Comment by jamiek88
4 days ago
It’s Orion that’s dodgy as fuck not the booster. I.e the new thing. Not the decades old, proven, launch engines.
Let’s wait for the back patting when they splash down.
I genuinely hope not but i am worried about this craft.
>Not the decades old, proven, launch engines.
Which are, I will note, being expended on this single launch, despite being designed, built, and functioning over decades as re-usable engines.
Just like to point out the a SRBs aren’t really the same.
> Orion that’s dodgy as fuck not the booster. I.e the new thing
I mean, newly shaped and partly reformulated.
Avcoat was “originally created…for the Apollo program” [1]. (“A reformulated version was used for the initial Orion heat shield and later for a redesigned Orion heat shield.”) The new things are Orion’s size and weight and the size of the tiles. All of which has precedented flight in Artemis I.
At the end of the day, I’m going to trust the astronauts. This issue was openly discussed, despite NASA’s original—and fair to criticize—instinct to cover it up. While any manned reëntry is a nail biter, I don’t think this one is especially so.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVCOAT
Aren't astronauts by definition bat shit crazy? We have people lining up for one-way missions to Mars. Not to say this is a bad thing, but their ROI calculations are not normal.
> Aren't astronauts by definition bat shit crazy?
By poetic definition, e.g. “Here’s to the Crazy Ones,” yes. Clinically and technically, no. They’re paragons of human explorers, and exploration is a fundamentally human trait.
> We have people lining up for one-way missions to Mars
How many astronauts?
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