It is amazing how so few words spoken can tell us how much someone does not now.
1. A large chunk of NASA's budget is dedicated to earth science now as opposed to human space flight to keep the tree huggers happy. And as you can see design simulation doesn't always deliver in the real world.
2. You are not seeing so much failure. You and all your relatives just think everything should work like a toaster because that is all your brain can handle.
3. I am guessing you are not a historian. Just another internet schmuck making up broad baseless
statements and pretending they are factual.
4. This is one test early in the developement of a new launch system. This program is pushing the performance, safety, time and budget envelope like no other. It is not a toaster. Even toasters burn toast every now and then.
It looks like the ocsillation started as it slid off the pallet. Then things got complicated by the stabilazation chutes (two small ones) blocking the airflow to the first test set up chute preventing it from opening. The rest as they say is history. Also note the shape of the capsule is not so clean as a bomb.
Totally agree, way too many stupid people. In the past Joe Schmuck would be enthralled with what it takes to put a rocket up and appreciate the feat for what it is. Today eveyone thinks everything is a toaster and far too many stupide people are living to child bearing age. If we dplicated Apollo the way some of these people think we should and it goes wrong they would have a fit. Let us let the engineers do there jobs.
Designing chutes for large objects is no easy matter. You may be able to start with some data and design from apollo but then everything is new after that. This vehicle is much larger and heavier so the chutes will be larger which changes the way it works. It has to be as light as possible so the material is differerent which changes the way it reacts to the wind.
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It is amazing how so few words spoken can tell us how much someone does not now. 1. A large chunk of NASA's budget is dedicated to earth science now as opposed to human space flight to keep the tree huggers happy. And as you can see design simulation doesn't always deliver in the real world. 2. You are not seeing so much failure. You and all your relatives just think everything should work like a toaster because that is all your brain can handle. 3. I am guessing you are not a historian. Just another internet schmuck making up broad baseless statements and pretending they are factual. 4. This is one test early in the developement of a new launch system. This program is pushing the performance, safety, time and budget envelope like no other. It is not a toaster. Even toasters burn toast every now and then.
It looks like the ocsillation started as it slid off the pallet. Then things got complicated by the stabilazation chutes (two small ones) blocking the airflow to the first test set up chute preventing it from opening. The rest as they say is history. Also note the shape of the capsule is not so clean as a bomb.
Totally agree, way too many stupid people. In the past Joe Schmuck would be enthralled with what it takes to put a rocket up and appreciate the feat for what it is. Today eveyone thinks everything is a toaster and far too many stupide people are living to child bearing age. If we dplicated Apollo the way some of these people think we should and it goes wrong they would have a fit. Let us let the engineers do there jobs.
Designing chutes for large objects is no easy matter. You may be able to start with some data and design from apollo but then everything is new after that. This vehicle is much larger and heavier so the chutes will be larger which changes the way it works. It has to be as light as possible so the material is differerent which changes the way it reacts to the wind.