It's weird how Apollo 13 has been remembered as a triumph of human space flight, when it is really the best argument against it. Put briefly, the problem is this: no one is willing to leave astronauts to die in space, no matter what the cost of saving them. Which is human of us!https://twitter.com/apollo_50th/status/1249897335171104770 …
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Replying to @Pinboard
They didn't spend anything beyond what was already spent to send them to the Moon, they couldn't get to them in time.
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Replying to @durumcrustulum @Pinboard
Maybe some extra staff hours on the ground?
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My point about Apollo 13 is how people react to a crew in danger. I said in another tweet that the mission rescue window was too short to burn through a budget; this would not be the case with a multi-year Mars mission
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I think, it might depend on the Mars mission. Early ones, might not have a rescue backup. Later ones, idk maybe.
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Replying to @durumcrustulum @Pinboard
It's hard to extrapolate contingency scenarios for Mars missions from ~8 day moon missions and speculative fiction
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I promise to extrapolate it from reams of data once it becomes available!
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