ceejayoz 3 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Observer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Polar_Lander

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  • me_me_me 3 months ago

    wtf does that have to do with Curiosity program? All of these are 2+ decades old.

    Besides, you make it as if SpaceX couldn't learn from nasa mistakes, not to mention core team of SpaceX are ex-nasa already.

    what kind of elon musk logic is that?

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    • ricardobeat 3 months ago

      > wtf does that have to do with Curiosity program? All of these are 2+ decades old.

      That’s 20 years of learning how to design and land things on mars. They wouldn’t have been able to build Curiosity without the past experiences. The Curiosity program itself started in 2002, just a couple years after the missions above.

      What people say is that knowledge in the field is extremely hard to transfer, and easily lost. As an example, apparently we are completely unable to rebuild the Space Shuttle and Saturn rocket, even though technology is vastly more advanced today. Each vehicle really is a “program” including all its people and supply chain. This is also something SpaceX is trying to change by building actual production lines for their engines and bodies, not one-off builds.

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      • me_me_me 2 months ago

        > What people say is that knowledge in the field is extremely hard to transfer, and easily lost.

        So you are saying that Curiosity team had probably not learned anything from those 20 years old programs?

        You are literally strengthening my point...

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