threelonmusketeersM to SpaceXEnglish · 2 months agoLaunch delay: SpaceX pushes Polaris Dawn astronaut launch due to ‘a ground-side helium leak’ – Spaceflight Nowspaceflightnow.comexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up129arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up128arrow-down1external-linkLaunch delay: SpaceX pushes Polaris Dawn astronaut launch due to ‘a ground-side helium leak’ – Spaceflight Nowspaceflightnow.comthreelonmusketeersM to SpaceXEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square6fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareTar_AlcaranlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-22 months agoThat wouldn’t work. Boeing knew there was a leak, said it wasn’t too bad and launched anyway. Then they reconsidered. The great O-Ring Monk wouldn’t have fixed this.
minus-squareverity_kindle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoDon’t take my dreams! We need religious orders of monk engineers, like in “A Canticle for Leibowitz”.
That wouldn’t work.
Boeing knew there was a leak, said it wasn’t too bad and launched anyway. Then they reconsidered. The great O-Ring Monk wouldn’t have fixed this.
Don’t take my dreams! We need religious orders of monk engineers, like in “A Canticle for Leibowitz”.