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re: Next week's manned spaceflight from Cape Kennedy will be historic...
Posted on 5/21/20 at 9:49 am to RollTide1987
Posted on 5/21/20 at 9:49 am to RollTide1987
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In fairness, the ISS is pretty useless too.
I would love to hear the opinions of those who downvoted this. What practical use does the ISS serve? It would be better served in lunar orbit where astronauts could travel to and from the lunar surface, giving them the ability to quickly analyze any samples taken from the moon.
We wasted 40 years and 14 lives on the shuttle program when we could have been prepping for long term habitual living on the surface of the moon as well as prepping for a manned mission to Mars.
Posted on 5/21/20 at 11:39 am to RollTide1987
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I would love to hear the opinions of those who downvoted this. What practical use does the ISS serve?
I have no idea what benefits a permanently manned space station would bring us... perhaps it's we can study affects on the human body for prolonged periods of 0 g. All those science experiments done in spacelab, in the shuttle bay, a year's worth can be done on a permanently manned space station in a month or so. Seems convenient.
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It would be better served in lunar orbit where astronauts could travel to and from the lunar surface, giving them the ability to quickly analyze any samples taken from the moon.
Probably the biggest reason it's in low earth orbit and not lunar orbit... it's a little easier to do a rescue 80 miles up than over 200k miles away I am also quite sure we did all the lunar surface testing we needed 50 years ago. They brought back hundreds of pounds of material.
My grandpa kinda had a minor role in developing the space station, freedom version not the bastardized iss. Here's a quick look at what he was doing before 1987... director of space station operations, for a company with a 10-11 figure contract for a space station. Considering he was also chief engineer of the only rocket stage to carry people into lunar orbit, his work gets a little more weight than your opinion.
Posted on 5/22/20 at 9:05 am to RollTide1987
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We wasted 40 years and 14 lives on the shuttle program when we could have been prepping for long term habitual living on the surface of the moon as well as prepping for a manned mission to Mars.
Shuttle was designed to be a part of long-term exploration until the budget hacks got to NASA.
Posted on 5/22/20 at 10:31 am to RollTide1987
quote:von Braun's plan was to use the shuttle to build and maintain the ISS, which would be a docking station for colonization of the moon and exploration beyond that. The reason for doing it that way is that the primary fuel consumption point is the ascent from earth's surface. Missions that start from the ISS can go much further without having to use so much of the vehicle for escaping the earth's gravity.
We wasted 40 years and 14 lives on the shuttle program when we could have been prepping for long term habitual living on the surface of the moon as well as prepping for a manned mission to Mars.
The goals changed after von Braun was gone, though. Really, NASA kind of stagnated once the Nazis were gone.
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