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Re: GAO Feb 2017 report on commercial crew
« Reply #40 on: 06/10/2017 08:01 pm »
I still don't see how loss of vehicle while at the ISS automatically means loss of crew.  It's like someone is stacking the deck.

Unstack the deck by keeping one F9 + Dragon 2 in storage at all times, ready to deploy to get the crew if there is a problem during ISS stay? :)
Compound conservatism. LOC keeps getting more things added to it. Soyuz has had some pretty rough landings where the crew survived that'd probably be counted as Loss Of Crew in the analysis here because the crew were injured. I was surprised to hear that "LOC" didn't necessarily mean the crew was dead, which is the only real sensible definition IMHO.
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Re: GAO Feb 2017 report on commercial crew
« Reply #41 on: 06/11/2017 10:17 am »
I still don't see how loss of vehicle while at the ISS automatically means loss of crew.

It doesn't mean automatic LOC.  Where is that interpretation coming from?

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Re: GAO Feb 2017 report on commercial crew
« Reply #42 on: 06/13/2017 01:31 pm »
Take a punctured capsule and add an evacuation emergency-> LOC. Even on might generate the other, a hit in the propellant tanks, for example. Something hitting the docking collar. A longitudinal piercing that takes both part of the ISS and Capsule's pressure vessels. Etc.

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Re: GAO Feb 2017 report on commercial crew
« Reply #43 on: 06/13/2017 01:51 pm »
If we had went with ASAP during Apollo, the Moon would perpetually be 20 years away and as for Mars... forget about it...
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Re: GAO Feb 2017 report on commercial crew
« Reply #44 on: 06/13/2017 01:55 pm »
If we had went with ASAP during Apollo, the Moon would perpetually be 20 years away and as for Mars... forget about it...

ASAP is an advisory body, they don't make the final decision.  If it's not reasonable to reach the planned LOC numbers for commercial crew then there will likely just be waivers granted to meet a lower number.

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Re: GAO Feb 2017 report on commercial crew
« Reply #45 on: 06/13/2017 02:06 pm »
If we had went with ASAP during Apollo, the Moon would perpetually be 20 years away and as for Mars... forget about it...

NASA ASAP was formed in 1968 subsequent to the investigation of the Apollo 1 fire. NASA ASAP had a great deal of influence on the later portion of the Apollo program, their safety recommendations are a part of the reason why Apollo was a success. NASA ASAP's first formal report in 1971 covers recommendations made for Apollos 15 and 16, for example.
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Re: GAO Feb 2017 report on commercial crew
« Reply #46 on: 06/13/2017 02:29 pm »
If we had went with ASAP during Apollo, the Moon would perpetually be 20 years away and as for Mars... forget about it...

NASA ASAP was formed in 1968 subsequent to the investigation of the Apollo 1 fire. NASA ASAP had a great deal of influence on the later portion of the Apollo program, their safety recommendations are a part of the reason why Apollo was a success. NASA ASAP's first formal report in 1971 covers recommendations made for Apollos 15 and 16, for example.
If they were involved in the initial RTF we probably would still not have landed on the Moon in 1969... I've said this before over the years, they are "a self licking ice-cream cone"  IMHO...
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Re: GAO Feb 2017 report on commercial crew
« Reply #47 on: 06/13/2017 05:23 pm »
If we had went with ASAP during Apollo, the Moon would perpetually be 20 years away and as for Mars... forget about it...

NASA ASAP was formed in 1968 subsequent to the investigation of the Apollo 1 fire. NASA ASAP had a great deal of influence on the later portion of the Apollo program, their safety recommendations are a part of the reason why Apollo was a success. NASA ASAP's first formal report in 1971 covers recommendations made for Apollos 15 and 16, for example.
If they were involved in the initial RTF we probably would still not have landed on the Moon in 1969... I've said this before over the years, they are "a self licking ice-cream cone"  IMHO...

Essentially, they were. The Apollo 1 investigation board not only performed an investigation of the causes of the fire, they also reviewed the design of the Apollo capsule and the procedures used by people working on it, and then made recommendations on how both spacecraft systems and procedures should be improved. This system worked so well that Congress made it a permanent part of NASA, as the ASAP.

If you think the ASAP is a self-licking ice cream cone, then I think you don't understand what it is they do.
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Re: GAO Feb 2017 report on commercial crew
« Reply #48 on: 06/13/2017 11:33 pm »
If we had went with ASAP during Apollo, the Moon would perpetually be 20 years away and as for Mars... forget about it...

NASA ASAP was formed in 1968 subsequent to the investigation of the Apollo 1 fire. NASA ASAP had a great deal of influence on the later portion of the Apollo program, their safety recommendations are a part of the reason why Apollo was a success. NASA ASAP's first formal report in 1971 covers recommendations made for Apollos 15 and 16, for example.
If they were involved in the initial RTF we probably would still not have landed on the Moon in 1969... I've said this before over the years, they are "a self licking ice-cream cone"  IMHO...

Essentially, they were. The Apollo 1 investigation board not only performed an investigation of the causes of the fire, they also reviewed the design of the Apollo capsule and the procedures used by people working on it, and then made recommendations on how both spacecraft systems and procedures should be improved. This system worked so well that Congress made it a permanent part of NASA, as the ASAP.

If you think the ASAP is a self-licking ice cream cone, then I think you don't understand what it is they do.
They serve to protect the status quo...
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