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Using private rocket companies is highly concerning.
by josefritzishere 4mo ago
Using private rocket companies is highly concerning.
- ThrowawayTestr 4mo agoThen you know nothing of NASA and it's history
- Noaidi 4mo agoNASA hired private companies to engineer and design their early rockets? I thought Wernher von Braun engineered the Saturn V rocket after NASA borrowed him from thew Nazi's
- bvcp 4mo agoworse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun
- Noaidi 4mo agoI would say same. ;) https://www.thewrap.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/trump-inauguration-elon-musk-nazi-salute.jpg https://www.thewrap.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/trump-ina...
- mr_toad 4mo agoNot to design them, but definitely to engineer and build them. These days NASA doesn’t even build the payloads.
- ceejayoz 4mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_V https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_V Manufacturer: Boeing (S-IC), North American (S-II), Douglas (S-IVB)
- Noaidi 4mo agoThis is a disingenuous statement. The Saturn V[f] is a retired American super heavy-lift launch vehicle developed by NASA under the Apollo program for human exploration of the Moon. NASA is not developing Relativity Space's rocket. "On Tuesday, NASA said it hired the company to build a spacecraft to house a suite of scientific instruments, launch it into space, and fly it to Mars." Plus, George Mueller, who managed the rocket team, worked for NASA, not some private company. So did all the engineers. "The largest production model of the Saturn family of rockets, the Saturn V was designed at the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in Huntsville, Alabama. The program was managed by American George Mueller; technical design was led by scientists relocated from Nazi Germany, most notably Wernher von Braun, as well as Kurt Debus and Arthur Rudolph. This group had developed the first US launch vehicles, the Redstone rocket family, under the Army Ballistic Missile Agency. All engines were built by Rocketdyne. Boeing built the kerolox S-IC first stage powered by five F-1 engines; these remain the most powerful single chamber liquid-fuelled engines ever built. North American Aviation the hydrolox S-II second stage, and Douglas Aircraft Company the hydrolox S-IVB third stage, powered by five and one J-2 engines respectively. IBM and MSFC designed the rocket's instrument unit. " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mueller_(engineer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mueller_(engineer)
- ceejayoz 4mo agoAs with SpaceX and the Commercial Cargo/Crew projects, NASA sets requirements, milestones, procedures, etc., as they did with Boeing et al during Apollo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mueller_(engineer)#NASA_and_the_Apollo_program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mueller_(engineer)#NASA... > Borrowing from the US Air Force Minuteman program, Mueller formed the Apollo Executive Group, which consisted of himself and the presidents of Apollo's main contractors.
- infecto 4mo agoWhy? Are private companies not the engineering force in most military equipment these days.
- expedition32 4mo agoPrivate companies paid with government dollars that employ lots of smart people from public universities. This is not Arasaka.
- infecto 4mo agoSorry I could not understand your point through all the snark. How is using Schmidt’s company any different than any of the other thousands of military equipment programs? I don’t see how anything you said shows the difference.