it really has taken NASA 11 years to develop a parachute

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017...ut-spaceflight

NASA's acting chief technologist says the agency is limited by political emphasis.

its all due to politics? I call bullshit on that.

Isn't that something? Took them 11 years to build a parachute, but they can put a man on the moon, a Rover on Mars and a International Space Station orbiting the Earth in excess of 300 miles, no problem, lol.


Jim

Isn't that something? Took them 11 years to build a parachute, but they can put a man on the moon, a Rover on Mars and a International Space Station orbiting the Earth in excess of 300 miles, no problem, lol.


Jim Originally Posted by Mr MojoRisin

First they didn't do all that in 11 years, but I'm glad to see you don't believe that their exploration of space has been a conspiracy of events filmed in a studio someplace by the government. As for the ISS, that's been a "collusion" with the Russians, who are still colluding with the U.S. government to provide ingress and egress to and from the ISS, and most particularly resupply and "life boat" technology.

In defence of the contractor, a parachute is something that has to work, every time. There is no backup.

It does no good to spend billions on high tech items to leave earth, go somewhere else, and return if the whole thing ends up as a pile of junk after hitting the earth at a destructive velocity.

First they didn't do all that in 11 years, but I'm glad to see you don't believe that their exploration of space has been a conspiracy of events filmed in a studio someplace by the government. As for the ISS, that's been a "collusion" with the Russians, who are still colluding with the U.S. government to provide ingress and egress to and from the ISS, and most particularly resupply and "life boat" technology.

Originally Posted by LexusLover

Who took the picture?


Jim

Who took the picture?


Jim Originally Posted by Mr MojoRisin

Its a CNN pic, but either NASA or Russians took it.

Who took the picture?


Jim Originally Posted by Mr MojoRisin

Are you trying to prove its "authenticity"?

But I suppose a more fundamental question to you would be:

Are you challenging THE FACT that the Russians have been an integral partner in the construction and operation of THE ISS?

If there were an emergency on the ISS today the "life boat" is Russian made, Russian monitored, and Russian controlled to landing. The last crew were delivered by a Russian launch of a Russian spacecraft. That's because Obaminable decided he'd rather piss of money on "green projects" rather than "squander" it on the "fossil fuel" driven ISS .... you know ... those gasoline engines and generators that keep it going!!!!

Here LL read up so you can have correct info.

https://www.space.com/16748-internat...e-station.html

Are you trying to prove its "authenticity"?

But I suppose a more fundamental question to you would be:

Are you challenging THE FACT that the Russians have been an integral partner in the construction and operation of THE ISS?

If there were an emergency on the ISS today the "life boat" is Russian made, Russian monitored, and Russian controlled to landing. The last crew were delivered by a Russian launch of a Russian spacecraft. That's because Obaminable decided he'd rather piss of money on "green projects" rather than "squander" it on the "fossil fuel" driven ISS .... you know ... those gasoline engines and generators that keep it going!!!!

Originally Posted by LexusLover

I asked who took the picture. It would be much easier for you to just say you don't know.


Jim

Here LL read up so you can have correct info.

https://www.space.com/16748-internat...e-station.html Originally Posted by bamscram

I'm "read up"! ... How many times you walked onto the Johnson Space Center, Little Boy? (And I'm not talking the tourist trap!)

Do yourself a favor, if you can. Quit "assuming"! You'll end up like MOJO... thinking the world is a huge conspiracy.

I asked who took the picture. It would be much easier for you to just say you don't know.


Jim Originally Posted by Mr MojoRisin

Who took the picture is not relevant to the discussion.

Who took the picture is not relevant to the discussion. Originally Posted by LexusLover

Then why did you post it?


Jim

Then why did you post it?


Jim Originally Posted by Mr MojoRisin

The picture IS RELEVANT to the general topic of NASA and the development of technology with respect to NASA's general mission.

But the precise member of ISS crew #39 ("Expedition") who took it is NOT.

It's also RELEVANT to the discussion of "Russian Collusion"!!!!!

Because Expedition 39 was on the ISS in the beginning of Obaminable's 2nd term.

I'm "read up"! ... How many times you walked onto the Johnson Space Center, Little Boy? (And I'm not talking the tourist trap!)

Do yourself a favor, if you can. Quit "assuming"! You'll end up like MOJO... thinking the world is a huge conspiracy. Originally Posted by LexusLover

Showing your fetish for little boys again perv?

If you were "read up" you wouldn't make so many mistakes.

The picture IS RELEVANT to the general topic of NASA and the development of technology with respect to NASA's general mission.

But the precise member of ISS crew #39 ("Expedition") who took it is NOT.

It's also RELEVANT to the discussion of "Russian Collusion"!!!!!

Because Expedition 39 was on the ISS in the beginning of Obaminable's 2nd term. Originally Posted by LexusLover

You can't see the picture of the ISS is a rendering?


Jim