NASA chief warns on Artemis test flight:
‘Everything is not going to go as you expect’
New York Post,
by
David Propper
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
8/28/2022 10:01:19 PM
It's not exactly the most ringing endorsement of NASA.
The head of the space agency warned Sunday that a test flight of the unmanned moon rocket Artemis I might not go according to plan as NASA readied for its launch Monday. "You can expect in a test flight that everything is not going to go as you expect it to. That’s part of a test flight," NASA Administrator Bill Nelson insisted to NBC’s "Meet the Press." "That's part of, for example, developing aircraft. That's why you have a test pilot," he said.(Snip)"This time we're going back, we're going to live there, we're going to learn there," he said
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Northcross 8/28/2022 10:11:17 PM (No. 1261996)
What Bill Nelson said is perfectly reasonable if you know anything at all about the challenges of flying in space. A test flight is just that.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
ms1234 8/28/2022 10:22:03 PM (No. 1262007)
I would like to endorse Biden, Harris, Pelosi and Schumer as the first astronauts to man the Artemis test flight to the moon. ASAP!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
crashnburn 8/28/2022 10:24:44 PM (No. 1262009)
I agree that things could break. That's why they are sending 3 dummies into space. If Brandon, Kamalalol, and Nancy Pelosi are missing for6 weeks, you'll know where they went!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
bogeegolf 8/28/2022 10:55:01 PM (No. 1262016)
Leave it to Elon Musk and the private sector.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Geoman 8/28/2022 10:55:05 PM (No. 1262017)
The premise of the article is not logically sound by saying he is expecting to not meet expectations. It would be more meaningful to isolate the cost, schedule, and performance risks, assess their likelihood of occurrence and the likely consequences. Then develop mitigation strategies for the high likelihood/high consequence risks. At least that is the way NASA used to work before Obama changed its mission to supporting Muslim science or some such nonsense, unrelated to aeronautics and space administration.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
chumley 8/28/2022 11:44:03 PM (No. 1262029)
After two days of the whole base searching for a lost man in the arctic in sub zero temperatures, some bozo tough guy felt compelled to address the whole group of searchers and tell them it was no longer a rescue, it was a recovery. Well duh. Did he have to go to a special school for that inspirational speech? The dumbest guy on the base had that figured out. That little bit of "wisdom" didnt change a single thing about the search, it just depressed everyone. Sounds like this guy went to the same school.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
snakeoil 8/29/2022 12:08:06 AM (No. 1262039)
Being an old person I remember 1957. The Ruskies launch Sputnik which circles the Earth going beep beep beep. So America panics and has the Navy launch Project Vanguard. It was nationally televised which was unusal back then. It went up 2 feet, fell over, and exploded. One of the major disappointments of my life. Hope Artemis has better luck.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Highlander 8/29/2022 3:26:22 AM (No. 1262081)
It’s all been done before. What’s all the excitement about? If we stayed on track since ‘72, we would likely have moon bases already set up by now.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 8/29/2022 7:55:28 AM (No. 1262177)
Back in ‘69 we went to the moon with real engineers using little more than slide rules. Not so sure about the quality of the people today produced by this education system.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DVC 8/29/2022 9:22:29 AM (No. 1262279)
I have a number of friends and family who have had long careers as test pilots, one piloted the first civil spacecraft. At one point friends and relatives had gotten the Kincheloe award three years in a row. Things don't have to go wrong, but they certainly can. With enough care and planning and good engineering, most problems can be avoided - but not all problems, and not every time.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
red1066 8/29/2022 10:22:02 AM (No. 1262362)
Finding cracks in your rocket just before liftoff I guess is one of his unexpected items. Followed by the unexpected explosion on the launch pad of the entire rocket and the additional delay of another ten years and 22 billion dollars before another NASA rocket with cracks in it can blow up on the launch pad. See how this works? Never ending employment living off the legacy of the people who knew how to do things right even after a setback.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
kono 8/29/2022 12:12:51 PM (No. 1262474)
Au contraire, Bill -- everything did go just the way I expected (except I figured the launch to be scrubbed an hour beforehand).
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Luandir 8/29/2022 12:18:24 PM (No. 1262482)
What concerns me is that this is the ONLY uncrewed test flight. What happens if something goes catastrophically wrong? The entire schedule, which is slow enough already, would be delayed. Without a goal date, it might even be in danger of cancellation.
Granted, the Saturn V had only two flights (and one of those just partially successful) before being man-rated, but the 1960s NASA was on a mission. Today's agency after the losses of two shuttle orbiters, is a sinecure that inspires much less confidence.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Aubreyesque 8/29/2022 12:21:30 PM (No. 1262488)
OH PUHLEEZ - so they had to double check the engines to make sure they worked properly. Big Woo.
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