Saturday, September 16, 2023

If the car broke down on the way to work it'd be okay, but this breakdown didn't have a 'Plan B'...



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  1. A lot of stress for the people who built the LEM Ascent engine, but they knew what they were getting in to. "Bird flies or boys die" isn't a cheezie slogan when it is true. I had to ask a version of that question at least once in a meeting with engineering, they didn't think auto-restart capability for the Space Station power system was important...

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  2. I understand that the switch to activate the Ascent Engine was accidentally broken off (By Buzz in his EVA suit) and so they had to improvise a switch with a pen (or pen part, I don't remember which) but if that hadn't worked they'd still be on the moon...

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  3. That's kinda SOP when working at or beyond the limits of knowledge (amongst other things). Fair number of military actions are the same; either it works or you die. "Brave" is defined as "you choose to go; return is optional". See this every day in disasters. And not to put too fine a point on it: this is classic white male northern European culture.

    They thought about it. They also knew the answer.

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