Comments by "Zach B" (@zachb1706) on "The Insane Engineering of the Space Shuttle" video.

  1. We are doing better in space than ever before. The Space Shuttle was in reality a failure. It was meant to be incredibly cheap because of its reusability but in reality it was far more expensive than conventional expendable rockets at the time. It was meant to have a quick 2 week turnaround time, NASA envisioned Space Shuttles taking off and landing every week. But it never got close, and after the Challenger disaster the turn around time was extended to almost 3 months. And it had many terrible safety flaws. The solid rocket engines had no way of being shut off, there was no Launch Abort System to get astronauts to safety in the case of something going wrong, and the rocket required a crew to be flown. Falcon 9 has truly surpassed the Space Shuttle in all these aspects. While it isn’t as flashy, it’s a great step forward.
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  2. NASA uses Metric. Really America should just start converting by now, it’s a far simpler system.
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  3. One of the most reliable rockets, though its failures were tragic. Falcon 9 is much better
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  4. You realise James Webb is further away from us than the moon, right? The Space Shuttle has no way of getting there.
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  5. The sr72 might make that pick easy
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  6. No there was no way to turn them off and no way to abort. That’s one of the reasons the Challenger crew died
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  7. Are you French?
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  8. It’s common in English to use words like “insane” or “ridiculous” to mean the opposite of their literal meanings
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