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Joey Bridges 4/13/2026 11:59am
4/13/2026 11:59am
JAFO92 wrote:
While I am happy NASA is starting to do stuff again,  that Jurassic splashdown and retrieval was brutal to watch.   50+ years later they are...

While I am happy NASA is starting to do stuff again,  that Jurassic splashdown and retrieval was brutal to watch.   50+ years later they are still doing shit the way they did it when I was in 1st grade?    FFS Elon lands his rockets on floating barges and/or catches them with huge jibs and NASA spends hours trying to get a bunch of inflatable boats up to the thing and extricate the crew.  smh      At a minimum they could have a huge eye hook on top of that capsule,  have a Sikorsky Skycrane or equivalent hover over the damn thing,  some Navy divers put the hook thru the eye,  and carry the capsule via helicopter to a waiting ship or barge.    It would be VERY easy to do that scenario,   But nooooo,  they are bobbing around the sea in those dinky ass boats dragging those people out like its a crash scene on the side of a highway.

We were talking about that the last Friday night when it was under canopy.

For as ambitious a project as they have planned for a moon base, what they need is a newer version of a space shuttle craft, flying equipment, etc... back and forth. 

Especially if, and when, they begin mining mineral deposits.

 

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harescrambled 4/13/2026 12:31pm
4/13/2026 12:31pm
JAFO92 wrote:
While I am happy NASA is starting to do stuff again,  that Jurassic splashdown and retrieval was brutal to watch.   50+ years later they are...

While I am happy NASA is starting to do stuff again,  that Jurassic splashdown and retrieval was brutal to watch.   50+ years later they are still doing shit the way they did it when I was in 1st grade?    FFS Elon lands his rockets on floating barges and/or catches them with huge jibs and NASA spends hours trying to get a bunch of inflatable boats up to the thing and extricate the crew.  smh      At a minimum they could have a huge eye hook on top of that capsule,  have a Sikorsky Skycrane or equivalent hover over the damn thing,  some Navy divers put the hook thru the eye,  and carry the capsule via helicopter to a waiting ship or barge.    It would be VERY easy to do that scenario,   But nooooo,  they are bobbing around the sea in those dinky ass boats dragging those people out like its a crash scene on the side of a highway.

SpaceX landing rockets under power is cool to see. However, it's wasteful as hell from a physics standpoint. Landing a rocket under power requires one to take off with considerably more fuel (mass) than is required for the mission. Every pound of additional fuel you carry up is a pound of payload you can't carry. 

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JAFO92 4/13/2026 12:50pm
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harescrambled wrote:
SpaceX landing rockets under power is cool to see. However, it's wasteful as hell from a physics standpoint. Landing a rocket under power requires one to...

SpaceX landing rockets under power is cool to see. However, it's wasteful as hell from a physics standpoint. Landing a rocket under power requires one to take off with considerably more fuel (mass) than is required for the mission. Every pound of additional fuel you carry up is a pound of payload you can't carry. 

I didnt say they had to use that same method,  but have a little vision and get into the 21st century already.  Elon and his slide rule geeks rewrite the book every year or two and NASA is stuck in 1960s.  There is no good reason to leave that capsule bobbing around like a bream cork in the lake.  At least pick the damn thing up with a chopper and sit it on a carrier deck.  I mean,  those people do that shit for a living (space flight design) and have all manner of graduate degrees hanging on the wall and some dumbass in Texas has to state the obvious?   

They wouldnt want me on a focus group.......

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4/13/2026 6:27pm Edited Date/Time 4/13/2026 7:35pm

Pope Leo calls bullshit on this made for tv clown show. I’m surprised Dr Trump didn’t go on the trip. Space force!!!

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harescrambled 4/13/2026 8:35pm
4/13/2026 8:35pm
JAFO92 wrote:
I didnt say they had to use that same method,  but have a little vision and get into the 21st century already.  Elon and his slide...

I didnt say they had to use that same method,  but have a little vision and get into the 21st century already.  Elon and his slide rule geeks rewrite the book every year or two and NASA is stuck in 1960s.  There is no good reason to leave that capsule bobbing around like a bream cork in the lake.  At least pick the damn thing up with a chopper and sit it on a carrier deck.  I mean,  those people do that shit for a living (space flight design) and have all manner of graduate degrees hanging on the wall and some dumbass in Texas has to state the obvious?   

They wouldnt want me on a focus group.......

I agree there must be a better way to recover the craft and astronauts. I just get tired of hearing the same old thing about the reusable rockets. They serve two purposes...to impress the rubes and stroke Elon's ego. 

