Dave and Fran spend two hours nerding out about everything space related!
- Neil Tyson Video on NASA budget
- Neil Tyson on Joe Rogan
- Supplemental images from Fran
- https://twitter.com/contourcorsets/status/849290588696571905
- https://twitter.com/contourcorsets/status/849291549435453440
- https://twitter.com/contourcorsets/status/849292025350508544
Will this get posted as podcast as well? I’m an on-the-walk Amp Hour consumer.
Yes, Please upload the audio as well.
If you paste the URL for this video into http://offliberty.com you can download the audio.
I did like the NASA history lesson.
yes Dave, do talk about space electronics next time.
yes we need to go back to the Moon before a manned trip to Mars. Ow.. Fran. please, please try to avoid the political BS!
Sounds like you conflated the N1 mid-flight explosions and the very different Nedelin catastrophe that involved a different rocket (which happened to use toxic fuels… and which burned a whole lot of people when it ruptured, spilled on the pad and the fireball engulfed the technicians in the area).
Testing and re-testing until things worked and stopped breaking was how things were done in that era. The F-1 engine for the Saturn V had an equally difficult birth but each failure during the development of its injector didn’t doom a whole rocket. The first flight of the Saturn V was of course unmanned (sounds like you misstated that) but it was a full-up test, with every stage of the rocket tried for real all at once. Happily it worked and the bet was worth the risk!
I for one am looking forward to more space electronics talk. It’s about to get busy again what with all kinds of private programs going on in Earth orbit and beyond! 🙂
Mon vs Mars – Moon is a much more hostile environment. Yes – it is closer and in a shallower gravity well, but there are no useful resources in term of spaceflight. On Mars you can make shelter, you can make rocket fuel and there have been tests to show that you can grow stuff (Mars soil + pressure vessel). On moon – it is just abrasive dust. Moon dust destroys any equipment – all moving bearings and scrapes up all the lenses and glass. Nothing will ever grow, can’t get any resource (except ice in some craters).