And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Saturday, March 8, 2025
Navy frogmen recover the Apollo 6 command module, 375 nautical miles north of Honolulu, Hawaii, 4 April 1968.
I'd be saying hail Mary's, strapped inside an aluminum can, like a human blow torch hitting the atmosphere at 34,000 miles per hour. Guess if it goes south it would happen fast at those speeds and temps. Every one of those capsules worked perfect. Kudos to the Apollo guys, they had serious balls. But a lot of good folks worked on those spacecraft, my aunt one of them, remember her saying, i was hardly a little tot, maybe 5 or 6 years old then, never forgot her words, she said word around the factory was "It ain't gonna fail cause of me."
You are right, Elon (and team) could do better. But of course, we now know that it can be done, and how NASA did it. In the 90s, I had a subscription to NASA Tech Briefs in which they published the results of a ton of research NASA scientists and engineers had done. Anyone could subscribe and see a large portion of technology required to conduct R&D related to space flight. All the commercial and state-sponsored space programs around the world benefited from that. It’s a good thing
You can imagine their prayers: "Dear God please don't let this thing be radioactive."
ReplyDeleteI'd be saying hail Mary's, strapped inside an aluminum can, like a human blow torch hitting the atmosphere at 34,000 miles per hour. Guess if it goes south it would happen fast at those speeds and temps. Every one of those capsules worked perfect. Kudos to the Apollo guys, they had serious balls. But a lot of good folks worked on those spacecraft, my aunt one of them, remember her saying, i was hardly a little tot, maybe 5 or 6 years old then, never forgot her words, she said word around the factory was "It ain't gonna fail cause of me."
DeleteShudda made this clear: The Frogman's Prayer.
DeleteNASA sure went to a lot of trouble to fake the moon landings. (Kidding!)
ReplyDeleteElon Musk could do better.
ReplyDeleteYou are right, Elon (and team) could do better. But of course, we now know that it can be done, and how NASA did it. In the 90s, I had a subscription to NASA Tech Briefs in which they published the results of a ton of research NASA scientists and engineers had done. Anyone could subscribe and see a large portion of technology required to conduct R&D related to space flight. All the commercial and state-sponsored space programs around the world benefited from that. It’s a good thing
DeleteKeep in mind that NASA was doing this with 1960's technology.
DeleteIs Spielberg doing the next one?
ReplyDeleteThe day mlk got shot and memphrica chimped out.
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