“Why don’t rocket engines melt” review!
Added 2022-01-10 05:00:36 +0000 UTCMiss me? I know it’s been a whopping day since the last stream and about 5 days since the last video, but it’s already time to watch a new video!!! Please watch this and look for errors! This is a final review of this video “why don’t rocket engines melt” so please only look for errors and don’t worry about general feedback at this point. Thanks everyone !!! Enjoy! https://app.frame.io/r/7200df51-a709-414b-9f10-6c83c52c1266
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NASA in a sense caught a hail-Mary pass out of the disaster by finding a much less embarrassing public excuse for pulling the plug on SLC-6 than having it get out that their astronauts balked at absorbing a life-time radiation dose in one flight. Since our military polar-orbiting satellites are radiation hardened verses low-inclination or geo-sync satellites, it made sense when I heard it. Anyway, something I wanted to pass along when I heard you pop Jared that question.
2022-02-20 14:51:13 +0000 UTCTim, about your question of doing the first manned polar orbit mission ... I was stationed at Vandenberg AFB when Challenger happened. NASA had poured billions into Space Launch Complex 6 (originally built for the defunct Manned Orbiting Laboratory program) and Shuttle Enterprise had made its SLC-6 pathfinder fit checks. When NASA stated there weren't enough Shuttles to continue with the Vandenberg spaceport, California central coast real estate tanked overnight. Years later I was commiserating with an aerospace executive in the airline seat next to me who provided a backstory. Apparently astronauts would have gotten such a high dose of radiation crossing the poles multiple times on a typical shuttle mission, they would have accumulated a life-time dose. The military astronauts were supposedly OK with that, but NASA's civilian astronauts who wanted to make space a career balked. Shielding options were unattractive from payload standpoint (Vandenberg's south westerly polar trajectories were already disadvantaged verses KSC's easterly trajectories) and a practical standpoint for usable space inside the cabin space.
2022-02-20 14:44:45 +0000 UTCNice
2022-01-29 00:03:47 +0000 UTCCan you post a YouTube link as well, streaming on this sucks
Omari Antony
2022-01-12 14:12:11 +0000 UTCStill closer to half as hot as opposed to twice as hot (150% vs 200%). Half is being used to denote a "ball-park" amount.
Frank Tippin
2022-01-11 21:49:17 +0000 UTC
