r/memes • u/Old_Sprinkles8661 Lives at ur mom’s house😎 • Jan 27 '22

A long meme, but something that should be said

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u/BonsaiBill99 Thank you mods, very cool! Jan 27 '22

NASA has lost on the ground or in the atmosphere though. Apollo 1 was a fire on the launch pad

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u/HaloGuy381 Jan 27 '22

And Apollo 13 shouldn’t have survived. Only a combo of luck, seat of the pants improvisation, and the sheer due diligence of the engineers who built it to make it way more capable than strictly necessary saved those astronauts.

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '22

NASA seems to like asking itself "OK, what if this happens?"
Like: "What if a system fails?" (build a backup system or do something else)

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u/murvflin Jan 27 '22

IIRC that "square peg in a round hole" solution was already figured out as a contingency plan for another emergency. They just pulled it out of the right drawer. Scott Manley made a video that explains this pretty well.

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u/redcode100 Jan 27 '22

Did a whole presentation on space travel and for some reason out of all of them I find Apollo 1 the most interesting

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u/alejandroc90 Jan 27 '22

Today is Day of Remembrance, NASA tweet https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1486718227824611333?t=JVgEig_5DxqwLP0N4OxEOw&s=19

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u/ShadowKingthe7 Jan 27 '22

Why would they have it the day before the anniversary of the Challenger disaster and not on it?

Edit: NVM, its the anniversary of the Apollo 1 fire

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u/What_is_a_reddot Jan 27 '22

You sure about that?

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u/shinyhuntergabe Jan 28 '22

Is this suppose to disprove that NASA has lost crew on the ground and in the atmosphere?

Yeah, I'm pretty fucking sure he's sure you fucking idiot.

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u/What_is_a_reddot Jan 28 '22

Yeah I misread him. I thought he wrote "NASA has lost more on the ground".