Just glancing at the graph, it doesn't look like a linear curve to me. Is a least squares fit the appropriate tool for this? It appears to me like it is leveling out.
NASA would LOVE private industry to do more, but they wont. Private industry looks at the bottom line.
How much will I earn by going to space? Is there a net profit?
Unless they can say yes, they wont do it. What government agencies (not just NASA but FAA, NSF, DOE, etc.) do is spend money on things that will not produce a net profit. NASA has not gotten a single penny back from the space shuttle.
Once something is developed to the point where industry can turn a buck, industry takes over and does it. The Space Shuttle is not there yet.
Manuevering around in space is not an easy thing to do. The reason for all of those procedures is that they tell you how to do something in that null-G environment. The astronauts have practiced those manuevers over and over and over before they ever go into space. You can't just pop open the door and go out, without knowing EXACTLY what you are going to do.
In the early days of space flight they tried to do what you said. In the second EVA they told the astronaut to just climb out, go to the back, get a jet pack on and fly around. After hours and hours of exhausting labor, he returned to the cabin without accomplishing a thing, and too afraid to try it again.
You don't do ANYTHING in space without a great deal of planning. Which they just didn't have.
Thanks for the support of NASA.
I hate it when somebody makes swooping generalizations about something that don't know anything about.
Oh, and it's Goddard, not Gottard.
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Just glancing at the graph, it doesn't look like a linear curve to me. Is a least squares fit the appropriate tool for this? It appears to me like it is leveling out.
NASA would LOVE private industry to do more, but they wont. Private industry looks at the bottom line.
How much will I earn by going to space?
Is there a net profit?
Unless they can say yes, they wont do it. What government agencies (not just NASA but FAA, NSF, DOE, etc.) do is spend money on things that will not produce a net profit. NASA has not gotten a single penny back from the space shuttle.
Once something is developed to the point where industry can turn a buck, industry takes over and does it. The Space Shuttle is not there yet.
Manuevering around in space is not an easy thing to do. The reason for all of those procedures is that they tell you how to do something in that null-G environment. The astronauts have practiced those manuevers over and over and over before they ever go into space. You can't just pop open the door and go out, without knowing EXACTLY what you are going to do.
In the early days of space flight they tried to do what you said. In the second EVA they told the astronaut to just climb out, go to the back, get a jet pack on and fly around. After hours and hours of exhausting labor, he returned to the cabin without accomplishing a thing, and too afraid to try it again.
You don't do ANYTHING in space without a great deal of planning. Which they just didn't have.
Thanks for the support of NASA. I hate it when somebody makes swooping generalizations about something that don't know anything about. Oh, and it's Goddard, not Gottard.