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The Orion/SLS and the Apollo/Saturn V are different in many ways they just both happen to be familiar looking multi-stage rockets. Rockets all look similar, as do cars and bicycles.
Orion is designed to be able to enter Earth atmosphere at a much faster speed than Apollo. The Artemis-1 mission, when it finally launches, will travel far past the moon and will return to Earth faster than Apollo did. Eventually returning from Mars even faster yet. You can’t slap a Apollo heat shield on an Orion capsule and have it work. Besides the Orion is designed asymmetrically so it can be steered by banking one way or the other. The many differences between the two are not visibly apparent, the few similarities are. Orion is quite a bit bigger and therefore heavier.
There are new sensor types and new Navigation methods. The entry to Earth atmosphere will be what is called a “skip entry”, a method that has never before been done. If you hit the atmosphere at the right angle you will bounce off of it instead of punching into it. The bounce is to bleed energy, the trick is to not bounce too high or you won’t fall back into the atmosphere. If the entry angle is too steep the capsule will burn up, if it’s too shallow it will bounce out into space again. When the angle is right it will bounce and continue moving around earth till it falls back into the atmosphere at a speed slow enough to punch through without burning up, like a normal traditional entry. I believe the reaction control thrusters used to translate in space are a new type using a new friendly propellent. There is a launch abort rocket system that can be used from the pad and safely deliver the Astronauts in the event of an emergency during or shortly after ignition. That was the previous test called EFT-1, and it was very successful.
The whole ground system they are using is different, including the disconnecting umbilicals they are having leak issues with. I believe the Apollo/Saturn V launch umbilicals were a one time use items that got destroyed on liftoff but I’m not certain. The new ones will be reusable and consolidate most of the connections into one area as opposed to dozens of separate connections that were scattered about, up and down, and all around.
Hopefully they will work the leak issue and make the next launch window 
. That’s why we test. Artemis1 is a test mission.
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Well, thanks for clearing that up. I didn’t know any of those details.
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Oh, and the three parachutes are very big. I believe they are the largest parachutes ever made. There was dozens of tests during the development and production of the chutes. There were also failures mixed in with the success. And the cherry on the cake, the new system design was given to at least one private space company, maybe more. Since NASA is a government program, the technologies developed are available to the people. There is a lot that has been given to the various private space companies, including some continued engineering support. NASA does great things with a “drop in the bucket” budget. The press and public traditionally use NASA as a diversion when talking about government spending. It keeps the government from allocating reasonable funding for NASA while it distracts from the bottomless black budget spending that takes place, unconstitutionally, right under our noses.
So far several private space companies have done great things! Especially the SpaceX self landing/reusable booster stages!!! Amazing technology and execution. Soon there will be inflatable modules that can be used for building space stations and providing extra room during extended travel. I think they may also use inflatables on planet surfaces too. I’m sure we will see many more things to come from private space.
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Must not have had their Iphones with them
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Hahaha. No I mean lost as in died 
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Small price to pay for our first trip past the ozone
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Could not have been expressed any better. Not to mention what lengths they go to to hide it.
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In round numbers, we each get about 70 or 80 years here. Some get cheated out of a few years and others get a few extra.
Since time immemorial we have wondered why we are here. It’s just what we do.
In an effort to try and understand things we search for patterns, things we can recognize as dependable or predictable, and sometimes things fall outside of our scope of knowledge, and we cant explain them.
I am certain that what we don’t know is infinitely greater than what we do know. It stands to reason.
If you roll a booger from your nose and zoom out far enough into the universe you can get so far away that the sun in our solar system and that booger are of very similar importance.
At the same time you can go microscopic and find things that are tiny in comparison to that booger.
The universe is so vast that we can’t even comprehend our place in it, much less understand it.
Some folks are so desperate to find meaning in things that when they don’t understand something they look for something mysterious or supernatural, like a god or orderly pattern of stars or vibrations or things bigger than us that can take away the burden we feel when we begin to think that in all of space and time, we as individuals don’t matter at all.
And we don’t.
But we can matter within the little space and time we are given.
By loving ourselves and those within our small circle, in order to enrich each others life on this fucking lifeboat we’re stuck on.
Listen to good music, look at pretty stuff, taste all the flavors, see, feel, and touch, be kind.
Anything or anyone that gets in the way of that tell it to fuck off.
Love.
Always love.
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And oh hell yes I hope there’s aliens.
Big messy loud powerful hyper intelligent all knowing aliens that render all of our borders and currency and weapons and politics and self importance and greed and hierarchies completely meaningless.
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You Commie FUCK
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Hahaha!
Exactly!
I’m a libtard!
I also value things I can see, that exist, like dogs and my bellybutton and friends and family!
I have enough money, barely, to cover my bills and live music, but what makes me wealthy is my friends who keep me interested in this otherwise mundane, hot steaming pile of dung that is life, which I carefully nurture.
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Ok, so they’re saying that we’re going to have a Cold Ass Winter all over the globe, this video popped up in my feed and it made me wonder.
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Ever wonder about all the bunkers rich people have been getting made?
Makes you wonder, eh @muth @Josephine_van_Rijn
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They are welcome to them. They will be condemned to suffer each others company 
I think @muth shared a video quite some time back already, where a guy was explaining that they worked hard to safeguard themselves against some natural disaster.
According to that guy, I forgot his name, they’ve made a miscalculation because the magnetic fields or axes (I also forgot that 
) of the planet are going to switch or something and the whole shit will land right on their heads and they will be buried 
I have a bit of a problem btw with the title of this piece.
House Intelligence Committee, it’s like the words minister and insight in one sentence 
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