"Henry Spencer" schreef in bericht
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Guy Fawkes wrote:
It's nice to have some computer generated pictures and list some nice
features, it's something entirely different to build a working spacecraft.
NASA is trying to do the latter.

Yes, and lately they haven't done too well at it -- their history in that
area has been an unbroken string of failures and canceled projects. These
days, they too specialize in computer-generated pictures and lists of nice
features. It's not clear that they *know* how to build working spacecraft
any more -- the guys who built Saturn and Apollo, and even the shuttle,
are gone now.

No faith in the capabillities of today's engineers? I think you'll find that
they're just as capable as the ones who built Apollo and Saturn, if not more
so. And thanks to today's computer technology they'll be able to build
better designs, quicker and cheaper in less time and they'll have been
tested and simulated far more streneously than the ones in the Apollo days.



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