elder tells a story of two golf pros asked “how do you determine a good golfer?”

The first talks about a good stance, the proper backswing, hand placement, a good follow through etc.

The second says, “I look to see where the ball lands”.

I am so sick and tired of gender/race etc. instead of results that I could just scream.

You either get the ball where it needs to go or you don’t.

By: Edward

Edward — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 00:20:24 +0000

DougSpace asked (rhetorically?): “Would $1 B + $1 B significantly speed them up?”

I suspect that if it could speed them up then Bezos would spend that much more on Blue Origin. Blue Origin is probably working as fast as it can, which is slower than SpaceX because of their very different corporate cultures.

janyuary,
I’m going to take your story as meaning that you don’t think SpaceX will wait for NASA but will put together the best crews for their lunar missions.

By: DougSpace

DougSpace — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 14:38:21 +0000

Would SpaceX move more quickly in developing their Starship if they were to get more NASA funding? It appears as though they are moving as quickly as possible now.

Would Blue Origin move less slowly if they were to get additional NASA funding? $1 B/yr of Bezos’ sold stock is quite a bit. Would $1 B + $1 B significantly speed them up?

Dynetics in the other hand could really use the money and doesn’t have as much moola to spend sans NASA funding.

By: janyuary

janyuary — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 13:58:58 +0000

Edward, I once spoke with a woman who had begun her career as a quite successful and respected architect at a time when women architects were few. I was instructed to ask her about any women’s architect groups she supported and her thoughts on mentoring more women into the profession. Her polite reply after a period of thoughtful silence: “I have never been part of any women’s architect organizations, though I do belong to the major architectural associations. I have never seen what being a woman has to do with it. There is only one thing that’s important, and that is: are you a professional?”

By: Edward

Edward — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 05:14:28 +0000

If SpaceX gets to the Moon with Starship before NASA gets there on SLS, I wonder whether SpaceX will wait for NASA to put the first woman on the Moon or if they will do so themselves.

By: Doubting THomas

Doubting THomas — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 02:45:00 +0000

If Elon is successful with Starship development, perhaps it lowers the cost enough for a “The Man Who Sold the Moon” scenario. Perhaps Elon is Delos Harriman or someone else plays that role using Starship or a variant.

By: NavyNuke

NavyNuke — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 01:43:44 +0000

I see in their infinite wisdom, the committee managed to approved $0.3 billion for an SLS-upper-stage-to-nowhere.

By: sippin_bourbon

sippin_bourbon — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 19:36:31 +0000

This is bad. If they do not push the schedule, then it opens the door to infinite delays, and eventual cancellation.

My own cynical prediction: President Harris cancels the program.