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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/10372465

Destin Sandlin of Smarter Every Day recently gave a talk at the American Astronautical Society about the Artemis program and communication:

I Was SCARED To Say This To NASA… (But I said it anyway) - Smarter Every Day 293

In his talk, he points out some of the legitimate shortcomings in the Artemis architecture, but I’m not sure if the parallels he draws to the Apollo program necessarily hold up, given the vastly different political impetus for the two programs. I think his main points regarding the importance of voicing negative feedback are valid, though.

What are people’s thoughts?

  • @[email protected]BEnglish
    3•11 months ago

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

    Fewer Letters More Letters
    EUS Exploration Upper Stage
    HLS Human Landing System (Artemis)
    NRHO Near-Rectilinear Halo Orbit
    SLS Space Launch System heavy-lift
    SSME Space Shuttle Main Engine
    Jargon Definition
    cryogenic Very low temperature fluid; materials that would be gaseous at room temperature/pressure
    ~ (In re: rocket fuel) Often synonymous with hydrolox
    hydrolox Portmanteau: liquid hydrogen fuel, liquid oxygen oxidizer

    6 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 22 acronyms.

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