the new automated shuttle. U.S. going backwards?

[Rich]

First, they decide (at taxpayer's massive expense) to go back to the moon, though honestly why isn't clear. So, instead using old, PROVEN technology, they decide to go from a cold-start and do it all again, 50 years later. Now, they're going to launch a shuttle without any PEOPLE in it. Talk about KILLING whatever made the Shuttle them most versatile spacecraft ever.
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-rattle-chaser-spaceplane-vibration.html

[Mikko]

Post by Rich
First, they decide (at taxpayer's massive expense) to go back to the
moon, though honestly why isn't clear. So, instead using old, PROVEN
technology, they decide to go from a cold-start and do it all again, 50
years later.

The technology of the Moon missions 50 years ago is by modern standards
too risky and too expensive.

Mikko

[Rich]

Post by Rich
First, they decide (at taxpayer's massive expense) to go back to the
moon, though honestly why isn't clear. So, instead using old, PROVEN
technology, they decide to go from a cold-start and do it all again, 50
years later.

The technology of the Moon missions 50 years ago is by modern standards
too risky and too expensive.
Mikko

Compared to what? Space-X's self-nuking starship or the Virgin Galactic debacle, or the two Shuttles that through complexity and
human incompetence blew-up/disintegrated? The Apollo ships, even though the entire program was really a second choice worked very well. 1 problem in all the launches. Pretty good for the Stone-Age electronics they had to work with then.

[Chris L Peterson]

Post by Rich

Post by Rich
First, they decide (at taxpayer's massive expense) to go back to the
moon, though honestly why isn't clear. So, instead using old, PROVEN
technology, they decide to go from a cold-start and do it all again, 50
years later.

The technology of the Moon missions 50 years ago is by modern standards
too risky and too expensive.
Mikko

Compared to what? Space-X's self-nuking starship or the Virgin Galactic debacle, or the two Shuttles that through complexity and
human incompetence blew-up/disintegrated? The Apollo ships, even though the entire program was really a second choice worked very well. 1 problem in all the launches. Pretty good for the Stone-Age electronics they had to work with then.

The Space-X rockets are much more reliable than any of the old NASA
rockets. Not so much electronics, but materials.