threelonmusketeersM to SpaceXEnglish • 23 days agoLaunch delay: SpaceX pushes Polaris Dawn astronaut launch due to ‘a ground-side helium leak’ – Spaceflight Nowspaceflightnow.commessage-square6arrow-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 • 23 days agomessage-square6file-text
minus-squareTar_AlcaranlinkEnglish4•edit-222 days 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_kindlelinkfedilinkEnglish2•22 days 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”.