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This is a political deadline with no grounding in reality.
by bahmboo 1y ago
This is a political deadline with no grounding in reality.
- opwieurposiu 1y agoHey, it worked when JFK did it!
- jjk166 1y agoWho was president during the moonlanding?
- tick_tock_tick 1y agoJFK got assassinated.....
- jjk166 1y agoAnd was the guy who took over after his assassination, and then won the next election, president during the moon landings?
- hypeatei 1y agoPrecisely. Trump wants to put his name on things for the history books.
- WalterBright 1y agohttps://www.obama.org/presidential-center/ https://www.obama.org/presidential-center/
- oceanplexian 1y agoJFK proposed we go to the Moon in 1962. We did it in 1969, 7 years later.
- phkahler 1y agoNot only that, he wanted to go to the moon before the end of the decade. They made it within that time.
- jjk166 1y agoWhich is kind of the key point - Kennedy's deadline was a realistic one based on the technical difficulty of the challenge.
- dghlsakjg 1y agoArtemis is scheduled to take longer than Apollo. We are in year 8 of Artemis. In year 8 of Apollo there were multiple manned missions including one that went to the moon but did not land.
- WalterBright 1y agoIt was never realistic. It turned out be possible, though. Also, corners were cut in the testing. (Full stack testing.)
- jjk166 1y agoI don't know how you can claim a deadline that was achieved was not realistic. Full stack testing was not cutting corners. After ground testing it was deemed that incremental testing would not be beneficial. Doing tasks in parallel instead of in series can introduce project risks, but that's not the same thing as cutting corners, which is where something necessary is not done at all.
- WalterBright 1y agoIt's not realistic that you can become a supermodel. But it's not impossible. The idea that rocket X not exploding in a single launch makes it man-rated is cutting corners.
- kulahan 1y agoSo just like every other deadline I'm given, then.
- colechristensen 1y agoThe entire Apollo program was a political stunt to upstage the USSR.
- NoMoreNicksLeft 1y agoIt was a semi-covert program to be able to get to the USSR in 25 minutes with 150ktons of carryon luggage.
- dboreham 1y agoThat was Mercury. All the ICBM systems predate Apollo.
- jjk166 1y agoA political stunt for America to upstage the USSR, not to stroke the ego of a particular American.
- echelon 1y agoI feel like that attitude has kept us on earth all this time. We let people do stupid shit and kill themselves all the time. Driving 80+ MPH, driving motorcycles, recreational drugs, alcohol, climbing Everest, etc. I think it's fine. If I were in the position, I'd sign up to do this. The moon is meaningful.
- tastyface 1y ago[flagged]
- MarsIronPI 1y ago> The moon will be desecrated by Trump planting some gaudy gilded flag with his name on it. Let's be serious, please. When has Trump ever stuck his name or face on anything nationally meaningful?
- chrisco255 1y agoThis is preferable to "we'll go back again maybe one day 5 decades from now, if we get around to it"
- nobleach 1y agoMost deadlines are completely made up to create a false scarcity of time. While I agree this one is pretty meaningless and we'll forget about it in a few days... it's not unlike any other silly deadline.