Re: The Warm Equations

On Sun, 23 Jun 2024 14:47:24 -0400, Cryptoengineer
<petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:

On 6/23/2024 12:37 PM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:

Interesting to note the way margins of a real-life space venture are run:
 
Two astronauts have been stuck at the ISS for an extra two weeks,
so far, because their ride has flat tires, and it's not a crisis,
and nobody has had to volunteer to step out the airlock.

>
Boeing would really, really like to figure out what went wrong with
the thrusters. Unfortunately, they options for checking them in orbit
are very  limited, and they're on the service module, which will be
discard before entry, and burn up.
>
Hopefully, a door won't pop out of this Boeing craft before they
land.
>
An interesting sidenote: This will be the first time the US has
tried to land a manned capsule on *land*, as opposed to an ocean
splashdown.

I can remember when riding a vehicle built by Boeing was a sensible
thing to do. Now it looks more like an act of desperation.

If I were one of those astronauts, I think I would wait for ...
someboy else ... to send up a replacement. A replacement that /works/.
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