The Orion test capsule arrived in Alabama for tests, covered in fan signatures.
You think Americans aren’t interested in space travel? Get this: The Orion test capsule arrived in Alabama for tests, covered in fan signatures.
Orion and NASA’s space launch system might not get us there, but that doesn’t matter in this case. The public is expressing its desire for space travel quite clearly. All they need is someone to provide it to them at a reasonable cost.
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You think Americans aren’t interested in space travel? Get this: The Orion test capsule arrived in Alabama for tests, covered in fan signatures.
Orion and NASA’s space launch system might not get us there, but that doesn’t matter in this case. The public is expressing its desire for space travel quite clearly. All they need is someone to provide it to them at a reasonable cost.
Readers!
Please consider supporting my work here at Behind the Black. Your support allows me the freedom and ability to analyze objectively the ongoing renaissance in space, as well as the cultural changes -- for good or ill -- that are happening across America. Fourteen years ago I wrote that SLS and Orion were a bad ideas, a waste of money, would be years behind schedule, and better replaced by commercial private enterprise. Only now does it appear that Washington might finally recognize this reality.
In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
Your help allows me to do this kind of intelligent analysis. I take no advertising or sponsors, so my reporting isn't influenced by donations by established space or drug companies. Instead, I rely entirely on donations and subscriptions from my readers, which gives me the freedom to write what I think, unencumbered by outside influences.
You can support me either by giving a one-time contribution or a regular subscription. There are four ways of doing so:
1. Zelle: This is the only internet method that charges no fees. All you have to do is use the Zelle link at your internet bank and give my name and email address (zimmerman at nasw dot org). What you donate is what I get.
2. Patreon: Go to my website there and pick one of five monthly subscription amounts, or by making a one-time donation.
3. A Paypal Donation or subscription:
4. Donate by check, payable to Robert Zimmerman and mailed to
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I can tell you right now, SpaceX has the buzz, but we continue forward while they attempt to strut. With all the guff we get for being “old-school”, I think we’ll surprise you.
One more thing, from the article. Things like this drive me nuts:
“Built to hold at from four to six astronauts, Orion will ferry Americans to the moon, asteroids and eventually to Mars. When you visit Orion this week, think about spending six months inside a craft this size on the way to the red planet. That’s why the most important test to become an astronaut is the psychological test.”
Orion was never meant to be the hab module to Mars. Mr. Roop didn’t read the NASA documents defining the mission plan, apparently…
No one ever does. Course PR illustrations like L/M showing a pair of Orion’s nose to nose carrying astronauts to a NEO doesn’t help. (when I wrote some of the specs for life support parts it had weeks not months of life support – but perhaps they get shallow breathing astronauts?)
propaganda to support their squandering hoax