Re:Splashdown NASA’s Orion Returns to Earth After Historic M...
by bbarnett on Monday December 12, 2022 @10:33AM
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wont change much in their overall reliability.
This is a very, very strange assertion.
Airflight was incredibly dangerous 100 years ago. Yet now you claim it is one of the safest, thereby validating that technological improvements, and design improvements, can change safety.
Then you say, effectively "things won't improve" for "this other tech over here".
Which is it?!
My point in all of this is, while space travel was a monumental achievement 60+ years ago, it's simply not that big of a deal now. Endless commercial corporations now engage in the act, for profit, because there is profit, and because it is so commonplace.
And this trend will only increase, eventually leading to people actually being station in space (eg, the moon, larger commercial structures, mining, etc). This will lead to more trips, and for people visiting said structures for business, and on and on.
Just as with planes, this will become safer, more common, more regulated, more... normal.
What part of this iterative process do you believe will block launches from being more safe? NOTE: don't use today's technology as a blocker, please.
This is a very, very strange assertion.
Airflight was incredibly dangerous 100 years ago. Yet now you claim it is one of the safest, thereby validating that technological improvements, and design improvements, can change safety.
Then you say, effectively "things won't improve" for "this other tech over here".
Which is it?!
My point in all of this is, while space travel was a monumental achievement 60+ years ago, it's simply not that big of a deal now. Endless commercial corporations now engage in the act, for profit, because there is profit, and because it is so commonplace.
And this trend will only increase, eventually leading to people actually being station in space (eg, the moon, larger commercial structures, mining, etc). This will lead to more trips, and for people visiting said structures for business, and on and on.
Just as with planes, this will become safer, more common, more regulated, more... normal.
What part of this iterative process do you believe will block launches from being more safe? NOTE: don't use today's technology as a blocker, please.