Learning from history is a good thing, but equal to that is unlearning from history. IOW, learning the wrong lesson can cause stagnation.
The link set my McAfee Web Adviser all atwitter with warnings. Is it right? Or is the site just the victim of false accusations?
That chart has been around for over half a decade. They may have digitized it into a “interactive tool”, but the graphic shown at the website I saw as recently as 2011, and I know I saw it earlier than that.
I just skimmed the post at Parabolic Arc, so maybe I missed this. Doesn’t Boeing have some Soyuz seats to sell from there Sea Launch deal? I don’t recall how many they have but it could buy NASA some time if commercial crew slips beyond the current seat buy.
Surely Russia would be willing to sell more rides too.
So, because of bureaucratic hurdles not yet crossed, our astronauts must ride on spaceships designed, built, and flown by the bunch who lost a rocket a while back because they installed the gyro upside-down? Is this really what our best and brightest decided?
Larry Niven’s “History of Errors” course. Good.
Learning from history is a good thing, but equal to that is unlearning from history. IOW, learning the wrong lesson can cause stagnation.
The link set my McAfee Web Adviser all atwitter with warnings. Is it right? Or is the site just the victim of false accusations?
That chart has been around for over half a decade. They may have digitized it into a “interactive tool”, but the graphic shown at the website I saw as recently as 2011, and I know I saw it earlier than that.
I just skimmed the post at Parabolic Arc, so maybe I missed this. Doesn’t Boeing have some Soyuz seats to sell from there Sea Launch deal? I don’t recall how many they have but it could buy NASA some time if commercial crew slips beyond the current seat buy.
Surely Russia would be willing to sell more rides too.
So, because of bureaucratic hurdles not yet crossed, our astronauts must ride on spaceships designed, built, and flown by the bunch who lost a rocket a while back because they installed the gyro upside-down? Is this really what our best and brightest decided?