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Re: Wayne Hale sets up his own blog site
« Reply #540 on: 03/16/2018 04:01 pm »
STS-121 and those ECO Sensors pin connectors we all won't forget in a hurry!

There, fixed that for ya.

https://waynehale.wordpress.com/2018/03/16/sts-121-the-hardest-launch-part-2-electrical-problems/

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Re: Wayne Hale sets up his own blog site
« Reply #541 on: 06/19/2018 04:16 pm »
Newest Installment from Mr Hale's Blog

Careful What You Ask For


https://waynehale.wordpress.com/2018/06/19/careful-what-you-ask-for/

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Re: Wayne Hale sets up his own blog site
« Reply #542 on: 03/04/2019 12:02 am »
Another post:  Launch Fever  (beans and cornbread)

https://waynehale.wordpress.com/2019/03/03/launch-fever/

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Re: Wayne Hale sets up his own blog site
« Reply #543 on: 04/15/2019 03:17 pm »
Yet another installment of Wayne Hale's blog.

Miracle Workers
https://waynehale.wordpress.com/2019/04/12/miracle-workers/

Thank you Mr Hale.
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Re: Wayne Hale sets up his own blog site
« Reply #546 on: 05/22/2019 01:39 pm »
New post
https://waynehale.wordpress.com/2019/05/20/advising-nasa/
Yes, his next big step in life.  It's good to have someone who had to made tough decisions on these advisory committees.
I found his concern about the committees not hearing from the public enough interesting.   

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Re: Wayne Hale sets up his own blog site
« Reply #547 on: 05/22/2019 01:41 pm »
New post
https://waynehale.wordpress.com/2019/05/20/advising-nasa/
Yes, his next big step in life.  It's good to have someone who had to made tough decisions on these advisory committees.
I found his concern about the committees not hearing from the public enough interesting.

I suppose if they keep having their meetings in Washington, that makes it difficult for a large number of people to provide input.  Do they ever rotate their locations?

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Re: Wayne Hale sets up his own blog site
« Reply #548 on: 05/22/2019 01:50 pm »

I suppose if they keep having their meetings in Washington, that makes it difficult for a large number of people to provide input.  Do they ever rotate their locations?

From Mr. Hale's blog--location rotates:
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But three times a year I get to gather with the group of ‘graybeards’ at some NASA center (meetings rotate around), listen to all the interesting projects the agency is doing or planning to do, get a tour, and give our ‘advice’  in the form of observations, findings, and recommendations.
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Re: Wayne Hale sets up his own blog site
« Reply #549 on: 06/19/2019 04:21 pm »
Just published:

https://waynehale.wordpress.com/2019/06/19/blood-and-money/

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Blood and Money

“The popular mind often pictures gigantic flying machines speeding across the Atlantic carrying innumerable passengers in a way analogous to our modern steam ships . . . it seems safe to say that such ideas are wholly visionary and even if the machine could get across with one or two passengers, the expense would be prohibitive to any but the capitalist who could use his own yacht.”   –W. H. Pickering, 1910

The news in the aerospace business is abuzz with discussion about the cost of spaceflight:  new studies on what Apollo actually cost back in the day, rumored estimates of the potential cost of the Artemis program through first landing, reports about cost overruns on some NASA activities.  All this stimulated my thoughts about costs and finance.

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Re: Wayne Hale sets up his own blog site
« Reply #550 on: 06/19/2019 06:43 pm »
He's right about the cost in blood. It is one we should, with open eyes, be willing to pay for a worthwhile endeavour.  But I'm not sure that Artemis enables space commerce1. Not at those prices.

1 - I mean more than the commerce of selling NASA the vehicles, equipment, and services to make it happen.
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Re: Wayne Hale sets up his own blog site
« Reply #551 on: 06/25/2019 03:20 pm »
And yet another installment by Wayne Hale to his blog.  This one titled "STS-121 The Hardest Launch Part 4: Damage to the Heatshield", published June 24, 2019.


https://waynehale.wordpress.com/2019/06/24/sts-121-the-hardest-launch-part-4-damage-to-the-heatshield/

Thank you Mr Hale.
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Re: Wayne Hale sets up his own blog site
« Reply #552 on: 06/27/2019 12:17 pm »
He's right about the cost in blood. It is one we should, with open eyes, be willing to pay for a worthwhile endeavour.

I think he's right that the risk to astronauts' lives should be recognized and accepted.  It would help if the politicos supporting these things could periodically remind the public of the risk.  But the real problem is deeper.  People won't like this, but why do we value astronauts' lives so highly?  Many people die prematurely every day.  Those deaths are catastrophes for the families and close friends of the deceased, but society as a whole simply moves on.  Consider the contrast, for example, between Pres. Nixon's anxiety over the fate of Apollo 13's all-volunteer crew and his willingness to send hundreds of conscripted young men to die in obscurity every week in the meat grinder that was America's war in Vietnam.

Let's get over this.  Astronauts are just people.

EDIT:  "closed friends" -> "close friends"
« Last Edit: 06/28/2019 11:37 am by Proponent »

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Re: Wayne Hale sets up his own blog site
« Reply #554 on: 08/20/2019 06:02 pm »
Another tasty morsel from the literary smorgasboard of spaceflight knowledge/experience a la Mr Wayne Hale.

 
Finding meaning in Apollo.  August 20, 2019

https://waynehale.wordpress.com/2019/08/20/finding-meaning-in-apollo/

Thank you!
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Re: Wayne Hale sets up his own blog site
« Reply #555 on: 08/20/2019 06:45 pm »
I rarely post, but the words of Mr. Hale about his experience struck a familiar chord in me. I am 4 years older than him, but nonetheless, I experienced some of the same things he did in order to follow human spaceflight back then. Thank you Mr Hale, for a reminder of the reality of those days.
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Re: Wayne Hale sets up his own blog site
« Reply #556 on: 08/27/2019 08:54 pm »
Mr Wayne Hale again puts his thoughts into words.

Calculating the Risk August 27, 2019

https://waynehale.wordpress.com/2019/08/27/660/

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Re: Wayne Hale sets up his own blog site
« Reply #557 on: 09/03/2019 09:44 pm »
And another excerpt from Mr Hale's blog
Night Flying

https://waynehale.wordpress.com/2019/09/03/night-flying/
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Re: Wayne Hale sets up his own blog site
« Reply #559 on: 09/25/2019 04:52 pm »
That would have been pretty nasty to handle if they landed in California.

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