One is a NASA designed and owned system, the others are not... It's NASA's sandbox and they decide who and how they play in it...
Quote from: Rocket Science on 02/17/2017 01:34 amOne is a NASA designed and owned system, the others are not... It's NASA's sandbox and they decide who and how they play in it...But that also means that whatever NASA issues about something being "manrated" isn't worth the paper it is printed on. Some people have a very idealized view of NASA.
Not to mention risking a $100B facility and six crew by rendezvous with an untested spacecraft.
Quote from: Rocket Science on 02/17/2017 01:34 amOne is a NASA designed and owned system, the others are not... It's NASA's sandbox and they decide who and how they play in it...So flying the SLS+Orion with crew on the first flight counts in political terms as a 'brave decision'.
I just can't see this as anything other than a response to a request from the new administration.I also can't see the response from NASA being anything other than "Nope" albeit reworded and supported by a thick stack of supporting evidence.This IMHO is the interim boss doing due diligence
Quote from: SimonFD on 02/17/2017 11:26 amI just can't see this as anything other than a response to a request from the new administration.I also can't see the response from NASA being anything other than "Nope" albeit reworded and supported by a thick stack of supporting evidence.This IMHO is the interim boss doing due diligenceThere are some in NASA who see this as SLS/Orion's chance to put up or shut up.
I would remind people that ranting is frowned upon around these parts. Mods can trim, but I think we need a warning.I don't want to have to come back here!! (OK, I will be coming back here, but I hope it's not because of report to mods!
From yesterday's committee hearing, retired astronaut Tom Stafford didn't feel that putting a crew on this flight was any riskier than STS-1...
There is a *HUGE* difference between STS-1 and EM-1.STS-1 required a crew in the same way that the first flight of any new aircraft requires a crew - there was no way to fly it without a pilot. A flight crew was required to start the APUs, deploy the landing gear, drag chute, and air data probe. None of these could have been done automatically. The Shuttles did not have this capability until much later in the program.EM-1 on the other hand does *NOT* require a crew to do anything. This is a pure political stunt, needlessly endangering the lives of anyone NASA asks to fly it.