Post by malewithatail on Apr 9, 2024 7:28:19 GMT 10
A story of backing up.
When NASA took us to the Moon in the 1960's, they identified one point of failure. The ascent rocket on the lander. If it failed, the Astronauts would be stuck on the Moon and NASA had a policy of getting them back at all costs.
What would they do if when the Astronaut pressed the button to fire the rocket and....click.
The fuel and oxidizer were stored in tanks under immense pressure, and the substances would self ignite when brought into contact with each other, so no igniter was necessary. They just had to be brought together for it to work.
These days, a solution would probably involve multi microprocessors etc, but their solution was.....a piece of string !!! Yes, a lanyard that the Astronaut would yank on to open the valves and kick off the process, even with no electric power etc, it would work regardless. It was never used, but that's backing up.
And a very interesting link to the Saturn 5 rocket that did all the heavy work is below. If you don't believe we went to the moon, watch the video.
As for Mars, that's a 25 year + process, and Governments are not interested in anything out past 4 years. And I don't think we have the Engineering skills or thinkers to do it any more. The world is so dumbed down and woke, we've lost that ability and it probably will never be available again. Anything worthwhile has a risk.
The engineering that went into that rocket was insane, OHS will stop it now and it would never happen, at least in the West. The way is open for private enterprise or the eastern block to do it, but its not gonna happen in the west.
If you don't get it done today, there's always tomorrow!
When NASA took us to the Moon in the 1960's, they identified one point of failure. The ascent rocket on the lander. If it failed, the Astronauts would be stuck on the Moon and NASA had a policy of getting them back at all costs.
What would they do if when the Astronaut pressed the button to fire the rocket and....click.
The fuel and oxidizer were stored in tanks under immense pressure, and the substances would self ignite when brought into contact with each other, so no igniter was necessary. They just had to be brought together for it to work.
These days, a solution would probably involve multi microprocessors etc, but their solution was.....a piece of string !!! Yes, a lanyard that the Astronaut would yank on to open the valves and kick off the process, even with no electric power etc, it would work regardless. It was never used, but that's backing up.
And a very interesting link to the Saturn 5 rocket that did all the heavy work is below. If you don't believe we went to the moon, watch the video.
As for Mars, that's a 25 year + process, and Governments are not interested in anything out past 4 years. And I don't think we have the Engineering skills or thinkers to do it any more. The world is so dumbed down and woke, we've lost that ability and it probably will never be available again. Anything worthwhile has a risk.
The engineering that went into that rocket was insane, OHS will stop it now and it would never happen, at least in the West. The way is open for private enterprise or the eastern block to do it, but its not gonna happen in the west.
If you don't get it done today, there's always tomorrow!