The space launch and exploration innovations being made by private industry firms is astounding. Exposes NASA as a bumbling overly expensive and inefficient beauracracy.
The tricky helo recovery is a miss today but they have a backup ocean recovery procedure.
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November 04, 2022, 12:47 PM
kkina
Unfortunate the Sikorsky catch didn't happen today. An ocean retrievel is not considered a fail per se, however.
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November 04, 2022, 01:46 PM
Flash-LB
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Originally posted by bald1: The space launch and exploration innovations being made by private industry firms is astounding. Exposes NASA as a bumbling overly expensive and inefficient beauracracy.
You don't know the half of it. I did a bunch of jobs for them and have seldom seem more incompetents gathered together in the same place.
They even make Homeland Security look like a bunch of hard workers.
November 04, 2022, 03:01 PM
TomV
No incentive to turn a profit or finish the job on time. Worked at a place like that. Spending someone else's money was fun. I was just a worker, not in management.
November 04, 2022, 03:45 PM
kkina
Here's a successful mid-air catch made for the first time 6 months ago. The catch itself was a success, although the Sikorsky pilot decided to subsequently release the cargo when the heli felt strange compared with previous test catches.
