@Artemis201 @AkaSci in fairness to & respect for you, i should mention the context in which i made my original reply to you. it was not complimentary [not in any way attacking you, but instead... keep reading] at all, in that, per a recent series of negative posts i made about #nasa & #artemis2, i expect this mission to fail, with loss of the astronauts. my cynicism is predicated in the larger context of merka today, being a fascist hellhole of flat-earth anti-science delusion, actively at war with facts, science, & morality [wrt eg its unremitting war on LGBTQI & especially T peeps]. a country under this evil orange dictator & his malign RWNJ skyfairydelusional acolytes which has actively destroyed its climate science databases & expertise, which has replaced top-tier medical expertise with actually stupid snake-oil salesmen, which seeks actively to discredit & hide its shameful black history, which even now is destabilising the world yet again with its delusional projections of violence perpetrated by immature boys with penis anxiety. a country which, IMO, not only has not learned from the #spaceshuttle o-ring & insulation catastrophes, but seems intent on wilfully ignoring the proper engineering requirements. for instance, i have recently read a report [linked in one of my recent posts] discussing the unexpected wholesale damage to the heat insulation on artemis1, which apparently shed chunks rather than merely losing the outer layers during re-entry as designed... yet this same inadequate spec iirc remains on artemis2.

fwiw.

📆 1983 Mission summary STS-9, Commander John Young* : "Had we then activated the Backup Flight Software, loss of vehicle and crew 💥 would have resulted" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-9#Mission_summary

* the only astronaut to walk on the Moon and fly on the #SpaceShuttle

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The #Buran also had emergency ejection seats 💺 for all crew members (absent on the #US shuttles) and was free from the specific design flaws that contributed to the destruction 💥 of two shuttles in flight, the #Challenger in 1986 and the #Columbia in 2003 https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/baikonur-buran-soviet-space-shuttle/

#SpaceShuttle #NASA #HumanSpaceflightSecurity