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Was just reading an article about the test firing of the SLS core motors sometime this week down in Bay St. Louis MS. In the article it describes how a dress rehearsal for the firing had to be shut down early last month because of timing issue. When I was a kid we learned to tell time in elementary school using a sheet of paper with clock faces on it. We would look at where the hands were and write down what time it was. We would do 3 or 4 of these a week to learn how to tell time. Maybe NASA should get some of those for the folks at NASA/Boeing so they can learn to tell time and how to set clocks. Come on these are suppose to be really smart people and I know they are way smarter than me and I do how to read time and set clocks properly.
On another note I use to spend a lot of time in Bay St. Louis and I remember when they use to test the Saturn 5 and the Space shuttle engines. It would roll you out bed with no problem it was a thing to be heard.
On another note I use to spend a lot of time in Bay St. Louis and I remember when they use to test the Saturn 5 and the Space shuttle engines. It would roll you out bed with no problem it was a thing to be heard.
Coyote I'm not trolling I mean just what I said. It doesn't mean it has to be just a clock it can be anything that involves getting things done. For the last several years both NASA and Boeing have been making mistakes in key measurements, clocking, timings, etc. They crashed a Mars rover into the planet because somebody forgot to convert metric to inches or vice versa, they (Boeing) missed the proper orbit in their last launch because they forgot to set a clock right, they miss critical operations because somebody miss coded a program. In previous years that would not have happened because they had humans checking and rechecking the calculations along with the computers. They have spent billions and billions of tax dollars on SLS, Artemis, and other programs and to date have not achieved one successful launch. All of the programs are seriously behind schedule and their only answer is for congress to throw more money at them. Recently I was stranded for 7 hours in Denver because the computer on the Boeing Dreamliner I was on crashed and they had to reload the OS from a computer in St. Louis. Boeing makes great fighter jets and airliners up to when they stubbed their toe on the 737 Max. Boeing is no longer an aerospace company it has become a corporate tick. And all the while companies like SpaceX and others are dancing circles around both Boeing and NASA. No I'm not trolling just stating what I feel. I'm a child of NASA I grew up with it all the way back to the beginnings with the X-15, Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, the Shuttle.
