Crude Mission

I just heard that the first crude mission to the Moon since the seventies will happen shortly. I just wonder what the crude part of it meant.

Maybe they’ll be using crude oil. Now that Iran is blocking a lot of crude oil in the Strait of Hormuz, of course the US would use up a lot more in a space mission.

Maybe they’ll be using even cruder methods. Perhaps they’ll pull back a giant elastic with a giant Chevy truck and let go when the ship is aligned inside just right.

Maybe it’ll be even cruder. They might build a giant cannon (just like they did in one of Jules Verne’s books), with the cannonball being the ship.

Maybe it’ll be cruder. Perhaps some cavemen will throw a bone in the air and miraculously it’ll turn into a spaceship.

Maybe it will be crude because they won’t send anything special for when they meet up with moon people. No language programs, no interpreters, no gifts of frankincense, gold and myrrh.

Maybe it’ll be crude because it will be done by the USA and they have no regal royalty. Shut up Donald Rump, you have to be born into it for it to count.

Maybe it’ll be crude in that they will be using foul language. “F’n Ground Control this is F’n Major Tom. What $#!+ are you talking about today?”

Maybe it’ll be crude in that they aren’t sending up much water. In other words, the ship will have to recycle the astronauts urine.

Maybe it’ll be crude because the astronauts won’t be decent unless they do a space walk.

And what was crude about the seventies missions​?

Then again I herd this. So perhaps it is a crewed mission that hasn’t been to the moon since the seventies. That might be slightly more likely.

Has any #crewed #spacecraft ever deployed anything like a #CubeSat or engineering #camera for #beauty #photos in orbit?

The #Shuttle's inspection boom and turnover in front of the ISS and the Soyuz/visiting craft fly-arounds don't count.

With #Tenacity in a payload fairing, it will sit on top of the rocket which will help protect the vehicle from #debris. #SierraSpace’s #crewed 👨‍🚀 #SpacePlane variant will be launched in a similar configuration but without a fairing, which will still offer protection from debris since the #rocket will be located below the vehicle. https://www.sierraspace.com/newsroom/blog/dream-chaser-vs-space-shuttle

#DreamChaser vs #SpaceShuttle

💲🤑 "There is no rush ... #Boeing has the #lead contract to develop the upper stage, and it likely will be a lucrative one as #NASA awarded it under "#costplus" 💰💵 terms. Although #Artemis III—the first #crewed landing—is nominally scheduled to occur in 📆 2025, it will almost certainly be #delayed. This means that Boeing will likely be able to #stretch the development contract for the Exploration Upper Stage, which uses the RL-10 #engine, out for nearly a #decade"
https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/04/rocket-report-falcon-9-says-aloha-to-hawaii-blue-origin-to-abandon-ship

#LaunchCost #SpaceAgency #SpacePolitics #SpaceCompany