Comments by "bob barclay" (@bobbarclay316) on "Scott Manley" channel.

  1. Plus, they let a crew fly that capsule even though the only other time they tried, Starliner failed to reach ISS.
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  2. @Gunni1972Education in this country stopped years ago. About the same time the feds decided to fix education.
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  3. They mean NASA is out of the business of keeping Boeing and Lockheed (et al) out of the cost-plus development model. There are more than a dozen private companies building (at their own cost) all the space vehicles and equipment could ever want. NASA should move to paying for the use of transport and facilities, just like the whole world does business on earth.
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  4. Scotts reports are what I show my wife who will not sit still and listen to me analyze the commentary during a 4 hr launch livestream.
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  5.  @ElectronFieldPulse The notion that free people can use their own money to do things like build something is anathema to leftists.
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  6. I never believed the sonic boom prohibition was real. I took it as a gift to Boeing, Northrup et al, from grateful Senators. But I admit Im a cynic.
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  7. Yeah, we wouldn't want to say that Senator Shelby, or any other Senator, has enriched themselves through the contracts they expect NASA to provide ULA's owners.(Boeing, Lockheed). Just to make sure no one misses a chance to be grateful to him, Shelby is a big fan of SLS, to be built and cast into the sea by Northrup Grumman.
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  8.  @TheEvilmooseofdoom  The question is what does Boeing, Lockheed, Northrup Grumman, et al do to earn the generosity of the Senate? What do older, more expensive, less reliable, and often useless launch vehicles contribute in order to deserve getting two or three times the available launch prices?
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  9. The next time a crew gets into Starliner from ISS and rides it home will be the first time all those systems have to work together. NASA/Boeing method of manufacturing means that every single time it flys its the first (and for all but the capsule) only time it flys. Every flight after that is one shot and into the sea, so at best, its a test of that one article that one time. Even if each system is fully tested, what isn't tested is the work of hundreds of individuals, any one of whom might make a mistake that will never be found until the accident investigation. Full reusability of the entire ship and capsule is the only solution that ensures safety, and allows inspection of the entire stack after flight.
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  10. what's so incredible to me is it's Starlink that will give engineers video evidence never before available. I'll bet that problem will be solved next week. BTW: Great report. Concise. And so quickly!
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  11. I call it a brutal lesson, but pushing beyond the limit is the plan.
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  12. I'm reminded that a piece of heat shield hit Columbia on the leading edge of a wing. The burn through to destruction time was a few seconds.
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  13. In 1968 I would have said a few hundred mic’s of orange barrel will do it.
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  14. I would welcome Boeing's attempt to reduce the US Federal deficit by withdrawing from the space race Cancel the $50billion they would have wasted on future SLS. It would be nice if the gave back the $4.6 billion we already wasted on Starliner.
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  15. NASA can do more with less because of SpaceX. Everything our government does costs twice what a private company can do. That's not a problem, thats the plan. They use the Space Program (and every other federal program) to park funding for friends and political allies.
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  16. I can hear the click of inspired typing as thousands of cool SCI-Fi stories spill out of thousands of minds and on to the world wide web. Thanks to 70 year old Russian technology.
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  17. I don't mind these women going to space. I don't even mind if they think they're astronauts. What I mind is media reports that pretend either they or Bezos did something significant for women. Actual female astronauts have been doing more in space than these tourist trips for many years. The first woman went to space in the 60's . Sally Ride, Peggy Whitson, and many other women are the real inspiration.
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