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Boeing's lunar lander pitch promises 'fastest path' to the moon
Boeing wants to make one of the Artemis program lunar landers that will take humans to the surface of the moon. The aerospace company has submitted a proposal to NASA for an integrated Human Lander System (HLS), which it says will be designed to reach the moon in the "fewest steps" possible. NASA has been accepting proposals from private space corporations and is expected to choose at least two of them by January next year for development. Blue Origin announced its own take on a lander called "Blue Moon" -- which it will develop in partnership with Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Draper -- earlier this year.
NASA intends to send humans to the moon in an Orion capsule atop an SLS rocket. After the capsule docks with the Lunar Gateway, a space station the agency will place in the lunar orbit, the astronauts would transfer to a lander that would take them to the moon itself. Boeing says the HLS can either dock with the Gateway or dock directly with Orion to take astronauts straight to the lunar surface.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 07 2019, @04:15PM (5 children)
Even if they still have the blueprints, they don't have the capability to build it anymore. All the nazi scientists and engineers have died of old age.
https://www.xkcd.com/984/ [xkcd.com]
Back in, I think it was the eighties, the head of NASA was in front of Congress.
Congresscritter asked him, "How long would it take to go back to the moon?"
He answered "Twenty years".
Congresscritter "What about with an unlimited budget?"
NasaHead "Still twenty years"
Congresscritter "But you did it in less than 10 in the sixties!"
NasaHead "Things are different now."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 07 2019, @04:51PM (3 children)
I'm sure plenty of the early V2s blew up. Many of the nazis started as amateurs in the 30s or perhaps even the 20s. They were coming to the program with decades of experience, and experience working on large rockets that nobody else had ever seen. The reason we can't move that fast today is motivation. We aren't in a race with the Reds, so nobody wants to throw gobs of money at it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 08 2019, @01:20AM
Well, that and reading comprehension.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday November 08 2019, @03:53AM (1 child)
NASA has spent something like 5 Apollo programs since the end of the Apollo program. It hasn't gotten us back to the Moon. Spending gobs of money isn't going to cut it.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 09 2019, @08:57AM
Some of it helps keep getting them to Hawaii though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HI-SEAS#Missions [wikipedia.org]
Even though they could probably ask the Navy:
https://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/06/politics/life-on-uss-missouri-nuclear-submarine/index.html [cnn.com]
https://science.howstuffworks.com/nuclear-submarine7.htm [howstuffworks.com]
All that money and bullshit for "Mars" and "Moon" stuff but where's the scientific research on proving that Mars or Moon gravity is enough for humans? For some reason there isn't enough money for stuff like that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrifuge_Accommodations_Module [wikipedia.org]
So I wouldn't shed a tear if the NASA of today is shutdown.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 07 2019, @06:23PM
they won't be finding any paperclips(*) in syria, iran or afghanistan.
(*)https://tinyurl.com/6rhll88 (no spoiler)