Reply to post: NASA proposes; reality disposes

So we're going back to the Moon: NASA triggers countdown by firing up spacecraft production

Mike Shepherd
Meh

NASA proposes; reality disposes

"No other spacecraft in the world can keep humans alive hundreds of thousands of miles from Earth for weeks at a time with the safety features, crew accommodations, technical innovations, and reliability that Orion provides"

Reading this, you'd think they'd achieved it already. Shuttle reliability was claimed to be one loss in about 100,000 missions. Reality was unimpressed. "Technical innovations" and reliability rarely go together.

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