Avatar feed
Responses: 7
SPC Terry Page
11
11
0
Musk realizes failures will happen,; the key is learning from those falures. Carry On!
(11)
Comment
(0)
Sgt Commander, Dav Chapter #90
Sgt (Join to see)
>1 y
Yep! These are all prototypes and failures are expected until they get it 100% right...
(4)
Reply
(0)
Avatar small
Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
8
8
0
Oops!
(8)
Comment
(0)
Sgt Commander, Dav Chapter #90
Sgt (Join to see)
>1 y
Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen - Yep! There sure was...
(3)
Reply
(0)
MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D.
MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D.
>1 y
Sgt (Join to see) Including some fatal!
(2)
Reply
(0)
Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
(1)
Reply
(0)
SGT Mary G.
SGT Mary G.
>1 y
Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen - Wondering if the NASA failures you mentioned were televised - and common knowledge. If so I probably was not paying as much attention back then for them to be memorable.
(1)
Reply
(0)
Avatar small
SGT Mary G.
4
4
0
I don't recall NASA having so many trial and error failures as Musk's for-profit venture (although, if I understand correctly his venture is funded in part by the government). Maybe there is no avoiding trial and error failures when trying to develop reusable equipment.
(4)
Comment
(0)
Sgt Commander, Dav Chapter #90
Sgt (Join to see)
>1 y
As Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen commented to me, NASA had many many failures before they were rectified... Look back on the Mercury & early Apollo years...
(3)
Reply
(0)
Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
>1 y
Sgt (Join to see) SGT Mary G. Exactly, I grew up watching rockets blowing up on launch pad or shortly after launch.
(3)
Reply
(0)
SGT Mary G.
SGT Mary G.
>1 y
Thanks, Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen - Sgt (Join to see). Had no idea. The only ones I recall are Challenger in 86 and Columbia in 03. Did a search, had a look at a list of "spaceflight-related accidents and incidents" - so many. Better to have failures while all the bugs are being worked out (hopefully) - before space tourism starts!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight-related_accidents_and_incidents
(1)
Reply
(0)
Avatar small

Join nearly 2 million former and current members of the US military, just like you.

close