Real Life Airlocks : so simple. No cool controls.

[problemecium]

Wow, neat! I never knew this and am pleased they stuck with a minimal-failure-modes design paradigm. I too would design my spaceship with a similar system, with a few added motors and buttons here and there for convenience.

[GeneralVeers]

On 1/28/2016 at 9:14 AM, Xorth Tanovar said:

Nope. Real Space Marines use boarding torpedoes. 

STAR CRASH.

[DerekL1963]

On 1/30/2016 at 0:27 AM, fredinno said:

Apollo 1 though, also significantly reduced AAP funding, so it was one of the primary factors to kill it.

I would have to see a citation on that.  Forty years of studying the space program, and I've never heard that.   Nor does it make much sense as the Federal budget for '67 (the last year of the huge cuts) was already set by the time of the fire and the AAP already essentially dead.  It hung on, with no money, in NASA planning for a couple of years longer which often gives the impression that it lasted longer than it did.   (It took NASA decades to realize the 'glory days' weren't coming back and they continued to act/plan as though their return was just around the corner.)

[fredinno]

1 hour ago, DerekL1963 said:

I would have to see a citation on that.  Forty years of studying the space program, and I've never heard that.   Nor does it make much sense as the Federal budget for '67 (the last year of the huge cuts) was already set by the time of the fire and the AAP already essentially dead.  It hung on, with no money, in NASA planning for a couple of years longer which often gives the impression that it lasted longer than it did.   (It took NASA decades to realize the 'glory days' weren't coming back and they continued to act/plan as though their return was just around the corner.)

http://www.wired.com/2012/08/before-the-fire/

The vietnam war caused the intial cuts, but Apollo I was the death nail and forced the Program to regress into Skylab. AAP might have still survived in a larger form than it did had the fire not happened.