I think it would be cool if the Discovery Channel had made a show in the style of a documentary that showed us a timeline where the “Space Race” never ended
I think it would be cool if the Discovery Channel had made a show in the style of a documentary that showed us a timeline where the “Space Race” never ended
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“For All Mankind” is what you want. On Apple streaming. Great show.
This post has to be an attempt at marketing For All Mankind.
China has a space station and no one is talking about it.
You almost can’t get there from here. (in the 60s)
The way the space race was (and to a large extent continues to be done) is to prioritise massive capital projects where you don’t actually care about the result.
For example, if you actually care about results, the first steps would be to take a pause after apollo and work out how to crash the price of launch.
All-liquid shuttle might have gone some of the way there.
Large dumb boosters also.
It is depressing that we’ve arrived at a design for Artemis, that to a depressingly small margin (Assuming spacex does not revolutionise it) costs the same as apollo (for the penciled in missions), and lands the same number of tons on the moon as apollo (in the baseline missions).
Polyus and other weapons platforms. For an hour.