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The article misspells the name, which is Colibri, not Calibri.
They ate the cheese. It looks plastic wrapped, but I hope they considered the fuel and byproducts first, because some of those can be very nasty. It uses NO2 and an unnamed fuel.
Isopropyl alcohol.
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It means that theyâll have to re-build the heat shield completely. But on the other hand that doesnât really matter all that much as the launch pad wonât be ready in time anyway.
Likewise, never mind the delay this will put on Artemis III, the space suits for the Moon EVAs wonât be ready as scheduled either.
God, this whole thing is such a boondoggleâŚ
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Given the number of contractors, systems and all the separate schedule and design issues this program feels like a large, perhaps unprecedented collection of boondoggles.
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Hooray for Private Sector EfficiencyTM!
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I sent you a msg, Liebchen.
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They donât make them like they used to.
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Disappointing, but I guess this shouldnât be any surprise. Back in the 1960s this guy was more than happy to work with a former SS Officer and Nazi war criminal in order to fly to the moon, after all.
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Come onâAldrin was serving in the Air Force during the Apollo missions. There was no way for him to decide that working with von Braun was unacceptable.
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More to the point none of them bought into the âfor all mankindâ propaganda until after the fact.
They were serving military engaged in a Cold War power exercise. Thatâs how they describe it. Military.
Then they went to the moon and saw the impact it had on the whole world, how the world bought into what they did, and many of them were overwhelmed by the outpouring of human emotion.
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