Comments by "Big Blue" (@bigblue6917) on "" video.

@markhorton3994 So what's the criteria for a complete failure. No survivors?
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I don't know about you but I'd settle for less awesome and more getting it right when they are supposed to.
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@johncrowerdoe5527 You get the feeling they knew what they were doing back then.
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@wumpusthehunted2628 And now they literally are driving into the ground. This is why companies should not be run by bean counters.
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So is Boeing. Unfortunately it happens on reentry.
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@jwenting To get into a position to to take over from Boeing would take Lockheed decades. Even Airbus, which is now bigger then Boeing, would have difficulty doing that. Any airline wanting to change to Airbus would have to invest millions retraining aircrews, engineers et cetera. And unless they are forced to change they are not willing to spend that kind of money.
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The average smartphone has way more computing power then they had on the Apollo. Maybe they should have the smartphone fly the next one for Boeing
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@Maus5000 Not widely know but it was a B-24 which was first to get 25 missions in WW2. Unfortunately it was lost while trying to land in Iceland on its way back to the USA.
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The first flight an Apollo space capsule was 1961. Yet here we are nearly 60 years later and its look-a-like replacement and they cannot even get the basics right. What next from Boeing. The steam train followed by the stagecoach, neither of which works.
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@TheEvilmooseofdoom 61 was the first flight but the early ones were unmanned.
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@TheEvilmooseofdoom According to Wikipedia Saturn 1 first flew on October 27, 1961 (yes I know Wikipedia is not the worlds best when it comes to accuracy on facts). I think I must have mixed up that date with the one for the first Apollo flight. But, still, you would have expected something more up to date by now. Even the Soviets had a shuttle.
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