NASA Learns Anew From the Apollo Program

solitas writes "NASA isn't just "going back to the drawing boards" to get back to the Moon, they're also going through the museums and archives so that the new engineers can rediscover/learn how it was done the first time." From the article: "Some old Apollo engineers are even being brought back on a contract basis to work with the young folks, some of whom were not even born when the Saturn V was flying lunar missions. The new manned exploration project, called Constellation, is deliberately drawing upon lessons from the past as the space agency works to meet a congressional deadline of flying the Ares rocket ... In fact, NASA Administrator Michael Griffin has described the new program as 'Apollo on steroids.'"

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If Werner Von Braun was the father of American Manned Spaceflight, surely Michael Griffith is its executioner.

Constellation/Ares is a clusterfuck.
Granted, the Shuttle situation has them in a bind, and we don't have the budget to spend our way out (because $90 Billion a year down the Iraq rat hole) - but the current plan is designed to fail while we're looking like we're trying.

It's sad, really. Kind of how we talk about how there used to be a British Empire, and they used to be a major sea power. Kind of how we talk about the accomplishments of the Hellenic Greeks. The Ancient Egyptians used to build these great pyramids. And the US used to put people into space.