I don't think they'd want me in the focus group either....

Last2Stroke 4/13/2026 8:55pm
4/13/2026 8:55pm
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The photos, and vids, coming out now are amazing...

The photos, and vids, coming out now are amazing...

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Why do you keep posting AI images?

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Joey Bridges 4/14/2026 4:06am
4/14/2026 4:06am

Take it up with NASA, boy.

 

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The real Sasquatch 4/14/2026 6:53am
4/14/2026 6:53am
Joey Bridges wrote:

Take it up with NASA, boy.

 

Last2Stroke wrote:

You are not posting pictures from NASA, you are posting Instagram crap.

If anybody wants to see the NASA images, they are here...

https://www.nasa.gov/artemis-ii-multimedia/

Some cool images of the moon and the mission. There are some wallpaper images You can download , these images I posted are from the Lunar flyby gallery.  I grabbed a few of them  to post . They might be available in a higher resolution than what I posted, I just copied the images instead of downloading them. Thanks for the link.  Earth setting behind the Moon’s horizon. Set against the blackness of space, the dark gray surface of the Moon arc across the image in the foreground. Beyond, a blue and white crescent Earth, oriented like a frown, fills the center of the image, with one tip disappearing beyond the lunar limb.The Moon eclipsing the Sun, as seen from the Orion capsule. The dark gray sphere of the Moon is surrounded by a white glow, suspended in the blackness of space. The glow is diffuse, fading from a brighter white circle right around the Moon. Small dots of white light are scattered across the image.cmasaw3_20260407011150.JPG015B0569.NEF015B0631.NEF015A7244.NEF

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APLMAN99 4/18/2026 2:01pm
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More photos released, including this one…..

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ToolMaker 4/18/2026 3:29pm
4/18/2026 3:29pm
JAFO92 wrote:
While I am happy NASA is starting to do stuff again,  that Jurassic splashdown and retrieval was brutal to watch.   50+ years later they are...

While I am happy NASA is starting to do stuff again,  that Jurassic splashdown and retrieval was brutal to watch.   50+ years later they are still doing shit the way they did it when I was in 1st grade?    FFS Elon lands his rockets on floating barges and/or catches them with huge jibs and NASA spends hours trying to get a bunch of inflatable boats up to the thing and extricate the crew.  smh      At a minimum they could have a huge eye hook on top of that capsule,  have a Sikorsky Skycrane or equivalent hover over the damn thing,  some Navy divers put the hook thru the eye,  and carry the capsule via helicopter to a waiting ship or barge.    It would be VERY easy to do that scenario,   But nooooo,  they are bobbing around the sea in those dinky ass boats dragging those people out like its a crash scene on the side of a highway.

SEEMEFIRST wrote:
Yeah, that was a tough watch.Hell, they have 3 hooks for the parachutes already that they probably used to do exactly as you described after they...

Yeah, that was a tough watch.

Hell, they have 3 hooks for the parachutes already that they probably used to do exactly as you described after they got them out.

So why can't they just dock up to the ISS and get an UBER from Elon?

TM

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JAFO92 wrote:
While I am happy NASA is starting to do stuff again,  that Jurassic splashdown and retrieval was brutal to watch.   50+ years later they are...

While I am happy NASA is starting to do stuff again,  that Jurassic splashdown and retrieval was brutal to watch.   50+ years later they are still doing shit the way they did it when I was in 1st grade?    FFS Elon lands his rockets on floating barges and/or catches them with huge jibs and NASA spends hours trying to get a bunch of inflatable boats up to the thing and extricate the crew.  smh      At a minimum they could have a huge eye hook on top of that capsule,  have a Sikorsky Skycrane or equivalent hover over the damn thing,  some Navy divers put the hook thru the eye,  and carry the capsule via helicopter to a waiting ship or barge.    It would be VERY easy to do that scenario,   But nooooo,  they are bobbing around the sea in those dinky ass boats dragging those people out like its a crash scene on the side of a highway.

SEEMEFIRST wrote:
Yeah, that was a tough watch.Hell, they have 3 hooks for the parachutes already that they probably used to do exactly as you described after they...

Yeah, that was a tough watch.

Hell, they have 3 hooks for the parachutes already that they probably used to do exactly as you described after they got them out.

ToolMaker wrote:

So why can't they just dock up to the ISS and get an UBER from Elon?

TM

Because they were coming back from the moon at 24,500 mph and orbital velocity is 17,500 mph without fuel or probably the engine capacity to burn off that much speed.

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Great video

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