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MPLM use for DSG CONFIRMED


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A hundred years later the first human colony near the Alpha Centauri will consist of Almaz- and Spacelab-based modules.

Funny? Look at the R-7, B-52 and Tu-95 birthdate...

Due to Rafaello, Donatello, Leonardo, etc, the core module should have name Splinter.

 

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7 hours ago, kerbiloid said:
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A hundred years later the first human colony near the Alpha Centauri will consist of Almaz- and Spacelab-based modules.

Funny? Look at the R-7, B-52 and Tu-95 birthdate...

Due to Rafaello, Donatello, Leonardo, etc, the core module should have name Splinter.

 

You really don't want to look to deeply inside your computer.  Assuming you are using a standard Intel compatible system, it is carefully designed to be backward compatible to the 1977 8086 microprocessor and to be assembly-language compatible with the Apollo-era 8080 (and yes, the amount of Rube Goldberg compatibility plumbing this requires is unthinkable).

This is the nature of engineering.  If it works, just carefully adjust and evolve, don't break it.  Once a design matures it is hard to find the original simplicity underneath all the evolution.  Just try fixing your modern car sometime (you might want to find a classic beetle afterwards).

Forget Splinter: Either Musk or Bezos (or anyone else building a SLS competitor) should name equipment after Pre-Raphaelites.

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8 hours ago, Scotius said:

Looks like NASA is finding payloads for SLS :)

DSG has already been around for a while. It, SLS, and Orion are all useless pork projects created by and for the benefit of congressmen and senators, but at least NASA will be going somewhere besides LEO with humans, albeit not landing or really doing much of anything worthwhile.

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Nothing "worthwile"? What about a mountain of data that can be gained with scientific instruments improved by five decades of advancement? Or by re-learning how to build a moon rocket? Or by building and maintaining a manned station in an environment different from LEO? There is no such thing as negative experience - anything new you learn is a gain, not a loss.

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2 hours ago, _Augustus_ said:

DSG has already been around for a while. It, SLS, and Orion are all useless pork projects created by and for the benefit of congressmen and senators, but at least NASA will be going somewhere besides LEO with humans, albeit not landing or really doing much of anything worthwhile.

Jaxa plans to provide a lander for dsg

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2 hours ago, _Augustus_ said:

DSG has already been around for a while. It, SLS, and Orion are all useless pork projects created by and for the benefit of congressmen and senators, but at least NASA will be going somewhere besides LEO with humans, albeit not landing or really doing much of anything worthwhile.

Which is what NASA should be doing. It should be enabling the private sector, and then using it to do capabilities development, like a Lagrange point propellant depot, which, if supplied by the moon, could be useful in lowering costs to leave the Earth for those who wish to send payloads (think: more probes) beyond Earth or the Moon. Sure, it'd take a lot to develop it, but it could be done incrementally. DSG, moon bases, Earth provided propellant, eventually moving on to using lunar resources for propellant. 

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