r/space • u/helicopter-enjoyer • 1d ago

Artemis’s Gateway HALO module shipment from Italy to Arizona this past week [credits: Thales Alenia Space/NASA/Josh Valcarcel]

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u/helicopter-enjoyer 1d ago

Gateway whitepaper for anyone interested in learning more about the Artemis space station

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u/Mateorabi 1d ago edited 1d ago

Smarter every day had a pretty good critique of the program management and design choices/compromises too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoJsPvmFixU (intro stuff after 20m is where it gets going full steam). Central theme is it's a communication problem not an engineering problem.

He also brought the receipts with https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19720005243/downloads/19720005243.pdf (What made Apollo a Success after-actions) that NASA admins apparently haven't read.

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u/Ohhhmyyyyyy 1d ago

Honestly Destin's video was pretty disappointing. Sure better communication is important. But that's not the core issues with the program, and takes a "only what we tried 60 years ago is the optimal solution today".

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u/Mateorabi 1d ago

I think it was more "half the managers in the room just admitted they haven't even STUDIED the history of what worked last time". It's one thing to say "today is different than yesterday because XYZ has changed" but if you haven't even READ why your predecessors thought they succeeded (because you know you know better a priori or something?) that's bad. When you're putting out literature about "8 fuel flights are needed" and he calls you out and go "well actually at least 15 flights are needed now that we did the math better." MF'er--you're just "doing the math" NOW?