Good luck to the Artemis 11 crew…
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Thanks for the input
Grayblade
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I stopped up to watch it, brilliant! As I said before though, the only thing that I find puzzling is that with all the unbelievable progress that’s been made in technology since the 60’s, it’s still basically riding a controlled explosion up and a fireball back down then splashing into the sea. For all the extra computer power and better gear and materials around now the process hasn’t changed from the early days now the space shuttles have been ditched.
Dave Burgess
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Sadly the modern Tech World has left me way behind, Hammer and Chisel or bashing summat I,m OK!
Some people find this stuff boring,others are in awe of what mankind has developed and achieved in such a short space of time
FatherKnowsBest
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With respect, we knew all of this when Yuri Gagarin and John Glenn, more than 50 years ago, got back from space. The media seems to take the modern view of the young that 'if it happened before I was born, it didn't happen.'
I once visited NASA Houston, while on a business trip and saw the actual capsule John Glenn made his flight in. It looked incredibly basic and fragile. I've seen tin sheds that looked better made.
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FatherKnowsBest
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Glenns capsule. The perspex is to let us look inside. It had a second door like the one open on the other side.
A Saturn 5 on display. Check out the people for a sense of scale.
Dave Burgess
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I personally prefer to watch the Yanks knocking f..k outa the soap dodgers!
I thought the heat shield tech was different as Artemis was subjected to much greater heat temps as it entered our atmosphere at greater speed but yes some things have changed little
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This moon mission is different. They have toilets now
More than 50 years ago, the Apollo missions took humanity to the Moon. Now with Artemis, there's a new generation. What has changed — and not changed — between then and now might surprise you.
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Grayblade
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Interesting read that Bully, good the know my thoughts are about right computing power apart. The heat-shield saga could have come back and bitten them. It’s exactly the same heat-shield that almost failed in the last Artemis I mission, all they did was alter the angle of reentry. The word is that it would have taken 18 months and another big wad of cash to re-design it, and that wasn’t an option especially with China breathing down their necks. It’s got to have been a big call with 4 lives a risk and as well as impact on future missions if it failed, but I guess the boffins must have convinced everybody it was good to go including the crew. Not sure I’d have bought it looking at this (scroll down)…I thought the heat shield tech was different as Artemis was subjected to much greater heat temps as it entered our atmosphere at greater speed but yes some things have changed little
This moon mission is different. They have toilets now
More than 50 years ago, the Apollo missions took humanity to the Moon. Now with Artemis, there's a new generation. What has changed — and not changed — between then and now might surprise you.
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