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bookers555 t1_ja0ja5k wrote

Reply to comment by Chairboy in NASA's Artemis moon program receives salute from Apollo 11's Buzz Aldrin (video) by kevindavis338

>It was literally an orbiting space station

No, what he's saying is true. The original plan was much different and was a far more complete station, instead they made the equivalent of making a boat out of pieces of plastic.

All they did was hollow out the second stage of a Saturn V, slap some solar panels on it and call it a day. And it didn't even work well, the Solar panels couldn't extend fully, and parts of it got damaged during launch which lead to it operating way hotter than it should have.

It was an underbudgeted mess held together by ductape, built from the scraps of the cancelled Apollo 18, 19 and 20 missions.

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Chairboy t1_ja0k7rx wrote

Yes, but it was a space station. If you read the full conversation you’ll see the user doesn’t believe anything flown yet qualifies as a space station.

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Ragnar_DanneskjoldSr t1_ja0s6mp wrote

Sometimes, you work with what you got. Speaking of Werner von Braun, nobody would ever have walked on the moon if it wasn't for that man. The Saturn five never failed. In testing or use

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bookers555 t1_ja0skmp wrote

Oh I'm not blaming NASA, I'm blaming Congress for just cutting the flow of money once the Moon landing was achieved.

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Ragnar_DanneskjoldSr t1_ja0tzx1 wrote

Exactly. Thank you pardon my poor communication skills. If miss communication was an Olympic sport, I would be on the Wheaties box!

See when I get there? 😂🙈

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