cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/10372465
Destin Sandlin of Smarter Every Day recently gave a talk at the American Astronautical Society about the Artemis program and communication:
I Was SCARED To Say This To NASA… (But I said it anyway) - Smarter Every Day 293
In his talk, he points out some of the legitimate shortcomings in the Artemis architecture, but I’m not sure if the parallels he draws to the Apollo program necessarily hold up, given the vastly different political impetus for the two programs. I think his main points regarding the importance of voicing negative feedback are valid, though.
What are people’s thoughts?
Amen to this. Unforuntately, neither is Blue Origin, for basically the same reasons.
I disagree that this is “the wrong way”. I agree that the current program is an inefficient way to do the mission intended. But if the goal is to develop future technologies to make spacetravel cheap, easy and fast, you need to take a shotgun aproach at technology and figure out what works.
But if your goal is something broad like “Improve spacetravel”, you can’t set hard deadlines like for Artemis. The goals are mutually exclusive.