NASA Pulls Off Delicate Thruster Swap, Keeping Voyager 1 Mission Alive

Re:NASA Pulls Off Delicate Thruster Swap, Keeping Voyager 1 ... by basementcat on Thursday September 12, 2024 @05:11AM (#41518957)

I think it is inevitable that organizational "culture" changes. The tricky part is figuring out exactly what parts need change and what parts don’t.

For example JPL used to have beauty pageants ("Miss Guided Missile"). More recently, management appears to be trying to adopt policies and procedures from some venture funded commercial space companies. It is not clear how helpful these efforts will be given that these organizations are in fundamentally different businesses.

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/slice-of-history-70th-annive...

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Re:NASA Pulls Off Delicate Thruster Swap, Keeping Voyager 1 ... by biofox on Thursday September 12, 2024 @06:14AM (#41519246)

As a male scientist and engineer, I am also on antidepressants :(

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Re:NASA Pulls Off Delicate Thruster Swap, Keeping Voyager 1 ... by malfist on Thursday September 12, 2024 @08:52AM (#41520310)

I don't think having beauty pageants keep women from being depressed

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Re:NASA Pulls Off Delicate Thruster Swap, Keeping Voyager 1 ... by ozim on Thursday September 12, 2024 @09:55AM (#41521023)

Pageants were far and between and everyone knew participants had to prepare and they are not walking like fit/dressed that day to day.

Nowadays we have eternal pageant on the internet and lots faking it like they live/sleep/shower in full makeup and perfect fit.

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Re:NASA Pulls Off Delicate Thruster Swap, Keeping Voyager 1 ... by mistermann on Thursday September 12, 2024 @09:05AM (#41520454)

I wonder what the fact of the matter is. It'd be rather hilarious if Humans have been shooting ourselves in the feet for the last few decades with many of our social engineering initiatives. And the reproduction rates chart is ugly.

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Re:NASA Pulls Off Delicate Thruster Swap, Keeping Voyager 1 ... by darby_nine on Thursday September 12, 2024 @09:22AM (#41520635)

Who wants to bring a baby onto a sinking ship?

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Re:NASA Pulls Off Delicate Thruster Swap, Keeping Voyager 1 ... by Loudergood on Thursday September 12, 2024 @10:05AM (#41521130)

Exactly, it's simple economics.

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Re:NASA Pulls Off Delicate Thruster Swap, Keeping Voyager 1 ... by TimeBearingDown on Thursday September 12, 2024 @05:29PM (#41525790)

Modern information access seems to have led to the sinking ship feeling, across many of the most prosperous countries, and so effectively that world wars, deadlier pandemics, and thermonuclear brinkmanship can scarcely compare.

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Re:NASA Pulls Off Delicate Thruster Swap, Keeping Voyager 1 ... by squigz on Thursday September 12, 2024 @10:16PM (#41527493)

I wonder what the fact of that matter is. Are reproduction rates dropping because women aren't as pressured to bear children due to those silly 'social engineering initiatives'?

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Re:NASA Pulls Off Delicate Thruster Swap, Keeping Voyager 1 ... by mistermann on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @03:18PM (#41571586)

I'd bet that's part of it, so what percentage it is would be impossible to determine, which itself may be impossible to realize, for some.

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Re:NASA Pulls Off Delicate Thruster Swap, Keeping Voyager 1 ... by Loudergood on Thursday September 12, 2024 @10:05AM (#41521133)

What a weird thing to say.

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Re:NASA Pulls Off Delicate Thruster Swap, Keeping Voyager 1 ... by fnord77 on Thursday September 12, 2024 @01:52PM (#41523566)

what a weird society we've evolved into

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