as someone who's looked into FAM and is interested about Spaceflight history and proposals i have a lot of confusion about some things one of them is the timeline according to the show Jamestown had landed in 1973 and it's implied to be after apollo-20 however it doesnt make sense since NASA can do two lunar missions per year even if they got infinite budget it will take at least until 1975 until they would get Jamestown worked out and launched Apollo 11-20 were already schedualed and if even if apollo-20 launches in 1973 it still means that NASA needs to test new technologies like the LSAM life support a new version of the CSM built for extended missions like i dont get it why make an alternate reality show about spaceflight and get all the historical and scientific things wrong you are pushing the greatest most devoted audience you can have
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Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 11d
You can launch a mission to the moon whenever you want. Launch windows are mostly just about doing it economically. If you've got unlimited budget and political will, you can - more or less - send up as many rockets as you want, whenever you want.
None of the things you're describing are actually impossible, just really, really difficult. That's an important distinction. The fact that they accomplished them speaks to how desperate they were.
Fix_a_Fix@feddit.it · 7 pts · 10d
My brother in Christ can you use a single punctuation ever once? Are you on meth?
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 6 pts · 11d
[off topic?]
spoilers
I really liked season 1 and got through season 2. The race to Mars was okay, and I gave up in season 5.
My biggest nope was the guy smuggling Mars rocks to Earth.
The Mars base has US and USSR intelligence agents, plus private security. The stones are being sold openly on Earth, even advertised in newspapers. Somehow it's a secret???
BevsDad@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 11d
::: spoiler spoiler Well that's the thing.. It doesn't stay a secret.. :::
But yeah same, S1 was fantastic but everything afterwards was not nearly as good and at some points genuinely bad. Hopefully Star city doesn't follow the same pattern.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 2 pts · 11d
I've heard good things about Star City, but I found it too Soviet.
Might retry it at some point.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 10d
I mean… that’s like… the entire point of the show.
SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 11d
It’s alternate history, the space race accelerated all the research and development related to the space race.
And you can launch once a month, not twice a year, you can launch more frequently. But the logistics and costs don’t make sense.
Large part is not being able to operate in the dark on the moon, that’s the limiting factor.
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 11d
Operating in the dark is another case of "very difficult, not impossible." RTGs were invented in 1954, and were used in real life by the crews of Apollo 12 through 17 to power long running lunar experiments. The RTG from Apollo 13 is still sitting in the South Pacific right now.
SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 11d
Its the manned part, cant really build the ships that well or they’re too heavy to lift off or something along those lines.
Fix_a_Fix@feddit.it · 2 pts · 10d
I'm pretty sure this is how it works in real life too lol. we just stopped veeery early into the space race
SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 10d
It does, but EVs and Solar crop up in the 80s far more in the show than real life too. It’s not just for space.