https://www.youtube.com/live/Tf_UjBMIzNo
Feels weird to be doing these “yay humanity” things in the context of the war on Iran. I suppose the Apollo missions happened with the backdrop of the imperialist wars in Southeast Asia (Korea, Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia, …)
i would not want to be a USian astronaut these days. in my ignorant opinion it’s probably far more dangerous today than it was in the 60s when they were trying to do everything right to prove they could do it at all.
yeah, that rocket was built as cheaply as possible lmao
Always was, NASA doesn’t build rockets, it gives money to military contractors and sometimes gets a rocket out of it.
yes and no. things were over-engineered in the very beginning but then by the time we get to challenger the budget cuts and shit start to creep in.
in the early days theyd overengineer the wrong things and come up short on things we literally didnt know about so its give and take in this regard