/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11690123
It's NASCAR for nerds.

>>11503879
>Like any government agency these days it's full of incompetent diversity hires and bureaucratic bloat.
I suppose you're right about the bloat.
>The Apollo era guys would have had them all shot.
Didn't one of the astronauts who went to the moon complain about this? I googled it - couldn't find it. But I remember a retired astronaut shitting on NASA.
>>11503885
>That's the biggest issue with how NASA is handled, yes.
It's a pervasive generational problem. Won't be fixed without societal change or a need.
> A company like SpaceX beating NASA to the moon or Mars might achieve the same effect.
I don't think so. I think most Americans would be okay with a private American company reaching the stars. We'd be irate if it was a foreign nation or government, however.

>>11294266
I think it'd be based on landing speed and delta-v needed to land than on mass. You'd be shooting for feather soft landings that take a while to land using minimal adjustment x distance from target.

>>10192043
Nah, it was too fucked, and without a water landing everything might have been fire.

>>9490757
I don't even remember anymore.

>>9227715
Its lost and burns up.