While I love most of Destin’s videos, I feel that he really missed the mark on that one, and seemed to look back at Apollo with rose-tinted glasses. Apollo got humans to the moon and back, but the program was ultimately unsustainable. The Soviets ran out of resources before the Americans did, and once that was clear, the Apollo program ended. Artemis isn’t a copy of Apollo, nor should it be.
Can you provide some examples of how NASA’s partnerships with private industry are “horrendous”? The commercial cargo and crew transport programs to LEO (Cygnus and Dragon) seem to be quite successful. Why wouldn’t a similar model work for lunar missions?
Thank you.
The way NASA is running it’s private programs nowadays is horrendous. The old Apollo engineers are spinning in their graves over this.
Smartereveryday did a great YouTube video on these issues, and it’s pretty terrifying really.
While I love most of Destin’s videos, I feel that he really missed the mark on that one, and seemed to look back at Apollo with rose-tinted glasses. Apollo got humans to the moon and back, but the program was ultimately unsustainable. The Soviets ran out of resources before the Americans did, and once that was clear, the Apollo program ended. Artemis isn’t a copy of Apollo, nor should it be.
Can you provide some examples of how NASA’s partnerships with private industry are “horrendous”? The commercial cargo and crew transport programs to LEO (Cygnus and Dragon) seem to be quite successful. Why wouldn’t a similar model work for lunar missions?