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What I loved the most was the optimistic outlook, the forward looking focus and the implicit belief that any problem will be solved and we'll advance. This is
by nickpp 7y ago
What I loved the most was the optimistic outlook, the forward looking focus and the implicit belief that any problem will be solved and we'll advance.
This is exceedingly rare in a pessimistic world drowning in the voice of Luddites and backwards-looking preservationists.
Like always, technology solving real world problems versus politicians (professional or amateurs) creating (and never really solving) self-serving perpetual issues.
- walkingolof 7y agoI suspect that having a sense of urgency and limited resources contributed to this phenomenal pace of development, it's in stark contrast to the glacial pace of the SLS project (Boeing/Nasa) which is much better funded.
- Tepix 7y agoOne could argue that this also effects Blue Origin, who still haven't reached orbit 19 years after being founded.
- abcd_f 7y agoAs someone else aptly remarked - NASA is no longer a space exploration agency. It's now an employment agency. Hence the glacial pace.
- dragonwriter 7y agoNASA was never a space exploration agency; in its heyday, it was a combination thinly veiled demonstration of military capacity and thinly veiled military projects agency, but most of both of those functions were superfluous by the last decade or so of the Cold War.